Asymmetric Trade Costs: Agricultural Trade among Developing and Developed Countries

Q3 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2018-01-09 DOI:10.1515/jafio-2017-0035

Jihyun Eum, I. Sheldon, S. Thompson

引用次数: 5

Abstract

Abstract In this article, the reasons why developing countries trade fewer agricultural products than developed countries are analyzed. Based on earlier findings that low trade volume in the agricultural sector is due to high trade costs, the focus is on evaluating the extent to which bilateral trade costs in the agricultural sector differ among trading partners. Using a neo-Ricardian trade model, the results show that systematically, asymmetric bilateral trade costs and variation in the level of agricultural productivity across all countries in the sample, are the main barriers to developing countries’ agricultural exports. In addition, low-income countries face higher trade costs to export than do high-income countries.

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不对称贸易成本:发展中国家与发达国家之间的农业贸易

摘要本文分析了发展中国家农产品贸易少于发达国家的原因。根据早期的调查结果，农业部门的低贸易量是由于高贸易成本造成的，重点是评估贸易伙伴之间农业部门的双边贸易成本差异的程度。使用新李嘉图贸易模型，结果表明，系统地，不对称的双边贸易成本和样本中所有国家农业生产力水平的差异是发展中国家农业出口的主要障碍。此外，低收入国家面临的出口贸易成本高于高收入国家。

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Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization Business, Management and Accounting-Business, Management and Accounting (all)

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization (JAFIO) is a unique forum for empirical and theoretical research in industrial organization with a special focus on agricultural and food industries worldwide. As concentration, industrialization, and globalization continue to reshape horizontal and vertical relationships within the food supply chain, agricultural economists are revising both their views of traditional markets as well as their tools of analysis. At the core of this revision are strategic interactions between principals and agents, strategic interdependence between rival firms, and strategic trade policy between competing nations, all in a setting plagued by incomplete and/or imperfect information structures. Add to that biotechnology, electronic commerce, as well as the shift in focus from raw agricultural commodities to branded products, and the conclusion is that a "new" agricultural economics is needed for an increasingly complex "new" agriculture.