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State and Power in Rural Africa: Evidence from Madagascar
Bellemare, Marc F.; Moser, Christine M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Despite the presumed importance of a strong state in the development process, there has been very little empirical work … assessing the state’s ability to exercise power in isolated areas and understanding the means through which the state exerts … that power. This paper begins to fill this gap in the literature by examining the relationship between state power and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881177
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Who Provides Information Matters: The Role of Source Credibility on US Consumers’ Beef Brand Choices
Dentoni, Domenico; Tonsor, Glynn T.; Calantone, Roger J.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
information through these quality signals and consumer choices. In this paper, we explore 1) whether the credibility of an … representative sample of 460 US consumers and analyzed through structural equation modeling. The results show that credibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020948
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Fiscal Sustainability in a New Keynesian Model
Leith, Campbell; Wren-Lewis, Simon - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Recent work on optimal monetary and fiscal policy in New Keynesian models suggests that it is optimal to allow steady-state … to service. We demonstrate that this temptation is only eliminated if following shocks, the new steady-state debt is … the credibility of commitment policy by considering a quasi-commitment policy which allows for different probabilities of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879000
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Fiscal Sustainability in a New Keynesian Model
Leith, Campbell; Wren-Lewis, Simon - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Recent work on optimal monetary and fiscal policy in New Keynesian models suggests that it is optimal to allow steady-state … to service. We demonstrate that this temptation is only eliminated if following shocks, the new steady-state debt is … the credibility of commitment policy by considering a quasi-commitment policy which allows for different probabilities of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879015
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Sensitive Product Treatment in Agricultural Trade Negotiations
Durand-Morat, Alvaro; Wailes, Eric J.; Sharp, Misti - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
The fact that trade, and especially agricultural trade, remains far from free is puzzling, since the superiority of free trade receives overwhelming support among economists (Gawande and Krishna, 2003; Rodrik, 1994). International trade scholars have devoted significant resources to forecasting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020997
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Policy Responses to 2008 High Food Prices: Domestic Incentives and Global Implications
Woolverton, Andrea E.; Kiawu, James - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
Global food commodity price inflation beginning in 2006 and continuing through mid-2008 became a priority concern for global consumers, producers and policy-makers alike. In response, many governments across the world implemented policies targeting high food commodity prices in their domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024941
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Fertilizer Subsidies and Voting Patterns: Political Economy Dimensions of Input Subsidy Programs
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, T.S.; Walle, Nicolas van de - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Agricultural input subsidies often have implicit or explicit political economy objectives. Using panel data from Zambia, this article empirically tests whether election outcomes affect targeting of subsidized fertilizer and whether fertilizer subsidies win votes. Results suggest that the Zambian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916073
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A PRINCIPAL-AGENT APPROACH TO THE DELEGATION OF REGULATORY AUTHORITY
Alevy, Jonathan E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2001
This paper applies a multi-tasking model of moral hazard to study the delegation of regulatory authority for health and environmental risks. The model characterizes the conditions under which single and multiple bureaucratic agencies are optimal, and relates these findings to discussions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005807713
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The Value and Applicability of Bargaining in an Intergenerational Setting
Howard, Gregory E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
I consider a variation of Coasian bargaining as a policy instrument for internalizing intergenerational externalities. The variation involves appointing a contemporary party to represent the interests of the affected parties who are currently unable to represent themselves, either because they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002476
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Disaster Risk, Social Vulnerability and Economic Development
Ward, Patrick S.; Shively, Gerald E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
We examine the extent to which economic development reduces both a country's disaster risk and its social vulnerability to climate-related disasters. Global climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods, and various types...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002488