Abstract What explains divides in the public’s support for trade protection? Traditional economic arguments primarily focus on individuals’ expectations increased or decreased wages face of greater openness, yet studies testing such wage-based concerns identify a different divide as well: even after accounting wage effects, women are typically more supportive protection. We argue that trade-ind...

Background Prostate cancer screening using prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing remains controversial. Trade-offs between the potential benefits and downsides of screening must be weighed by men deciding whether to participate in prostate cancer screening; little is known about benefit:harm trade-offs men are willing to accept. Methods/Design The Community Preferences for Prostate Cancer Sc...

The objective of the paper is to explore and give an overview of two central policy alternatives to improve the integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade facilitation. After reviewing the relevant literatures and discussing the issues which constitute problems or opportunities for practitioners and researchers in b...

This paper argues that the contribution of trade preferences to economic development needs to be reappraised in light of the growth of globalised trade in manufactures. Trade preferences may be able to act as a catalyst for manufacturing exports, leading to rapid growth in exports and employment. To do so, preferences need to be designed to be consistent with international trade in fragmented ‘...

Do preferences toward globalization strategies vary across publicfinance regimes? In this paper, we use data on individual preferences toward immigration and trade policy to examine how pre-tax and posttax cleavages differ across globalization strategies and state fiscal jurisdictions. High exposure to immigrant fiscal pressures reduces support for freer immigration among U.S. natives, especial...

Natural-language preference expressions, not yet exploited by existing preference reasoning approaches, match the way users express preferences in many scenarios and potentially improve automated decision making. Further, the preferences provided are often not sufficient to make a choice on behalf of users, as trade-offs are resolved with psychological processes employed in light of available o...