IATRC ANNUAL MEETING
WASHINGTON DC, January 7-9, 2008
Theme Day Presentations
Labor Markets in a Global Economy
(1) Global Migration:
An Overview of the Issues
Philip Martin UC-Davis
(2) Immigration Trends
and Patterns-US and Rural Patterns
Jeff Passel Pew Hispanic Center
(Click
here for handout with 4 slides/page)
William Kandel USDA-ERS
(3) Immigration's Economic Impacts in
the US
George Borjas Harvard
(4) Trade and
Migration: NAFTA and CAFTA
Raymond Robertson Macalester College
(5) Remittances and
Development
Dilip Ratha World Bank
(Click
for link to New York Times article on this)
(6) Immigration and
Spanish Agriculture
Joaquin Arango University of Madrid
Contributed Papers
Session 2: Globalization,
Growth, and Standards in International Food Markets
Session 3:
Trade and Developing Countries
Session 4: Trade and
Developed Countries
Session 5: Canadian
Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network
Session 6:
Multilateral Trade Issues
Session 7: Biofuels
Policy and Trade: Issues for Agricultural Markets
Session 8: Environment,
and Labor Markets
Session
9:
Dissertation Reports
Session 10: Product
Trade/Food Consumption
Session 11:
Standards and Trade
Session 1:
Analytical Contributions to the Doha Round Agenda and Further Policy Reform
Analytical Contributions to the Doha
Agenda and Further Reforms,
Will
Martin, World Bank
OECD-Trade and Agriculture Directorate's analytical work
related to the agricultural negotiations in the Doha Round, Pete
Liapis and Frank von Tongeren, OECD
A
Snapshot of IFPRI Activities and Contributions, David
Orden, IFPRI
Analysis of Doha Agriculture Negotiation Issues Relevant to
Developing and Least Developed Countries,
Alexander Sarris, FAO
Session 2:
Globalization, Growth, and Standards in International Food Markets
On the Political Economy
of Standards in Food Markets, Johan Swinnen,
University of Leuven,
and Thijs Vandemoortele, University of Leuven
Efficiency, yes! But,
Can China Produce Safe Agricultural Commodities? Jikun Huang, Centre
for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Beijing, Huayong Zhi, Centre for
Chinese Agricultural Policy, Beijing, and Scott Rozelle,
Stanford University
Food Quality and Its
Pricing in Poor Economies, Bart Minten, IFPRI
Session 3:
Trade and Developing Countries
Implications of a Doha Agreement for Agricultural Markets in Sudan, Imad
Eldin Elfadil Abdel Karim, University of Khartoum, and David Abler,
Penn State University
Petroleum Exports, Income Growth, and Food Demand in Saudi Arabia, Suresh
Persaud, USDA/ERS, and Selim Adem Hatirli,
Süleyman Demirel University, Turkey
An Approach Paper on
Indo-US Trade in Wheat and Mango, Satish Deodhar, Siddhartha Rastogi, Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad, and Barry Krissoff, USDA/ERS
Asymmetric Impacts of Exports on the Economy of Malawi, Suresh Persaud
and Birgit Meade, USDA/ERS
Session 4: Trade
and Developed Countries
Optimal Agricultural
Policy and PSE Measurement: an Assessment and Application to Norway, David
Blandford, Penn State University, Rolf Jens Brunstad, The
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway,
Ivar Gaasland, Institute for Research in Economics and Business
Administration, Bergen, Norway, and Erling Vĺrdal,
University of Bergen, Norway
The Suspension of
Agricultural Multilateral Trade Negotiations: What is the True Responsibility of
the European Union? Fabienne Féménia, INRA, Rennes, and
Alexandre Gohin, INRA, Rennes
Modelling EU Agricultural Policy Liberalization: The Combination of a Partial
Equilibrium and a General Equilibrium Model,
Martin
Banse,
LEI, The Hague and
Harald
Grethe,
Humboldt University
Session 5.
Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network
Increasing Protection of GIs at the WTO:
Clawbacks, Greenfields, and Monopoly Rents, May Yeung, Estey Centre
for Law and Economics in International Trade, and William Kerr,
University of Saskatchewan
Comparison of Disease Outbreaks in the
Canadian Potato Industry with Other Disease Outbreaks and Agricultural Trade,
J. Stephen Clark, David Thibodeau, K. Gary Grant, and Petr
Prochazka, Nova Scotia
Agriculture College
Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on Fresh
Tomato Imports into the United States from Mexico: Does the Specification of
Volatility Matter, Rakhal Sarker, University of Guelph, and
Jose Luis Jaramillo Villanueva,
Texcoco, Mexico
Protectionist Measures in the Agriculture Sector: Perishability and Competition,
Kathy Baylis, University of British Columbia/University of Illinois,
Nisha Malhotra, University of British Columbia, and Horatiu
Rus, University of British
Columbia
Session 6:
Multilateral Trade Issues
Exclusive Rights, Policy Bias and Trade Distorting State Enterprises, Steve
McCorriston, University of Exeter and Donald MacLaren,
University of Melbourne
WTO
Domestic Support in Agriculture: Estimating the Future Constraints, Lars
Brink, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Evaluating Tariff Reduction Outcomes: Using Stochastic Processes, Agapi
Somwaru, USDA/ERS, and William Edmondson,
USDA/ERS
Measures of Protection and Support, Incomplete Price Transmission and Domestic
Prices, William Liefert, USDA/ERS
Session
7: Biofuels Policy and Trade: Issues for Agricultural Markets
Impact of EU Biofuel Policies on
World Agricultural Production and Land Use, Martin Banse, Hans van
Meijl, Andrzej Tabeau, Geert Woltjer, LEI, The Hague,
Fritz Hellmann and Peter Verburg,
University of Wageningen
Biofuels
and Trade: Considerations for Developing Markets, Masami Kojima,
World Bank (See
World Bank report on trade and biofuels)
Policy, Trade and Biofuels in Importing Regions, Daniel
Sumner and Hyunok Lee, UC-Davis
The Biofuels Boom: Implications
for World Food Markets, Dileep K. Birur, Thomas W. Hertel,
Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University
Session 8:
Environment, and Labor Markets
Climate
Change, Trade Costs, and Agricultural Trade, Jeffrey Reimer, Oregon
State University, and Man Li, Oregon State
University
Spatial
Concentration of Skilled Labor: Case of Chilean Manufacturing, Hisamitsu
Saito, Oregon State University, and Munisamy Gopinath,
Oregon State University
Developing Country Labor Market
Adjustments to Trade Reform: an Overview and Resource Guide, B. Lynn Salinger,
Associates for International Resources and Development, Bruce
Bolnick, Matthew Reisman, and Erin Endean,
Nathan Associates Inc. Click here for the
presentation
Session 9:
Dissertation Reports
Measuring
the Impacts of the Doha Round -A Sensitivity Analysis on Different Tariff
Aggregation Methods, Janine Pelikan, Federal
Agricultural Research Centre, Institute of Market Analysis and Agricultural
Trade Policy, Braunschweig
Essays on
Technology, Trade, and Welfare, Jun Ruan, Oregon
State University
Session 10: Product
Trade/Food Consumption
All
Meat, Dark Meat and White Meat, or Our Meat? Wyatt Thompson,
University of Missouri, Pierre Charlebois, Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada, and Gregoire Tallard,
FAO
“New
Friend” versus “Old Friends” Trade Liberalization Effects: Evidence for the
Cattle and Beef Sector, Lota D. Tamini, Jean-Philippe Gervais,
and Bruno Larue, Laval University
Estimating the Relationship Between Food-Away-From Home Consumption and
Demographic Changes in China: The Role of Hosted Meals, Junfei Bai,
Washington State, Thomas Wahl, North Dakota State, and
Jikun Huang,
Centre
for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Beijing
Evolution of Trade Flows for Virgin Olive Oil: an Empirical Model for
Greece, George Vlontzos and M.N. Duquenne,
University of Thessaly
Session 11:
Standards and Trade
Private Standards and International Trade,
Lorraine Mitchell, USDA/ERS
Trade Effects of SPS and TBT Measures on
Tropical Products, Anne-Celia Disdier, INRA, Belay Fekadu,
IFPRI, Carlos Murillo, CINPE, Sara Wong,
ESPOL
A
Review on Theoretical Approaches and Mathematical Models for Non-Tariff Barriers
to Trade: the Case of Sanitary and Technical Barriers for Agribusiness Products,
Sílvia Helena
Galvăo de Miranda,
University of Sao Paulo and
G. Edward Schuh,
University of Minnesota
Policy Roundtable
The Pending 2008 U.S. Farm Bill in Perspective, David Ordern, IFPRI
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