Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Trade Policy /

This paper studies the relationship between trade policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, governments may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large food price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giordani, Paolo
Other Authors: Rocha, Nadia, Ruta, Michele
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/182
Online Access:Full text available on IMF