Agricultural Markets and Trade Policy

Dave Donaldson, Organizer

April 30 - May 1, 2020

on Zoom.us

Thursday, April 30
9:30 am	The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
10:10 am	Retaliatory Use of Public Standards in Trade
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	China’s Import Demand for Agricultural Products: The Impact of the Phase One Trade Agreement (slides)
11:40 am	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	Migration, Specialization and Trade: Evidence from the Brazilian March to the West
2:10 pm	Global Trade and Margins of Productivity in Agriculture
2:50 pm	Break
3:00 pm	The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Critique of the Ricardian Approach from a General Equilibrium Perspective (slides)
3:40 pm	Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture (slides)
4:20 pm	Agricultural Productivity, International Trade, and Structural Change
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Friday, May 1
9:30 am	The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change
10:10 am	Buyer-Driven Upgrading in GVCs: The Sustainable Quality Program in Colombia
10:50 am	Break
11:00 am	Machine Learning in Gravity Models: An Application to Agricultural Trade (slides)
11:40 am	Trade in Technology: A Potential Solution to the Food Security Challenges of the 21st Century
12:20 pm	Adjourn