Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the … responses almost fully stabilize prices in shocked markets, reducing losses to domestic consumers by 97% while increasing those …

which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …

effective markets, and where development assistance is dangerous - and might even induce violence. Expanding governance by … coercively taking control of territory may enable markets and development programs, but costs to local residents may exceed …

between the First and Second World Wars. Following a period of increasing globalization of agricultural markets, the First …

promotion or for the purpose of retail arbitrage. Using US supermarket scanner data covering the 2008 Global Rice Crisis, an … episode driven by an observable cost shock due an Indian ban on raw rice exports, we find that sticky prices account for a …

rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …