RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … partial equilibrium model to estimate the effect of the RFS on the price of selected food commodities - rice, wheat, corn …, sugar and meat and dairy, which together provide almost 70% of Indian food calories. Our model predicts that world prices …

. 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%) impact on food prices. In this paper we show that demand-side effects - in … much of a role in raising food prices as biofuel policy. By specifying a Ricardian model with differential land quality, we …

the importing country. We examine how the risk of rejection at European borders is affecting Chinese agri-food exporters …

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 and export policy. Specifically, unilateral actions by exporting …