Recent years have seen a resurgence in politicians’ willingness to engage in trade wars. Is this true? Check out Economic Inquiry: ow.ly/rY1850GlAOc WEAI Economic Inquiry Wiley Economics Kjersti Nes K Aleks Schaefer #tradewars #publicstandards #politics

As tariffs have decreased from WTO restrictions, countries instead use public standards as alternate trade barriers. Kjersti Nes & K Aleks Schaefer find that countries targeted with an SPS standard retaliate with their own trade barriers. tinyurl.com/3tabns3j Wiley Economics

Just came out! Felipe Dizon and I compare a nudge vs price discounts to promote a nutritional product in Bihar. K-State Ag Economics Nudges versus subsidies: Experimental evidence on the demand for a nut... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚜 #Farmers❓ Has your relationship with your buyers changed after the adoption of the Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) Directive? Help us build a #FairFoodChain by sharing your experience! 👇 europa.eu/!G4Mnfp #EUFarm2Fork #EUHaveYourSay EU Agriculture🌱

People are often surprised that transport plays such a small role in the carbon footprint of food (just 5% of food's emissions globally). This is because: 1. Very little is transported by air. Most comes by boat (1st chart) 2. Boats are pretty carbon-efficient (2nd chart)

New vacancy in the AGLINK team at the Joint Research Centre (European Commission) in Seville. Code: 2022-SVQ-D4-FGIV-019868 Title: Project Officer – Economic Researcher Deadline: 10/03/2022, 23h59 (Brussels time) recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?site=SVQ

Our paper was just published in AEPP onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Do producer organizations improve trading practices and negotiation power for dairy farms? Relevant new paper in Agricultural Economics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ag…

Extremely excited to see this paper with Nelson Villoria and Nathan Hendricks published Food Policy! K-State Ag Economics sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

my team is hiring! Here, my perspective on the job: linkedin.com/posts/kevin-sc… Amazing colleagues, highly impactful research on politically and socially relevant challenges, all within a beautiful city! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

📢 Small farmers and food producers! Have you ever had problems working with big businesses and retailers? Take part in our survey on unfair trading practices to help us build a #FairFoodChain. Survey available in all EU languages ⤵️

Cool to be able to discuss findings from ongoing research with Matthew Gammans, Kjersti Nes, and @dpscheitrum on #climatechange and #agtrade. Thanks SouthernAgToday!

Same packaging, different composition? Some food products have the same or similar packaging, but what’s inside differs from what you’d get in another EU country. The European Commission has been addressing this since 2018. Now, we have some updates 👇 europa.eu/!qBtMtr

"Trends in sustainability claims and labels for newly introduced food products across selected European countries" by Kjersti Nes (Kjersti Nes), Federico Antonioli, Pavel Ciaian (Pavel Ciaian) doi.org/10.1002/agr.21… Wiley Economics Wiley Business

Recently published short paper in the Journal of Public Economics : "Transitory Income Changes and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Mexico" Vol 230 (Feb 2024) by Manuela Angelucci , Carlos Chiapa (NU Economics ), SilviaPrina , & Irvin Rojas sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Uma Lele Prize goes to Kajal Gulati! Their paper "Women's Work and Agricultural Productivity Gaps in India" with Travis Lybbert and Koustuv Saha as co-authors sheds light on gender issues in agriculture. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement! #ICAE2024 #ISAE

New vacancy in our unit for a Contractual Agent (up to 6 years) on food supply chains. Living in Sevilla is among the included benefits Deadline for applications is at the end of August recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancy/1208

"Extreme weather events, climate expectations, and agricultural export dynamics" by Kjersti Nes, K Aleks Schaefer, Matthew Gammans, and Daniel Paul Scheitrum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Extreme weather events, climate expectations, and agricultural export dynamics" by Kjersti Nes, K Aleks Schaefer, Matthew Gammans, and Daniel Paul Scheitrum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…