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Modelling Distortionary Aspects of the US Wheat Program and Policy Reform

Labson, Stephen - 2016

Evaluation of US agricultural policy reform is complicated by the interaction of price support programs and production constraints. Researchers have typically presumed that price support policies as observed in the US wheat program increase the producer incentive at the margin,' however, little...

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Growing Complexities : A Cross-Sector Review of U.S. Biofuels Policies and Their Interactions

Blonz, Joshua A.; Vajjhala, Shalini P.; Safirova, Elena - 2009

In the midst of concerns about U.S. energy security and climate change, a wider use of biomass and biofuels is promoted as one of the recipes for sustainability. The production and use of biofuels in the United States has rapidly increased in the last several years, promoted by a variety of...

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US policy contributions to agricultural commodity price fluctuations, 2006 - 12

Rausser, Gordon C.; De Gorter, Harry - 2013

impacts of US agricultural and macroeconomic policies on basic food commodity markets in the United States and their spillover … effects on world markets prior to 2006. We then focus on new causal mechanisms that have emerged since 2006, sourced with … triangle' that once influenced governmental intervention in programme commodity markets has expanded into an 'iron maze' of …

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Nowcasting and Forecasting the Monthly Food Stamps Data in the US Using Online Search Data

Fantazzini, Dean - 2014

We propose the use of Google online search data for nowcasting and forecasting the number of food stamps recipients. We perform a large out-of-sample forecasting exercise with almost 3000 competing models with forecast horizons up to 2 years ahead, and we show that models including Google search...

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Political economy synthesis : the food policy crisis

Watson, Derrill D. - 2013

The food price crisis revealed contradictions in creating food policy. Much of the common policy response can be explained by a benevolent, unitary government. To understand the variance between countries, however, requires understanding fractured government decision-making, path dependency, and...

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The value of terroir: Hedonic estimation of Vineyard sale prices

Cross, Robin; Plantinga, Andrew J.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2011

We examine the value of terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that impart unique qualities to the wine produced. We do this by conducting a hedonic analysis of vineyard sales in the Willamette Valley of Oregon to ascertain whether site attributes, such as slope, aspect,...

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Time to eat: household production under increasing income inequality

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006

Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...

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