From Everglades to sugar bowl and back again? -- The sugar question in frontier Florida -- Securing sugar, draining the … heats up the nation's sugar bowl -- A restructured industry -- Questioning sugar in the Everglades …

"The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia … to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic. For most of history, humans did without refined sugar …. Granulated sugar was first produced in India around the sixth century BC, yet for almost 2,500 years afterward sugar remained …

inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of …-Market Competition, Trade, Bargaining. …

This paper presents a new method to detect informed trading activities in the options markets.An option trade is …

This series evidence has been used to analyse the effect of trade on foreign holdings of domesticcurrency. Here we … extend a model of currency substitution that incorporates a trade motive forforeigners to hold domestic currency. It uses … time series and cross-sectional information for apanel of 17 industrialized countries testing two-way fixed effects models …

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals …

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … inhabitated by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade requires imperfectly observed bilateral investments and one group has to form … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals …

I develop a theory of intermediation in a market where agents meet bilaterally to trade and buyers cannot commit to … that yield informed agents either more effective opportunities to trade or the ability to extract more surplus in trades. …