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International Food Commodity Prices and Missing (Dis)Inflation in the Euro Area
Peersman, Gert - 2019
This paper examines the causal effects of shifts in international food commodity prices on euro area inflation dynamics …%- 30% of inflation volatility. In addition, large autonomous swings in international food prices contributed significantly … to the twin puzzle of missing disinflation and missing inflation in the era after the Great Recession. Specifically …
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Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Food and Energy Consumer Price Inflation
Moessner, Richhild - 2023
This paper studies exchange rate pass-through to food and energy consumer price inflation and its dependence on the … inflation environment using cross-country panel estimation of Phillips curves. It considers a large panel of OECD member and … inflation and also significant for food CPI inflation. A 10% depreciation in the exchange rate leads to an increase in energy …
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Effects of Precipitation on Food Consumer Price Inflation
Moessner, Richhild - 2022
We study how precipitation has affected food consumer price inflation (CPI), using dynamic panel estimation of food CPI …. We allow for nonlinear effects of precipitation on food CPI inflation, and also control for possible nonlinear effects of … temperature. We find that precipitation has significant nonlinear effects on food CPI inflation. The coefficient of food CPI …
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The Impact of Food Prices on Conflict Revisited
Winne, Jasmien De - 2019
Studies that examine the impact of food prices on conflict usually assume that (all) changes in international food prices are exogenous shocks for individual countries or local areas. By isolating strictly exogenous shifts in global food commodity prices, we show that this assumption could...
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The Interplay between Oil and Food Commodity Prices : Has it Changed Over Time?
Peersman, Gert - 2019
Using time-varying BVARs, we find that oil price increases caused by oil supply shocks did not affect food commodity prices before the start of the millennium, but had positive spillover effects in more recent periods. Likewise, shortfalls in global food commodity supply--resulting from bad...
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Telecommunication Submarine-Cable Deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joel - 2020
The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Falco, Salvatore; B. Kis, Anna; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...
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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage within and across countries and if so who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with...
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The fossil episode
Hassler, John; Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2012
We build a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model with one-sided substitutability between fossil carbon and biocarbon. One shock only, the discovery of the technology to use fossil fuels, leads to a transition from an initial pre-industrial phase to three following phases: a pure fossil...
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