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Does the “green box” of the European Union distort global markets?

Bio-based and Applied Economics

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Title Does the “green box” of the European Union distort global markets?
 
Creator Mittenzwei, Klaus; Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute
Britz, Wolfgang; University of Bonn
Wieck, Christine; University of Bonn
 
Subject modeling; agricultural policies; domestic support; green box; trade liberalization; WTO
F13; Q11; Q17; Q18
 
Description The vast majority of domestic support to farmers in the European Union (EU) is notified in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) green box as decoupled payments. The EU considers this support to minimally distort production and/or trade. As demonstrated in the literature, this claim is questionable. This paper aims at analyzing this claim using a global, spatially differentiated, partial equilibrium simulation model with endogenous land supply functions. Comparing a complete elimination of the EU green box measures with a baseline scenario, the model results indicate only small distortionary effects in production and trade. Hence, EU support notified to the green box seems to be compatible with the general requirements of the green box. The finding seems to result from the assumption of unchanged EU border policies.
 
Publisher Bio-based and Applied Economics
Bio-based and Applied Economics
 
Contributor Research Council of Norway
 
Date 2014-02-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/13622
http://www.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/download/13622/13607
10.13128/BAE-13622
 
Source Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol 3, No 1 (2014); 1-20
Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol 3, No 1 (2014); 1-20
2280-6172
2280-6180
 
Language eng
 
Relation 10.13128/BAE-13622