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China’s Import Demand for Agricultural Products : The Impact of the Phase One Trade Agreement

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2020

In December 2019, the United States and China reached a Phase One trade agreement, under which China committed to …, as compared to 2017. We show that the most efficient way for China to increase its imports from the United States is to … mimic the effect of an import subsidy. If China's agricultural imports did not otherwise grow from their 2017 values, then …

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Long-run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment : Evidence from the Boll Weevil

Baker, Richard B. - 2018

The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor-intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of attending school, and thus the pest increased school enrollment and...

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The Predictive Content of Commodity Futures

Chinn, Menzie D. - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between spot and futures prices for a broad range of commodities, including energy, precious and base metals, and agricultural commodities. In particular, we examine whether futures prices are (1) an unbiased and/or (2) accurate predictor of subsequent spot...

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Commodity Market Disintegration in the Interwar Period

Hynes, William - 2009

Using data collected by the International Institute of Agriculture, we document the disintegration of international commodity markets between 1913 and 1938. There was dramatic disintegration during World War I, gradual reintegration during the 1920s, and then a very substantial disintegration...

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Trade Diversion and the Initiation Effect : A Case Study of U.S. Trade Remedies in Agriculture

Carter, Colin A. - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of U.S. trade remedy (TR) actions on agricultural trade from 1990 to 2014. Most previous studies of the effects of TR actions have left out agricultural products. We use a four-country oligopolistic trade model to study the impact of TR duties on imports from...

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Cover Crops, Drought, Yield and Risk : an Analysis of U.S. Soybean Production

Dong, Fengxia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Besides a variety of production and environmental benefits, cover cropping has been advocated as a mean to increase resilience to drought. We explored factors influencing farmer's adoption of cover crops and examined the effects of cover crops on soybean yield and its risk using USDA's 2018 ARMS...

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Firm R&D Investment and Export Market Exposure

Peters, Bettina - 2018

In this article we study differences in the returns to R&D investment between firms that sell in international markets and firms that only sell in the domestic market. We use German firm-level data from the high-tech manufacturing sector to estimate a dynamic structural model of a firm's...

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Pricing in International Markets : Lessons From The Economist

Ghosh, Atish R. - 1994

Export firms are often assumed to stabilize destination market prices in the face of nominal exchange rate changes in order to protect market share. We show that standard tests of such pricing to market fail to discriminate against the alternative hypothesis of menu costs. As a case study, we...

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Endogenous Market Structures in International Trade

Horstmann, Ignatius J. - 1990

Almost all of the large literature on international trade with imperfect competition assumes exogenous market structures. The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple model that generates alternative market structures as Nash equilibria for different parameterizations of the basic model....

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Creating markets for new vaccines

Kremer, Michael - 2000

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