The Economics of the U.S. Ethanol Import Tariff with a Blend Mandate and Tax Credit (2008)
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R
U.S. import tariffs on ethanol are designed to offset a tax credit that benefits U.S. and foreign producers alike. The tax credit is an ethanol consumption subsidy but ethanol market prices increase...
The Economics of the U.S. Ethanol Import Tariff with a Blend Mandate and Tax Credit (2008)
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R
U.S. import tariffs on ethanol are designed to offset a tax credit that benefits U.S. and foreign producers alike. The tax credit is an ethanol consumption subsidy but ethanol market prices increase...
The Economics of the U.S. Ethanol Import Tariff with a Blend Mandate and Tax Credit (2008)
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R
U.S. import tariffs on ethanol are designed to offset a tax credit that benefits U.S. and foreign producers alike. The tax credit is an ethanol consumption subsidy but ethanol market prices increase...
The Economics of the U.S. Ethanol Import Tariff with a Blend Mandate and Tax Credit (2008)
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R
U.S. import tariffs on ethanol are designed to offset a tax credit that benefits U.S. and foreign producers alike. The tax credit is an ethanol consumption subsidy but ethanol market prices increase...
The economics of U.S. ethanol import tariffs with a consumption mandate and tax credit (2007)
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R.
This paper analyzes the impact of an ethanol import tariff in conjunction with a consumption mandate and tax credit. A tax credit alone acts as a subsidy to ethanol producers, equally benefiting...
The Welfare Economics of an Excise-Tax Exemption for Biofuels (2007)
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R.
A general theory is developed to analyze the efficiency and income distribution effects of a biofuel consumer tax credit and the interaction effects with a price contingent farm subsidy. Using the...
Market Access Barriers in Agriculture and Options for Reform (2006)
Anderson, Kym, De Gorter, Harry, Martin, Will
http://go.worldbank.org/7FH3EQWSY0
Market Access Barriers in Agriculture and Options for Reform (2006)
Anderson, Kym, De Gorter, Harry, Martin, Will
http://go.worldbank.org/7FH3EQWSY0
Environmental policies for a multifunctional agricultural sector in open economies (2002)
Peterson, Jeffrey M., Boisvert, Richard N., De Gorter, Harry
This paper derives the efficient set of policies for a multifunctional agriculture and relates them to trade. In general, efficiency cannot be achieved through simple output subsidies, but the...
On government credibility, compensation and under-investment in public research (2002)
Swinnen, Johan F. M., De Gorter, Harry
Static political economy studies show that under‐investment in public research may result because of income distributional effects—which induce opposition from groups adversely...
Swinnen, Johan F.M., Banerjee, Anurag N., De Gorter, Harry
This empirical study uses 100 years of annual data on 11 agricultural commodities from Belgium to measure the impact of structural changes coinciding with economic development and changes in...
Swinnen, Johan F. M., De Gorter, Harry, Rausser, Gordon C., Banerjee, Anurag N.
The paper tests a political economy theory of simultaneous government decision-making on income redistribution through commodity policies and on public research investment in agriculture. We use data...
RAUSSER, GORDON C., DE GORTER, HARRY
Public policies are often classified as falling into two conceptually distinct categories: productive policies which are designed to provide public goods (PERTs) and predatory policies which are...
Agricultural policies--[microform] :--a study in political economy /--by Harry de Gorter. (1984)
University Microfilms order no. 83-28843.
Agricultural policies :--a study in political economy /--by Harry de Gorter. (1983)
Thesis (Ph. D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics)--University of California, Berkeley, June 1983.
Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Guelph, 1978.
The Welfare Economics of an Excise-Tax Exemption for Biofuels
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R.
A general theory is developed to analyze the efficiency and income distribution effects of a biofuel consumer tax credit and the interaction effects with a price contingent farm subsidy. Using the...
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R.
This paper develops a general framework to evaluate the effects on agricultural and gasoline markets of a consumption mandate and excise-tax exemption, the two most prominent public biofuel policies....
The economics of U.S. ethanol import tariffs with a consumption mandate and tax credit
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R.
This paper analyzes the impact of an ethanol import tariff in conjunction with a consumption mandate and tax credit. A tax credit alone acts as a subsidy to ethanol producers, equally benefiting...
Disciplining agricultural support through decoupling
Baffes, John, De Gorter, Harry
Agricultural protection, particularly in high income countries, have induced overproduction, thereby depressing world commodity prices and reducing export shares of countries which do not support...
Commodity policy and underinvestment in agricultural research
De Gorter, Harry, Nielson, David, Rausser, Gordon C.
Agricultural policies
Endogenizing U.S. milk price supports
De Gorter, Harry, Rausser, Gordon C.
Agricultural policies; Milk; Price supports; Prices
The political economy of productive and predatory policies : a case study from agriculture
De Gorter, Harry, Nielson, David J., Rausser, Gordon C
Agricultural policies; Perts; Pests
Impact of Economic Development on Commodity and Public Research Policies in Agriculture.
De Gorter, Harry, Swinnen, Johan F M
A political-economic explanation is provided for the existence of commodity policy and research expenditures in agriculture. Structural economic characteristics such as pre-policy endowment incomes,...
Political economy of agricultural policy
De Gorter, Harry, Swinnen, Johan, B. L. Gardner, G. C. Rausser
Explanations are provided for why governments do as they do in agriculture. Alternative frameworks are assessed to explain government policy including collective action and politician-voter...
Rausser, Gordon C, De Gorter, Harry
Public policies are often classified as falling into two conceptually distinct categories: productive policies which are designed to provide public goods (PERTs) and predatory policies which are...
DISENTANGLING THE PRODUCTION AND EXPORT CONSEQUENCES OF DIRECT FARM INCOME PAYMENTS
Chau, Nancy H., De Gorter, Harry
This paper formalizes the production and export consequences of direct farm payments. Taxpayer financed direct payments distort exit and production incentives, while consumer financed subsidies also...
THE IMPACTS OF EXPORT SUBSIDY REDUCTION COMMITMENTS IN THE AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE
Ruiz, Lilian, De Gorter, Harry
The effectiveness of limits and reductions in both export volumes subsidized and value of export subsidies in agriculture is evaluated. A perspective on consumer versus producer financed export...
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R., Kropp, Jaclyn D.
Agricultural and Food Policy,
Consumer Financed Export Subsidies and the Agreement on Agriculture
Kropp, Jaclyn D., Just, David R., De Gorter, Harry
International Relations/Trade,
EXPLAINING PRICE POLICY BIAS IN AGRICULTURE: A POLITICIAN-VOTER INTERACTION APPROACH
Agricultural and Food Policy,
THE AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE AND THE CAP: THE REFORM OF THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE IMPORT REGIME
Martin, Elisa, De Gorter, Harry
The import regime resulting from the tariffication under the Agreement on Agriculture of the minimum import price scheme protecting fruit & vegetables in the European Union, gives rise to...
THE CANADA- U.S. TRADE DISPUTES ON DAIRY AND POULTRY: A GOOD EXAMPLE
De Gorter, Harry, De Valk, Robert G.
International Relations/Trade,
ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND FOR IMPORTED MEATS IN RUSSIA
Soshnin, Alexei I., Tomek, William G., De Gorter, Harry
Elasticities of demand for meat imports in Russia are estimated using an AIDS model. The model differentiates among sources of imports as well as kinds of meat, but since the number of observations...
CAN PRICE SUPPORTS NEGATE THE SOCIAL GAINS FROM PUBLIC RESEARCH EXPENDITURES IN AGRICULTURE?
De Gorter, Harry, Swinnen, Johan
The burgeoning literature on how the benefits from research may be negative for a given price support arbitrarily ignores the costs of price supports for a given level of research. Furthermore, the...
THE DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDY PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES
De Gorter, Harry, Fisher, Eric O'N.
This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of the acreage restrictions and land diversion requirements that are characteristic of the farm subsidy programs in the United States. The subsidy payments a...
Schamel, Gunter, De Gorter, Harry
A model is developed that derives optimal pollution levels and determines the welfare economics of pollution reduction, differentiating between abatement and output reduction. It is suitable to...
THE POLITICS OF UNDERINVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
This paper develops a political economy framework that determines the factors causing underinvestment in public research expenditures. Governments are unable to fully compensate for unequal income...
Chang, Hung-Hao, De Gorter, Harry
After joining the WTO in 2002, Taiwan allowed rice imports for the first time by implementing an import quota subject to a special safeguard tariff. In 2003, the import quota was expanded to a...
ISSUES IN REFORMING TARIFF-RATE IMPORT QUOTAS IN THE AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE IN THE WTO
De Gorter, Harry, Abbott, Philip, Barichello, Richard, Boughner, Devry S., Bureau, Jean-Christophe, Choi, Jung-Sup, ...
Contents: The Economics of Tariff Rate Quotas and the Effects of Trade Liberalization; TRQs and GATT Rules; An Overview of Tariffs, Quotas and Imports Worldwide; TRQs in the European Union; U.S. TRQs...
ECONOMIC COSTS OF THE U.S. WHEAT EXPORT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM: MANNA FROM HEAVEN OR FROM TAXPAYERS?
Peterson, Jeffrey M., Minten, Bartholomeus J., De Gorter, Harry
Contact for this paper: Harry de Gorter/Cornell University/Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics/Ithaca NY 14853 USA. Traditional models of export bonus programs focus only on...
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R., Kropp, Jaclyn D.
Agricultural and Food Policy,
Consumer Financed Export Subsidies and the Agreement on Agriculture
Kropp, Jaclyn D., Just, David R., De Gorter, Harry
International Relations/Trade,
THE DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES IN THE UNITED STATES
De Gorter, Harry, Fisher, Eric O'N.
This article analyzes the dynamics effects of the farm subsidies in the United States. The subsidies a farmer receives are based upon historical plantings, also called based acreage. It is sometimes...
De Gorter, Harry, Sheldon, Ian M.
International Relations/Trade,
THE ECONOMICS OF TWO-TIER TARIFF-RATE IMPORT QUOTAS IN AGRICULTURE
Boughner, Devry S., De Gorter, Harry, Sheldon, Ian M.
This paper analyzes the economics of two-tier tariff import quotas (TRQs) and implications of alternative trade liberalization scenarios. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture had tariffs...
Towards a Genuine Sustainability Standard for Biofuel Production
Sustainability standards for biofuel production calculated via life cycle accounting (LCA) require a certain reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to gasoline. Recently it has been...
The Socially Optimal Import Tariff and Tax Credit for Ethanol with Farm Subsidies
De Gorter, Harry, Just, David R., Tan, Qinwen
We determine how the U.S. ethanol tax credit and import tariff affect the corn-ethanol-gasoline markets and how farm subsidies interact with these policies. We show how the ethanol tax credit and...
Agricultural Policies and the GATT: Reconciling Protection, Support and Distortion
De Gorter, Harry, Harvey, David R.
This paper analyzes the relationship between the theory of protection, farm income support and international trade distortion. To parallel those of protection, a measure of distortion is derived...
CHALLENGES IN QUANTITATIVE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN SUPPORT OF MULTILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
Meilke, Karl D., McClatchy, Don, De Gorter, Harry
International Relations/Trade,
An Econometric Model of the European Economic Community's Wheat Sector
Meilke, Karl D., De Gorter, Harry
Crop Production/Industries,
Explaining Inefficient Policy Instruments
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,