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Agricultural trade, biodiversity effects and food price volatility

Bellora, Cecilia; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2015

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

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

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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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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Towards a macroprudential surveillance and remedial policy formulation system for monitoring financial crisis

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2009

maintaining financial sector stability through reduction of vulnerability is highly crucial. The world is now witnessing an …

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Macroeconomic policy lessons for Greece from the debt crisis

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Papageorgiou, Dimitris; … - 2020

This paper first searches for the drivers of the Greek depression in the aftermath of the 2007-8 global crisis and in turn looks for engines of sustained growth. We use a micro-founded macroeconomic model calibrated to Greece. Our simulations show that the adopted adjustment program (namely, the...

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All about the giants : probing the influences on growth and income inequality at the end of the 20th century

Berry, R. Albert; Serieux, John - 2003

persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a …This paper presents estimates of world output growth from 1970 to 2000, the distribution of income among countries and … series of simulation exercises that attempt isolate the effect of particular country and regional experiences on world output …

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Economic inequality and Covid-19 death rates in the first wave, a cross-country analysis

Davies, James B. - 2021

poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …

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