We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first result is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium tariffs can explode (shedding some light on recent volatility in world food prices). We also show that the strategic interplay between governments of export countries and traders can give rise to a number of peculiar comparative statics. For example, it can be in the interest of traders to have poor harvests in one of the countries. Finally, we demonstrate that traders as well as cons...
Using aggregated EMU exports to the US as an example, VERHEYEN (2013a) showed, that in the long run ...
The objective of this study is to measure economic payoffs from a grain cartel. Two basic approaches...
When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to wh...
We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders ...
A dynamic, game theoretic model with switching costs provides better understanding of motives that k...
Current evidence has revealed that international markets of a number of agricultural commodities ope...
This paper analyses the impacts of trade policy responses to rising world food prices by carrying ou...
Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (RUK) are major players on the international grain markets and their ...
A large body of literature has examined international grain trade in imperfectly competitive models....
When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to wh...
Grain Exchanges and their Economie and Political Implications - Grain crops have long been a politic...
When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to wh...
Using a multivariate distribution of traders ’ information with correlations, we specify the traders...
World crop markets are often thin and characterized by volatile prices. One reason is that crop yie...
In recent years Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (RUK) became major players in the international trade...
Using aggregated EMU exports to the US as an example, VERHEYEN (2013a) showed, that in the long run ...
The objective of this study is to measure economic payoffs from a grain cartel. Two basic approaches...
When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to wh...
We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders ...
A dynamic, game theoretic model with switching costs provides better understanding of motives that k...
Current evidence has revealed that international markets of a number of agricultural commodities ope...
This paper analyses the impacts of trade policy responses to rising world food prices by carrying ou...
Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (RUK) are major players on the international grain markets and their ...
A large body of literature has examined international grain trade in imperfectly competitive models....
When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to wh...
Grain Exchanges and their Economie and Political Implications - Grain crops have long been a politic...
When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to wh...
Using a multivariate distribution of traders ’ information with correlations, we specify the traders...
World crop markets are often thin and characterized by volatile prices. One reason is that crop yie...
In recent years Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (RUK) became major players in the international trade...
Using aggregated EMU exports to the US as an example, VERHEYEN (2013a) showed, that in the long run ...
The objective of this study is to measure economic payoffs from a grain cartel. Two basic approaches...
When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to wh...