Food crisis and export taxation: The cost of non-cooperative trade policies

Review of World Economics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 209-233

  Bouët, Antoine ^a,b   Laborde Debucquet, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium; Export taxes; Food crisis; Optimum tariff

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857645721     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-011-0108-8     Document Type: Article

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