This study examines whether the local competition for corn to produce ethanol has lead to significantly higher prices … for farmers located close to ethanol biorefineries. If any, such price premiums for spatial closeness would be in addition … located close to ethanol biorefineries have not received significantly higher prices than farmers living farther away from …

this end, first a baseline is set up for the EU-27 ethanol, grain, and dried distillers grains markets. In the next step … with the ethanol import tariffs in place. The second scenario incorporates the same shock with the ethanol import tariffs … removed. In the first scenario, higher crude oil prices increase ethanol consumption, production, and therefore grain prices …

blend of ethanol with gasoline consumed by conventional cars, and E100, ethanol consumed only by flex cars. This allows us … prices, the high gasoline tax, and a higher tax exemption for ethanol used in E25. Because Brazilian and U.S. ethanol prices … have become linked, a change in Brazilian ethanol policy or a shock in world sugar markets can now impact U.S. ethanol and …

a risk measure called β. What is particularly important about this model is that it is currently applied in the industry …

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affected individuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in high flooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk related behaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …

This paper analyses the adoption process of water-conserving irrigation technologies by a risk averse farmer in a … individual risk preferences of the producer, on the variance and asymmetry of the cost of water applied, and on the elasticity of …

horizontal level and vertical level. We first carry out Granger causality between ethanol price of EU, USA and Brazil. Secondly …. USA price of ethanol is the most influential among the three price series, and EU has the least influence on the contrary …

sugar sector with bio-ethanol production may create opportunities for sustainable management of the existing sugar industry … from sugar to bio-ethanol production in Thessaly, Greece. In the agricultural feedstock supply and industrial processing …. The joint ethanol-biogas option appears to be preferable using sugar beet and wheat, whereas capacity selected amounts at …