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The Impact of Retaliatory Tariffs on Agricultural and Food Trade
Carter, Colin A. - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481730
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Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting
Krishna, Kala - 2014
-through of the world price to the producer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458035
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Extending Industry Specialization through Cross-Border Acquisitions
Frésard, Laurent - 2016
We investigate the role of industry specialization in horizontal cross-border mergers and acquisitions. We find that acquirers from more specialized industries in a country are more likely to buy foreign targets in countries that are less specialized in these same industries. The role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455832
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The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change
Nath, Ishan B. - 2020
heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481491
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Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage : Old Idea, New Evidence
Costinot, Arnaud - 2012
crops of 1.6 million parcels of land in 55 countries around the world. Crucially, this dataset contains information about … output predicted by Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage. Despite all of the real-world considerations from which this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460690
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Praying for Rain
Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; Gil-Guirado, Salvador; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
prediction in an original data set of whether ethnic groups around the world traditionally prayed for rain. We find that prayer … for rain is more likely among ethnic groups dependent on intensive agriculture for subsistence and that ethnic groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322798
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International Comovement in the Global Production Network
Huo, Zhen - 2019
This paper provides a general and unified framework to study the role of production networks in international GDP comovement. We first derive an additive decomposition of bilateral GDP comovement into components capturing shock transmission and shock correlation. We quantify this decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479927
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Who Will Fill China's Shoes? The Global Evolution of Labor-Intensive Manufacturing
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2020
's rise as a powerhouse in these goods supplanted a role previously occupied by the East Asian Tigers, the world may again be … mirror the decentralization of manufacturing production in the U.S. and Europe, which occurred after World War II …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482531
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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James E. - 2010
bit more than half the world's countries experience declining CHB and rising TFP. The effects are big for the outliers. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462358
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The Risk Content of Exports : A Portfolio View of International Trade
Giovanni, Julian di - 2010
It has been suggested that countries which export in especially risky sectors will experience higher output volatility. This paper develops a measure of the riskiness of a country's pattern of export specialization, and illustrates its features across countries and over time. The exercise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462648