Using commodity futures contract and spot prices, we estimate the incidence of the US ethanol subsidy accruing to corn … ethanol producers captured two-thirds of the subsidy, and suggestive evidence that a small portion of this benefit accrued to … or gasoline consumers captured any part of the subsidy. This paper contributes to understanding of biofuels markets and …

-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A … temporary subsidy for Mozambican maize farmers stimulates Green Revolution technology adoption and leads to increased maize … yields. Effects of the subsidy persist in later unsubsidized years. In addition, social networks of subsidized farmers …

) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …

Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the … WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite … taxation of agriculture has declined sharply, with the abolition of production quotas and procurement pricing, and reductions …

factor prices and on environmental outcomes. We model an output subsidy, a capital subsidy, relief from environmental … regulation, and a direct cash subsidy. In exchange for receiving subsidies, firms must agree to a minimum level of labor … employment. Each type of subsidy and the employment constraint create both output effects and substitution effects on input …

We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of … substantial premium subsidy from the government? We find that providing access to formal insurance significantly increases farmers …

China, where a quarter of firms' R&D expenditures come from government subsidies. Using a difference-in-differences approach … subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these …

The majority of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China were privatized through ownership reforms over the last two … decades. Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2013, we show that …

the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find …