With this paper, we provide the first quantitative investigation of vertical price transmission in the biodiesel supply … chain in Germany with the focus on the developments during the food crisis and the impact of subsidized US biodiesel exports …. With the strong promotion of the production and use of biodiesel during the first half of the past decade, the German …

We analyze vertical price transmission in the German biodiesel market studying therelationship between rapeseed oil …, soya oil and biodiesel prices. We focus on the period fromsummer 2002 to late 2007 during which the German biodiesel market …

determining the relationship among markets remains unclear. The cointegration framework, OLS and principal component regressions … are applied in order to investigate the influence of geographical distance on the cointegration relationship between … relation between distance and the elasticity of cointegration. Moreover, the region in which the market is located and a better …

The production and use of biodiesel is an important alternative in Europe to diminish the emission of gases in order to … fulfill the Kyoto protocol goals. Supported by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the production of biodiesel has increased … biodiesel is still low compared to other EU countries. The aim of the paper is to analyze consumers’ preferences for biodiesel …