The worrying trajectory of US economic strength relative to China signals a need to reassess the US’ rules of engagement on trade and investment with our principal economic rival. China is turning more authoritarian, more focused on self-sufficiency, challenging US dominance in critical...

Moscow has stumbled against a wall of Ukrainian resolve. As Ukrainians recapture territory, the horrors of Russian occupation become clear. It should not surprise. Ukrainians fierce determination against Putin’s Russification comes from first-hand understanding of what it means to be ruled by...

LDCs acceding to the World Trade Organization have a hard negotiation road to travel, and much to learn from previous successful accessions. While many of those negotiations were done privately, much can still be garnered by looking at the evolution of those countries’ procurement policies,...

The debate on industrial policy has taken on new energy as the United States, and many others, examine national competitiveness in the face of the rise of China, the decline of the WTO, and a growing awareness, due only in part to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that international trade and...

Intro -- INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF BOXES -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS -- GLOSSARY -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- Overview and Principal Findings -- Liquid Bio Fuels -- Bio-based Chemicals -- INTRODUCTION -- BOX 1-1. CURRENT ISSUES...

The methods of the cointegrated vector autoregression (VAR) model are applied to monthly U.S. markets for sugar and for sugar-using markets for confectionary, soft drink, and bakery products. Primarily a methods paper, we apply Johansen and Juselius' advanced procedures to these markets for...

This paper applies a combined methodology of a recently developed directed acyclic graph (DAG) analysis with Johansen and Juselius' methods of the cointegrated vector autoregression (VAR) model to a monthly U.S. system of markets for soybeans, soy meal, and soy oil. Primarily a methods paper,...

This paper applies a combined methodology of a recently developed directed acyclic graph (DAG) analysis with Johansen and Juselius' methods of the cointegrated vector autoregression (VAR) model to a monthly U.S. system of markets for soybeans, soy meal, and soy oil. Primarily a methods paper,...