Recent increases in imports of catfish, shrimp, and crawfish have caused concern as to their impact on domestic prices. This study seeks to identify the linkages between imports of these goods and producer prices. Increases in imports of catfish and shrimp are shown to decrease related domestic prices. However, recent trends show a simultaneous increase in both imports and domestic prices of cr...

Quad stores have a number of features that make them very attractive for Semantic Web applications. Quad stores use Named Graphs to give contextual information to RDF graphs. Developers can use these contexts to incorporate meta-data such as provenance and versioning. The OWL language specification provides the owl:imports construct as one of the key ways to reuse the ontologies on the Semantic...

Using data on U.S. intra-firm and arm’s-length imports for 5,423 products and 210 countries, we examine the determinants of the share of U.S. imports that are intra-firm. Three determinants of this share have been proposed: (1) Antràs (2003) focuses on the share of inputs provided by the headquarter firm. We provide added confirmation and further strengthen the empirical findings in Antràs (200...

On the basis of data from 2000 to 2010, we investigated the separate effects of the uptake of forest certification and the usage of recycled paper on imports of paper and paperboard into Germany and the United States. Using panel data methods and based on a conventional Armington trade model, we find that the effects of two main forest certification schemes—the Programme for Endorsement of Fore...

We measure the dollar risk exposure of U.S. industries by regressing stock portfolio returns on each industry against the returns on a broadly defined dollar index. The exposure estimates vary widely across different industries in both magnitudes and directions. We trace this large cross-sectional variation in dollar exposure to the industry’s average import and export activities. We find that ...

We construct a model of trade with heterogeneous retailers to examine the effects of trade liberalization on retail market structure, imports and social welfare. We are especially interested in investigating the transmission of lower import prices into consumer prices and the effects of retail market regulation. The paper shows that changes in import prices may have large effects on consumer pr...

In 2010, Norway is still one of the richest countries in the world, with a GDP per capita corresponding to 56,140$ and an open economy able to move a large quantity of goods. After the Schengen agreement, the trade exchange between Norway and the rest of the European countries has largely increased. In this panorama, the Norwegian alcoholic market behaves under particular conditions. As it is w...

This article presents one of the first steps of a project that aims at exploring the diffusion patterns of Mediterranean imported goods in Late Iron Age Europe (250–25 BC) and the organization of the commercial interactions of these goods. It brings together two archeologists and a mathematician in the study of a large inventory of 57,735 Italian and Greek imports discovered from England to Ser...

In early 2013 rumors about the Euro-appreciation gained momentum, which may lead to decreases in exports and increases in imports of the member states. Therefore, we investigate the impact of changes in the nominal Euro exchange rate vis-à-vis major currencies on export and import performance of nine different Euro-area-countries. To disentangle the “true” equilibrium elasticities SURE system e...

This paper studies the role of exchange rate volatility in determining the UK’s real imports from three major developing countries Brazil, China, and South Africa. The paper contributes to the literature by investigating the third country effect and also by analyzing the impact of the current financial crisis on the relationship between exchange rate volatility and UK imports. This paper furthe...