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The Fossil Episode
Hassler, John; Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 2012
biocarbon. One shock only, the discovery of the technology to use fossil fuels, leads to a transition from an initial pre …
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Economic Effects of Oil and Food Price Shocks in Asia and Pacific Countries: An Application of SVAR Model
Alom, Fardous - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
India with limited reserve of oil is not affected by oil price shock. However, Thailand possessing a number of natural …
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Do oil prices drive food prices? The tale of a structural break
Avalos, Fernando - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 42 (2014) C, pp. 253-271
It is frequently argued that biofuel (and ethanol) promotion policies in the United States have created a link between oil and corn prices that has accentuated the recent rally in the price of that crop and its substitutes (especially soybeans). Even though it is intuitively appealing, one...
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Causality between Oil and South Africa’s Food Price: Time Varying Approach
Aye, Goodness C. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2014
This paper examines the dynamic causal relationship between global oil price and South Africa’s food price using both … latter shows that oil price Granger causes South Africa’s food price at different sub-periods: 2002-2003, 2006 and 2010. This … relationship between global oil price and South Africa’s food price. …
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Is revaluation of the renminbi good news?
Rossi, Vanessa - In: CESifo Forum 6 (2005) 3, pp. 29-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998576
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Pitfalls in Estimating Asymmetric Effects of Energy Price Shocks
Kilian, Lutz; Vigfusson, Robert J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
A common view in the literature is that the effect of energy price shocks on macroeconomic aggregates is asymmetric in energy price increases and decreases. We show that widely used asymmetric vector autoregressive models of the transmission of energy price shocks are misspecified, resulting in...
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Monthly Report No. 10/2014
Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Grübler, Julia; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014
Graph of the month Europe Brent Spot Price, fob per barrel, in current USD and euro and real year 2005 euro (p. 1) Opinion corner Russia-Ukraine conflict do Western sanctions have any effect? (by Vasily Astrov, Vladimir Gligorov, Peter Havlik, Michael Landesmann and Olga Pindyuk; pp. 2-6)...
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Beyond the field: Impact of Farmer Field Schools on food security and poverty alleviation
Lilleør, Helene Bie; Larsen, Anna Folke - Rockwool Fondens Forskningsenhed (RFF) - 2013
In this paper, we estimate the impact of a farmer field school intervention among small scale farmers in Northern Tanzania. Unlike previous farmer field school evaluations, we go beyond the immediate agricultural impact and estimate the impact of farmer field school participation on the...
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European Union environmental regulations and their potential impact on market access for Africa's exports
Mihyo, Mihyo, P.B. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2001
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European Union environmental regulations and their potential impact on market access for Africa's exports
Mihyo, P.B. - International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684096