Addressing the “Wicked Problem” of Input Subsidy Programs in Africa
in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
June 2013; p ublished online February 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Corporate Regulation; Development Planning and Policy; Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook; Agricultural Economics; Economic Development. 8875 words.
This article reviews and critically assesses evidence on input subsidy programs implemented in selected countries over the past decade in Africa. We believe that input subsidies should be...
Agro-Manufactured Export Prices, Wages and Unemployment
in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
August 2008; p ublished online August 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Trade; Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment; Agricultural Economics. 10286 words.
This article estimates the impacts of world agricultural trade liberalization on wages and unemployment in Argentina in the presence of individual labor supply responses and adjustment...
Analysing food price trends in the context of Engel’s Law and the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis
in Oxford Economic Papers
July 2016; p ublished online April 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles; Economic Development; Agricultural, Environmental, and Natural Resource Economics; Agricultural Economics. 11086 words.
Income growth in emerging economies has been often cited as a key driver of the past decade’s commodity price boom—the longest and broadest boom since World War II. This article shows that...
Conditional Election and Partisan Cycles in Government Support to the Agricultural Sector: An Empirical Analysis
in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
July 2013; p ublished online May 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: National Government Expenditures and Related Policies; Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook; Agricultural Economics. 11971 words.
We examine the effect of elections and government ideology on public funding to the agricultural sector using a panel model for more than 70 democratic countries from 1975-2009. We find...
Forecasting Food Inflation in Developing Countries with Inflation Targeting Regimes
in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
January 2012; p ublished online January 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles; Single Equation Models; Single Variables; Agricultural Economics. 8976 words.
Developing countries that employ inflation-targeting monetary policy regimes require accurate short-run food inflation forecasts. We develop a systematic approach to improve food inflation...
Global food prices and domestic inflation: some cross-country evidence
in Oxford Economic Papers
July 2016; p ublished online May 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles; Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit; Agricultural, Environmental, and Natural Resource Economics; Agricultural Economics. 6426 words.
We study the impact of global food price shocks on domestic inflation in a large group of countries. For advanced economies, a 10% increase in global food inflation raises domestic...
How the Financial Crisis Affected World Agriculture: A General Equilibrium Perspective
in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
August 2000; p ublished online August 2000 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Agricultural Economics; International Finance; Money and Interest Rates. 0 words.
The International Financial Criss: Macroeconomic Linkages to Agriculture
in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
August 2000; p ublished online August 2000 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Agricultural Economics; International Finance; Money and Interest Rates. 0 words.
Is there a term structure in land lease rates?
in European Review of Agricultural Economics
February 2016; p ublished online May 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Agricultural Economics; Market Structure and Pricing; Money and Interest Rates. 9381 words.
This article applies the concept of a term structure to agricultural land rental prices. Based on theoretical considerations, we develop a hedonic pricing model that allows for different...
Milk Marketing Order Winners and Losers
in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
March 2010; p ublished online March 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Household Behaviour and Family Economics; Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment; Agricultural Economics; Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue. 7863 words.
Determining the impacts on consumers of governmental policies that affect the demand for food products requires a theoretically consistent micro-level demand model. We estimate a system of...
