This is a classroom activity using the free ESPN Fantasy Baseball platform to draft players and the Out of the Park software ($40) to simulate a baseball season. The activity enhances learning of economic concepts of marginal product and competitive balance. It also improves the data literacy...

This paper analyzes the impact of exchange rate risk on global food supply chains. Although the theoretical literature suggests ambivalence regarding the sign and magnitude of this effect, most empirical studies indicate a negative association between exchange rate volatility and international...

This study analyses and estimates the impact of demonetisation on the welfare of poor households in the Sundarbans region of India. Using a unique high frequency (weekly) data set collected during the process of demonetisation, we estimate that household welfare is reduced by INR 1,414 (US $...

This paper estimates the impact of U.S. trade remedy (TR) actions on agricultural trade from 1990 to 2014. Most previous studies of the effects of TR actions have left out agricultural products. We use a four-country oligopolistic trade model to study the impact of TR duties on imports from...

This paper provides new insights regarding trends prior to temporary trade barrier (TTB) investigations and shows how they challenge the identification of trade effects. Using TTB cases initiated in the United States between 1993 and 2015, we compare static and dynamic treatment specifications...

This paper examines the impact of preferential trading agreements (PTAs) on agricultural trade. We use a machine learning selection algorithm guided by the structural gravity model to identify the relevant PTA provisions which affect agricultural trade. Then, we quantify the trade effects of...