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Biofuels and Food Prices: Searching for the Causal Link

Bastianin, Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

We analyze the relationship between the prices of ethanol, agricultural commodities and livestock in Nebraska, the U.S. second largest ethanol producer. The paper focuses on long-run relations and Granger causality linkages between ethanol and the other commodities.The analysis takes possible...

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Forecasting the Oil-gasoline Price Relationship: Should We Care about the Rockets and the Feathers?

Bastianin, Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

forecasting performance of econometric models incorporating asymmetric price transmission from crude oil to gasoline. In this … point forecasting, while it can be exploited to produce more accurate sign and probability forecasts. Finally, we highlight … that the forecasting performance of the estimated models is time-varying. …

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Food versus Fuel: Causality and Predictability in Distribution

Bastianin, Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between biofuels and commodity food prices in the U.S. from a new perspective. While a large body of literature has tried to explain the linkages between sample means and volatilities associated with ethanol and agricultural price returns, little is known...

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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been subject to continuous and intense scrutiny. The literature can be roughly divided in two historical phases. Initially, after the seminal contributions,...

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