International Trade Principles and Practices

4. Principles and Practices of Cooperation in Managing International Water

This chapter is a nontechnical introduction to understanding and analyzing cooperation with a focus on international river basins. Starting with several definitions of cooperation, this chapter considers how cooperation succeeds and fails. After reading this chapter you will be familiar with various principles of cooperation, with their strengths and weaknesses, and preview to several examples ...

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how these terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing terms. These patterns help discipline a model in which the...

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Liquidity and International Trade

This paper introduces a framework to study the links between the supply of liquid assets for the financial market and the international allocation of economic activity. Private assets’ liquidity properties—their usefulness as collateral or media of exchange in financial transactions— affect assets’ values and interest rates, with consequences on firm entry, production, aggregate productivity, a...

Software Design Principles and Practices

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has an on-going process improvement program that is assessed against I S 0 and CMMl criteria. To help JPL meet these criteria, a Sofiare Quality Improvement project was recently established to define sofiare requirements, guidelines, and processes consistent with these tuo standards and infuse this technology into the organization. In support of this tays the aut...