Thesis advisor: Richard McGowan / Subsidies have played a significant role in the production of agriculture during the 20 century. While the western world gradually phased out protectionist policies for industrialized sectors of the economy following World War II, agriculture continued to receive significant support from the state until efforts were made to establish more laissez-faire markets in the 1990’s by the World Trade Organization. This paper aims to judge the effectiveness of these policies on one program in particular: export credit guarantees. By examining the effects of credit guarantees on US wheat exports through panel data regressions, this paper hopes to provide evidence of the effectiveness of recent policy in creating egalitarian and free markets for agricultural commodities. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Economics Honors Program. / Discipline: Economics.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BOSTON/oai:dlib.bc.edu:bc-ir_102325 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Galligan, Robert |
| Publisher | Boston College |
| Source Sets | Boston College |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, thesis |
| Format | electronic, application/pdf |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted. |
Page generated in 0.0061 seconds