Factors Affecting Agricultural Trade: An Intercountry Empirical Inquiry

Thomas L. Vollrath

No 324726, Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: The relationship between economic development and agricultural trade was evaluated quantitatively using 25 years of intercountry data. Econometric models were used to identify the importance of developmental factors affecting agricultural trade. In addition, descriptive statistics were generated enabling net exporting countries to be differentiated from net importing countries. The relevance of both the factor proportion and the technological explanation of comparative advantage was verified for agriculture. Implications for U.S. policy were drawn from the empirical analyses and integrated into a larger body of knowledge concerning the interrelation among agricultural development, agricultural trade, and general economic performance.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 93
Date: 1983-03
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/324726/files/AGES830331.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uerssr:324726

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.324726

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().