associated with the food price crisis of 2007. The total change in welfare is decomposed into five contributors. I find that … role in maintaining welfare levels after a price shocks, households substantially substituted out of goods that showed a … strong increase in their price. Though food price increases led to a significant welfare loss, part of it was compensated …

capital, not for other goods, translate into more investment and employment of production workers. …

separation runs the risk of rendering impossible any sustainability-oriented price reform. An Institutional Economics approach …

affected by these price effects, even in this setting where program eligibility is high, the transfer per household is sizeable …, and hence the supply influx is large. The exception is in remote villages, where the price effects (both the negative …

Pricing policy for any experience good faces a key tradeoff. On one hand, a price reduction increases immediate demand … and hence more people learn about the product. On the other hand, lower prices may serve as price anchors and, through a … price anchors: future demand is lower after a free distribution than after a distribution at market prices. …

affected by these price effects, even in this setting where program eligibility is high, the transfer per household is sizeable …, and hence the supply influx is large. The exception is in remote villages, where the price effects (both the negative …

conduct a field experiment providing farmers in randomly chosen villages with market price information. Information provision … consistent with a model of ex post bargaining and sequential price competition between a cartel of village middlemen and a cartel …