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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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We examine the importance of production risks in agriculture due to biotic elements such as pests in determining the 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...
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Production risks in agriculture due to biotic elements such as pests create biodiversity effects that impede productivity. Pesticides reduce these effects but are damaging for the environment and human health. When regulating farming practices, governments weigh these side-effects against the...
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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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The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy instruments to manage food price volatility. Many developing countries recently pursued price regulation policies, but the difficulties of these policies in promoting price stability is...
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Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), we exhibit an anomaly to this rarely discussed idea: we describe an …
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-like model in order to provide accurate forecasts for CO2. We show that historic dependency patterns emphasis energy, natural gas …
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market is strongly influenced by fundamentals factors as oil, energy, gas, coal and equity prices. Therefore, we calibrated …
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analysis, graph theory enables us to understand the dynamic behavior of our price system. We show that energy markets - as a … whole - stand at the heart of this system. We also establish that crude oil is itself at the center of the energy complex …
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This paper aims to investigate the Russian-Chinese energy relations in the context of evolution of bilateral strategic … qualitative analysis. It shows that the framework of bilateral relations is globally favourable for creation of costly energy … transport infrastructures. The quest for diversification of Chinese energy supplies contributes to the promotion of Russian …
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