Trade Costs

Anderson, James E.; Wincoop, Eric van

doi:10.1257/0022051042177649

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“…As it is well-known from the international trade literature, the gravity equation represents one of the most successful models in economics. Empirically, it explains bilateral trade flows between any two countries through their respective economic sizes (i.e., GDPs) and their bilateral trade costs, after accounting for the so-called multilateral resistance indices [81].…”

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Migration: A Survey

2018

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This paper proposes a selective review of the classical economics-based literature on climate change and migration, focusing on the extent to which agriculture might be considered a key mediating channel linking climate change to migration. Overall, climate change is expected to have large and negative effects on the global economy. These effects are even more evident whenever the economic sector considered is the agricultural one, particularly in developing countries. Hence, migration can be viewed as a specific form of adaptation implemented by individuals and households, enabling them to cope, among other things, with weather-induced risk. We show that the importance of agriculture emerges from both plenty of micro-level country studies and relatively few macro-level analyses using cross-sectional data over longer time periods. Thus, policy actions targeted to sustainable agriculture and rural development can both help tackle the challenges posed by climate change and create opportunities in the face of growing migration issues. However, we also stress that much of the current evidence is based on statistical associations that have nothing to do with causal inferences. This calls for the use of a more structural approach and more sophisticated research designs, enabling the researchers to better discriminate among different mechanisms concurrently at work. In addition, further research should be addressed to the role played by food security, a complex dimension largely missing in the current debates on climate change and migration.

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Migration: A Survey

2018

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“…On the one hand, international transport costs are generally found to be unrelated to the prices or quantities of the shipped commodities (Anderson and van Wincoop 2004;Hummels and Skiba 2004). On the other hand, freight rates happened to increase (along with oil prices) during the food crisis period independently of food prices.…”

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International to Domestic Price Transmission in Fourteen Developing Countries during the 2007–8 Food Crisis

Baltzer¹

2014

Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

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This paper synthesizes the evidence on price transmission from international maize, rice and wheat markets to domestic markets in fourteen developing countries during the global food crisis in 2007-08. A great variation in the price transmission patterns is observed; from almost no price pass-through in China and India, over close relationship between international and domestic prices in Brazil and South Africa, to substantial domestic price overshooting in Ethiopia and Nigeria. Much of this variation can be explained by price stabilization policies, public policy failure, incomplete market integration, and coinciding domestic shocks.

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“…Partly as a result, detailed tariff data are available for most countries, which makes empirical investigation relatively easy. This contrasts starkly with the time and resources required to affect transport costs as well as with the sparse availability of the corresponding data (Anderson and van Wincoop, 2004). …”

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“…, M. Each country is endowed with an exogenously given mass of L i workers-consumers, each supplying inelastically one unit of labor. Hence, both the world population and the world labor endowment are fixed at 2 Labor is the only production factor and it is internationally immobile.…”

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