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French Wine and the U.S. Boycott of 2003: Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?
Ashenfelter, Orley; Ciccarella, Stephen M. Ciccarella, Jr. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In early 2003, France actively tried to thwart the plans of the Bush administration to build international support for a war to depose Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. In response, calls in the United States for a boycott of French products, wine in particular, rebounded through all forms of media....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829441
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Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage: Old Idea, New Evidence
Costinot, Arnaud; Donaldson, Dave - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
When asked to name one proposition in the social sciences that is both true and non-trivial, Paul Samuelson famously replied: 'Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage'. Truth, however, in Samuelson's reply refers to the fact that Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage is mathematically...
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Food Price Volatility and Domestic Stabilization Policies in Developing Countries
Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, hunger and malnutrition are very likely to result in the absence of public intervention. For governments, this is also a case of political survival. Government actions often take the form of direct interventions in the market...
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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will J; Ivanic, Maros - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The analysis finds that the … actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net effect was to increase … global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different from zero. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969350
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Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers
Gilbert, Christopher L.; Varangis, Panos - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
Liberalization of tropical agricultural markets has brought globalization, in the sense that all producers now face …
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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement
Orden, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
This paper evaluates the influence of diverse U.S. agricultural interest groups on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were converted to tariffs in January 1994 and all tariffs...
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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
Martin, Will J; Huang, Jikun; Liu, Yu; Rozelle, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
and reducing rural poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720171
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Learning the Wealth of Nations
Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; Primiceri, Giorgio; Buera, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We study the evolution of market-oriented policies over time and across countries. We consider a model in which own and neighbors' past experiences influence policy choices, through their effect on policymakers' beliefs. We estimate the model using a large panel of countries. We find that there...
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International R&D Spillovers and Institutions
Helpman, Elhanan; Hoffmaister, Alexander W.; Coe, David T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
The empirical analysis in "International R&D Spillovers" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results reported in...
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Financiers vs. Engineers: Should the Financial Sector be Taxed or Subsidized?
PHILIPPON, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
I study the allocation of human capital in an economy with production externalities, financial constraints and career choices. Agents choose to become entrepreneurs, workers or financiers. Entrepreneurship has positive externalities, but innovators face borrowing constraints and require the...
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