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The Effects of Natural Disasters and Weather Variations on International Trade and Financial Flows: a Review of the Empirical Literature

Osberghaus, Daniel - In: Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 3 (2019), pp. 305-325

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade and financial flows. Regarding the effects on trade, I summarize 21 studies of 18 independent research teams and show that there is a large diversity in terms of...

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The effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade: A review of the empirical literature

Osberghaus, Daniel - 2019

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade flows. A first result is that the body of literature is actually not as small as previously suggested. In total, I summarize 19 studies of 18 independent research...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011960986

Climate change impacts on global agriculture

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Betts, Richard; … - 2010

global agriculture. The analysis uses the new version of the GTAP-W model, which distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated … agriculture and implements water as an explicit factor of production for irrigated agriculture. The results suggest that a partial …

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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future

Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - 2013

Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …

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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future

Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-39, pp. 1-66

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GMO Regulations, International Trade and the Imperialism of Standards

Vigani, Mauro; Raimondi, Valentina; Olper, Alessandro - 2010

This paper deals with the quantification of GMO regulations on bilateral trade flows. A composite index of the complexity of such regulations for sixty countries as well as an objective score for six GMO regulatory sub-dimensions has been developed. Using a gravity model, we show how bilateral...

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Declining protection for Vietnamese agriculture under trade liberalization: Evidence from an input-output analysis

Nguyen, Hau - In: Economies 8 (2020) 2, pp. 1-11

This study aims to assess the protection for Vietnamese agriculture under trade liberalization based on the input … primary agriculture and its supporting sectors, and would become negative by 2020. This implies that Vietnamese farmers are at …

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Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Anderson, Kym; Rausser, Gordon; Swinnen, Johan - 2012

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transfirmational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...

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Climate variability and international trade

Dunbar, Geoffrey; Steingress, Walter; Tomlin, Ben - 2023

This paper quantifies the impact of hurricanes on seaborne international trade to the United States. Using geocoded hurricane data mapped to satellite tracking data for commercial ships, we identify hurricane intersections on sea-trade routes between U.S. and foreign ports. Matching the timing...

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Productivity shocks, international trade and import prices: Evidence from agriculture

Ferguson, Shon; Gars, Johan - 2016

The purpose of this study is to measure the sensitivity of trade volumes and unit values to agricultural productivity shocks at home and abroad. We find that the unit values of trade ows vary systematically with production shocks using both aggregate data on a large sample of countries and...

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