International agricultural trade is key to improving global food security. It ensures better access to more diversified and nutritious food, especially in low-income countries, and acts as a safety net against food shortages caused by climate risks, crises, political tensions and other shocks....

Topics: - Forecasting the economy with economic sentiment indicators; - Measurement and / or Effects of Economic uncertainty; - International financial markets; - Sovereign default risk; - Capital flows, capital controls, and exchange rates; - Unconventional monetary policy; - The corona...

Economists typically make simplifying assumptions to make the solution and estimation of their highly complex models feasible. These simplifications include approximating the true nonlinear dynamics of the model, disregarding aggregate uncertainty or assuming that all agents are identical. While...