The United States is a dominant world producer of almonds and is the dominant player in India's market, accounting for an 80-85 percent share. However, U.S. almond imports to India face high tariffs and non-tariff barriers which diminish the full potential of export volume for U.S. almonds. This...

Many trade economists believe that the introduction of technical change into an otherwise Heckscher-Ohlin (H-0) model could result in a more comprehensive explanation of trade flows. However, most of the investigations of this hypothesis have been based on the limiting assumption that technology...

Fishery product imports by the U.S. have been gradually increasing in recent years. The leading exporting countries include Canada, Chile, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. A source-differentiated Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model and its Error Correction Model (ECM)...

In this study, we evaluate the spillover effects of the recent U.S. Federal Reserve’s purchase of long-term assets (quantitative easing) on prices of Canadian commodities. The first large-scale asset purchases happened after the Great Recession, at the end of 2008, and the second...

This paper has three objectives. First, to provide an exposition of the 'realist turn' in contemporary organization and management studies. Second, to assess the detailed implications of this incipient 'realist turn' for the underlying explanatory principles and practices that should inform...

We empirically test whether the investigation and impositions of U.S. antidumping duties in 2004 on imported shrimp distorts a named country's exports to third markets. We constructs a panel of bilateral, disaggregated product-level data for annual trade flows of subjected shrimp between the six...