Date: 23 - 24 May 2008 Venue: Room MC4-100, World Bank Headquarters, 1818 H Street NW, Washington DC 20433 Friday 23 May Â
| | 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration | | 09:00 - 10:00 | Introduction and evidence since the mid-1950s to explain Welcome, by Will Martin
Introduction, by Kym Anderson
Evolution of Global Distortions to Agricultural Incentives Since the 1950s, byKym Anderson, Damiano Sandri and Ernesto Valenzuela   | | 10:30 - 12:30 | Conceptual framework and historical studies Special Interest Versus the Public Interest: Role of Governance Structures, by Gordon Rausser      Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1899: Agricultural Trade Policies, Alcohol Taxes, and War, by John Nye
Political Economy of Agricultural Protection: Europe in the 19th and 20th Century, by Johan Swinnen  | | 13:30 - 15:30 | Regional studies Explaining Changing Patterns of Distortions in Africa, by Robert Bates and Steven Block
Explaining Changing Patterns of Distortions in Latin America, by Olivier Cadot, Laure Dutiot and Marcelo Olarreaga
Explaining Changing Patterns of Distortions in European and Asian Transition Economies, by Scott Rozelle and Johan Swinnen
| | 16:00 - 18:00 | Econometric and CGE approaches to testing hypotheses Changes in Distortion Patterns Over Time: Explaining Reform Outcomes, by Kishore Gawande and Bernard Hoekman
CGE Analysis of Distributional Effects of Policies for Revealing Government Preference Functions, by Joseph Francois, Douglas Nelson and Annette Pelkmans-Balaoing
A Framework for Analyzing Distortion Patterns Empirically, by Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra
| Saturday 24 MayÂ
| | 08:30 - 10:30 | Roles of institutions, etc.
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Political Economy Theory Predictions and the Effects of Supply and Demand Elasticities, by David Bullock
Constitutional Rules and Agricultural Policy Outcomes, by Alessandro Olper andValentina Raimondi
The Logic of the CAP, by Christian Henning, Carsten Struve and Martina BrockmeierÂ
| | 10:45 - 12:45 | Policy instrument choices Explaining Inefficient Policy Instrument Choices, by Harry de Gorter
The US Farm Bill: A political Economy Perspective, by David Orden, David Blandford and Tim Josling
Food safety, the environment and trade restrictions, by David Zilberman with Gal Hochman and Steven SextonÂ
| | 13:30 - 14:50 | Policy instrument choices
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Political Economy of Agricultural Price Distortions and Stabilization, by Will Masters and Andres Garcia
Political Economy of Sugar Policies, by Gordon Rausser and Ernesto Valenzuela
| | 14:50 - 15:00Â | Conclusion and next steps
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List of participants
Anderson, Kym, University of Adelaide
Bates, Robert, Harvard University
Blandford, David, Pennsylvania State University
Block, Steven, Tufts University
Brockmeier, Martina, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute
Bullock, David, University of Illinois
Cadot, Olivier, HEC, University of Lausanne
De Gorter, Harry, Cornell University
Dutoit, Laure, HEC, University of Lausanne
Dutt, Pushan, INSEAD, Singapore
Francois, Joseph, Johannes Keple University, Linz
Garcia, Andres, Purdue University
Gawande, Kishore, Texas A and M University
Hayami, Yujiro, GRIPS / FASID, Tokyo
Henning, Christian, University of Kiel
Hochman, Gal, University of California, Berkeley
Hoekman, Bernard, World Bank
Josling, Tim, Stanford University
Martin, Will, World Bank
Masters, Will, Purdue University
Mitra, Devashish, Syracuse University
Nelson, Douglas, Tulane University and Univ. of Nottingham
Nye, John, George Mason University
Olarreaga, Marcelo, University of Geneva
Olper, Alessandro, University of Milan
Orden, David, IFPRI
Pelkmans-Balaoing, Annette, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Raimondi, Valentina, University of Milan
Rausser, Gordon, University of California, Berkeley
Rozelle, Scott, Stanford University
Sandri, Damiano, Johns Hopkins University
Sexton, Steven, University of California, Berkeley
Struve, Carsten, University of Kiel
Swinnen, Johan, Catholic University of Leuven
Valenzuela, Ernesto, University of Adelaide
Zilberman, David, University of California, Berkeley
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