The Brazilian Amazon has undergone a great transformation of its economy since the end of the 1990s, when the price of its export-oriented commodities increased in more than 200% in a few years. However, counties in the region experienced the effects of this soaring price differently according to their access to a federal road system constructed in the early 1970s. I take advantage of this inst...

Abstract The IPP’s Import and Export Price Index Surveys provide estimates of the change in prices of goods and services purchased by U.S. residents from foreign merchants or sold to foreign buyers by U.S. residents. In order to meet new Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards and guidelines for statistical surveys, research was conducted using a three-phase approach to assess the effec...

Analyses of trade quotas typically assume that the quota restricts the flow of some nondurable good. Many real-world quotas, however, restrict the stock of durable imports. We consider the cases where (1) anyone is free to export against such quotas and where (2) only those allocated portions of the total quota are free to export against such quotas. Recent econometric investigations of such qu...

Historically, devaluations have played a major role in the economies of the Nordic countries. Within the European Monetary Union (EMU), national exchange rate policy can no longer be used to improve competitiveness of exporting industries, and adjustment pressures caused by changes in international demand and prices by are put on factor markets. In this study price linkages are compared between...