Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) aims to support investment in cellulosic biofuel refineries by mandating a floor on the amount of biofuels being consumed in every calendar year. Tradable Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) is the market mechanism by which the mandates are to be met. But the...

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the strengths and weaknesses of theBiomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) as it was implemented according to Sect.9011 of the 2008 Farm Bill and to provide insight into the challenges of increasing theproduction of second-generation bioenergy...

For client expenditure management, risk analysis demands good estimates of the range of possible expenditures likely to occur and their probability of occurrence, while risk management is aided by reducing the range of possibilities. This paper describes the analysis of a new and updated data...

One of the most important aspects of the construction procurement process is the management of client (owner) expenditure. For client expenditure management, risk analysis demands good estimates of the range of possible expenditures likely to occur and their probability of occurrence, while risk...

This dissertation addresses issues concerning liquidity and its volatility. It consists of two essays. The first essay, "Liquidity, Macro Factors and the U.S. Equity Flows to Emerging Markets", examines the role of liquidity on equity flows from the U.S. to fifteen emerging markets around the...

Admits fixing lumber prices. - "Question of jail or poorhouse" in 1916 for mill men, says Bloedel. - At federal hearing. - Memory fails about recommending "adjustment of items now out of line." - J. H. Bloedel of this city, vice president of the Douglas Fir Exploitation and Export company, on...

Asserts lumber prices not fixed. - Seattle broker testifies in behalf of Douglas Fir Exploitation Company. - R. D. King, a lumber broker of this city, declared here today to Examiner W. W. Sheppard, in a hearing on charges made by the federal trade commission that the Douglas Fir Exploitation...

Lumber trade improves. - Weyerhaeuser Sales manager reviews conditions. - There has been some improvement in the lumber market in the last 30 days, but the situation is still far from being what it should, said I. N. Tate, manager of the Weyerhaeuser Sales company, yesterday. The recent slump in...

Lumber price goes up. - Weyerhaeuser trustees told plan is to better earnings. - Trustees of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Corporation help their quarterly meeting yesterday at the office of the corporation in the Old National building. T. J. Humbird of Spokane, president of the Humbird Lumber company,...

In 1994 FOURIE AND SMITH ANALYSED the cement market in South Africa on a structural, conduct and performance basis and came to the conclusion, inter alia, that cement price trends and cement price levels were unacceptably high. They accused cement manufacturers of abusing their market power by...