Search Costs in Identity-Preserved Agricultural Markets (2008)
Many industries have "match-maker" institutions that help agents make links to one another by reducing search costs. Such institutions are now emerging in niche farm and food markets. In this study I...
Search Costs in Identity-Preserved Agricultural Markets (2008)
Many industries have "match-maker" institutions that help agents make links to one another by reducing search costs. Such institutions are now emerging in niche farm and food markets. In this study I...
Search Costs in Identity-Preserved Agricultural Markets (2008)
Many industries have "match-maker" institutions that help agents make links to one another by reducing search costs. Such institutions are now emerging in niche farm and food markets. In this study I...
Search Costs in Identity-Preserved Agricultural Markets (2008)
Many industries have "match-maker" institutions that help agents make links to one another by reducing search costs. Such institutions are now emerging in niche farm and food markets. In this study I...
Reimer, Jeffrey J, Stiegert, Kyle
Strategic trade theory offers a way of conceptualizing and testing for strategic government interventions in imperfectly competitive international markets. This survey critically assesses recent...
Reimer, Jeffrey J, Stiegert, Kyle
Strategic trade theory offers a way of conceptualizing and testing for strategic government interventions in imperfectly competitive international markets. This survey critically assesses recent...
Reimer, Jeffrey J, Stiegert, Kyle
Strategic trade theory offers a way of conceptualizing and testing for strategic government interventions in imperfectly competitive international markets. This survey critically assesses recent...
Reimer, Jeffrey J, Stiegert, Kyle
Strategic trade theory offers a way of conceptualizing and testing for strategic government interventions in imperfectly competitive international markets. This survey critically assesses recent...
International Cross Section Estimates of Demand for Use in the GTAP Model (2004)
Reimer, Jeffrey J, Hertel, Thomas W
The making of projections often requires an economy-wide perspective, and the estimation of consumer demands at the international level. In this paper, an implicit, directly additive demand system...
Market Conduct in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry (2004)
Product differentiation is well established as being the key source of the cereal industry's high price-cost margins. However, there is little consensus as to whether pricing collusion is also a...
Market Conduct in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry (2004)
Product differentiation is well established as being the key source of the cereal industry's high price-cost margins. However, there is little consensus as to whether pricing collusion is also a...
Market Conduct in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry (2004)
Product differentiation is well established as being the key source of the cereal industry's high price-cost margins. However, there is little consensus as to whether pricing collusion is also a...
Market Conduct in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry (2004)
Product differentiation is well established as being the key source of the cereal industry's high price-cost margins. However, there is little consensus as to whether pricing collusion is also a...
Predicting the poverty impacts of trade reform
Hertel, Thomas W., Reimer, Jeffrey J.
An important area of research in recent years involves assessing the microeconomic implications of macro-level policies-particularly those related to international trade. While a wide range of...
Estimating the poverty impacts of trade liberalization
As a new round of World Trade Organization negotiations is being launched with greater emphasis on developing country participation, a body of literature is emerging which quantifies how...
Estimating the Poverty Impacts of Trade Liberalization
As a new round of World Trade Organization negotiations is being launched with greater emphasis on developing country participation, a body of literature is emerging which quantifies how...
Vertical Integration in the Pork Industry
This article provides an economic explanation regarding why the share of U.S. pork raised on company-owned farms with hired management (integration) is increasing relative to production through...
Assessing Global Computable General Equilibrium Model Validity Using Agricultural Price Volatility
Ernesto Valenzuela, Thomas W. Hertel, Roman Keeney, Jeffrey J. Reimer
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models are commonly used for global agricultural market analysis. Concerns are sometimes raised, however, about the quality of their output since key parameters...
Evidence on Imperfect Competition and Strategic Trade Theory
Reimer, Jeffrey J., Stiegert, Kyle W.
Strategic trade theory shows that government intervention in markets with small numbers of traders can boost the welfare of a country relative to free trade. This survey critically assesses the...
Would Indian farmers benefit from liberalization of world cotton and sugar markets?
Surabhi Mittal, Jeffrey J. Reimer
Rich-country support programs for cotton and sugar producers are frequently claimed to be detrimental for developing-country farmers. This study investigates whether a reduction in protectionist...
Designing U.S. Corn Grades to Reflect End Use Value
Jeffrey J. Reimer, Lowell D. Hill
The 1986 U.S. Grain Quality Improvement Act introduced an explicit, economic purpose for grades—that they transmit information about end use value—but provided little guidance about what factors...
MARKET CONDUCT IN THE U.S. READY-TO-EAT CEREAL INDUSTRY
Reimer, Jeffrey J., Connor, John M.
The FTC’'s “"shared monopoly”" case was the focus of U.S. antitrust activity during the late 1970s, but prosecution of the cereal industry was terminated in 1981. We estimate the degree of...
Hertel, Thomas W., Reimer, Jeffrey J., Valenzuela, Ernesto
This paper incorporates commodity stockholding into a short run, stochastic global general equilibrium model. A mix of econometric and calibration techniques are used to reconcile model outcomes with...
A THEORY OF PACKER SELF PRODUCTION IN THE SWINE INDUSTRY
An analytical model is developed to explain the increasing tendency of pork packers to produce their own hogs. Upstream integration is motivated by recent events including increasing hog buyer...
TRADE POLICY, FOOD PRICE VARIABILITY, AND THE VULNERABILITY OF LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS
Hertel, Thomas W., Preckel, Paul V., Reimer, Jeffrey J.
We utilize a global trade model to generate distributions of commodity and factor prices based on observed uncertainty in rice production. This is done for three trade policy regimes. We then assess...
Designing U.S. Corn Grades to Reflect End Use Value
Reimer, Jeffrey J., Hill, Lowell D.
The 1986 U.S. Grain Quality Improvement Act introduced an explicit, economic purpose for grades-that they transmit information about end use value-but provided little guidance about what factors to...
The Impact of Trade Costs on Firm Entry, Exporting, and Survival in Korea
Kim, Sooil, Reimer, Jeffrey J., Gopinath, Munisamy
This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of...
Predicting the Poverty Impacts of Trade Reform
Thomas W. Hertel, Jeffrey J. Reimer
Quantifying how international trade affects poverty in developing countries is currently an area of intense research activity. This paper surveys the developments taking place, identifies four major...