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the importing country. We examine how the risk of rejection at European borders is affecting Chinese agri-food exporters …
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We use a unique case study to estimate the effect of withdrawing from a free trade agreement on international trade. Lately, the political opposition to international economic cooperation has been on the rise, but little is known about how the withdrawal from a trade agreement affects trade. We...
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pesticides are generally more stringent than under autarky. As a result, trade increases the price volatility of crops produced …
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This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss … averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a … complementarity between the price of food in international markets and export policy. Specifically, unilateral actions by exporting …
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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 …
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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 …
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low quality of animal food. Correction of this market failure is attained by taxing animal food output and subsidizing … animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more …
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The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we...
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markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a … market is isolated from the rest of East Africa and internally fragmented. -- border effect ; spatial market integration … ; cointegration ; semi-parametric ; regression ; partially linear model ; Eastern Africa ; maize …
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Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian...
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