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Public or Private Production of Food Safety : What Do U.S. Consumers Want?

Smith, V. Kerry - 2010

approximately $250 annually to reduce the risk of food borne illness. Moreover, they prefer private to public approaches and would … distinguished based on whether they focus on a public good -- reducing risk of illness for all consumers or allowing individual … households to reduce their private risks of contracting a food borne pathogen. Based on a National Survey conducted in 2007 using …

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Is the Fda Too Conservative or Too Aggressive? : A Bayesian Decision Analysis of Clinical Trial Design

Montazerhodjat, Vahid - 2015

Implicit in the drug-approval process is a trade-off between Type I and Type II error. We explore the application of Bayesian decision analysis (BDA) to minimize the expected cost of drug approval, where relative costs are calibrated using U.S. Burden of Disease Study 2010 data. The results for...

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The Effects of Government Licensing on E-Commerce : Evidence from Alibaba

Jin, Ginger Zhe; Lu, Zhentong; Zhou, Xiaolu; Li, Chunxiao - 2022

Using proprietary data from Alibaba, we examine how the 2015 Food Safety Law (FSL) affects e-commerce in China. The FSL requires most food sellers on e-commerce platforms to obtain a valid, online license for retail food handling. Because the FSL was rolled out progressively, we have a rare...

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Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-Mercury and Child Cognitive Development

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Santos, Rafael J. - 2022

We exploit variation in the composition of local fish catches around the time of birth using administrative and census data on adult cognitive test scores, schooling attainment, and occupation among coastal populations in Colombia to estimate the causal effects of early-life consumption of...

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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...

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The Great Trade Collapse

Bems, Rudolfs - 2012

We survey recent literature on the causes of the collapse in international trade during the 2008-2009 global recession. We argue that the evidence points to the collapse in aggregate expenditure, concentrated on trade-intensive durable goods, as the main driver of the trade collapse. Inventory...

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Monetary Rules for Commodity Traders

Catão, Luis - 2012

We develop a dynamic model of a small open economy that trades commodities whose world prices are subject to realistic random fluctuations, and study the implications of monetary policy alternatives. The model is much more flexible than those of previous studies, especially in allowing to...

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Carwars : Trying to Make Sense of U.S.-Japan Trade Frictions in the Automobile and Automobile Parts Markets

Levinsohn, James A. - 2012

This paper tries to make sense of the recent trade dispute between the U.S. and Japan in autos and auto parts. The paper argues that there are structural differences between the way that the auto industries are organized in the U.S. and Japan, and that these differences have contributed to the...

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Trade in Intermediate Inputs and Business Cycle Comovement

Johnson, Robert C. - 2012

Does input trade synchronize business cycles across countries? I incorporate input trade into a dynamic multi-sector model with many countries, calibrate the model to match bilateral input-output data, and estimate trade-comovement regressions in simulated data. With correlated productivity...

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Supply-Chain Trade : A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses

Baldwin, Richard - 2013

The trade linked to international production networks - supply-chain trade for short - is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources...

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