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Food for Fuel : The Effect of the US Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

More than 40% of US grain is used for energy due to the Renewable Fuels Mandate (RFS). There are no studies of the global distributional consequences of this purely domestic policy. Using micro-level survey data, we trace the effect of the RFS on world food prices and their impact on household...

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Biofuel Subsidies : An Open-Economy Analysis

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2013

We present a general equilibrium analysis of biofuel subsidies in an open-economy context. In the small-country case, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on crude is not available as a policy option, however, a...

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To See is to Believe : Common Expectations in Experimental Asset Markets

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2012

facilitates the formation of common expectations. We disentangle the effect of training from the effect of its public knowledge …

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Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Dammert, Ana - 2013

Subjective expectations are fundamental for understanding individual behavior. Yet, little is known about how … individuals use new information to formulate and update their subjective expectations. In this study, we exploit data from a multi … subjective job gain expectations in Peru. Results show that jobseekers who received digital intermediation based on a large …

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Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation

Enke, Benjamin - 2013

Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...

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The European Crisis and Migration to Germany : Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows

Bertoli, Simone - 2013

changing expectations about the evolution of the economic conditions in various countries. This paper addresses the first … expectations and current economic conditions at origin are significant determinants of migration, diversion effects account for 78 …

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Preferences and Beliefs in a Sequential Social Dilemma : A Within-Subjects Analysis

Blanco, Mariana - 2009

Within-subject data from sequential social dilemma experiments reveal a correlation of first-and second-mover decisions for which two channels may be responsible, that our experiment allows to separate: i) a direct, preference-based channel that influences both first- and second-mover decisions;...

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