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From Groundnuts to Globalization : A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth
Broda, Christian M. - 2010
the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048044
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Evolving Comparative Advantage and the Impact of Climate Change in Agricultural Markets : Evidence from 1.7 Million Fields Around the World
Costinot, Arnaud - 2015
world. The goal of the present paper is to quantify the macro-level consequences of these micro-level shocks. Using an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033731
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The Uruguay Round and Welfare in Some Distorted Agricultural Economies
Anderson, James E. - 2021
world agricultural prices. Reduced agricultural price distortions among major supplying nations are predicted to increase … food prices paid by food importers must be bad for them, while reducing world coffee and cotton prices appears bad for … exporters of those products. Appearances may be deceiving, however, since theory shows that a distortion effect operates …
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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
Carter, Colin A.; Steinbach, Sandro - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298226
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Has Global Agricultural Trade Been Resilient Under Covid-19? Findings from an Econometric Assessment of 2020
Arita, Shawn; Grant, Jason H.; Sydow, Sharon; Beckman, … - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310567
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antras, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124546
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Quantifying International Production Sharing at the Bilateral and Sector Levels
Wang, Zhi - 2013
disaggregated decomposition results among 40 trading nations in 35 sectors from 1995 to 2011 based on the World Input …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072571
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Tariff Reductions, Entry, and Welfare : Theory and Evidence for the Last Two Decades
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2015
We show in a multi-sector, heterogeneous-firm trade model that the effect of tariffs on entry, especially in the presence of production linkages, can reverse the traditional positive optimal tariff argument. We then use a new tariff dataset, and apply it to a 189-country, 15-sector version of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010722
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Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility
Do, Quy-Toan - 2015
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. We build a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor, and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012703