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Concentration and Resilience in the U.S. Meat Supply Chains
Ma, Meilin; Lusk, Jayson L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
consumers is a smaller number of processors. The concentrated nature of the meat processing sectors in the United States implies … concentrated meat processing sector would be less vulnerable to the risks of temporary plant shutdowns. We calibrate an economic … horizontal concentration of meat packing …
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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2005
This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...
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The Rise of the Chicago Packers and the Origins of Meat Inspection and Antitrust
Libecap, Gary D. - 1991
The Meat Inspection Act of 1891 and the Sherman Act of 1890 are shown to be closely tied. This link makes clearer …
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The technology factor in international trade : a conference of the Universities - National Bureau Committee for Economic Research
Vernon, Raymond (ed.) - 1970
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The impact of international trade on wages
Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.) - 2000
Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and why this disparity has arisen is a matter of ongoing...
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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise
Markusen, James R. - 2000
Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...
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How Trade Patterns and Technology Flows Affect Productivity Growth
Keller, Wolfgang - 1999
This paper examines the evidence on technology diffusion through trade in differentiated intermediate goods. Because intermediates are invented through costly research and development (R&D) investments, employing imported intermediates implies an implicit sharing of the technology that was...
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Knowledge Spillovers, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment
Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I study knowledge spillovers, positive externalities that augment the information set of an economic agent, and reviews the evidence on such spillovers in the context of international economic transactions. Even though spillovers are by their very nature difficult to identify, over recent...
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....
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The Global Financial Cycle
Miranda-Agrippino, Silvia; Rey, Hélène - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We review the literature on the empirical characteristics of the global financial cycle and associated stylized facts on international capital flows, asset prices, risk aversion and liquidity in the financial system. We analyse the co-movements of global factors in asset prices and capital flows...
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