In this paper, different levels and types of foreign trade enterprises in Shanghai are selected as samples to conduct a survey about information technology applications in order to analyze their status quo of informatization construction. Based on the results of the survey, this paper shows existing problems and constraint factors during the informatization construction process of foreign trade...

This chapter discusses whether and how 'new quantitative trade models' (NQTMs) can be fruitfully applied to quantify the welfare effects of trade liberalization, thus shedding light on the trade-related effects of further European integration. On the one hand, it argues that NQTMs have indeed the potential of being used to supplement traditional ‘computable general equilibrium’ (CGE) analysis t...

While much of the trade liberalisation literature analyses liberalisation effects on trade volumes, we postulate the implications of trade liberalisation for price transmission and market integration between tomato producer and consumer markets under a high and a reduced period of agricultural, import tariffs in Ghana. Our objective is to determine whether price transmission and thus the factor...

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Trait exaggeration through sexual selection will tale place alongside other changes in phenotype. Exaggerated morphology might be compensated by parallel changes in traits that support, enhance or facilitate exaggeration: 'secondary sexual trait compensation' (SSTC). Alternatively, exaggeration might be realized at the expense of other traits through morphological trade-offs. For the most part,...

In this paper we investigate how structural patterns of international trade give rise to emissions inequalities across countries, and how such inequality in turn impact countries' mortality rates. We employ Multi-regional Input-Output analysis to distinguish between sulfur-dioxide (SO2) emissions produced within a country's boarders (production-based emissions) and emissions triggered by consum...