Trade talk: Quality wrangler

Talk failures: food and fair trade.

Baccini Cheap talk : transaction costs , quality of institutions , and trade agreements

While there is evidence that politics matter for international cooperation, the impact on economic integration of the quality of institutions has been given short shrift in the previous literature. I argue that the quality of institutions—control of corruption and enforcement of the rule of law, in particular—raises the quantity and the quality of information available to potential member state...

Improving your test code with Wrangler

In this paper we show how the ’similar code’ detection facilities of Wrangler, combined with its portfolio of refactorings, allow test code to be shrunk dramatically, under the guidance of the test engineer. This is illustrated by a sequence of refactorings of a test suite taken from an Erlang project at Ericsson AB.

Institutional Quality and International Trade

Institutions — quality of contract enforcement, property rights, shareholder protection, and the like — have received a great deal of attention in recent years. Yet trade theory has not considered the implications of institutional differences, beyond treating them simply as different technologies or taxes. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we propose a simple model of international t...

Appendix for “ Zeros , Quality and Space : Trade Theory and Trade

The slightly simplified version of the Eaton-Kortum (EK) model that we work with has C nations each of which is endowed with a single factor of production (labor) used to produce a continuum of goods under conditions of perfect competition and constant returns. The transport costs between a typical origin nation (nation-o) and a typical destination nation (nation-d) are assumed to be of the ice...