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Price Effects on Compound Commodities
Minagawa, Junichi - 2016
We explore effects of simultaneous price changes for the demand of a group of goods, which we refer to as a compound commodity. Specifically, we consider unit and proportional cost components (e. g., taxes, transportation costs, etc.) imposed on the compound commodity. We find that there is a...
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Modeling Fluctuations in the Global Demand for Commodities
Kilian, Lutz - 2018
It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with unexpected fluctuations in global real economic...
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Macroeconomic Effects of Disruptions in Global Food Commodity Markets : Evidence for the United States
De Winne, Jasmien - 2016
We use two approaches to examine the macroeconomic consequences of disruptions in global food commodity markets. First, we embed a novel quarterly composite global production index for the four basic staples (corn, wheat, rice and soybeans) in a standard vector autoregression (VAR) model, and we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977153
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Regulation in Swiss Cantons : Data for One Century
Luechinger, Simon - 2016
We present and illustrate novel data on more than a century of regulation in Switzerland. We provide quantitative … in the annual changes to such regulation from 1908-2013. We measure the stock of regulation by the number of enactments … in the stock of regulation and the extent and development of regulatory activity. Regulatory activity generally increased …
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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges : Fixed vs. Mobile Networks
Choi, Jay Pil - 2014
We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
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Government Decentralization and International Government Performance
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016
Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual responses from more than a hundred countries about public's perceptions of government's performance along various dimensions to study the relative influences of different types of...
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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...
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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016
's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987397
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International Commodity Prices and Civil War Outbreak : New Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond
Ciccone, Antonio - 2018
A new dataset by Bazzi and Blattman (2014) allows examining the effects of international commodity prices on the risk of civil war outbreak with more comprehensive data. I find that international commodity price downturns sparked civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another finding with the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924357
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Global Cycles : Capital Flows, Commodities, and Sovereign Defaults, 1815-2015
Reinhart, Carmen - 2016
Capital flow and commodity cycles have long been connected with economic crises. Sparse historical data, however, has made it difficult to connect their timing. We date turning points in global capital flows and commodity prices across two centuries and provide estimates from alternative data...
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