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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; … - CESifo - 2012
then estimated using data on consumption and wage incomes. We estimate pass-through elasticities from time-series data then … compute the negative consumption effects and positive wage impacts under perfect and imperfect pass-through from world to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123798
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406400
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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
RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … the effect of the price shock on household welfare through consumption and wage incomes. Poor rural households suffer … significant welfare losses due to higher prices of consumption goods, which are regressive. However they benefit from a rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315870
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Spatial Inequality and Development - is There an Inverted-U Relationship?
Lessmann, Christian - 2021
This paper studies the hypothesis of an inverted-U-shaped relationship between spatial inequality and economic development. The theory of Kuznets (1955) and Williamson (1965) suggests that (spatial) inequality first increases in the process of development, then peaks, and then decreases. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315954
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Spatial Inequality and Development - Is there an Inverted-U Relationship?
Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2011
This paper studies the hypothesis of an inverted-U-shaped relationship between spatial inequality and economic development. The theory of Kuznets (1955) and Williamson (1965) suggests that (spatial) inequality first increases in the process of development, then peaks, and then decreases. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352226
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Finance and Income Inequality : A Review and New Evidence
de Haan, Jakob - 2016
Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975‐2005, we examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all finance variables increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980576
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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization
Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2015
We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028919
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Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - CESifo - 2015
We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our results suggest that there is no robust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124890
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Trade and Development in a Labor Surplus Economy
Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2005
This paper looks at a model in which two countries trade agricultural and manufactured commodities. The manufactured-goods sector produces with increasing returns to scale under conditions of monopolistic competition. It is shown that an increase in land endowment (or an increase in agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181409
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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect : Evidence from the European Union
Martinez-San Roman, Valeriano - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051267