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the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
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This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and induced a reorientation of international trade...
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In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Global agricultural trade, which increased at the end of 2020, has been described as “resilient” to the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic; however, the size and channels of its quantitative impacts are not clear. Using a reduced-form, gravity-based econometric model for monthly...
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world. The goal of the present paper is to quantify the macro-level consequences of these micro-level shocks. Using an …
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The primary predictions of strategic-trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly-competitive markets. Indeed, these … predictions emerge in a natural three-country extension of the traditional theory of trade policy in competitive markets, once the … theory is augmented to allow for politically-motivated governments, so that the sign of export policy may be converted from …
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-through of the world price to the producer …
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exporters of capital goods to the rest of the world. We develop a model of trade in capital goods to assess its role spreading …
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together--there is a world component to business cycles. This paper argues that capital accumulation and international capital … flows are central to understanding world trade and business cycles. In particular, fluctuations in net exports and the …
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