John C. Beghin

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Zeitraum

1990 - 2003

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299

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The Cost of the U.S. Sugar Program Revisited (2003)

Beghin, John C., El Osta, Barbara, Cherlow, Jay R., Mohanty, Samarendu

The article analyzes the welfare cost of the U.S. sugar program using a multimarket model of U.S. sweetener markets. The latter includes raw crops, sugar extraction and refining, and sweetener users...

Tariff Reform in the Presence of Sector-specific Distortions (1990)

BEGHIN, JOHN C, Karp, Larry

The problem of choosing second-best trade policies is modified by including sector-specific policies as well as tariffs. We obtain conditions under which reduction of the largest tariff is welfare...

Tariff Equivalent of Technical Barriers to Trade with Imperfect Substitution and Trade Costs

Yue, Chengyan, Beghin, John C., Jensen, Helen H.

The price-wedge method yields a tariff-equivalent estimate of technical barriers to trade (TBT). An extension of this method accounts for imperfect substitution between domestic and imported goods...

Economics of Domestic Cultural Content Protection in Broadcasting, The

Bekkali, Mukhtar, Beghin, John C.

We analyze the economics of domestic cultural content protection in terrestrial broadcasting, the most widespread policy instrument used in broadcasting. Using the love-of-variety approach, we model...

Tariff Equivalent of Technical Barriers to Trade with Imperfect Substitution and Trade Costs

Chengyan Yue, John C. Beghin, Helen H. Jensen

The price-wedge method yields a tariff-equivalent estimate of technical barriers to trade (TBT). An extension of this method accounts for imperfect substitution between domestic and imported goods...

Impact of the Berlin Accord and European Enlargement on Dairy Markets, The

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Samarendu Mohanty, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Cheng Fang, Phillip Kaus

This paper analyzes the effect on dairy markets of the Berlin Accord and the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms. It also investigates the consequences of the EU enlargement...

Double Dividend with Trade Distortions: Analytical Results and Evidence from Chile

John C. Beghin, Sebastien Dessus

The double-dividend debate evolves around the possibility (or not) of substituting environmental taxes for more distortionary taxes to reduce both pollution degradation or damages (the first...

Food Self-Sufficiency, Comparative Advantage, and Agricultural Trade: A Policy Analysis Matrix for Chinese Agriculture

Cheng Fang, John C. Beghin

(Revised) China's rapid economic growth and gradual transition toward a market economy have brought about significant changes in production and consumption patterns and trade behavior in agriculture....

Eco-Labels and International Trade in Textiles

Wesley Nimon, John C. Beghin

The authors provide a formal analysis of the welfare and trade implications of eco-labeling schemes. They present a simple model of vertical (quality) differentiation that captures stylized features...

Transition to Markets and the Environment: Effects of the Change in the Composition of Manufacturing Output

Tomislav Vukina, John C. Beghin, Ebru G. Solakoglu

Measures the changes in environmental quality that occurred in the early years of economic transition for 12 former centrally planned economies. The authors address the empirical question of whether...

Robust Estimates of Value of a Statistical Life for Developing Economies: An Application to Pollution and Mortality in Santiago

Brad J. Bowland, John C. Beghin

The value-of-statistical-life (VSL) approach is used by environmental economists to value mortality changes resulting from environmental improvement, such as decreases in air pollution. Due to the...

Are Eco-Labels Valuable? Evidence from the Apparel Industry

Wesley Nimon, John C. Beghin

Environmentally friendly labels, or eco-labels, have begun appearing on products in the United States and Europe as a manifestation of industry efforts to be perceived as environment-friendly. This...

Trade Integration, Environmental Degradation, and Public Health in Chile: Assessing the Linkages

John C. Beghin, Brad J. Bowland, Sebastien Dessus, David Roland-Holst

This paper uses an empirical simulation model to examine links between trade integration, pollution, and public health in Chile. Using a general equilibrium framework, we synthesize economic,...

Piecemeal Reform of Trade and Environmental Policy When Consumption Also Pollutes

Mark R. Metcalfe, John C. Beghin

The design of trade and environmental policy pays increasing attention to consumption-induced pollution linked to trade liberalization. The authors of this paper incorporate endogenous consumption...

Potential Market for Non-GMO Corn and Soybeans

Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin

Demand for non-GMO (genetically modified organism) corn and soybeans is high in the EU and Japan, which are two of the largest markets for U.S. corn and soybeans. This presents a potential problem...

Analysis of the Berlin Accord Reforms of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy

Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Samarendu Mohanty, Frank H. Fuller, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Sudhir Chaudhary, ...

This paper briefly summarizes the impacts of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on the European agricultural sector and on international agricultural trade. Objectives of...

Tariff Escalation and Invasive Species Damages

Tu, Anh, Beghin, John C., Gozlan, Estelle

We investigate the interface between trade and invasive species (IS) risk, focusing on the existing tariff escalation in agro-forestry product markets and its implication for IS risk. Tariff...

Challenges in Modeling the Effects of Trade Agreements on the Agricultural Sector

Westhoff, Patrick C., Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Beghin, John C., Meyers, William H.

Major issues and challenges encountered in modeling and analyzing agricultural and trade policy reforms are reviewed. We focus on the modeling approach and pay special attention to the type and scope...

Calibration of Incomplete Demand Systems in Quantitative Analysis, The

Beghin, John C., Bureau, Jean-Christophe, Drogué, Sophie

We introduce an easily implemented and flexible calibration technique for partial demand systems, combining recent developments in incomplete demand systems and a set of restrictions conditioned on...

Dairy Policies and Trade: Implications for the Next WTO Negotiations.

Beghin, John C., Sumner, Daniel A.

This special issue of the Journal presents fifteen research papers on domestic and trade policies affecting dairy markets. The issue organizes the papers by geographical area. Subsections include...

Dairy Food Consumption, Production, and Policy in Japan

Campo, Isabelle Schluep, Beghin, John C.

We explore and investigate Japanese dairy markets. We first provide an overview of consumer demand and how it evolved after World War II. Using historical data and econometric estimates of Japanese...

Game-Theoretic Model of Endogenous Public Policies, A

Beghin, John C.

Emphasizes the interdependence between public policies and players' bargaining strengths and derives their comparative statics with respect to a changing economic environment. Illustration of the...

Urban Demand for Edible Oils and Fats in China: Evidence from Household Survey Data

Fang, Cheng, Beghin, John C.

Using urban household-level survey data from 1992 to 1998, we provide estimates of final demand for edible vetgetable oils and animal fats in three regions of China based on the LinQuad incomplete...

Multilateral Trade and Agricultural Policy Reforms in Sugar Markets (Revised)

Elobeid, Amani, Beghin, John C.

We analyze the impact of trade liberalization, removal of production subsidies, and elimination of consumption distortions in world sugar markets using a partial-equilibrium international sugar model...

Tariff Equivalent of Technical Barriers to Trade with Imperfect Substitution and Trade Costs

Yue, Chengyan, Beghin, John C., Jensen, Helen H.

The price-wedge method yields a tariff-equivalent estimate of technical barriers to trade (TBT). An extension of this method accounts for imperfect substitution between domestic and imported goods...

U.S. Proposal for WTO Agriculture Negotiations: Its Impact on U.S. and World Agriculture

Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Fuller, Frank H., Hart, Chad E., ...

The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) analyzed the latest U.S. proposal to the Doha round of WTO negotiations (see Appendix 1, U.S. Proposal for WTO Agriculture Negotiations,...

Evolving Dairy Markets in Asia: Demand Growth, Supply Adjustments, and Policy.” A special issue of Food Policy

Beghin, John C.

a special issue of Food Policy explains the ongoing evolution of Asian dairy markets based on a series of new economic investigations which provide systematic empirical foundations for assessing...

Rethinking Agricultural Domestic Support under the World Trade Organization

Hart, Chad E., Beghin, John C.

This paper focuses on the third pillar of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the discipline of agricultural domestic support. The paper examines...

Agricultural Trade and the Doha Round: Lessons from Commodity Studies

Beghin, John C., Aksoy, Ataman

While global analytical approaches to agricultural trade liberalization yield large gains for most economies, there are substantial variations in the policy regimes across commodities. To clarify the...

Evolving Dairy Markets in Asia: Recent Findings and Implications

Beghin, John C.

This paper is an overview of important findings regarding the ongoing evolution of Asian dairy markets based on a series of new economic investigations. These investigations provide systematic...

Declining U.S. Tobacco Exports to Australia: A Derived Demand Approach to Competitiveness

Beghin, John C., Hu, Fan

The loss of competitiveness of U.S. tobacco leaf exports to Australia is empirically investigated, using industry-level time-series market data. Tobacco-relative prices, market structure, scale,...

Political Institutions and International Patterns of Agricultural Protection

Beghin, John C., Kherallah, Mylene

This paper analyzes the influence of political systems and rights in patterns of agricultural protection across commodities, countries and over time. Four political systems and a qualitative index of...

Tariff Reform in the Presence of Sector-Specific Distortions

Beghin, John C., Karp, L.

The problem of choosing second-best trade policies is modified by including sector-policies as well as tariffs. Formulae for the optimal tariff and sector-specific subsidy are derived and used to...

Impact of Technical Change, Scale Effects and Forward Ordering on U.S. Fiber Demands, The

Shui, Shangnan, Beghin, John C., Wohlgenant, M.

This paper estimates a complete system of input cost shares in U.S. textile production, using time-series data and a linear logit specification incorporating the impact of technical change and scale...

Urban Demand for Dairy Products in China: Evidence from New Survey Data

Fuller, Frank H., Beghin, John C., Rozelle, Scott

In this paper we use 2001-2002 urban survey data we collected to analyze demographics, cultural factors, and purchasing behaviors influencing the consumption of fresh milk, yogurt, ice cream, and...

FAPRI 2002 World Agricultural Outlook

Babcock, Bruce A., Beghin, John C., Fabiosa, Jacinto F., De Cara, Stephane, Elobeid, Amani, Fang, Cheng, ...

The FAPRI 2002 World Agricultural Outlook presents final projections of FAPRI's agricultural outlook on world agricultural production, consumption, and trade.

FAPRI 2004 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook

Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Fuller, Frank H., Hart, Chad E., ...

The FAPRI 2004 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook presents final projections of world agricultural production, consumption, and trade. Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)...

Doha Round of the World Trade Organization and Agricultural Markets Liberalization: Impacts on Developing Economies, The

Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Beghin, John C., DeCara, Stephane, El Obeid, Amani, Fang, Cheng, Isik, Murat, ...

We investigate the impacts of multilateral removal of all border taxes and farm programs and their distortions on developing economies, using a world agriculture partial equilibrium model. We...

Impact of the European Enlargement and Common Agricultural Policy Reforms on Agricultural Markets: Much Ado about Nothing? The

Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Fuller, Frank H., Matthey, Holger, ...

Following a historical agreement on the EU enlargement, 10 new member states (NMS) acceded to the European Union on May 1, 2004. Although the European Union has expanded its membership in the past,...

Evolving Dairy Markets in Asia: Demand Growth, Supply Adjustments, and Policy”

Beghin, John C.

a special issue of Food Policy explains the ongoing evolution of Asian dairy markets based on a series of new economic investigations which provide systematic empirical foundations for assessing...

U.S. Sugar Policy Options and Their Consequences under NAFTA and Doha

David Abler, John C. Beghin, David Blandford, Amani Elobeid

We analyze the potential impact of continuing the existing U.S. sugar program, replacing it with a standard program, and implementing the standard program with multilateral trade liberalization....

U.S. Sugar Policy Options and Their Consequences under NAFTA and Doha

David Abler, John C. Beghin, David Blandford, Amani Elobeid

We analyze the potential impact of continuing the existing U.S. sugar program, replacing it with a standard program, and implementing the standard program with multilateral trade liberalization....

U.S. Sugar Policy Options and Their Consequences under NAFTA and Doha

Abler, David, Beghin, John C., Blandford, David, Elobeid, Amani

We analyze the potential impact of continuing the existing U.S. sugar program, replacing it with a standard program, and implementing the standard program with multilateral trade liberalization....

How to Promote Quality Perception in Wine Markets: Brand Advertising or Geographical Indication?

Chengyan Yue, Stephan Marette, John C. Beghin

In the context of the wine industry, we investigate producers' choice between geographical indications and brand advertising to convey information to consumers. Producers also decide whether or not...

Groundnut Trade Liberalization: Could the South Help the South?

Beghin, John C., Diop, Ndiame, Matthey, Holger

This paper analyzes policies affecting global groundnut-products markets. The new US groundnut policy is now a minor source of distortion in world markets where India and China stand out as the major...

Global Prospects for Dairy in Argentina and Chile: Evidence from Field Visits and Model Simulations

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Michael Boland, Bruce A. Babcock, William E. Foster

We assess the international competitiveness of the dairy industries in Argentina and Chile, combining recent market intelligence gathered from field visits with quantitative simulations of global...

Global Prospects for Dairy in Argentina and Chile: Evidence from Field Visits and Model Simulations

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Michael Boland, Bruce A. Babcock, William E. Foster

We assess the international competitiveness of the dairy industries in Argentina and Chile, combining recent market intelligence gathered from field visits with quantitative simulations of global...

Global Prospects for Dairy in Argentina and Chile: Evidence from Field Visits and Model Simulations

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Michael Boland, Bruce A. Babcock, William E. Foster

We assess the international competitiveness of the dairy industries in Argentina and Chile, combining recent market intelligence gathered from field visits with quantitative simulations of global...

Global Prospects for Dairy in Argentina and Chile: Evidence from Field Visits and Model Simulations

Fuller, Frank H., Beghin, John C., Boland, Michael, Babcock, Bruce A., Foster, William

We assess the international competitiveness of the dairy industries in Argentina and Chile, combining recent market intelligence gathered from field visits with quantitative simulations of global...

Transition to markets and the environment: Effects of the change in the composition of manufacturing output

VUKINA, TOMISLAV, BEGHIN, JOHN C., SOLAKOGLU, EBRU G.

The paper measures the changes in environmental quality that occurred in the early years of economic transition for 12 former centrally planned economies using the information on 13 pollution...

Trade integration, environmental degradation, and public health in Chile: assessing the linkages

Beghin, John C., Bowland, Bradley J., Dessus, S Bastien, Roland-Holst, David, Mensbrugghe, Dominique Van Der

We use an empirical simulation model to examine links between trade integration, pollution, and public health in Chile. We synthesize economic, engineering, and health data to elucidate this complex...

Tariff Escalation and Invasive Species Risk

Anh Tu, John C. Beghin, Estelle Gozlan

We investigate the interface between trade and invasive species (IS) risk, focusing on the existing tariff escalation in agro-forestry product markets and its implication for IS risk. Tariff...

Dairy Food Consumption, Production, and Policy in Japan

Isabelle Schluep Campo, John C. Beghin

We explore and investigate Japanese dairy markets. We first provide an overview of consumer demand and how it evolved after World War II. Using historical data and econometric estimates of Japanese...

Impact of the European Enlargement and Common Agricultural Policy Reforms on Agricultural Markets: Much Ado about Nothing? The

Jacinto F. Fabiosa, John C. Beghin, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Frank H. Fuller, Holger Matthey, ...

Following a historical agreement on the EU enlargement, 10 new member states (NMS) acceded to the European Union on May 1, 2004. Although the European Union has expanded its membership in the past,...

Dairy Markets in Asia: An Overview of Recent Findings and Implications

John C. Beghin

This paper is an overview of important findings regarding the ongoing evolution of Asian dairy markets based on a series of new economic investigations. These investigations provide systematic...

Urban Demand for Dairy Products in China: Evidence from New Survey Data

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Scott Rozelle

In this paper we use 2001-2002 urban survey data we collected to analyze demographics, cultural factors, and purchasing behaviors influencing the consumption of fresh milk, yogurt, ice cream, and...

Global Agricultural Liberalization: An In-Depth Assessment of What Is At Stake

John C. Beghin

We use the global LINKAGE model to assess the impact of trade and support policies in agriculture on income, trade, and output patterns. We provide order-of-magnitude estimates of the impacts of...

Challenges in Modeling the Effects of Trade Agreements on the Agricultural Sector

Patrick C. Westhoff, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, John C. Beghin, William H. Meyers

Major issues and challenges encountered in modeling and analyzing agricultural and trade policy reforms are reviewed. We focus on the modeling approach and pay special attention to the type and scope...

Multilateral Trade and Agricultural Policy Reforms in Sugar Markets

Amani Elobeid, John C. Beghin

We analyze the impact of trade liberalization, removal of production subsidies, and elimination of consumption distortions in world sugar markets using a partial-equilibrium international sugar model...

China’s Dairy Market: Consumer Demand Survey and Supply Characteristics

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Dinghuan Hu, Scott Rozelle

This report documents data and other information gathered from a survey of urban households in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China. The survey was conducted as part of a research project aimed at...

Rethinking Agricultural Domestic Support under the World Trade Organization

Chad E. Hart, John C. Beghin

This paper focuses on the third pillar of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the discipline of agricultural domestic support. The paper examines...

Groundnut Trade Liberalization: A South-South Debate?

John C. Beghin, Holger Matthey, Ndiame Diop, Mirvat Sewadeh

We use a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market international model to analyze trade and agricultural policies affecting markets for peanut/groundnut products. The model covers four goods in thirteen...

Modeling Tariff Rate Quotas in a Global Context: The Case of Sugar Markets in OECD Countries

John C. Beghin, Don Mitchell

We use mixed-complementarity-problem programming to implement tariff rate quotas (TRQs) in the global computable general equilibrium (CGE) Linkage model. We apply the approach to TRQs in sugar...

Modeling World Peanut Product Markets: A Tool for Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis

John C. Beghin, Holger Matthey

This paper presents a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market international model developed to analyze policies affecting peanut products markets. The model covers four goods (food-quality peanuts,...

Calibration of Incomplete Demand Systems in Quantitative Analysis, The

John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Sophie Drogue

We introduce an easily implemented and flexible calibration technique for partial demand systems, combining recent developments in incomplete demand systems and a set of restrictions conditioned on...

Agricultural Trade and the Doha Round: Lessons from Commodity Studies

John C. Beghin, Ataman Aksoy

While global analytical approaches to agricultural trade liberalization yield large gains for most economies, there are substantial variations in the policy regimes across commodities. To clarify the...

Doha Round of the World Trade Organization: Appraising Further Liberalization of Agricultural Markets, The

Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Stephane De Cara, Amani Elobeid, Cheng Fang, ...

Using the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) modeling system, we investigate the multilateral removal of border taxes and farm programs and their distortion of world agricultural...

Global Agricultural Trade and the Doha Round: What are the Implications for North and South?

John C. Beghin, David Roland-Holst

The next three-year World Trade Organization round has been set in motion by recent negotiations in Doha, Qatar. Among the most contentious issues in that meeting, and probably over the course of the...

Quantification of Sanitary, Phytosanitary, and Technical Barriers to Trade for Trade Policy Analysis

John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau

This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying non-tariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the agricultural and food sectors. We limit the analysis to sanitary, phytosanitary, and...

Food Security and Agricultural Protection in South Korea

John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Sung Joon Park

As part of its food security policy, South Korea has been pursuing food self-sufficiency using high tariffs and high administrative prices in key agricultural and food markets. Using a dual approach...

China's Accession to the WTO: What Is at Stake for Agricultural Markets?

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Stephane De Cara, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Cheng Fang, Holger Matthey

The authors analyze the impact of China's accession to the World Trade Organization on major crop and livestock markets using the FAPRI modeling framework. They incorporate expected changes in...

Primer on US Sugar in the 2007 US Farm Bill, A

John C. Beghin

This background paper is devoted to US sugar policy. A first section describes the features and economics of the US sugar program; a second section is devoted to the welfare and trade effects of the...

Primer on US Sugar in the 2007 US Farm Bill, A

John C. Beghin

This background paper is devoted to US sugar policy. A first section describes the features and economics of the US sugar program; a second section is devoted to the welfare and trade effects of the...

Impact of the European Enlargement and Common Agricultural Policy Reforms on Agricultural Markets: Much Ado about Nothing? The

Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Fuller, Frank H., Matthey, Holger, ...

Following a historical agreement on the EU enlargement, 10 new member states (NMS) acceded to the European Union on May 1, 2004. Although the European Union has expanded its membership in the past,...

Urban Demand for Dairy Products in China: Evidence from Survey Data

Fuller, Frank H., Beghin, John C., Rozelle, S.

Using urban survey data collected by the authors in 2001-2002, this paper analyzes demographics, cultural factors, and purchasing behaviors influencing the consumption of fresh milk, yogurt, ice...

Impact of the European Enlargement and CAP Reforms on Agricultural Markets. Much Ado about Nothing? The

Beghin, John C., FAPRI, Staff

Policy reforms in the EU require careful consideration because the EU is a significant player in international agricultural markets for many commodities. We analyze the effects on world agricultural...

Evolving Dairy Markets in Asia: Demand Growth, Supply Adjustments, and Policy

Beghin, John C.

a special issue of Food Policy explains the ongoing evolution of Asian dairy markets based on a series of new economic investigations which provide systematic empirical foundations for assessing...

CAP Reform, Enlargement, Trade Liberalization, and Structural Change in European Agriculture

Fuller, Frank H., Beghin, John C.

"Enlargement, Structural Change, CAP Reform, and Trade Liberalization in European Agriculture." A special issue of the Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development. Frank H. Fuller and...

Primer on US Sugar in the 2007 US Farm Bill, A

Beghin, John C.

This background paper is devoted to US sugar policy. A first section describes the features and economics of the US sugar program; a second section is devoted to the welfare and trade effects of the...

Agricultural Trade and the Doha Round: Lessons from Commodity Studies

Beghin, John C., Aksoy, Ataman

While global analytical approaches to agricultural trade liberalization yield large gains for most economies, there are substantial variations in the policy regimes across commodities. To clarify the...

Are Eco-Labels Valuable? Evidence from the Apparel Industry

Nimon, W., Beghin, John C.

Using U.S. apparel catalog data, we estimate hedonic price functions to identify market valuation of environmental attributes of apparel goods. We identify a significant and robust premium for the...

Changing the U.S. Sugar Program into a Standard Crop Program: Consequences under NAFTA and Doha

Abler, D., Beghin, John C., Blandford, D., Elobeid, Amani

We analyze the impact of continuing the existing US sugar program, replacing it with a standard program, and implementing the standard program with multilateral trade liberalization. Under NAFTA,...

Phytosanitary Regulation and Agricultural Trade Flows: Tobacco Inputs and Cigarettes Outputs

Overton, Benny E., Beghin, John C., Foster, William

This paper examines the effects of the use of increasingly-popular phytosanitary regulations on production costs, and output and factor trade flows. The case addressed is that of the European...

Policy Implications of Textile Trade Management and The U.S. Cotton Industry

Shui, Shangnan, Wohlgenant, M., Beghin, John C.

This study investigates the effects on the U.S. cotton industry of textile trade liberalization using a multi-market equilibrium displacement model. The simulation results suggest that textile trade...

Emerging Biofuels: Outlook of Effects on U.S. Grain, Oilseed, and Livestock Markets

Simla Tokgoz, Amani Elobeid, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Dermot J. Hayes, Bruce A. Babcock, Tun-Hsiang (Edward) Yu, ...

Projections of U.S. ethanol production and its impacts on planted acreage, crop prices, livestock production and prices, trade, and retail food costs are presented under the assumption that current...

Quantification of Sanitary, Phytosanitary, and Technical Barriers to Trade for Trade Policy Analysis

Beghin, John C., Bureau, Jean-Christophe

This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying non-tariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the agricultural and food sectors. We limit the analysis to sanitary, phytosanitary, and...

FAPRI 2007 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook

Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Fuller, Frank H., Hart, Chad E., ...

The FAPRI 2007 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook presents projections of world agricultural production, consumption, and trade under average weather patterns, existing farm policy, and policy...

Are Standards Always Protectionist?

Stephan Marette, John C. Beghin

We analyze the effects of a domestic standard that reduces an externality associated with the consumption of the good targeted by the standard, using a model in which foreign and domestic producers...

Are Standards Always Protectionist?

Stephan Marette, John C. Beghin

We analyze the effects of a domestic standard that reduces an externality associated with the consumption of the good targeted by the standard, using a model in which foreign and domestic producers...

Are Standards Always Protectionist?

Marette, Stéphan, Beghin, John C.

We analyze the effects of a domestic standard that reduces an externality associated with the consumption of the good targeted by the standard, using a model in which foreign and domestic producers...

Farm Policies and Added Sugars in US Diets

Beghin, John C., Jensen, Helen H.

Major changes in the use of US sweeteners have occurred since 1970, in both the amount and composition. Increased consumption of caloric sweeteners, especially in beverages, has been linked to excess...

Quantitative Policy Analysis of Sanitary, Phytosanitary and Technical Barriers to Trade

John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau

This paper surveys and analyses existing methodologies to model and quantify non-tariff trade barriers (NTBs) in the agricultural and food sectors. The analysis centers on sanitary, phytosanitary,...

Transition to markets and the environment: Effects of the change in the composition of manufacturing output

VUKINA, TOMISLAV, BEGHIN, JOHN C., SOLAKOGLU, EBRU G.

The paper measures the changes in environmental quality that occurred in the early years of economic transition for 12 former centrally planned economies using the information on 13 pollution...

Food Security and Agricultural Protection in South Korea

John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Sung Joon Park

South Korea has been pursuing food self-sufficiency using high tariffs and high administrative prices in key agricultural and food markets. Using a dual approach to trade and trade restrictiveness...

Changing the U.S. Sugar Program into a Standard Crop Program: Consequences under the North American Free Trade Agreement and Doha

David Abler, John C. Beghin, David Blandford, Amani Elobeid

We analyze the impact of continuing the existing U.S. sugar program, replacing it with a standard program, and implementing the standard program with multilateral trade liberalization. Under the...

Emerging Biofuels: Outlook of Effects on U.S. Grain, Oilseed, and Livestock Markets

Tokgoz, Simla, Elobeid, Amani, Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Hayes, Dermot J., Babcock, Bruce A., Yu, Tun-Hsiang (Edward), ...

Projections of U.S. ethanol production and its impacts on planted acreage, crop prices, livestock production and prices, trade, and retail food costs are presented under the assumption that current...

Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model

Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Tokgoz, Simla, Yu, Tun-Hsiang (Edward)

We quantify the emergence of biofuel markets and its impact on U.S. and world agriculture for the coming decade using the multi-market multi-commodity international FAPRI model. The model...

The Tariff Equivalent and Forgone Trade Effects of Prohibitive Technical Barriers to Trade

Yue, Chengyan, Beghin, John C.

We derive a method to econometrically estimate the tariff equivalent and foregone trade effects of a prohibitive technical barrier to trade (TBT) based on Wales and Woodland’s Kuhn-Tucker approach...

Policy Implications of Textile Trade Management and the U.S. Cotton Industry

Shangnan Shui,, John C. Beghin

This study investigates the effects on the U.S. cotton industry of textile trade liberalization using a multi-market equilibrium displacement model. The simulation results suggest that textile trade...

Quantitative Policy Analysis of Sanitary, Phytosanitary and Technical Barriers to Trade

Beghin, John C., Bureau, Jean-Christophe

This paper surveys and analyses existing methodologies to model and quantify non-tariff trade barriers (NTBs) in the agricultural and food sectors. The analysis centers on sanitary, phytosanitary,...

Decoupled Farm Payments and the Role of Base Acreage and Yield Updating Under Uncertainty

Bhaskar, Arathi, Beghin, John C.

In the context of U.S. farm policy, this paper analyzes the effect that expectations about base acreage and yield updating in future policies have on a farmer’s production decisions in the presence...

How coupled are decoupled farm payments? A review of the evidence

Bhaskar, Arathi, Beghin, John C.

This survey paper explores the literature on decoupling of farm programs that has emerged in the last 10 years. The paper identifies and assesses the various channels of potential coupling of...

Accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to the European Union: Impacts on Agricultural Markets

Frank Fuller, John C. Beghin, Jacinto Fabiosa, Samarendu Mohanty, Cheng Fang, Phillip Kaus

We analyse the consequences on agricultural markets of enlargement of the European Union (EU) to include the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. We produce a market outlook up to 2010 for two...

Protection and Comparative Advantage of Chinese Agriculture: Implications for Regional and National Specialization

Fang, Cheng, Beghin, John C.

We assess the protection and comparative advantage of China’s major agricultural crops for six regions using a modified Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) and 1997-2000 data. Agricultural protection in...

Modeling World Peanut Product Markets: A Tool for Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis

Beghin, John C., Matthey, Holger

This paper presents a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market international model developed to analyze policies affecting peanut products markets. The model covers four goods (food-quality peanuts,...

How Will Agricultural Trade Reforms in High-income Countries Affect the Trading Relationships of Developing Countries?

Beghin, John C., Roland-Holst, David, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique

The next three-year WTO round has been set in motion by recent negotiations in Doha, Qatar. Among the most contentious issues in that meeting, and probably over the course of the next round, is...

Agricultural Trade and the Doha Round: Lessons from Commodity Studies

Beghin, John C., Aksoy, Ataman

While global analytical approaches to agricultural trade liberalization yield large gains for most economies, there are substantial variations in the policy regimes across commodities. To clarify the...

Modeling Tariff Rate Quotas in a Global Context: The Case of Sugar Markets in OECD Countries

Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, Beghin, John C., Mitchell, Don

We use mixed-complementarity-problem programming to implement tariff rate quotas (TRQs) in the global computable general equilibrium (CGE) Linkage model. We apply the approach to TRQs in sugar...

Multilateral Trade and Agricultural Policy Reforms in Sugar Markets

Elobeid, Amani, Beghin, John C.

We analyze the removal of current market interventions in world sugar markets using a partial-equilibrium international sugar model calibrated on 2002 market data and current policies. We analyze the...

Global Agricultural Liberalization: An In-Depth Assessment of What Is At Stake

Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, Beghin, John C.

We use the global Linkage model to assess the impact of trade and support policies in agriculture on income, trade, and output patterns. We provide order-of-magnitude estimates of the impacts of...

China’s Dairy Market: Consumer Demand Survey and Supply Characteristics

Fuller, Frank H., Beghin, John C., Hu, Dinghuan, Rozelle, Scott

This report documents data and other information gathered from a survey of urban households in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China. The survey was conducted as part of a research project aimed at...

Rethinking Agricultural Domestic Support under the World Trade Organization

Hart, Chad E., Beghin, John C.

This paper focuses on the third pillar of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the discipline of agricultural domestic support. The paper examines...

Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries

Aksoy, M. Ataman, Beghin, John C.

Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries explores the outstanding issues in global agricultural trade policy and evolving world production and trade patterns. This book presents research...

Introduction and Overview

Aksoy, M. Ataman, Beghin, John C.

Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries explores the outstanding issues in global agricultural trade policy and evolving world production and trade patterns. This book presents research...

Global Agricultural Reform: What is at Stake?

Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, Beghin, John C.

Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries explores the outstanding issues in global agricultural trade policy and evolving world production and trade patterns. This book presents research...

Groundnut Policies, Global Trade Dynamics, and the Impact of Trade Liberalization

Diop, Ndiame, Beghin, John C., Sewadah, Mirvat

Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries explores the outstanding issues in global agricultural trade policy and evolving world production and trade patterns. This book presents research...

Doha Round of the World Trade Organization and Agricultural Markets Liberalization: Impacts on Developing Economies, The

Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Beghin, John C., DeCara, Stephane, Elobeid, Amani, Fang, Cheng, Isik, Murat, ...

We investigate the impacts of multilateral removal of all border taxes and farm programs and their distortions on developing economies, using a world agriculture partial equilibrium model. We...

FAPRI 2005 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook

Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Fuller, Frank H., Hart, Chad E., ...

The FAPRI 2005 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook presents final projections of world agricultural production, consumption, and trade. The projections assume average weather patterns, existing farm...

Dairy Markets in Asia: An Overview of Recent Findings and Implications

Beghin, John C.

This paper is an overview of important findings regarding the ongoing evolution of Asian dairy markets based on a series of new economic investigations. These investigations provide systematic...

FAPRI 2006 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook

Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Fuller, Frank H., Hart, Chad E., ...

The FAPRI 2006 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook presents projections of world agricultural production, consumption, and trade under average weather patterns, existing farm policy, and policy...

How to Promote Quality Perception in Wine Markets: Brand Advertising or Geographical Indication?

Yue, Chengyan, Marette, Stéphan, Beghin, John C.

In the context of the wine industry, we investigate producers’ choice between geographical indications and brand advertising to convey information to consumers. Producers also decide whether or not...

Nontariff Barriers

Beghin, John C.

Nontariff barriers (NTBs) refer to the wide range of policy interventions other than border tariffs that affect trade of goods, services, and factors of production. Most taxonomies of NTBs include...

Intra-Industry Trade, Multilateral Trade Integration, and Invasive Species Risk

Tu, Anh T., Beghin, John C.

We analyze the linkage between protectionism and invasive species (IS) hazard in the context of two-way trade and multilateral trade integration, two major features of real-world agricultural trade....

Cost of the U.S. Sugar Program Revisited, The

Beghin, John C., El Osta, Barbara, Cherlow, Jay R., Mohanty, Samarendu

Using a multimarket model of U.S. sweeteners, the authors revisit the cost of the U.S. sugar program by analyzing the welfare implications of its removal. Their approach addresses the industrial...

Food Security and Agricultural Protection in South Korea

Beghin, John C., Bureau, Jean-Christophe, Park, Sung Joon

South Korea has been pursuing food self-sufficiency using high tariffs and high administrative prices in key agricultural and food markets. Using a dual approach to trade and trade restrictiveness...

China's Accession to the WTO: What is at Stake for Agricultural Markets?

Fuller, Frank H., Beghin, John C., Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Fang, Cheng, Matthey, Holger, DeCara, Stephane

The authors analyze the impact of China?s accession to the World Trade Organization on major crop and livestock markets using the FAPRI modeling framework. They incorporate expected changes in...

Global Agricultural Trade and the Doha Round: What Are the Implications for North and South?

Beghin, John C., Roland-Holst, David, Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique

The next three-year World Trade Organization round has been set in motion by recent negotiations in Doha, Qatar. Among the most contentious issues in that meeting, and probably over the course of the...

Calibration of incomplete demand systems in quantitative analysis

John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Sophie Drogué

An easily implemented and flexible calibration technique for partial demand systems is introduced, combining recent developments in incomplete demand systems and a set of restrictions conditioned on...

Political Institutions and International Patterns of Agricultural Protection.

Beghin, John C, Kherallah, Mylene

This paper analyzes the influence of political systems and rights in patterns of agricultural protection across commodities, countries, and over time. Four political systems and a qualitative index...

Trade and Efficiency Effects of Domestic Content Protection: The Australian Tobacco and Cigarette Industries.

Beghin, John C, Lovell, C A Knox

This paper provides an empirical investigation into the international trade and domestic market efficiency effects of physical domestic content requirements in the Australian tobacco leaf growing and...

Domestic Content Requirements with Bilateral Monopoly.

Beghin, John C, Sumner, Daniel A

This short paper models physical content policies in a bilateral monopoly setting using a cooperative game approach. For just binding or nonbinding content requirements, the policy does not induce...

The Cost of the U.S. Sugar Program Revisited

John C. Beghin, Barbara El Osta, Jay R. Cherlow, Samarendu Mohanty

The article analyzes the welfare cost of the U.S. sugar program using a multimarket model of U.S. sweetener markets. The latter includes raw crops, sugar extraction and refining, and sweetener users...

Outlook for Grain and Oilseed Export Shipments from the Upper Mississippi River Basin

John C. Beghin, Bruce A. Babcock, Robert E. Young, II, Patrick C. Westhoff

In response to a request by Senator Tom Harkin, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) has evaluated a number of issues related to the lock and dam system on the Upper...

Urban Demand for Edible Oils and Fats in China: Evidence from Household Survey Data

Cheng Fang, John C. Beghin

Using urban household-level survey data from 1992 to 1998, the authors provide estimates of final demand for edible vegetable oils and animal fats in three regions of China based on the LinQuad...

Environment and Trade in Developing Economies: A Primer for the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects 2001

John C. Beghin

The author argues that imposing trade sanctions is not the best strategy for eliminating environmental degradation in developing economies. Countries have different priorities that, in large part,...

Accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to the European Union: Impacts on Agricultural Markets

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Samarendu Mohanty, Cheng Fang, Phillip Kaus

Using a world agricultural multimarket model, the authors analyze the consequences of enlargement of the European Union (EU) to include the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland for agricultural...

Impact of a 10 Percent Decrease in Planted Acreage of All U.S. Program Crops

FAPRI Staff, Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Frank H. Fuller, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Cheng Fang, ...

In response to a request from Senator Tom Harkin, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) evaluated the effects of a uniform 10 percent reduction in program crop acreage in the...

Conservation Payments: Challenges in Design and Implementation

Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Michael D. Duffy, Hongli Feng, Brent Hueth, Catherine L. Kling, ...

As Congress develops new farm legislation, some are lobbying for a new partnership between U.S. taxpayers and farmers. In exchange for an annual transfer of $10 to $20billion from taxpayers to...

Cost of the U.S. Sugar Program Revisited, The

John C. Beghin, Barbara El Osta, Jay R. Cherlow, Samarendu Mohanty

Using a multimarket model of U.S. sweeteners, the authors revisit the cost of the U.S. sugar program by analyzing the welfare implications of its removal. Their approach addresses the industrial...

China's Accession to the WTO: What Is at Stake for Agricultural Markets?

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Stephane De Cara, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Cheng Fang, Holger Matthey

The authors analyze the impact of China's accession to the World Trade Organization on major crop and livestock markets using the FAPRI modeling framework. They incorporate expected changes in...

Food Security and Agricultural Protection in South Korea

John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Sung Joon Park

As part of its food security policy, South Korea has been pursuing food self-sufficiency using high tariffs and high administrative prices in key agricultural and food markets. Using a dual approach...

Quantification of Sanitary, Phytosanitary, and Technical Barriers to Trade for Trade Policy Analysis

John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau

This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying non-tariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the agricultural and food sectors. We limit the analysis to sanitary, phytosanitary, and...

Global Agricultural Trade and the Doha Round: What are the Implications for North and South?

John C. Beghin, David Roland-Holst

The next three-year World Trade Organization round has been set in motion by recent negotiations in Doha, Qatar. Among the most contentious issues in that meeting, and probably over the course of the...

Doha Round of the World Trade Organization: Appraising Further Liberalization of Agricultural Markets, The

Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Stephane De Cara, Amani Elobeid, Cheng Fang, ...

Using the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) modeling system, we investigate the multilateral removal of border taxes and farm programs and their distortion of world agricultural...

Agricultural Trade and the Doha Round: Lessons from Commodity Studies

John C. Beghin, Ataman Aksoy

While global analytical approaches to agricultural trade liberalization yield large gains for most economies, there are substantial variations in the policy regimes across commodities. To clarify the...

Calibration of Incomplete Demand Systems in Quantitative Analysis, The

John C. Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau, Sophie Drogue

We introduce an easily implemented and flexible calibration technique for partial demand systems, combining recent developments in incomplete demand systems and a set of restrictions conditioned on...

Modeling World Peanut Product Markets: A Tool for Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis

John C. Beghin, Holger Matthey

This paper presents a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market international model developed to analyze policies affecting peanut products markets. The model covers four goods (food-quality peanuts,...

Modeling Tariff Rate Quotas in a Global Context: The Case of Sugar Markets in OECD Countries

John C. Beghin, Don Mitchell

We use mixed-complementarity-problem programming to implement tariff rate quotas (TRQs) in the global computable general equilibrium (CGE) Linkage model. We apply the approach to TRQs in sugar...

Groundnut Trade Liberalization: A South-South Debate?

John C. Beghin, Holger Matthey, Ndiame Diop, Mirvat Sewadeh

We use a new partial-equilibrium, multi-market international model to analyze trade and agricultural policies affecting markets for peanut/groundnut products. The model covers four goods in thirteen...

Rethinking Agricultural Domestic Support under the World Trade Organization

Chad E. Hart, John C. Beghin

This paper focuses on the third pillar of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the discipline of agricultural domestic support. The paper examines...

China’s Dairy Market: Consumer Demand Survey and Supply Characteristics

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Dinghuan Hu, Scott Rozelle

This report documents data and other information gathered from a survey of urban households in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China. The survey was conducted as part of a research project aimed at...

Multilateral Trade and Agricultural Policy Reforms in Sugar Markets

Amani Elobeid, John C. Beghin

We analyze the impact of trade liberalization, removal of production subsidies, and elimination of consumption distortions in world sugar markets using a partial-equilibrium international sugar model...

Challenges in Modeling the Effects of Trade Agreements on the Agricultural Sector

Patrick C. Westhoff, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, John C. Beghin, William H. Meyers

Major issues and challenges encountered in modeling and analyzing agricultural and trade policy reforms are reviewed. We focus on the modeling approach and pay special attention to the type and scope...

Global Agricultural Liberalization: An In-Depth Assessment of What Is At Stake

John C. Beghin

We use the global LINKAGE model to assess the impact of trade and support policies in agriculture on income, trade, and output patterns. We provide order-of-magnitude estimates of the impacts of...

Urban Demand for Dairy Products in China: Evidence from New Survey Data

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Scott Rozelle

In this paper we use 2001-2002 urban survey data we collected to analyze demographics, cultural factors, and purchasing behaviors influencing the consumption of fresh milk, yogurt, ice cream, and...

Dairy Markets in Asia: An Overview of Recent Findings and Implications

John C. Beghin

This paper is an overview of important findings regarding the ongoing evolution of Asian dairy markets based on a series of new economic investigations. These investigations provide systematic...

Impact of the European Enlargement and Common Agricultural Policy Reforms on Agricultural Markets: Much Ado about Nothing? The

Jacinto F. Fabiosa, John C. Beghin, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Frank H. Fuller, Holger Matthey, ...

Following a historical agreement on the EU enlargement, 10 new member states (NMS) acceded to the European Union on May 1, 2004. Although the European Union has expanded its membership in the past,...

Tariff Equivalent of Technical Barriers to Trade with Imperfect Substitution and Trade Costs

Chengyan Yue, John C. Beghin, Helen H. Jensen

The price-wedge method yields a tariff-equivalent estimate of technical barriers to trade (TBT). An extension of this method accounts for imperfect substitution between domestic and imported goods...

Dairy Food Consumption, Production, and Policy in Japan

Isabelle Schluep Campo, John C. Beghin

We explore and investigate Japanese dairy markets. We first provide an overview of consumer demand and how it evolved after World War II. Using historical data and econometric estimates of Japanese...

Tariff Escalation and Invasive Species Risk

Anh Tu, John C. Beghin, Estelle Gozlan

We investigate the interface between trade and invasive species (IS) risk, focusing on the existing tariff escalation in agro-forestry product markets and its implication for IS risk. Tariff...

How to Promote Quality Perception in Wine Markets: Brand Advertising or Geographical Indication?

Chengyan Yue, Stephan Marette, John C. Beghin

In the context of the wine industry, we investigate producers' choice between geographical indications and brand advertising to convey information to consumers. Producers also decide whether or not...

Nontariff Barriers

John C. Beghin

Nontariff barriers (NTBs) refer to the wide range of policy interventions other than border tariffs that affect trade of goods, services, and factors of production. Most taxonomies of NTBs include...

Intra-Industry Trade, Multilateral Trade Integration, and Invasive Species Risk

Anh Tu, John C. Beghin

We analyze the linkage between protectionism and invasive species (IS) hazard in the context of two-way trade and multilateral trade integration, two major features of real-world agricultural trade....

Analysis of the Berlin Accord Reforms of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy

Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Samarendu Mohanty, Frank H. Fuller, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Sudhir Chaudhary, ...

This paper briefly summarizes the impacts of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on the European agricultural sector and on international agricultural trade. Objectives of...

Potential Market for Non-GMO Corn and Soybeans

Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin

Demand for non-GMO (genetically modified organism) corn and soybeans is high in the EU and Japan, which are two of the largest markets for U.S. corn and soybeans. This presents a potential problem...

Piecemeal Reform of Trade and Environmental Policy When Consumption Also Pollutes

Mark R. Metcalfe, John C. Beghin

The design of trade and environmental policy pays increasing attention to consumption-induced pollution linked to trade liberalization. The authors of this paper incorporate endogenous consumption...

Trade Integration, Environmental Degradation, and Public Health in Chile: Assessing the Linkages

John C. Beghin, Brad J. Bowland, Sebastien Dessus, David Roland-Holst

This paper uses an empirical simulation model to examine links between trade integration, pollution, and public health in Chile. Using a general equilibrium framework, we synthesize economic,...

Are Eco-Labels Valuable? Evidence from the Apparel Industry

Wesley Nimon, John C. Beghin

Environmentally friendly labels, or eco-labels, have begun appearing on products in the United States and Europe as a manifestation of industry efforts to be perceived as environment-friendly. This...

Robust Estimates of Value of a Statistical Life for Developing Economies: An Application to Pollution and Mortality in Santiago

Brad J. Bowland, John C. Beghin

The value-of-statistical-life (VSL) approach is used by environmental economists to value mortality changes resulting from environmental improvement, such as decreases in air pollution. Due to the...

Transition to Markets and the Environment: Effects of the Change in the Composition of Manufacturing Output

Tomislav Vukina, John C. Beghin, Ebru G. Solakoglu

Measures the changes in environmental quality that occurred in the early years of economic transition for 12 former centrally planned economies. The authors address the empirical question of whether...

Eco-Labels and International Trade in Textiles

Wesley Nimon, John C. Beghin

The authors provide a formal analysis of the welfare and trade implications of eco-labeling schemes. They present a simple model of vertical (quality) differentiation that captures stylized features...

Food Self-Sufficiency, Comparative Advantage, and Agricultural Trade: A Policy Analysis Matrix for Chinese Agriculture

Cheng Fang, John C. Beghin

(Revised) China's rapid economic growth and gradual transition toward a market economy have brought about significant changes in production and consumption patterns and trade behavior in agriculture....

Double Dividend with Trade Distortions: Analytical Results and Evidence from Chile

John C. Beghin, Sebastien Dessus

The double-dividend debate evolves around the possibility (or not) of substituting environmental taxes for more distortionary taxes to reduce both pollution degradation or damages (the first...

Impact of the Berlin Accord and European Enlargement on Dairy Markets, The

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Samarendu Mohanty, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Cheng Fang, Phillip Kaus

This paper analyzes the effect on dairy markets of the Berlin Accord and the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms. It also investigates the consequences of the EU enlargement...

Emerging Biofuels: Outlook of Effects on U.S. Grain, Oilseed, and Livestock Markets

Simla Tokgoz, Amani Elobeid, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Dermot J. Hayes, Bruce A. Babcock, Tun-Hsiang (Edward) Yu, ...

Projections of U.S. ethanol production and its impacts on planted acreage, crop prices, livestock production and prices, trade, and retail food costs are presented under the assumption that current...

Farm Policies and Added Sugars in US Diets

John C. Beghin, Helen H. Jensen

Major changes in the use of US sweeteners have occurred since 1970, in both the amount and composition. Increased consumption of caloric sweeteners, especially in beverages, has been linked to excess...

Outlook for Grain and Oilseed Export Shipments from the Upper Mississippi River Basin

John C. Beghin, Bruce A. Babcock, Robert E. Young, II, Patrick C. Westhoff

In response to a request by Senator Tom Harkin, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) has evaluated a number of issues related to the lock and dam system on the Upper...

Urban Demand for Edible Oils and Fats in China: Evidence from Household Survey Data

Cheng Fang, John C. Beghin

Using urban household-level survey data from 1992 to 1998, the authors provide estimates of final demand for edible vegetable oils and animal fats in three regions of China based on the LinQuad...

Environment and Trade in Developing Economies: A Primer for the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects 2001

John C. Beghin

The author argues that imposing trade sanctions is not the best strategy for eliminating environmental degradation in developing economies. Countries have different priorities that, in large part,...

Accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to the European Union: Impacts on Agricultural Markets

Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Samarendu Mohanty, Cheng Fang, Phillip Kaus

Using a world agricultural multimarket model, the authors analyze the consequences of enlargement of the European Union (EU) to include the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland for agricultural...

Impact of a 10 Percent Decrease in Planted Acreage of All U.S. Program Crops

FAPRI Staff, Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Frank H. Fuller, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Cheng Fang, ...

In response to a request from Senator Tom Harkin, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) evaluated the effects of a uniform 10 percent reduction in program crop acreage in the...

Conservation Payments: Challenges in Design and Implementation

Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Michael D. Duffy, Hongli Feng, Brent Hueth, Catherine L. Kling, ...

As Congress develops new farm legislation, some are lobbying for a new partnership between U.S. taxpayers and farmers. In exchange for an annual transfer of $10 to $20billion from taxpayers to...

Cost of the U.S. Sugar Program Revisited, The

John C. Beghin, Barbara El Osta, Jay R. Cherlow, Samarendu Mohanty

Using a multimarket model of U.S. sweeteners, the authors revisit the cost of the U.S. sugar program by analyzing the welfare implications of its removal. Their approach addresses the industrial...

Nontariff Barriers

John C. Beghin

Nontariff barriers (NTBs) refer to the wide range of policy interventions other than border tariffs that affect trade of goods, services, and factors of production. Most taxonomies of NTBs include...

Intra-Industry Trade, Multilateral Trade Integration, and Invasive Species Risk

Anh Tu, John C. Beghin

We analyze the linkage between protectionism and invasive species (IS) hazard in the context of two-way trade and multilateral trade integration, two major features of real-world agricultural trade....

Farm Policies and Added Sugars in US Diets

John C. Beghin, Helen H. Jensen

Major changes in the use of US sweeteners have occurred since 1970, in both the amount and composition. Increased consumption of caloric sweeteners, especially in beverages, has been linked to excess...

The Tariff Equivalent and Forgone Trade Effects of Prohibitive Technical Barriers to Trade

Yue, Chengyan, Beghin, John C.

Replaced by revised version of paper 05/05/08. (Former title: How to Estimate a Technical Barrier to Trade When There Is No Trade)

Long-Term and Global Tradeoffs between Bio-Energy, Feed, and Food

Tokgoz, Simla, Elobeid, Amani, Fabiosa, Jacinto, Hayes, Dermot J., Babcock, Bruce A., Yu, Tun-Hsiang Edward, ...

Projections of U.S. ethanol production and its impacts on planted acreage, crop prices, livestock production and prices, trade, and retail food costs are presented under the assumption that current...

Tariff Escalation and Invasive Species Risk

Tu, Anh Thuy, Beghin, John C.

We investigate the interface between trade and invasive species (IS) risk, focusing on the existing tariff escalation in agricultural and food-processing markets and its implication IS risk. Tariff...

Tariff Equivalent of Technical Barriers to Trade with Imperfect Substitution and Trade Costs

Yue, Chengyan, Beghin, John C., Jensen, Helen H.

The price-wedge method yields a tariff-equivalent estimate of technical barriers to trade (TBT). An extension of this method accounts for imperfect substitution between domestic and imported goods...

Determinants of World Demand for U.S. Corn Seeds: The Role of Trade Costs

Jayasinghe, Sampath, Beghin, John C., Moschini, GianCarlo

The United States is a large net exporter of corn seeds. Seed trade, including corn, has been expanding but its determinants are not well understood. This paper econometrically investigates the...

Decoupled farm payments and the Role of Base Updating under uncertainty

Bhaskar, Arathi, Beghin, John C.

In the context of the U.S farm policy, this paper analyzes the effect that expectations about base updating in future policies have on a farmer€ٳ acreage decision in the presence of price,...

How to Promote Quality Perception in Wine Markets: Brand Advertising or Geographic Indication?

Yue, Chengyan, Marette, Stephan, Beghin, John C.

In the context of the wine industry, we investigate producers'’ choice between geographic indications and brand advertising to convey information to consumers. Producers also decide whether or not...

IMPLEMENTING TARIFF RATE QUOTAS IN CGE MODELS: AN APPLICATION TO SUGAR TRADE POLICIES IN OECD COUNTRIES

Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, Beghin, John C., Mitchell, Don

We use Mixed-Complementarity-Problem programming to implement tariff rate quotas (TRQ) in the global CGE LINKAGE model. We apply the approach to tariff rate quotas in sugar markets in OECD countries....

THE IMPACT OF GROUNDNUT TRADE LIBERALIZATION: IMPLICATION FOR THE DOHA ROUND

Matthey, Holger, Diop, Ndiame, Beghin, John C., Sewadeh, Mirvat

We use a partial-equilibrium multi-market international model to analyze trade and agricultural policies affecting peanut/groundnut products markets. The model covers four goods (food and crush...

DOUBLE DIVIDEND WITH TRADE DISTORTIONS: ANALYTICAL RESULTS AND EVIDENCE FROM CHILE

Beghin, John C., Dessus, Sebastien

This paper contributes to the double dividend debate with a formal analysis and some numerical evidence emphasizing trade and environmental distortions with a substitution of environmental taxes for...

Multilateral Trade and Agricultural Policy Reforms in Sugar Markets

El-Obeid, Amani, Beghin, John C.

We analyze the removal of current market interventions in world sugar markets using a partial-equilibrium international sugar model calibrated on 2002 market data and current policies. We analyze the...

Intra-Industry Trade, Imperfect Competition, Trade Integration and Invasive Species Risk

Tu, Anh, Beghin, John C.

We analyze the linkage between protectionism and invasive species hazard in the context of imperfect competition, two-way trade, and multilateral trade liberalization, three major actual features of...

ARE ECO-LABELS VALUABLE? EVIDENCE FROM THE APPAREL INDUSTRY

Nimon, Wesley, Beghin, John C.

Using U.S. apparel catalogue data, we estimate hedonic price functions to identify market valuation of environmental attributes of apparel goods. We identify a significant and robust premium for the...

CHINA'S ACCESSION TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: IMPACT ON AGRICULTURAL MARKETS

Fuller, Frank, Beghin, John C., Fabiosa, Jacinto, Fang, Cheng, De Cara, Stephane, Matthey, Holger

We analyze the impact of China's accession to the WTO on agricultural markets using the FAPRI modeling framework. Our analysis includes major crops, livestock sectors, and exogenous changes in...

IMPACTS OF FEDERAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS FOR SUGAR AND PEANUTS COMPARED TO CORN AND WHEAT ON U.S. AND WORLD MARKETS

Mohanty, Samarendu, Beghin, John C., Kaus, Phil

This study examines the impacts of federal support programs for sugar, peanuts, corn and wheat on U.S. and world markets, using a multi-country, multi-commodity, partial equilibrium world...

Tariff Equivalent of Technical Barriers to Trade with Imperfect Substitution and Trade Costs

Yue, Chengyan, Beghin, John C., Jensen, Helen H.

The price-wedge method yields a tariff-equivalent estimate of technical barriers to trade (TBT). An extension of this method accounts for imperfect substitution between domestic and imported goods...

The Cost of Food Self-Sufficiency and Agricultural Protection in South Korea

Beghin, John C., Bureau, Jean-Christophe, Park, Sung Joon

As part of its food security policy, South Korea has been pursuing food self-sufficiency using high tariffs and high administrative prices in key agricultural and food markets. Using a dual approach...

FAPRI 2000 World Agricultural Outlook

Babcock, Bruce A., Beghin, John C., Mohanty, Samarendu, Fuller, Frank, Fabiosa, Jay, Kaus, Phillip, ...

The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) prepares a preliminary agricultural outlook on world agricultural production, consumption, and trade every fall. This is followed by an...

FAPRI 2006 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook

Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Fabiosa, Jacinto, Fuller, Frank, Hart, Chad, ...

The FAPRI 2006 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook presents projections of world agricultural production, consumption, and trade under average weather patterns, existing farm policy, and policy...

FAPRI 2007 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook

Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Fabiosa, Jacinto, Fuller, Frank, Hart, Chad, ...

The FAPRI 2007 U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook presents projections of world agricultural production, consumption, and trade under average weather patterns, existing farm policy, and policy...

AGRICULTURAL MARKETS LIBERALIZATION AND THE DOHA ROUND

Fabiosa, Jay, Beghin, John C., De Cara, Stephane, Fang, Cheng, Isik, Murat, Matthey, Holger

Using a partial equilibrium model of world agriculture, we investigate the multilateral removal of all border taxes and farm programs and their distortion of world agricultural markets. These...

THE CALIBRATION OF INCOMPLETE DEMAND SYSTEMS IN QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

Beghin, John C., Bureau, Jean-Christophe, Drogue, Sophie

We introduce an easily implemented and flexible calibration technique for partial demand systems, combining recent developments in incomplete demand systems and a set of restrictions conditioned on...

The Impact of The European Enlargement and CAP Reforms on Agricultural Markets. Much Ado about Nothing?

Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, El Obeid, Amani, Fuller, Frank H., Matthey, Holger, ...

We analyze the effects of the 2004 CAP reform and EU enlargement on European and world agricultural markets. We compare the results from a CAP reform only and a CAP reform plus enlargement scenarios...

Japanese Consumer Demand for Dairy Products

Campo, Isabelle Schluep, Beghin, John C.

We econometrically estimate consumer demand for dairy products in Japan using time series data for 1960-2003. We identify economic, cultural, and demographic forces that have been influencing dairy...

Farm policies and added sugars in US diets

Beghin, John C., Jensen, Helen H.

We examine how US farm policies for sweetener crops have affected the consumption and composition of sweeteners in the US diet. R&D expenditures have lowered the unit cost of commodities used in...

AJAE Appendix: Tariff Equivalent of Technical Barriers to Trade with Imperfect Substitution and Trade Costs

Yue, Chengyan, Beghin, John C., Jensen, Helen H.

The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 88, Number 4, November 2006.

Determinants of World Demand for U.S. Corn Seeds: The Role of Trade Costs

Beghin, John C., Moschini, GianCarlo

The United States is a large net exporter of corn seeds. Seed trade, including that of corn, has been expanding, but its determinants are not well understood. This paper econometrically investigates...

Determinants of World Demand for U.S. Corn Seeds: The Role of Trade Costs

Sampath Jayasinghe, John C. Beghin, GianCarlo Moschini

The United States is a large net exporter of corn seeds. Seed trade, including that of corn, has been expanding, but its determinants are not well understood. This paper econometrically investigates...

Determinants of World Demand for U.S. Corn Seeds: The Role of Trade Costs

Sampath Jayasinghe, John C. Beghin, GianCarlo Moschini

The United States is a large net exporter of corn seeds. Seed trade, including that of corn, has been expanding, but its determinants are not well understood. This paper econometrically investigates...

The Tariff Equivalent and Forgone Trade Effects of Prohibitive Technical Barriers to Trade

Yue, Chengyan, Beghin, John C.

Replaced by revised version of paper 05/05/08. (Former title: How to Estimate a Technical Barrier to Trade When There Is No Trade)

Long-Term and Global Tradeoffs between Bio-Energy, Feed, and Food

Tokgoz, Simla, Elobeid, Amani, Fabiosa, Jacinto, Hayes, Dermot J., Babcock, Bruce A., Yu, Tun-Hsiang Edward, ...

Projections of U.S. ethanol production and its impacts on planted acreage, crop prices, livestock production and prices, trade, and retail food costs are presented under the assumption that current...

Challenges in Modeling the Effects of Trade Agreements on the Agricultural Sector

Westhoff, Patrick, Fabiosa, Jacinto, Beghin, John C., Meyers, William

Major issues and challenges encountered in modeling and analyzing agricultural and trade policy reforms are reviewed. We focus on modeling approach and pay special attention to the type and scope of...

POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF TEXTILE TRADE MANAGEMENT AND THE U.S. COTTON INDUSTRY

Shui, Shangnan, Wohlgenant, Michael K., Beghin, John C.

This study investigates the effects on the U.S. cotton industry of textile trade liberalization using a multi-market equilibrium displacement model. The simulation results suggest that textile trade...

PHYTOSANITARY REGULATION AND AGRICULTURAL FLOWS: TOBACCO INPUTS AND CIGARETTES OUTPUTS

Overton, Benny, Beghin, John C., Foster, William

This paper examines the effects of the use of increasingly-popular phytosanitary regulations on production costs, and output and factor trade flows. The case addressed is that of the European...

How coupled are decoupled farm payments? A review of the evidence

Bhaskar, Arathi, Beghin, John C.

This survey paper explores the literature on decoupling of farm programs that has emerged in the last 10 years. The paper identifies and assesses the various channels of potential coupling of...

Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model

Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Beghin, John C., Dong, Fengxia, Elobeid, Amani, Tokgoz, Simla, Yu, Tun-Hsiang

We quantify the emergence of biofuel markets and its impact on U.S. and world agriculture for the coming decade using the multi-market, multi-commodity international FAPRI (Food and Agricultural...

Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model

Jacinto F. Fabiosa, John C. Beghin, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Simla Tokgoz, Tun-Hsiang (Edward) Yu

We quantify the emergence of biofuel markets and its impact on U.S. and world agriculture for the coming decade using the multi-market, multi-commodity international FAPRI (Food and Agricultural...

Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model

Jacinto F. Fabiosa, John C. Beghin, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Simla Tokgoz, Tun-Hsiang (Edward) Yu

We quantify the emergence of biofuel markets and its impact on U.S. and world agriculture for the coming decade using the multi-market, multi-commodity international FAPRI (Food and Agricultural...

THE COST OF THE U.S. SUGAR PROGRAM REVISITED

John C. Beghin, Barbara El Osta, Jay R. Cherlow, Samarendu Mohanty

The article analyzes the welfare cost of the U.S. sugar program using a multimarket model of U.S. sweetener markets. The latter includes raw crops, sugar extraction and refining, and sweetener users...

How Coupled Are Decoupled Farm Payments? A Review of the Evidence

Bhaskar, Arathi, Beghin, John C.

This survey paper explores the literature on decoupling of farm programs that has emerged in the last 10 years. The paper identifies and assesses the various channels of potential coupling of...

Optimum Tariffs in a Distorted Economy: An Application to U.S. Agriculture

Beghin, John C., Karp, Larry S.

Optimal distortions for the agricultural sector are calculated taking as given distortions in the nonagricultural sector. The calculations use a general equilibrium model and assume that the sole...

The Tariff Equivalent and Forgone Trade Effect of Prohibitive Technical Barriers to Trade

Yue, Chengyan, Beghin, John C.

The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Tariff Equivalent and Forgone Trade Effects of Prohibitive Technical Barriers to Trade

Chengyan Yue, John C. Beghin

We derive a method to econometrically estimate the tariff equivalent and forgone trade effects of a prohibitive technical barrier to trade (TBT) based on Wales and Woodland's Kuhn-Tucker approach to...