Article
Business, Finance
Douglas Cumming, Hisham Farag, Sofia Johan, Danny McGowan
Summary: Marketplace lending leads to an increase in the quantity of entrepreneurship, especially in economically disadvantaged areas, although at lower average quality. The effects are more significant for less experienced entrepreneurs, small and less profitable firms, firms reliant on external finance, industries with lower barriers to entry, and low-income regions with limited access to financial institutions.
JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Alexander Copestake, Wenzhang Zhang
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of China's WTO accession on quality across the Indian production network. The results show that a fall in input tariffs leads to higher revenue, quality, and prices, while lowering quality-adjusted prices and the probability of product exit. These findings suggest that multi-product manufacturers gain access to higher-quality components and experience quality upgrading.
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Xinyu Kang, Minxi Wang, Taixin Wang, Fanjie Luo, Jing Lin, Xin Li
Summary: This paper analyzes the evolution and competitive characteristics of global copper resource trade from 2001 to 2020 by constructing a model of the copper resource trade evolution network and trade competition network. The study finds that copper resource trade fluctuates greatly and is highly competitive, with trade volume concentrated in a few countries, and the Asia-Pacific region has reached a dominant position.
Article
Economics
Chenghua Guan, Jinyuan Huang, Ruyue Jiang, Wanting Xu
Summary: China has established pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) to optimize the service industry structure. This study examines the impact of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone (GDFTZ) policy on service industry structure upgrading in China. The study finds that the GDFTZ significantly promotes service industry structure upgrading through imitation and independent innovation, service firm agglomeration, and financial resource allocation efficiency. It also has positive spatial spillover effects on neighboring cities.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2023)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Line Skontorp Meidell, Ana Karina Carvajal, Turid Rustad, Eva Falch
Summary: Large quantities of marine raw material are lost on-board deep-sea vessels due to fast quality degradation. This study investigated the effect of raw material freshness and sorting on the quality, composition, and yield of thermally produced oil from cod residuals on a commercial trawler. The results showed that longer storage time resulted in higher oil yields, but an undesired emulsion formed after 4 days of storage. However, both viscera and liver could be stored for up to 2 days and still meet quality criteria for food applications.
Article
Economics
Ana Paula Cusolito, Alvaro Garcia-Marin, William F. Maloney
Summary: This study utilizes a matched firm production-innovation panel dataset from Chile to investigate the impact of increased competition due to the China shock on firm innovation. The data provides a broader range of innovation inputs and outputs, allowing for the generation of measures of markups and efficiency (TFPQ) that closely correspond to the concepts of rents and technological leadership in the Schumpeterian literature. The findings reveal that, except for the top 10 percent most productive plants, increased competition suppresses most measures of innovation. These differences are further magnified when considering plant-level movements in rents.
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW-INSIGHTS
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
George Alessandria, Oscar Avila
Summary: We empirically and theoretically study the dynamic effects of Colombia's unilateral reduction in import tariffs from 1989 to 1993, with a focus on the transition period and anticipation effects. Using a two-country, multi-sector heterogeneous firm model, we consider dynamic exporting decisions, input-output linkages, capital accumulation, and trade in financial assets. Our model, calibrated to match Colombian exporter dynamics and trade openness, predicts larger gains from the reforms compared to models that ignore exporter dynamics, sectoral heterogeneity, financial asset trade, or capital accumulation. It also captures key macroeconomic features of a temporary growth expansion and investment boom financed by international borrowing.
IMF ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Business
Wenhui Jiang, Hai Zhang, Yuanyuan Lin
Summary: This study analyzes China's export trade potential and trade efficiency to countries along the Belt and Road through the application of the stochastic frontier gravity model. It found that China has high trade efficiency in mechanical and electrical products, iron or steel articles, and furniture and bedding, while lower efficiency is seen in live animals, cork, vegetable plaiting materials, tin, and arms. Strengthening cooperation in infrastructure construction and investment is crucial for further improving trade efficiency.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2022)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Xuejun Wang, Dinghui Huai, Ze Lu
Summary: The study identifies a significant negative impact of financing constraints on the product quality upgrading of Chinese agri-food export firms, especially for those closer to the quality frontier. The heterogeneous effects of financing constraints on quality upgrading are observed when the sample is split by firm location, export destination, and product sophistication.
BRITISH FOOD JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Development Studies
Longjin Chen
Summary: This study reveals a trend of intensified corporate income tax enforcement in Chinese provinces over time, as well as the impact of strict enforcement in neighboring provinces on surrounding provinces. Tax enforcement interactions involve both state and local tax authorities, shedding light on the regionally decentralized authoritarian system in China and the role of institutional incentives in shaping intergovernmental fiscal relations, in line with second-generation fiscal federalism.
Article
Communication
Joao Marcos Soares da Silva, Ricardo Carvalho de Andrade Lima
Summary: In recent years, the cable TV industry in Brazil has been declining while Netflix has become increasingly popular, making Brazil one of its largest markets. This paper investigates the impact of Netflix's entry on the competitive landscape of the cable TV industry. The study finds that the popularity of Netflix is negatively associated with the density of cable TV subscribers and the number of small cable TV firms.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Haokai Ning
Summary: This paper examines the trade policy design in a third market with incomplete information. Governments in both countries choose between direct quantity controls or export subsidies to benefit their firms in an international oligopoly. The findings suggest that the country with less information tends to employ direct quantity controls, while the country with well-informed firms resorts to export subsidies or export quotas when uncertainty is high or low, respectively.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS & FINANCE
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Hongwei Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Jing Tang, Yaoqi Guo
Summary: This article analyzes the evolution of international rare earth competition patterns using the complex network method and evaluates the impact of competition on the global value chain. The results show that competition is increasingly fierce, with downstream competition being the most intense, and China and Germany being highly competitive in downstream products. Furthermore, the changing landscape of rare earth competition drives the upgrading of the global value chain, with the downstream having the greatest impact. Moreover, the competition landscape of high economic countries has a more significant influence on the upgrading of the global value chain.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Review
Food Science & Technology
Charles Odilichukwu R. Okpala, Malgorzata Korzeniowska
Summary: The importance of continuous improvement in good practices and the implementation of hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) for food hygiene quality safety in the agro-food product industry sector is emphasized. Quality management (QM) and its key facets such as quality assurance (QA), control, improvement, and planning play a crucial role in improving agro-food product quality. This includes ethical considerations, food quality safety standards, HACCP fundamentals/implementation, QA control systems, and other quality standards associated with the agro-food industry. The article also discusses the challenges and directions for future studies in food safety management systems, QM, QA, and food hygiene quality safety.
FOOD REVIEWS INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Anne Marie Thow, Amerita Ravuvu, Siope Vakataki Ofa, Neil Andrew, Erica Reeve, Jillian Tutuo, Tom Brewer
Summary: This study analyzes the trends of intra-regional food trade in the Pacific region and finds that intra-regional trade represents a small but increasing proportion of total imports. Cereal grains and flour are the major food group traded within the Pacific region. Trade in root crops is negligible. Fiji plays a significant role in intra-regional food imports, particularly for non-traditional staple foods.
GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Daniele Curzi, Lucia Pacca
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Alessandro Olper, Daniele Curzi, Valentina Raimondi
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2017)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Margherita Scoppola, Valentina Raimondi, Alessandro Olper
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2018)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Valentina Raimondi, Chiara Falco, Daniele Curzi, Alessandro Olper
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2020)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Valentina Raimondi, Margherita Scoppola
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of differences in environmental stringency between investing and target country on foreign land acquisitions (FLA). The study found that the wider the gap in environmental stringency, the higher the likelihood of FLA occurring.
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Alessandro Olper, Maurizio Maugeri, Veronica Manara, Valentina Raimondi
Summary: The economic analysis of climate change in Italy focused on the impact of weather variables on GDP per capita and agricultural productivity using province-level data from 1980 to 2014. The results showed significant effects of temperature on both GDP and the agricultural sector, particularly when considering non-linear relationships. Projections indicate slight average effects on GDP per capita but significant losses in agriculture due to increasing temperatures by the end of the century.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Alessandro Olper, Daniele Valenti, Valentina Raimondi, Daniele Curzi
Summary: This article investigates the impact of European Union enlargements on the agricultural policy of incoming countries, and finds that the effect differs across different enlargements. Early enlargements led to an increase in agricultural assistance, while later enlargements resulted in a decrease in assistance levels.
APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Valentina Raimondi, Margherita Scoppola
Summary: Foreign land acquisitions in Africa increase exports and water consumption of goods. The impact on water content of African exports varies depending on the origin of the investing firm.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Daniele Curzi, Sylvain Chabe-Ferret, Salvatore Di Falco, Laure Kuhfuss, Marianne Lefebvre, Alan Matthews
Summary: This article summarises the insights from a panel of experts who discussed how experiments can enhance the design and evaluation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Experimental approaches may be effective tools to improve CAP, but their results often fail to be confirmed when applied to large-scale policy interventions.
Article
Economics
Valentina Raimondi, Margherita Scoppola
Article
Economics
Daniele Curzi, Marsela Luarasi, Valentina Raimondi, Alessandro Olper
APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS
(2018)
Article
Economics
Alessandro Olper, Daniele Curzi, Lucia Pacca
