The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of
public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been …

The stability of food supply chains is crucial to the food security of people around the world.
Since the beginning of 2020, this stability has been undergoing one of the most vigorous …

Providing affordable access to enough healthy and safe food for an ever-more-affluent and
growing world population has become more challenging in the face of climate change, rising …

In the past few decades, economic analysis of law has been challenged by a growing body
of experimental and empirical studies that attest to prevalent and systematic deviations from …

This article describes a new fact, then analyzes its causes and consequences: in most
countries, import tariffs and nontariff barriers are substantially lower on dirty than on clean …

This is the first comprehensive study in the context of EMDEs that covers, in one consistent
framework, the evolution and global and domestic drivers of inflation, the role of …

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food
markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that …

Prices of grains and other storable are char-acterized by long periods in the doldrums,
punctuated by short but intense price spikes (Deaton and Laroque 1992). Those spikes are …

Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. We present novel evidence on both in
a non-student sample (660 randomly selected customers of a car manufacturer). We …

We study loss aversion in elections by investigating a median voter model (full convergence
in a two‐candidate election) and a model of partial divergence of policy proposals. First, we …