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Food security and the targeted public distribution system in India

Kattumuri, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

) in India, launched in 1997, seeks transparent and accountable distribution of food for the poor. If TPDS meets the …

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Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation, information technology and competition: evidence from France

Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries are narrowly defined. So there is a significant opportunity for the least productive firms to catch up to the most productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore...

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Regulated and non-regulated companies, technology adoption in experimental markets for emission permits, and options contracts

Chesney, Marc; Taschini, Luca; Wang, Mei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper examines the investment strategies of regulated companies in abatement technologies, market participants' trading behaviors, and the liquidity level in an inter-temporal cap{and{trade market using laboratory experiments. The experimental analysis is performed under varying market...

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Competition and opportunistic advice of financial analysts: theory and evidence

Sette, Enrico - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This work investigates both theoretically and empirically how the behaviour of financial analysts is affected by competition, measured as the strength of coverage of a stock from other analysts. The interaction among analysts and investors is modelled as a dynamic cheap talk game. The...

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Ownership and managerial competition: employee, customer, or outside ownership

Bolton, Patrick; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers and employees’ incentives to invest in human capital. We argue that employees’ incentives in human capital investment are affected by both ownership and competition since...

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Body image, peer effects and food disorders: evidence from a sample of European women

Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Excessive preoccupation with self-image has been pinpointed as a factor contributing to the proliferation of food disorders, especially among young women. To provide an economic basis for this argument this paper models how ‘self-image’ and ‘other people’s appearance’ influence...

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Cultivated land conversion in China and the potential for food security and sustainability

Cui, Shunji; Kattumuri, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

With over a billion people in China, the issue of cultivated land conversion is extremely important both in terms of food security and environmental sustainability. This paper investigates the relationship between cultivated land, environment, and food security in China; and seeks to identity the...

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Does adaptation to climate change provide food security?: a micro-perspective from Ethiopia

Di Falco, Salvatore; Veronesi, Marcella; Yesuf, Mahmud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We examine the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change, and the impact of adaptation on farmers’ food production. We investigate whether there are differences in the food production functions of farm households that adapted and those that did not adapt. We...

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Non-farm diversification and rural poverty decline: a perspective from Indian sample survey and village study data

Himanshu, Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty … close study over a period of six decades. Sample survey data indicate that the non-farm sector in rural India has grown … in India as both particularly closely linked to rural non-farm development and recording particularly high rates of urban …

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Poverty, inequality and mobility in Palanpur: observations from Palanpur

Himanshu, Himanshu; Bakshi, Ishan; Dufour, Camille - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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