Abstract The impact of COVID-19 on recent tendencies towards international isolationism has been much speculated but remains to be seen. We suggest that valuable evidence can gleaned from the “Spanish” flu 1918–20. It is well-known world fell into a protectionist spiral following First World War, scholars have almost exclusively ignored pandemic. employ difference-in-differences strategy and fi...

As someone with a background in both public health research and homeless services, I was recently approached by a group of voluntary agencies working with homeless families to assist them in conducting a research project to investigate the mental and physical health status of children passing through their services. The personnel involved were alarmed by what they saw as the largely undiagnosed...

Synergies and conflicts between climate change mitigation measures and trade policy and rules may result from: (a) competitiveness losses and/or gains, (b) potential discriminatory aspects of climate change measures which breach the fundamentals of WTO rules, (c) the creation of new types of trade barriers, but also of trade opportunities, and (d) the context in which climate change and trade p...

The key objective of agricultural protectionism is reflected in the protection and developing of agriculture sector. Integrated parts of this policy in the European Union are the initial model of agricultural protectionism and a new strategy of agricultural policy, which emerged as a response to the shortcomings of previously existing model. The paper presents the key reforms of agricultural po...

We measured the business-cycle correlations of the real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rates of two cities to capture the degree of segmentation across China’s provincial and regional borders. This type of segmentation can be caused by local protectionism as well as other economic and geographic factors. After controlling the other factors, we zeroed in on the administrative border effect ...

Can oil discovery shocks affect the demand for protectionism? An intertemporal model of Dutch disease indicates that if tradable sector is politically dominant then an can induce protectionism. If economy also credit constrained, this effect intensified upon discovery, but partially reversed when revenues start to flow. We test these predictions using 16.2 million, HS-6 level, bilateral tariff ...

This paper considers the issue of state financial protectionism agricultural industry in context regionalization. A comprehensive methodology regionalization has been proposed, taking into consideration IPR and value a region. Based on statistical data indicators investment attractiveness region (IAR) region, regions for financing were determined. The problem determining fate stated solved. pro...