Agricultural Markets and Trade Policy

Dave Donaldson, Organizer

April 30 - May 1, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, April 30
9:30 am
Colin A. Carter, University of California at Davis
Sandro Steinbach, North Dakota State University

The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
10:10 am
Kjersti Nes, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
K Aleks Schaefer, Oklahoma State University

Retaliatory Use of Public Standards in Trade
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am
Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER
Chang Hong, USITC

China’s Import Demand for Agricultural Products: The Impact of the Phase One Trade Agreement (slides)
11:40 am
Jisang Yu, Kansas State University
Nelson B. Villoria, Kansas State University
Nathan P. Hendricks, Kansas State University

The Incidence of Foreign Market Accessibility on Farmland Rental Rates (slides)
12:20 pm
Break
12:30 pm
Keynote Address
Jason Hafemeister, the Secretary’s Trade Counsel at USDA and former lead US agriculture negotiator for China’s WTO Accession, WTO’s Doha round and CAFTA
1:30 pm
Heitor S. Pellegrina, University of Notre Dame
Sebastian Sotelo, University of Michigan and NBER

Migration, Specialization and Trade: Evidence from the Brazilian March to the West
2:10 pm
Farid Farrokhi, Princeton University
Heitor S. Pellegrina, University of Notre Dame

Global Trade and Margins of Productivity in Agriculture
2:50 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Christophe Gouel, INRAE

The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Critique of the Ricardian Approach from a General Equilibrium Perspective (slides)
3:40 pm
David Laborde, International Food Policy Research Institute
Abdullah Mamun, International Food Policy Research Institute
Will Martin, International Food Policy Research Institute
Valeria Piñeiro, International Food Policy Research Institute
Rob Vos, International Food Policy Research Institute

Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture (slides)
4:20 pm
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
Will Johnson, Dartmouth College

Agricultural Productivity, International Trade, and Structural Change
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, May 1
9:30 am
Ishan B. Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change
10:10 am
Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics
Pepita Miquel-Florensa, Toulouse School of Economics

Buyer-Driven Upgrading in GVCs: The Sustainable Quality Program in Colombia
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am
Gopinath Munisamy, University of Georgia
Feras A. Batarseh, Virginia Tech
Jayson Beckman, US Department of Agriculture

Machine Learning in Gravity Models: An Application to Agricultural Trade (slides)
11:40 am
Thomas Hertel, Purdue University
Uris Baldos, Purdue University
Keith Fuglie, Economic Research Service

Trade in Technology: A Potential Solution to the Food Security Challenges of the 21st Century
12:20 pm
Adjourn