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Biodiesel has recently drawn attention because of its potential to make an important contribution to national energy … security and the environment. However, the rapid growth of biodiesel has raised concerns about biodiesel’s impact on the price … between biodiesel and soybean prices is very weak, indicating little likelihood of biodiesel triggering another food crisis …
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For European operators of biofuels plants there are not many hedge vehicles available to hedge operational margins. Cross hedges for rapeoil (with the rapeseed futures contract) and RME (with the NYMEX diesel futures contract) could be useful instruments. We use recent developments on threshold...
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This paper addresses the question of whether the export demand for soybeans and soybean products changed structurally over the 1950 to 1992 period as the U.S. agricultural sector became more integrated with the rest of the world economy. The results suggest that export demands were stable for...
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The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org …
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The purpose of this study is to take a close look at Korea‘s biodiesel developing trends and assess economic … feasibility based on benefit-cost analysis. This study finally presents directions to actively promote the biodiesel in Korea. The …
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biodiesel and bioethanol (in the liquid form or as ETBE). The bioethanol production sector is a mature sector and it will … probably change into a single-stage technology of biocomponent production. The biodiesel sector is in the beginning stage of … or so investors planning to enter the sector. The main problem which determines the development of the biodiesel …
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This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of producers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for novel inputs. In addition to conceptualizing the WTP function for producers, we derive its comparative statics and demonstrate the use of these properties to estimate input quantities demanded, outputs...
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