Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 154
Cover Image
Did the Renewable Fuel Standard Shift Market Expectations of the Price of Ethanol?
Baumeister, Christiane J.S. - 2017
It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in biofuel policies operates in part through market expectations and shifts in storage demand, yet to date it has proved difficult to measure these expectations and to empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453959
Cover Image
How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels
Sexton, Steven - 2011
Increased global demand for biofuels is placing increased pressure on agricultural systems at a time when traditional sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461958
Cover Image
On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461559
Cover Image
Sustainability in a Risky World
Campbell, John Y.; Martin, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We view sustainability as a requirement that welfare should not be expected to decline over time. We impose this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585383
Cover Image
Population, Productivity, and Sustainable Consumption
Pindyck, Robert S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
maximizes welfare. This raises a question: Given its cost, should sustainability be a social objective? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210047
Cover Image
Undisclosed Debt Sustainability
Alfaro, Laura - 2019
sustainability. Disclosure of nontraditional debt would imply significant welfare gains for the recipient countries but would reduce … its sustainability. We discuss the implications of nontraditional lending on standard assumptions of sovereign debt models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480291
Cover Image
An Analysis of Puerto Rico's Debt Relief Needs to Restore Debt Sustainability
Gluzmann, Pablo A. - 2018
was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480907
Cover Image
Fiscal Rules in India : Are They Effective?
Buiter, Willem H. - 2010
This paper, a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of the Indian Economy, edited by Chetan Ghate, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts concerning public debt and deficits in India, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462717
Cover Image
Inflation Implications of Rising Government Debt
Giannitsarou, Chryssi - 2006
examine the channels through which governments achieve fiscal sustainability. We evaluate the ability of this framework to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466007
Cover Image
A New Index of Debt Sustainability
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2017
Debt sustainability is fundamentally a probabilistic concept: Debt is rarely sustainable with probability one. We … propose an index of external debt sustainability that reflects this uncertainty. Namely we construct the index as the … strong measures are potentially needed to reestablish sustainability. Exchange rates that appear overvalued in the baseline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453645