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The Pattern of Integration between Fossil Fuel and Vegetable Oil Markets: The Case of Biodiesel in Germany
Busse, Stefan; Brummer, Bernhard; Ihle, Rico - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446075
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Understanding Market potential for biodiesel in Spain: A Pilot study based on consumer preferences
Gracia, Azucena; Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus; Perez y Perez, Luis - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444780
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The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural Household Model under credit market failure
Simtowe, F.; Zeller, Manfred - 2008
Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446368
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2009
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446503
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Monetary Impacts and Overshooting of Agricultural Prices in a Transition Economy: The Case of Hungary
Bakucs, Lajos Zoltan; Ferto, Imre - 2009
This article examines the impacts of monetary policy on agricultural prices in the Hungarian economy using time series analysis. The empirical results indicate that agricultural prices adjust faster to monetary shocks than industrial prices do, affecting relative agricultural prices in the short...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444863
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Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Agricultural Prices
Awokuse, Titus O. - 2005
Existing empirical evidence on the impact of macroeconomic variables on agriculture remains mixed and inconclusive. This paper re-examines the dynamic relationship between monetary policy variables and agricultural prices using alternative vector autoregression (VAR) type model specifications....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445541
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Relationship between Spatial Price Transmission and Geographical Distance in Brazil
Hernandez-Villafuerte, Karla Vanessa - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446334
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ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION IN NORTH DAKOTA
Vanwechel, Tamara; Gustafson, Cole R.; Leistritz, F. Larry - 2003
The U. S. biodiesel industry is rapidly expanding due to energy production concerns, environmental concerns, and recent … legislation. The most common type of biodiesel in the United States is derived from soybean oil. Soybeans are a major crop in … North Dakota and could easily supply a 5 million gallon per year biodiesel facility. Potential market segments of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443426
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An Economic Evaluation of Soybean-Based Biodiesel Production on Commercial Farms in the Soybean-Producing Regions of KwaZulu-Natal: Some Preliminary Results
Sparks, G.D.; Ortmann, Gerald F.; Lagrange, L. - 2010
potential biodiesel feedstock. Preliminary results from a mixed integer linearprogramming model support the notion of Funke et … bothestablish and sustain a domestic biodiesel industry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443634
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ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION IN NORTH DAKOTA
Vanwechel, Tamara; Gustafson, Cole R.; Leistritz, F. Larry - 2002
The U. S. biodiesel industry is rapidly expanding due to energy production concerns, environmental concerns, and recent … legislation. The most common type of biodiesel in the United States is derived from soybean oil. Soybeans are a major crop in … North Dakota and could easily supply a 5 million gallon per year biodiesel facility. Potential market segments of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443985