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Farm Policies and Added Sugars in US Diets

Beghin, John C.; Jensen, Helen H. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2008

fructose corn syrup (HFCS) became an inexpensive substitute for sugar in food beginning in 1970. However, the effect of this …

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Missing the wealthy in the HFCS: Micro problems with macro implications

Chakraborty, Robin; Waltl, Sofie R. - 2018

Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) constitutes a rich source of micro data that can be used to link macro … may be the lack of the wealthiest households in the HFCS. This article combines a semi-parametric Pareto model estimated … from survey data and observations from rich lists with a stratification approach making use of HFCS portfolio structures to …

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Is the top tail of the wealth distribution the missing link between the Household Finance and Consumption Survey and national accounts?

Chakraborty, Robin; Kavonius, Ilja Kristian; … - 2018

The financial accounts of the household sector within the system of national accounts report the aggregate asset holdings and liabilities of all households within a country. In principle, when household wealth surveys are explicitly designed to be representative of all households, aggregating...

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Stress testing household balance sheets in Luxembourg

Giordana, Gastón; Ziegelmeyer, Michael - 2019

This paper uses representative individual household data from Luxembourg to evaluate how severe economic conditions could affect bank exposure to the household sector. Information on household income, expenses and liquid assets are used to calculate household-specific probabilities of default...

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Risky assets in Europe and the US: Risk vulnerability, risk aversion and economic environment

Bekhtiar, Karim; Fessler, Pirmin; Lindner, Peter - 2019

We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive as well as the intensive margin of risky assets, European households differ substantially from US households; but also inside Europe we document substantial differences....

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Farm Policies and Added Sugars in US Diets

Beghin, John; Jensen, Helen H. - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2008

fructose corn syrup (HFCS) became an inexpensive substitute for sugar in food beginning in 1970. However, the effect of this … small (below 5%), and HFCS has become a specialized input in many food items. Countries with different or no commodity …

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Looking for the missing rich: tracing the top tail of the wealth distribution

Bach, Stefan; Thiemann, Andreas; Zucco, Aline - In: International Tax and Public Finance 26 (2019) 6, pp. 1234-1258

the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be under-represented in household …

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A Primer on US Sugar in the 2007 US Farm Bill

Beghin, John C. - 2007

This background paper is devoted to US sugar policy. A first section describes the features and economics of the US sugar program; a second section is devoted to the welfare and trade effects of the US sugar program; and a final section reports on potential emerging reforms, their expected...

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Unemployment risk and over-indebtedness: A micro-econometric perspective

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2016

Consumption Survey (HFCS). First, we assess the role of different labor market statuses (i.e. employed, unemployed, disabled …

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The impact of biotechnology on international commodity trade with reference to developing countries

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