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Arezki, Rabah - 2013

We examine the effects that variations in the international food prices have on democracy and intra-state conflict using panel data for over 120 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that in Low Income Countries increases in the international food prices lead to a...

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Spillovers between Food and Energy Prices and Structural Breaks

Al-Maadid, Alanoud - 2015

This paper estimates a bivariate VAR-GARCH(1,1) model to examine linkages between food and energy prices. The adopted framework is suitable to analyse both mean and volatility spillovers, and also allows for possible parameter shifts resulting from four recent events, namely: 1) the 2006 food...

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Agricultural Trade, Biodiversity Effects and Food Price Volatility

Bellora, Cecilia; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2021

Biotic factors such as pests create biodiversity effects that increase production risks and decrease land productivity when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is incomplete under free trade because of the decrease...

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The Fossil Episode

Hassler, John; Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

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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Food for Fuel : The Effect of U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Ural … - 2021

More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...

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The Long Run Impact of Biofuels on Food Prices

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Helene; Moreaux, Michel - 2021

More than 40% of US grain is now used to produce biofuels, which are used as substitutes for gasoline in transportation. Biofuels have been blamed universally for recent increases in world food prices. Many studies have shown that these energy mandates in the US and EU may have a large (30-60%)...

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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy

Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2021

This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...

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The Impact of Economic Globalization on the Shadow Economy in Egypt

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2017

This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … to 2013, the impulse response analysis shows that the response of the shadow economy in Egypt to positive shocks in … globalization by reducing the costs of doing business and trade in dealing with sizable shadow economy in Egypt …

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A Macroeconomic Analysis of Energy Subsidies in a Small Open Economy

Glomm, Gerhard - 2015

sector production. The model is calibrated to Egypt and used to study reforms such as reductions in energy subsidies with …

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Modelling the Egyptian Shadow Economy : A Currency Demand and A MIMIC Model Approach

Hassan, Mai - 2016

estimate the size of the shadow economy in Egypt during the last four decades (1976 to 2013). In addition to the standard …

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