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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668821
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Agricultural trade, biodiversity effects and food price volatility
Bellora, Cecilia; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2015
when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286489
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Agricultural price shocks and business cycles a global warning for advanced economies
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2018
unfavorable harvest shocks in other regions of the world significantly curtail domestic economic activity. The effects are much … agriculture in GDP or lower shares of non-agricultural trade in GDP; that is, characteristics that typically apply to low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846251
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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?
Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019
1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features necessary to study the problem, including an explicit agriculture … sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more … than one trillion dollars smaller, and world population more than 80 million smaller, than would have been the case without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138747
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301002
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231629
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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'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250164
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447532
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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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