We address the long standing concern that food-aid works as a disincentive for recipient country agricultural production, by increasing recipient food supply and driving down food prices. This analytical conclusion, while widely accepted in the literature, relies on implausible Arrow-Debreu...

The concept of a reservation value is a key feature of most contemporary dynamic and probabilistic models of land development. It is clear that the magnitude of the reservation value has a fundamental bearing on the decision to develop or preserve land. This notwithstanding, many articles that...

The notion of a reservation value is a key feature of most contemporary dynamic and stochastic models of land development. It is clear that the magnitude of the reservation value has a fundamental bearing on the decision to develop or preserve land. This notwithstanding, many papers that analyze...