the importing country. We examine how the risk of rejection at European borders is affecting Chinese agri-food exporters … firms at the extensive margin of trade. This risk is curbing small exporters and resulting in a concentration of Chinese …

We use two approaches to examine the macroeconomic consequences of disruptions in global food commodity markets. First …) in a standard vector autoregression (VAR) model, and we estimate the dynamic effects of global food commodity supply … shocks on the US economy. As an alternative, we also estimate the consequences of thirteen narratively identified global food …

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 …

averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a …This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and export policy. Specifically, unilateral actions by exporting …

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 … effects, but they are damaging for the environment and for human health. When regulating farming practices under free trade …

This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new … data from 1987-2009, we find that import exposure increases the support of nationalist parties and causes labor market … turmoil. The voting response to import exposure can entirely be explained by the labor market adjustments to import exposure …

We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on new results and methods. The …-style approach to trade and the environment, its full potential has not yet been exploited. We discuss existing empirical and …

trade, slavery and early colonialism were linked to human capital formation, but this connection appears to have been … heterogeneous. The contact with the Atlantic slave trade increased regional divergence, as the coast of Senegambia developed more … populations to the economic incentives provided by foreign demand for agricultural products. The peanut trade since the mid-19th …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …