Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 118
Cover Image
Rising food commodity prices and their pass-through to euro area consumer prices
Borrallo, Fructuoso; Cuadro Sáez, Lucía; Pérez …
rate of change of food commodity prices leads to a rise in euro area headline inflation (HICP) of around 0.3 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342621
Cover Image
An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight
Chen, Yanni; Huffman, Wallace E. - 2009
This paper examines women’s and men’s decisions to participate in physical activity and to attain a healthy weight. These outcomes are hypothesized to be related to prices of food, drink and health care services and products, the respondent’s personal characteristics (such as education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444707
Cover Image
An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Food Prices and Other Factors on Adult Lifestyles: Choices of Physical Activity and Healthy Weight
Chen, Yanni; Huffman, Wallace E. - 2009
This paper examines women’s and men’s decisions to participate in physical activity and to attain a healthy weight. These outcomes are hypothesized to be related to prices of food, drink and health care services and products, the respondent’s personal characteristics (such as education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444760
Cover Image
Staple food prices in Kenya
Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Njukia, Stephen - 2010
Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on“Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”,Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445988
Cover Image
Are Staple Food Markets in Africa Efficient? Spatial Price Analyses and Beyond
Rashid, Shahidur; Minot, Nicholas - 2010
Paper to be presented at the Comesa policy seminar“Food price variability: Causes, consequences, and policy options"on 25-26 January 2010 in Maputo, Mozambiqueunder the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Markets Project (AAMP)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445989
Cover Image
Consumer food prices: recent developments in the euro area and Spain
Borrallo, Fructuoso; Cuadro Sáez, Lucía; Pacce, Matías; …
dairy and cereals, given their high weight in the consumption basket and the strength of their inflation. Takeaways •Food … inflation in Spain has not been particularly different from that recorded in the euro area. However, its contribution to … headline inflation has been greater because of food’s higher weight in Spain’s consumption basket. •The prices of virtually all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000083
Cover Image
Formation and dispersion of expectations : an empirical analysis with special focus on inflation
Jonas Dovern - 2009
explain the development of inflation dynamics and the formation process of inflation expectations of households respectively. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429015
Cover Image
Integration of hydrothermal energy economics related quantitative studies
2007
An evaluation of the existing hydrothermal energy economics related quantitative studies is provided. The objective is to present the similarities and differences in methodology and assumptions, and explain the impact of these differences on the energy price estimates. A brief summary of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436375
Cover Image
Geothermal probabilistic cost study
Orren, L.H.; Ziman, G.M.; Jones, S.C.; Lee, T.K.; Noll, R. - 2007
A tool is presented to quantify the risks of geothermal projects, the Geothermal Probabilistic Cost Model (GPCM). The GPCM model is used to evaluate a geothermal reservoir for a binary-cycle electric plant at Heber, California. Three institutional aspects of the geothermal risk which can shift...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436921
Cover Image
Summary of the technical report on estimating the impact of key programmatic risk allocation decisions on Phase 1 bids and U.S. Department of Energy costs
Keisler, J.M.; Buehring, W.A. - 2009
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is privatizing the processing of hazardous and radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Site in Washington State. As part of the privatization process, a request for proposals describing the conditions and DOE`s expectations for contractor performance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436948