Agricultural Trade Policy Reforms and Trade Liberalisation in the Mediterranean Basin

The Author: Aikaterini Kavallari was born in 1979 in Thessaloniki (Greece) and studied Agricultural Economics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After her graduation she worked as research assistant at the Institute of Agricultural Policy and Market Research of the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen (Germany). Currently she works as post doc researcher on trade policy issues at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of the Joint Research Centre, European Commission.

• Contents: Agricultural trade in the Mediterranean basin – Theoretical analysis of allocative and distributional effects of agricultural trade policies – Overview of empirical studies on agricultural policy reforms in the Mediterranean basin – Description of the main functions and extensions of the partial equilibrium model AGRISIM – Simulations with AGRISIM and discussion of results.