Agricultural Markets and Trade Policy
Dave Donaldson, Organizer
April 30 - May 1, 2020
Supported by Economic Research Service at USDA
on Zoom.us
| 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 |
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| 10:10 am |
Kjersti Nes, Joint Research Centre, European Commission K Aleks Schaefer, Oklahoma State University Retaliatory Use of Public Standards in Trade |
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| 10:50 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am |
Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER Chang Hong, U.S. International Trade Commission China’s Import Demand for Agricultural Products: The Impact of the Phase One Trade Agreement |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2:10 pm |
Farid Farrokhi, Boston College Heitor S. Pellegrina, University of Notre Dame Global Trade and Margins of Productivity in Agriculture |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 4:20 pm |
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER Will Johnson, Dartmouth College Agricultural Productivity, International Trade, and Structural Change |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 12:20 pm | Adjourn | |