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Eu Trade Barriers In The Agri-Food Sector: When Protection Breeds Dependence, Olivier Cadot, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Jacques Gallezot
Eu Trade Barriers In The Agri-Food Sector: When Protection Breeds Dependence, Olivier Cadot, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Jacques Gallezot
Olivier Cadot
This paper looks for firm-level evidence that high rates of protection breed concentration of firm activities into highly protected sectors, endogenously generating vested interests in the maintenance of protection. We combine data on the EU’s trade protection for food and agricultural products measured by ad-valorem equivalents (AVEs) with survey data on France’s agri-food sector to show that indeed, small and mid-size firms and cooperatives in that sector are heavily concentrated in product lines protected by tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) at high rates. Those firms and cooperatives can be expected to be at the forefront of resistance to multilateral tariff cuts, in …
A Second Look At The Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence From Senegal, Olivier Cadot, Melise Jaud
A Second Look At The Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence From Senegal, Olivier Cadot, Melise Jaud
Olivier Cadot
This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-differences and matching difference-in-differences, to identify the effect of the Pesticides Initiative Program on exports of fresh fruits and vegetables. We use a unique firm-level dataset containing data on sales, employment, and exports by product and destination markets, as well as firm enrolment year, over 2000-2008. The results suggest that while the program had no significant effect on exports pooled over all products and destinations, it had a positive effect when considering fresh fruits and vegetables …