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relationship between agricultural trade and rural poverty in post-reform China. We find that trade liberalization can affect China …'s poverty both directly through providing the poor with effective access to factor and product markets, and indirectly through … its ‘growth effects' and ‘distributional effects'. However, although China's impressive economic growth and trade …
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: In knowledge economies, patent agencies are often viewed as a relevant instrument of an efficient innovation policy. This paper brings a new support to that idea. We claim that these agencies should play an increasing role in the regulation of the relation between heterogeneous private R&D...
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This paper uses French food-expenditure data to examine the effect of the local prices of 23 food product categories on the distribution of Body Mass Index (BMI) in a sample of French adults. A dynamic choice model using standard assumptions in Physiology is developed. It is shown that the slope...
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pattern of trade and the distribution of prices in a Ricardian two-country setup. These elements create biodiversity eff ects … that result in an incomplete specialization at the free trade equilibrium. Their influence on idiosyncratic production … risks evolves depending on the countries' openness to trade. Pesticides allow these eff ects to diminish but they are …
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-country setup, we show that free trade results in an incomplete production specialization, that restrictions on pesticides are … generally more stringent than under autarky and that trade increases the price volatility of crops produced by both countries …
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The two episodes of food price surges in 2007 and 2011 have been particularly challenging for developing and emerging economies' central banks and have raised the question of how monetary authorities should react to such external relative price shocks. We develop a new-keynesian small...
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main point in this reearch is the focus that authors put on learning, diffusion, imitation and bouded rationality. Markets …, including consumer-producer relationships and learning; financial markets are also widely studied. …
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A shared belief in the financial industry is that markets are driven by two types of regimes. Bull markets would be … characterized by high returns and low volatil- ity whereas bear markets would display low returns coupled with high volatility …
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Survivors are the ones who bear the burden of reconstruction, thus the examination of the costs of civil conflicts to survivors health is crucial for the design of post-war economic policies. This paper investigates this question for the Mozambican civil war, using an original geo-referenced...
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The public-health community views the mandatory labelling and taxation of fat as promising tools to control the growth of food-related chronic disease. This paper is the first to propose an ex ante evaluation of these two policy options in an oligopolistic setting with differentiated products...
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