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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor

Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016 - This Version: May 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

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Heterogeneous household responses to energy price shocks

Peersman, Gert; Wauters, Joris - 2022

We use survey evidence on reported spending in hypothetical energy price shock scenarios to study novel features of the price elasticity of energy demand and the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) after paying the energy bill. We find that the price elasticity is significantly larger for price...

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Agricultural trade, biodiversity effects and food price volatility

Bellora, Cecilia; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2015

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...

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Atlantic versus Pacific agreement in agri-food sectors : does the winner take it all?

Disdier, Anne-Célia; Emlinger, Charlotte; Fouré, Jean - 2015 - This version: July 27, 2015

Trade liberalization of the agri-food sector is a sensitive topic in both Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) discussions. Using a general equilibrium model, we assess the potential impact of these agreements. The US agri-food sectors would...

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Agricultural exports, tariffs and growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014

This article presents a Ricardian model of trade with learning-by-doing to study the effect of barriers to trade in products with low growth potential on the long-run economic growth. The model shows that, when elasticity of demand for the product with a lower learning potential is lower than...

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Financial development and sustainable exports : evidence from firm-product data

Jaud, Melise; Kukenova, Madina; Strieborny, Martin - 2014

We combine a novel measure of export-related financial needs at the product level with a unique database of firm-product export data (including names of the exporting firms) from five developing countries. Using the tools of survival analysis and taking into account firms' and products'...

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The agricultural origins of time preference

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 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...

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Impact of European food safety border inspections on agri-food exports : evidence from Chinese firms

Beestermöller, Matthias; Disdier, Anne-Célia; … - 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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Economic sanctions and agricultural trade

Larch, Mario; Luckstead, Jeff; Yotov, Yoto - 2021

Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...

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Did Trump's trade war impact the 2018 election?

Blanchard, Emily J.; Bown, Chad P.; Chor, Davin - 2020

We find that Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade retaliation, but saw no commensurate electoral gains from US tariff protection. The electoral losses were driven by retaliatory tariffs on agricultural products, and were only...

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