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How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district...
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A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their … uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition …, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper with more noise in the …
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. Price-cost margins and bid shading are affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper …A finite number of sellers (n) compete in schedules to supply an elastic demand. The costs of the sellers have … uncertain common and private value components and there is no exogenous noise in the system. A Bayesian supply function …
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In a partial equilibrium setting without price uncertainty, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on … competitive market characterised by uncertainty about the commodity price, if firms can respond to the revelation of demand …
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The fluctuations in incomes inherent in rural communities can be attenuated by reciprocal insurance. We develop a model of such insurance based on self-interested behaviour and voluntary participation. One individual assists another only if the costs of so doing are outweighed by the benefits...
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-enhancing price for this scheme. …
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This study examines the effect of smallholder farmers' access to a formal climate risk transfer mechanism on their risk preferences. Survey and experimental data were collected from smallholder farmers that have access to weather index-based crop insurance (WICI) in Ethiopia. We use an...
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We provide novel evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers, and climate change is predicted to intensify this...
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subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than offset the …
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We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply … and demand characteristics, using a small time-series-cross-section dataset on Indian States. We suggest that the price …
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