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Trade Liberalization as a Vehicle for Adapting to Global Warming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Timothy O. Randhir  and
Thomas W. Hertel
Timothy O. Randhir
Affiliation:
Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management at the Holdsworth Natural Resources Center, University of Massachusetts
Thomas W. Hertel
Affiliation:
Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management at the Holdsworth Natural Resources Center, University of Massachusetts
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Abstract

This study assesses the potential interaction between climate change and agricultural trade policies. We distinguish between two dimensions of agricultural trade policy: market insulation and subsidy levels. Building on the previous work of Tsigas, Frisvold and Kuhn (1997) we find that, in the presence of current levels of agricultural subsidies, increased price transmission—as called for under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture—reduces global welfare in the wake of climate change. This is due to the positive correlation between productivity changes and current levels of agricultural support. Increases in subsidized output under climate change tend to exacerbate inefficiencies in the global agricultural economy in the absence of market insulation. However, once agricultural subsidies have also been eliminated, price transmission via the global trading system contributes positively to economic adaptation under climate change.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , October 2000 , pp. 159 - 172
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Copyright © 2000 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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