This paper studies potato prices and consumption in the progress of economic development. Potato status tends to evolve from a luxury to a normal and, lastly, to an inferior good. In the developed world, where the potato thrived and became a food for the poor, prices of the inferior potato...

In this paper, we study the effect of exogenous global crop price changes on migration from agricultural and non-agricultural households in Sub-Saharan Africa. We show that, similar to the effect of positive local weather shocks, the effect of a locally-relevant global crop price increase on...

High food prices have undermined Indonesia's effort to reduce poverty and improve health and nutrition indicators. It is estimated that for every 1% increase in price, the national poverty headcount rises by 1%. A significant contributor to high food prices is the prevalence of non-tariff...

Indonesia's food security is getting precarious. As COVID-19 spreads, supply chains are being significantly disrupted and is slowing down Indonesia's agricultural production and distribution. Indonesia's poor are being hit hard and are seeing rising food prices, loss of income and unemployment....

We study how precipitation has affected food consumer price inflation (CPI), using dynamic panel estimation of food CPI Phillips curves across countries for 34 OECD member and candidate economies from 1985 to 2010 augmented with climate variables. We allow for nonlinear effects of precipitation...

The objective of the paper is to evaluate whether there is a change in the level or trend of food prices in fragile countries following the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war. The empirical evidence is based on Interrupted Time Series Analysis. The following findings are established....

This paper studies exchange rate pass-through to food and energy consumer price inflation and its dependence on the inflation environment using cross-country panel estimation of Phillips curves. It considers a large panel of OECD member and candidate economies with quarterly data from 1994 to...

Although climate change is expected to have a significant impact on the global population, little is known about how it will affect individual households in their daily lives. Based on food price increases caused by climate change, we analyse how climate-change-related damages distribute across...

Im Jahr 2022 haben Deutschland und viele andere Länder lange nicht mehr gesehene Preissteigerungen erlebt. Besonders betroffen waren davon unter anderem landwirtschaftliche Erzeugnisse und Nahrungsmittel. Das hat zu vielen Diskussionen zu Ursachen und Konsequenzen von Preissteigerungen in der...

The sudden demand spike for online grocery purchases during the Covid‐19 pandemic and supply bottlenecks caused by disrupted global value chains put immense pressure on prices. We analyze the prices of the largest German online grocers to test how these challenges affected prices during the...