Comments on: James Feyrer: The 1967-75 Suez Canal closure http://www.tradediversion.net/archives/2009/12/james-feyrer-the-1967-75-suez-canal-closure.html Commentary on development, globalization, and trade by Jonathan Dingel Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: The Panama Canal expansion « Trade Diversion http://www.tradediversion.net/archives/2009/12/james-feyrer-the-1967-75-suez-canal-closure.html/comment-page-1#comment-85723 The Panama Canal expansion « Trade Diversion Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:06:12 +0000 http://www.tradediversion.net/?p=1570#comment-85723 [...] James Feyrer on the closing of the Suez Canal. Feyrer is also working on a paper titled “The Opening of the Panama Canal as a Natural [...] [...] James Feyrer on the closing of the Suez Canal. Feyrer is also working on a paper titled “The Opening of the Panama Canal as a Natural [...]

]]> By: Agent Continuum http://www.tradediversion.net/archives/2009/12/james-feyrer-the-1967-75-suez-canal-closure.html/comment-page-1#comment-3065 Agent Continuum Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:11:11 +0000 http://www.tradediversion.net/?p=1570#comment-3065 The natural experiment is clean, but what do we learn here? Supply curves slope up? Exchange creates wealth? -- I guess I can feel at ease teaching undergraduates about that. :-) We can't hope to recover useful fundamentals here, e.g. some structural technological parameter or functional form. This is data from decades ago. [Awesome blog! Long-ish time reader, first time commenter, not a trade person but a fan of trade.] The natural experiment is clean, but what do we learn here? Supply curves slope up? Exchange creates wealth? — I guess I can feel at ease teaching undergraduates about that. :-)

We can’t hope to recover useful fundamentals here, e.g. some structural technological parameter or functional form. This is data from decades ago.

[Awesome blog! Long-ish time reader, first time commenter, not a trade person but a fan of trade.]

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