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Impact of European Food Safety Border Inspections on Agri-Food Exports : Evidence from Chinese Firms
Beestermöller, Matthias - 2016
The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026692
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Agricultural Trade, Biodiversity Effects and Food Price Volatility
Bellora, Cecilia; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2021
Biotic factors such as pests create biodiversity effects that increase production risks and decrease land productivity 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315542
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Bringing the Copenhagen Global Climate Change Negotiations to Conclusion
Whalley, John; Walsh, Sean - 2021
In this paper we discuss the global negotiations now underway and aimed at achieving new climate change mitigation and … ongoing global negotiations on climate change and further rounds will almost certainly follow. We highlight both the vast … the negotiations is between OECD countries on the one hand, and lower wage, large population, rapidly growing countries …
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A Commitment Theory of Subsidy Agreements
Brou, Daniel - 2012
This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its disposal, taxation can be distortionary and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100012
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Contesting an International Trade Agreement
Cole, Matthew T. - 2018
We develop a new theoretical framework of trade agreement (TA) formation, called a ‘parallel contest', that emphasizes the political fight over TA ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each...
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Antidumping as Strategic Trade Policy Under Asymmetric Information
Matschke, Xenia - 2013
This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where the foreign firm's cost is observed by the domestic firm, but not by the government. To induce truthful revelation, the government can design a tariff schedule, contingent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753233
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Trade Imbalances and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
Marchetti, Juan A.; Ruta, Michele; Teh, Robert - 2021
activities — negotiations, rule-making and dispute settlement — to deal with trade imbalances and with the main factors leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315818
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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316371
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WTO Membership and the Shift to Consumption Taxes
Buettner, Thiess - 2016
implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Employing robust difference-in-difference specifications as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981352