Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

We quantify the effect of container technology on transport costs and trade by estimating the modal choice between … containerization and breakbulk shipping using micro-level trade data. The model is motivated by novel facts that relate container usage … trade increase since its inception: a quantitative exercise suggests that Turkish and U.S. maritime exports would have been …

attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In … more traditional electoral issues, such as trade barriers, work. Focusing on the anti-globalization Swedish Democrats, we … line with the existing results in the literature, we find that more educated and richer voters support freer trade and more …

agricultural sector on international markets. We show that at the symmetric equilibrium under free trade, restrictions on … when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is … incomplete under free trade because of the decrease in land productivity. Pesticides allow farmers to reduce these biodiversity …

consequence of heightened informational frictions and information discovery in more globalized and financialized commodity markets. …