International trade of horticultural commodities is increasingly important in many regions of the world, yet import patterns of key horticultural crops are understudied in the agricultural economics literature. Using data between 1991 and 2005, we estimate the drivers of per capita import demand for six of the most highly traded horticultural commodities. The own price elasticity estimates were...

in this paper the trade restrictiveness of agricultural policies in iran was measured by the triindex for the nine major agricultural products including wheat, rice, barely, maize, soybean,meat (beef meat), soybean oil, sugar and banana over the period 1981 to 2007. the main resultsindicate that there is no trend in above index and high volatility especially in 2006 and 2007years due to conside...

A VAR framework with exogenous variable is considered to analyse the exchange rate pass-through dynamics in Kenya. Monthly time series data from January 2006 December 2022 used. Six endogenous variables namely; US dollar rate, broad money supply, total import, 20 Nairobi stock share index, consumer price index and 91 days treasury bond sourced central bank of Kenya were considered. Global food ...

This article analyses price shifts after currency devaluation in the Ivory Coast using a time-series modelling approach. Model results identify the liberalisation of the import-rice sector as the key factor for the transmission of price effects. Fixation of the imported rice price as a social compensatory measure hindered the adjustment of prices in the first year after the devaluation. As soon...

In this paper, we document the presence of “technology-induced” trade in France between 1997 and 2007 assess its impact on consumer welfare. We use staggered roll-out broadband internet to estimate causal effect importing behavior affected firms. Using an event-study design, find that expansion increases firm-level imports by around 25%. The domestic sales is positive but smaller, suggesting no...

Since the seminal work of Krugman (1979), product variety has played a central role in models of trade and growth. In spite of the general use of love-of-variety models, there has been no systematic study of how the import of new varieties has contributed to national welfare gains in the United States. In this paper we show that the unmeasured growth in product variety from US imports has been ...