Alex F. McCalla

ARE Update Volume 8, Number 3 (2005)

Johnston, Warren E., McCalla, Alex F., Hardesty, Shermain, Blank, Steven C.

Editors' NoteARE Faculty Profile: Warren E. Johnston and Alex F. McCallaCalifornia Agriculture in the 21st CenturyPositioning California's Agricultural Cooperatives for the Future.California...

Whither California Agriculture: Up, Down, or Out? Some Thoughts about the Future (2004)

Johnston, Warren E., McCalla, Alex F.

The turn of the millennium was marked by hard times in California agriculture: low prices seemingly across the board, water-supply woes, contracting growth in export markets, more stringent...

Assessing the impact of agricultural technology improvements in developing countries in the presence of policy distortions (1995)

ANANIA, GIOVANNI, McCALLA, ALEX F.

This paper focusses on how policies most commonly used by developing countries affect both the size and the distribution of the benefits from technical change. Three sets of policies are analysed:...

Prospects for global food security: a critical appraisal of past projections and predictions

McCalla, Alex F, Revoredo, Cesar L.

During the last half century, a number of individuals and institutions, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IFPRI, have engaged in projections of future...

GATT, Preferential/Regional Trading Blocs and Agricultural Trade.

McCalla, Alex F

Agricultural trade impasses have again frustrated the GATT process. Interest in preferential/regional trading blocs is increasing. The paper probes the theoretical and empirical consequences of...

Prospects for global food security

McCalla, Alex F., Revoredo, Cesar L.

During the last half century, a number of individuals and institutions, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IFPRI, have engaged in projections of future...

Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Technology Improvements in Developing Countries in the Presence of Policy Distortions.

Anania, Giovanni, McCalla, Alex F

This paper focusses on how policies most commonly used by developing countries affect both the size and the distribution of the benefits from technical change. Three sets of policies are analysed:...

AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION FELLOWS' RETROSPECTIVE: REFLECTIONS ON PHILIP M. RAUP'S CAREER

Sundquist, W. Burt, Wunderlich, Gene, McCalla, Alex F., Raup, Philip M.

Contents: Retrospective for Philip M. Raup, Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota, by W. Burt Sundquist; On land and land policy: a Phil Raup retrospective, by Gene Wunderlich; Comments...

What the Developing Countries Want from the WTO

McCalla, Alex F.

There is a very strong consensus among economists that developing countries have the most to gain from movements towards freer trade under the WTO. But the Seattle WTO meeting was suspended in part...

Liberalizing Agricultural Trade: Will It Ever Be a Reality?

McCalla, Alex F.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture was signed in June 1994. It accomplished two things: it brought agricultural trade under the rules of WTO, and it set schedules for...

Does Arbitraging Matter? Spatial Trade and Discriminatory Trade Policies

Anania, Giovanni, McCalla, Alex F.

When modeling discriminatory trade policies -- such as targeted embargoes, selective quotas, targeted export or import subsidies, or preferential trading agreements -- failure to explicitly include...