Search Results - subject:"PRICE DISTORTIONS"

A win-win opportunity for economic growth and carbon emissions reduction in China : the perspective from correcting energy price distortions

Sha, Ru; Qian, Juan; Li, Chen; Ge, Tao - In: Energy strategy reviews 53 (2024), pp. 1-15

carbon emissions. This study examines the price distortions for fossil and renewable energy based on Chinese provincial panel … reduction (CECR). The results show that the energy price distortions significantly inhibit CECR and especially distorted coal … negatively affected by price distortions in oil, natural gas, and renewable energy. Coal price distortion is a greater impediment …

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Price distortions and municipal bonds premiums : evidence from Switzerland

Vukovic, Darko B.; Rincon, Carlos J.; Maiti, Moinak - In: Financial innovation : FIN 7 (2021), pp. 1-21

breaks in bond distortions. This study finds that the currency price distortions of the Swiss franc in January 2015 made long …

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(Ineffective) Messages to Encourage Recycling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Peru

Chong, Alberto; Karlan, Dean; Shapiro, Jeremy; Zinman, … - In: The World Bank Economic Review 29 (2015) 1, pp. 180-206

There is growing interest in using messaging to drive prosocial behaviors, which contribute to investment in public goods. We worked with a leading nongovernmental organization in Peru to randomize nine different prorecycling messages that were crafted on the basis of best practices, prior...

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Salient features of measuring, interpreting and addressing Indian inflation

Gupta, Kirti; Siddiqui, Fahad - 2014

The paper reviews the calculation of Indian wholesale and consumer price indices and suggests improvements in the light of past experience and international best practices. It confirms that food inflation has been the driver of domestic inflation. The paper studies the recommendations of the...

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Salient Features of Measuring, Interpreting and Addressing Indian Inflation

Gupta, Kirti; Siddiqui, Fahad - eSocialSciences - 2014

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Salient features of measuring, interpreting and addressing Indian inflation

Gupta, Kirti; Siddiqui, Fahad - 2014

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Policy Responses to Changing Perceptions of the Role of Agriculture in Development

Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

Traditionally, development economists had a dim view of the contribution that farmers made to modern economic growth, compared with manufacturers. Hence agricultural exports and manufacturing imports were often taxed. This view changed over time though, as first economists and then policy makers...

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Would Freeing Up World Trade Reduce Poverty and Inequality? The Vexed Role of Agricultural Distortions

Anderson, Kym; Cockburn, John; Martin, William J. - 2010

Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that wereharming agriculture in developing countries, yet global trade in farm products continues to befar more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods. Those distortions reduce some forms ofpoverty and inequality but...

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Would Freeing Up World Trade Reduce Poverty and Inequality? The Vexed Role of Agricultural Distortions

Anderson, Kym; Cockburn, John; Martin, William J. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010

Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing countries, yet global trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods. Those distortions reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but...

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The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border

Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio E.; Pritchett, Lant - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2010

wages represents one of the largest remaining price distortions in any global market; is much larger than wage …

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