Global food insecurity, measured in terms of the number of people unable to obtain an adequate diet, is widespread and … that developing countries which attach priority to food security might shift their production structures in favour of food …

-section of data covering 22 large exporters and 200 import destinations. Bilateral exports rise by approximately 6-10% for each …

Internationally active firms rely intensively on trade credits even though they are considered particularly expensive …. This phenomenon has been little explored so far. Our theoretical analysis shows that trade credits can alleviate financial … international transactions. We use unique survey data on German enterprises to test the effect of the use of trade credits on firms …

This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the … results from two diverging trends: the pattern of trade diversifies at the extensive margin (EU countries have been sourcing … their agri-food products from a wider range of suppliers), while geographical concentration increases at the intensive …

) bilateral trade openness reduces bilateral cultural distance; (ii) the more differentiated the products, the more trade reduces … cultural distance; (iii) trade openness has a lock-in effect on culture. Third, we test the model using an instrumental … bilateral trade openness translates into a 43% standard deviation decrease in bilateral cultural distance. …

inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of …

the period 1975-2005. In particular, it tests a) whether increases in trade lead to rising inequalities, b) whether these … inequalities recede in time, and c) whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing worlds differently. Using … static and dynamic panel data analysis, it is found that while increases in trade per se do not lead to greater territorial …

-driven and the decision to serve foreign countries via exports or FDI depends on a proximity-concentration trade-off. We … characterize the joint patterns of trade and FDI when countries differ in income distribution and size and show that FDI is more …