We assess the fuel-food price linkage models of the structural and of the time series nature with the main attention …-correction analysis of fuel-food commodity price level co-movement towards inclusion of biodiesel and ethanol prices directly into … analysis, towards consideration of both price levels and price volatilities, and towards growing sophistication of econometric …

, fuel price hikes result in higher productivity and profits of manufacturing plants. The results of instrumental variable … Indonesian and 1.2 percent for Mexican plants. The evidence suggests that effects are driven by the incentives that fuel price …

transfer scheme called "gas price brake." A unique feature of this energy price relief measure is that both households and the … industry receive a transfer that increases in one's actual gas price. In a formal model, we show that such a transfer scheme … overcome this adverse effect of the gas price brake. An equivalent critique applies to the electricity price brake that is to …