We analyze the trade and welfare impact of quarantine measures imposed by Australiaon imports of pigmeat. In particular … strong effect on trade and welfare with a tariff equivalent above 113% of average real worldprices over the period analyzed.[...] …

index. Firms in carbon intensive, or electricity intensive industries,but not involved in international trade were most hurt …We investigate the eect of cap-and-trade regulation of CO2 on rm prots byperforming an event study of a CO2 price crash …

This paper provides a systematic welfare-based approach to analyze the impact of non-tariffmeasures (NTMs) on trade and … phytosanitary regulations.The approach overcomes the shortcomings of the mainstream approach based on the analysisof forgone trade … caused by trade costs. The latter ignores market imperfections: welfareincreases when NTMs are removed and trade expands. We …

Exports of agricultural commodities to developed countries play a significant role inthe economies of many developing … the effect of trade liberalizationtypically assume perfect competition. Significant concentration in the food processing … andretailing sectors of the U.S. and the EU undermine the plausibility of this assumption in the caseof agricultural trade, however …

-rate variability to stabilize trade. This may explainthe observed ‘fear of floating’ in emerging markets — although most of them claim … exchange rate regime unambiguously increases trade and improves welfare. This provides apotential explanation for the observed …