Replaced with revised version of paper 07/02/10.

In addition to multilateral trade agreements under the World Trade Organization (WTO), the world has seen a remarkable proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in the last two decades. This study investigates the impacts of these multilateral and regional trade institutions on food...

Despite of the important role international migration fills in the United States’ labor-intensive agricultural sector, few studies have addressed the individual characteristics and circumstances surrounding entry and exit by farm laborers. With increasing public attention on international...

This research examines the effect of risk and time preferences on forest management responses to forest tenure land reforms in Fujian, China that began in 2002. The different extent of the reform and its different timing across regions provide a natural experiment to test how time and risk...

O município de Itarema vem obtendo, recentemente, elevados níveis de desenvolvimento em relação aos municípios que compõem a Microrregião do Litoral de Camocim e Acaraú. No entanto, esse município vivencia disparidades de desenvolvimento entre suas comunidades devido, em parte, a...

This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...

Though the Green Revolution has played a large role in producing food for increasing populations, the mass production of calories has come with costs. For example, varieties of finger millet (Eleusine coracana, known in India as ragi), which have largely been replaced during the Green...

O turismo no espaço rural é uma atividade que está em evidencia e se mostrando cada vez mais promissora em várias regiões do Brasil. A região de Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, é uma das regiões que está sobressaindo nesta atividade, com a preocupação de atender às exigências de...