during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus … budget-constraint effects as China’s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by …

two-factor, two-country and multi-industry economy with productivity-heterogeneous firms suggests that countries export … countries tend to export more varieties in more (un)skilled-labor intensive industries.The third essay proposes an alternative …. The amended prediction is tested with disaggregated data on manufacturing trade and production, using various estimation …

advantage in the export of products originating from of the irrigated horticulture? The products that more they exported they … in the melon export, watermelon and banana in relation to Brazil in the period in study, and that the product that more …

utilize ocean freight services for their export needs, the study asked shipping lines for their heaviest used export routes …

which takes into accountchanges in export and domestic demand and market clearing price. It optimizes the supply of … already have significant income effects to agriculturalproducers. We simulated effects of pig meat export bans of different … degrees due to livestockepidemics. Full closure of export markets for six months cost pig sector €21 million. …