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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?

Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019

1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features necessary to study the problem, including an explicit agriculture … sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more … than one trillion dollars smaller, and world population more than 80 million smaller, than would have been the case without …

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Autarchy, market disintegration, and health : the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937

Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea - 2002

We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...

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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India

Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …

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Achieving sustainable energy security : 2030 outlook for ASEAN, People Republic of China and India

Fan, Ying; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015

of Asia and the world economy - during the last five decades has caused significant strains on their scarce resources …

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"Globesity"? : the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake

Costa-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - 2014

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake. In assessing these effects using longitudinal analysis, this study adopts an extensive list of controls to account for compositional changes and effects, as well as different...

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Sudden stop : supply and demand shocks in the German natural gas market

Güntner, Jochen; Reif, Magnus; Wolters, Maik H. - 2024

We use a structural VAR model to study the German natural gas market and investigate the impact of the 2022 Russian supply stop on the German economy. Combining conventional and narrative sign restrictions, we find that gas supply and demand shocks have large and persistent price effects, while...

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Agricultural trade, biodiversity effects and food price volatility

Bellora, Cecilia; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2015

when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is …

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Macroeconomic effects of disruptions in global food commodity markets : evidence for the United States

De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 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...

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Global food prices and inflation

Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2024

This paper uses the endogenous regime switching model with dynamic feedback and interactions developed by Chang et al. (2023) to estimate global food price mean and volatility indicators, the latter measuring uncertainty and risk in the global food market. Both are then included in structural...

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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 Phillips curves across countries for 34 OECD member and candidate economies from 1985 to 2010 augmented with climate variables. We allow for nonlinear effects of precipitation...

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