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Do Announcements of WTO Dispute Resolution Cases Matter? Evidence from the Rare Earth Elements Market

Proelss, Juliane - 2018

Rare earth elements (REEs) have gained increasing attention recently for several key reasons: 1) they are vital to many strategic industries, 2) they are relatively scarce, 3) they frequently exhibit high price fluctuations, 4) China holds a quasi-monopoly on their mining, and 5) China's REE...

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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy

Giordani, Paolo; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2021

This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...

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International trade in the wake of multiple shocks : OECD global trade monitor

OECD - 2023

In the midst of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, trade and economic growth face new challenges as the Russian Federation’s large-scale war against Ukraine has increased uncertainty and tensions along supply chains and the People’s Republic of China’s trade performance has fallen...

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Sweetness by the pound : sugar and currency correlations in pre-Brexit UK prices

Cicchetti, Chase Christopher - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 22 (2022) 2, pp. 400-408

In observing British pound spot prices and European sugar import prices over the 2004–2016 period, an unusually strong currency-commodity correlation is detected and statistically validated. This correlation is the result of a single firm dominating European refining, effectively fixing the...

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When one country's land gain is another country's land loss...: The social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplifi...

Franke, Maria - 2014

Singapore industrialised rapidly with continuously high growth rates since its independence in 1965 and its population … during the same period of time almost tripled. With development at this scale, Singapore had to grow in number of industrial …, Cambodia and Vietnam) for its sand supply. All major sand supplying countries successively prohibited sand exports to Singapore …

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When one country's land gain is another country's land loss...: The social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplifi...

Franke, Maria - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Hochschule für … - 2014

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When one country's land gain is another country's land loss... : the social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplif...

Franke, Maria - 2014

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Trade policy along the global value chain : a rationale for the existence of deep trade agreements

Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2022

This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize in the production of sub-stages of the global value chain. In the open economy, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...

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Trade policy implications of a changing world : tariffs and import market power

Jakubik, Adam; Keck, Alexander; Piermartini, Roberta - 2022 - Manuscript date: 3 November 2022

Economic theory suggests that countries' tariff commitments in trade agreements reflect their import market power at the time of negotiations. However, as countries grow, their market power in different sectors can change in unforeseen ways and their commitments may no longer reflect changed...

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Chapter 27 The Political Economy of Economic Sanctions

Kaempfer, William H.; Lowenberg, Anton D. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 867-911). 2007

International economic sanctions have become increasingly important as alternatives to military conflict since the end of the Cold War. This chapter surveys various approaches to the study of economic sanctions in both the economics and international relations literatures. Sanctions may be...

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