American Journal of Agricultural Economics articles

Recent articles from American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Food aid, food prices, and producer disincentives in Ethiopia.(Report)
November 1, 2009... Food aid is widely regarded as a "necessary evil": necessary to avert hunger in places where household food security has been compromised, but evil because it is suspected of undermining incentives for local production, thereby creating structural dependency on food aid. (1) Nowhere is this...

Tariff equivalent and forgone trade effects of prohibitive technical barriers to trade.(Report)
November 1, 2009... Many countries implement drastic measures to restrict trade in a product associated with a perceived or actual risk of transferring a pest or disease into their geography. These occurrences of nontariff trade barriers for human or plant health have increased as tariffs have been falling...

The indirect land use impacts of United States biofuel policies: the importance of acreage, yield, and bilateral trade responses.(Report)
November 1, 2009... Longstanding U.S. policies promoting ethanol as a fuel substitute have arrived at the forefront in the agricultural economy. As improved ethanol technology has brought its net energy production as a fuel to acceptable levels, detailed accounting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation...

Customs and incentives in contracts.
November 1, 2009... "Custom" has many meanings, and in economics may refer to a rule of thumb, a path dependency, a solution to a coordination game, or a nonmaximizing practice. The use of custom as an explanation of common practices has had a long hold on social scientists generally, and among economists in...

On the collapse of historical civilizations.(Report)
November 1, 2009... Scholars in many disciplines have described the increase and rapid decrease of population size associated with collapsed societies such as the Maya, Anasazi, Rapanui, and Sumerians. Malthus (1798) connected population fluctuations of this type to natural resource depletion, yet the issue...