A number of new tobacco products for which reduced exposure, reduced toxicity and reduced health risk claims are being … toxicity, including cigarettes with modified tobacco from which established carcinogens are reduced/removed, products designed … employing unconventional technologies, and a variety of oral tobacco products. In the past, tobacco companies have marketed …

A reduced-form model approach was used to estimate the trade balance response to permanent domestic currency … effective exchange rate measures. On average, a 1 percent permanent depreciation improves the equilibrium trade balance by … desirable to improve the trade balance, taking into account potential adverse effects on the rest of the economy. …

As U.S. lamb imports increased relative to domestic production, and the relative share of chilled to frozen lamb … imports increased, importers of chilled lamb have become less responsive to domestic and import prices, while the direct … opposite is the case for frozen lamb imports. From 1990 to 2003, chilled lamb imports from Australia and New Zealand became …

demand model to estimate how income influences per capita expenditure on agrifood imports in 63 countries. The findings …

We analyze the effect of import competition on household balance sheets from 2000 to 2007 using individual data on …

This article decomposes the impact of imports on domestic price-cost margins into separate price and cost effects …. Using data from 24 food-processing industries, the empirical results show that although the direct impact of imports on …-price elasticity of demand and diseconomies of scale. Further results show that the disciplining effect of imports is more preponderant …