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GEM Papers
August 2006
Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for Cotton: A Structural Time-Series Approach
Research Area: Africa
The Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 aggregated regions. Estimated...
ECIPE Working Papers
February 2006
Debt Relief and Changing Governance Structures in Developing Countries
Research Areas: Africa WTO and Globalisation
By: Andreas Freytag Gernot Pehnelt
In this paper we empirically discuss the question whether or not debt relief in the past fifteen years has been economically rational. Analysing the...
GEM Papers
March 2004
The Impact of US Subsidies on the World Cotton Market: A Reassessment
Research Area: Africa
Following a critical review of the existing quantitative literature on cotton subsidies, a vector autoregression (VAR) is used to model the...
GEM Papers
March 2004
Quel avenir pour l’initiative sectorielle en faveur du coton après l’échec de Cancún?
Research Area: Africa
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GEM Papers
March 2004
Market Power in International Commodity Processing Chains: Preliminary Results from the Coffee Market
Research Area: Africa
Vector autoregressions are used to model price transmission through the coffee processing chain, from producers to the world market and from the...
GEM Papers
October 2003
Cotton: A Wrong Case or a Case for Equity?
Research Area: Africa
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