The US Department of Energy (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), located in southeast New Mexico, is a deep geologic repository for the permanent disposal of transuranic waste generated by DOE defense-related activities. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), in its role as scientific advisor to the DOE, is responsible for evaluating the long-term performance of the WIPP. This risk-based Perf...

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...

This paper examines how trade costs induced by geographic distance or bilateral tariffs impact the markups of exports differentiated quality. It relies on a data set that combines Argentinean firm-level wine with experts’ ratings as measure Exporters price discriminate across destinations raising in more distant markets, and lowering them high-tariff countries. However, response to changes is h...