availability due to trade or innovation. Then we study how novel food products alter the optimal consumption bundle and welfare … weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, which refers to an increase in food … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and … eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner … workers’ households. We also find that the price controls were particularly effective in changing the pattern of food spending …

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …-neoclassical labor market features into trade models. …

The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which …

international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very … the areal unit, we find a positive association between immigrants' stocks and both export and import flows, in line with …

misalignments. Intra-regional trade – both with North Africa and the rest of the continent – together with greater orientation to …

when bilateral import demand elasticities are incorporated to better measure gains from trade. Because democratic dyads …At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists … and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to …