which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the implementation of a subsidized rice … reported the quality of the rice improved. Bidding committees may have avoided quality problems by choosing bidders who had …

rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in … combination with government administrative data on district-level rice output in the 1990s. We find that deviations from mean … local rainfall are positively associated with district-level rice output. 10% higher rainfall leads metric tons of rice …

covering the 2008 global rice crisis—a shock triggered by an Indian rice export ban—we find that household hoarding anticipated …

Policy-makers have instituted a variety of fuel economy tax policies -- polices that tax or subsidize new vehicle … same goals could be achieved at a lower cost to society if policy-makers instead directly taxed fuel. Fuel economy taxation …, as it is currently practiced, invites several forms of gaming that could be eliminated by policy changes. Thus, even if …

technologies will be heavily influenced by government policy. Both environmental and R&D policies provide incentives encouraging … development of new technologies, is important for understanding the ultimate effects of climate policy. This chapter reviews the … policy …

individual sources, conventional environmental policy approaches, such as uniform technology and performance standards, are …

A new and important concept in global warming economics and policy is the social cost of carbon or SCC. This concept … the RICE-2011 model. Additional concerns are uncertainty about different aspects of global warming as well as the …

, including individual consumption, business investment, and government spending. An effective climate policy will have to modify …-and-trade, and clean energy standards. We note that the U.S. political response to possible market-based approaches to climate policy … environmental and climate policy …