Price shocks in a small open economy : the role of insurancetrade policy

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Table of contents

I State Trading Enterprises and price volatility 
1 Framework for the analysis of policy instruments 
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Model
1.3 Production shocks in a large economy
1.4 Price shocks in a small open economy: the role of insurance-trade policy
1.5 Comparison of the two approaches
1.6 Conclusion
2 State Trading Enterprises 
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Marketing boards in developed countries
2.3 Marketing boards in developing countries
2.4 State Trading Enterprises in the Doha round
2.5 Related literature
3 State Trading Enterprises And Price Stabilization 
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The model
3.3 Trade policies
3.4 Discussion
3.5 Conclusion
II Food price volatility and agricultural production decisions under imperfect information 
4 Literature review on dispersed information and application to farmers’ production decisions 
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Formation of expectations
4.3 Introduction to models of dispersed information
4.4 Models with discrete decision sets
4.5 Models with continuous decision sets
4.6 Applications to agriculture
4.7 Conclusion
5 Food price volatility and farmers’ production decisions under imperfect information 
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Model
5.3 Applications
5.4 Discussion
5.5 Conclusion
6 Crop variety choice under imperfect information 
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Model
6.3 Production and price volatility
6.4 Uniqueness and multiplicity
6.5 Conclusion
7 Acreage allocation in two countries with overlapping crop calendars 
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Related literature
7.3 Overlapping crop calendars
7.4 Strategic externalities with a subset of the population
7.5 Sequential decision problem
7.6 Total production
7.7 Expected prots
7.8 Conclusion
III Food price spikes and trade policies under imperfect information 
8 Food price spikes and trade policies 
8.1 Review of past crises
8.2 Consequences of food price spikes
8.3 Causes of food price spikes
8.4 Export restrictions
8.5 How to prevent future crises?
9 Herding models and trade policies during food price spikes 
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Cascades and herds: denitions
9.3 Basic model of herding
9.4 Informational and payo externalities
9.5 Factors that reduce the occurrence of crises
9.6 Conclusion
10 Export restrictions during food price spikes explained by informational cascades
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Model
10.3 Bounded information structure
10.4 Gaussian information structure
10.5 Discussion
10.6 Conclusion
General conclusion 
A Proof of proposition 3.1
B Proof of proposition 3.2
C Proof of Proposition 3.3
D Technical appendix about normal distributions and ane information structures
E Details of equation (5.1)
F Proof of proposition 5.1
G Proof of proposition 5.2
H Proof of corollary 5.5
I Condition for the existence of an equilibrium
J Proof of the condition for a unique rationalizable strategy
K Conditions for the existence of an equilibrium with trade
L Equilibrium with a bounded signal
M Public information with a bounded signal
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