Foods, Fuels or Finances: Which Prices Matter for Biofuels?

Ondrej Filip (), Karel Janda, Ladislav Krištoufek () and David Zilberman
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Ondrej Filip: Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Smetanovo nabrezi 6, 111 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic

No 2016/16, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: We show that three factors combine to explain the mean excess sensitivity reported in studies estimating consumption Euler equations: the use of macro data, publication bias, and liquidity constraints. When micro data are used, publication bias is corrected for, and the households under examination do not face liquidity constraints, the literature implies no evidence for the excess sensitivity of consumption to income. Hence little remains for pure rule-of-thumb behavior. The results hold when we control for 45 additional variables reflecting the methods employed by researchers and use Bayesian model averaging to account for model uncertainty. The estimates of excess sensitivity are also systematically affected by the order of approximation of the Euler equation, the treatment of non-separability between consumption and leisure, and the choice of proxy for consumption.

Keywords: biofuels; prices; minimum spanning tree; wavelet coherenc (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C38 Q16 Q42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36pages
Date: 2016-07, Revised 2016-07
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