This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the United Kingdom’s accession to the European Economic Community, using a newly constructed dataset that gives a detailed breakdown of the United Kingdom’s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit...

This paper quantifies the economic effects of nontariff barriers on U.K. footwear imports. The extent to which the various voluntary export restraints and a quota on imports from Eastern European countries, Taiwan, and Korea led exporters to raise their prices is estimated. The paper then allows...

Equations are estimated to explain and predict the price indices for three b road groups of primary commodities. The questions of principal intere st are the effect of economic activity on prices and the dynamics of the adjustment of prices to external shocks. The results suggest that adjustment...

This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the United Kingdom’s accession to the European Economic Community, using a newly constructed dataset that gives a detailed breakdown of the United Kingdom’s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit...

A conceptual framework which identifies the main determinants of the macroeconomic costs of abating greenhouse gases is developed. This is used to survey long-term quantitative studies of abatement, especially their modelling approaches and choices of key parameters. These studies suggest that...