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Dreze, Jean; Lanjouw, Peter; Sharma, Naresh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

This paper presents a case study of credit transactions in Palanpur, a north Indian village. Drawing on detailed informtion from all borrowers and lenders in the village, we examine a number of issues related to the functioning of rural credit markets. These include the segmentation of the...

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Ethanol production, food and forests

Andrade de Sa, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

forest, is developed. It analyses how an exogenous increase in the ethanol price affcts input allocation (land and labor … displacement of food production across regions, provoked by a shift in the price of food, increases deforestation and reduces the …

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The impact of risk on inequality: evidence from the Irish agricultural sector

Vollenweider, Xavier; Di Falco, Salvatore; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

lowering of price support implemented under the reforms of pillar I of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It is therefore …

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Risk preferences and voluntary agri-environmental schemes: does risk aversion explain the uptake of the Rural Environment Protection Scheme?

Vollenweider, Xavier; Di Falco, Salvatore; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The lowering of trade barriers under the successive reforms of the pillar I of the Common Agricultural Policy, the opening of the commodity markets to an ever greater number of financial actors and the uncertainty created by climate change, amplify both production risk and market risks for...

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Environmental services and poverty alleviation: either, or, or both?

Groom, Ben; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Payments for environmental services (PES) schemes in developing countries face trade-offs between environmental and development objectives. This tension is inherent in cost effective direct PES since, by their very nature, they limit transfers to recipients. However, where recipients of PES are...

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Agricultural returns and conflict: quasi-experimental evidence from a policy intervention programme in Rwanda

Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 1997 Rwanda introduced a re-settlement policy for refugees displaced during previous conflicts. We exploit geographic variation in the speed of implementation of this policy to investigate the impact of conflict-induced displacement and the re-settlement policy on household agricultural...

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The impacts of climate change levy on business: evidence from microdata

Martin, Ralf; de Preux, Laure B.; Wagner, Ulrich J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We estimate the impacts of an energy tax – the Climate Change Levy (CCL) – on the manufacturing sector using panel data from the UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of trends in outcomes between plants subject to the CCL and plants that were granted an...

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Why is the US so energy intensive?: evidence from US multinationals in the UK

Martin, Ralf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

explanation for the higher energy intensity is lower US energy price levels. However, common price elasticity estimates are not … are an important concern and secondly, that the long term response to a sustained price increase might be stronger than … common price elasticity estimates suggest. The study also provides, for the first time, estimates of energy price …

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Neighbors, knowledge, and nuggets: two natural field experiments on the role of incentives on energy conservation

Dolan, Paul; Metcalfe, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

There is increasing research on the exogenous impact of descriptive social norms on economic behavior. The research to date has a number of limitations: 1) it has not de-coupled the impact of the norm and the knowledge required to understand how to change behavior based upon it; 2) it has...

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Climate change and carbon markets: a panoramic history

Calel, Raphael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

International carbon markets have grown quickly in recent years, but have also experienced serious problems and faced harsh criticism. This paper looks at the history of climate science, at how the economics of emissions trading developed, and at the formation of international institutions to...

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