the importing country. We examine how the risk of rejection at European borders is affecting Chinese agri-food exporters …

In this paper, we evaluate the first-stage pass-through, namely the responsiveness of import prices to the exchange … conduct a sectoral analysis using disaggregated import prices data. We find a much higher degree of pass-through for more … a dynamic panel-data model, our estimates indicate that decline of import-price sensitivity to the exchange rate is not …

This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house … portfolios, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the … heterogeneity in household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices …

This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from … substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …

changes in disposable income around the country's financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and … income for different education groups and to estimate the level of consumption smoothing. We split households into three … educated engage in more consumption smoothing than those without a university degree. We also construct a measure for marginal …

feast-related goods, indicating a "feast and famine" consumption strategy. Nevertheless, spending on food with label claims …This paper focuses on whether households facing economic scarcity tend to change consumption priorities as measured by …

source country deviates from the reported import value in the destination country. Analyzing 4-digit product level data for …

carbon price (as provided under the EU's Emissions Trading System), an import tariff is always beneficial from a global point … introduction of a carbon import tariff increases global welfare (and not just the welfare of the importing country) if there is no … (or insufficient) pricing of carbon abroad. A higher domestic price of carbon justifies a higher import tariff. Moreover …

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import …-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are …