IATRC December 2005 Annual Meeting

December 4-6, 2005

Proceedings

If there any papers/presentations that you would like to see, please contact Charli Hochsprung at charli@wsu.edu.

Session I. New Dimensions in Modeling Food and Agricultural Markets

Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University) Monopolistic competition and trade: does the theory carry any empirical weight?

Rakhal Sarker (University of Guelph) and Y. Surry (Swedish University of Ag. Sciences)

Lunch Speaker

Ray Cesca, GAEA International From Research to Policy,

Session II. Emerging Issues in Modeling Food and Agricultural Markets

Pat Westhoff (University of Missouri), S. Brown, and C. Hart, When Point Estimates Miss the Point: Stochastic Modeling of WTO Restrictions,

Jesus Anton (OECD) Modeling More Decoupled Payments

Scott Bradford (Bringham Young University), Measuring OECD Food NTBs and their Impacts,

Parallel Session I

Accounting for the Environment in Trade and Development Research

Ruben Lubowski and Agapi Somwaru, ERS-USDA, Economic Evaluation of Changes in Global Land and Water Resources: Status Report on FARM 2

Mark W. Rosegrant, Ken Strzepek, and Siwa Msangi, (IFPRI), Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Global Food Supplies

Uwe A. Schneider, Hamburg University and Michael Obersteiner, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, E. Schmid, BOKU, J. Balkovic, Slovakia, and S. de Cara, INRA, The EUropean Forest and Agricultural Sector Optimization Model,

BSE and Trade in Livestock Products

Christine Wieck and Dave Holland, Washington State University,  Modeling BSE Impacts in North American Markets

Scott Pellow, (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), BSE Modeling

Tamizheniyan Suyambulingam and Thomas Marsh, Washington State University, Trade Bans and BSE

Dissertation Reports

Josyline Javelosa, (University of Florida), Measuring the Potential Payoffs of Biofortified Crops: High Iron Rice in the Philippines

Fuzhi Cheng, (Cornell University), Effects of Exchange Rate Misalignment on Agricultural Producer Support Estimates (PSEs) in India

Parallel Session 2

Modeling European Policy Reforms for Specialty Products

Giovanni Anania, University of Calabria, The Introduction by the European Union of a tariff-only import regime for bananas. An empirical assessment,

Stephen Haley and David Kelch,USDA-ERS, Modeling the EU sugar and sweetener sector: application to 2005 reform proposals?

Aziz Elbehri, (USDA-ERS) and J. Umstaetter (U. of Delware),

Standards, Regulations, and other Transactions Costs in Food Trade

Ulrich Kleinwechter and Harald Grethe, Humboldt University, The Adoption of the Euregap-Standard by Mango Exporters in Piura, Peru,

Silvia Helena Galvao de Miranda and Geraldo Sant’Ana de Camargo Barros, CEPEA-University of Sao Paulo, A proposal to evaluate the legitimacy of Sanitary and Technical measures in Brazil,

Tom Vollrath, Mark Gehlhar, and Charles Hallahan, USDA-ERS, Modeling Economic Regularities Underlying Food Trade,

Parallel Session 3

Trade and Invasive Species

Christopher Costello, University of California – Santa Barbara, M. Springborn, C. McAusland, and A. Solow, Unintended biological invasions: does risk vary by trading partner?

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, (Rochester Institute of Technology) and Hamid Beladi (U Texas at San Antonio), Trade, the Damage from Alien Species, and the Effects of Protectionism Under Alternate Market Structures

Philip L. Paarlberg, Purdue University; Ann Hillberg-Seitzinger, USDA-APHIS; and John G. Lee, Purdue University, Economic Impacts of Foreign Animal Diseases,

Exchange Rates and Price Transmission in International Markets

Martin Banse and Harald Grethe, University of Gottingen, Using the Logistic Functional Form for Modelling International Price Transmission in Net Trade,

Christine Bolling, USDA-ERS, China’s Trade Surplus with the United States: the Role of the Exchange Rate,

Won Koo, (North Dakota State University)

Parallel Session 4

WTO Disciplines and Trade

Josyline Javelosa and A. Schmitz, (U. of Florida), Special Products in Agricultural Trade Rules: Implications for Human Rights.

Lars Brink, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, WTO Constraints on U.S. and EU Domestic Support in Agriculture: The October 2005 Proposals,

Margherita Scoppola, Universita degli Studi di Macerata, Disciplining State Trading Enterprises under imperfect competition and economies of scale,

Rick Barichello, University of British Columbia; John Cranfield and Karl Meilke University of Guelph, Options for Supply Management in Canada Under Trade Liberalization,

China Horticulture, Exports, and Food Safety

Bryan Lohmar, USDA-ERS and Jim Seale, U. of Florida, Factors Behind the Growth of the Horticultural Sector in China

Thomas Wahl, F. Yamazaki, and M.S. Paggi, Washington State University, IMPACT, China's Agricultural Trade,

Linda Calvin, USDA-ERS, Fred Gale, Dinghuan Hu, and Bryan Lohmar, Food Safety in China for Fruit and Vegetables,

Xian Dong Qin, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Horticulture, Exports, and Food Safety,

Informal Sessions

Using the Partial Equilibrium Agricultural Trade Simulator (PEATSim) 2.0

David Abler, Penn State University, Development and Features of PEATSim,

Richard Stillman, M.A. Normile, A. Somwaru, and S. Langley, USDA-ERS, PEATSim: Analyzing the Dairy Market,

Agricultural and Food Imports: The Gains from Variety for the United States

Dragan Miljkovic, North Dakota State University, Agricultural and Food Imports: The Gains from Variety for the United States,