ethanol and agricultural price returns, little is known about their whole distributions. We focus on predictability in … distribution by asking whether ethanol returns can be used to forecast different parts of field crops returns distribution, or vice … to the analyst. Results show that both the centre and the left tail of the ethanol returns distribution can be predicted …

production and sugar imports, an OLS regression model has been developed with monthly U.S. ethanol production as a function of …The need to decrease the United States’ dependency on oil has pushed ethanol to the forefront of energy sources. In the … U.S., corn is used to make ethanol. Corn-based ethanol production has been profitable over the past few years, but there …

century, including the phasing out of lead additives in gasoline, the transition from MTBE to ethanol as the predominant … economic models.In chapter 4, scenarios created from a high-level model of the liquid fuels sector (the Liquid Fuels Transition … model) are presented to explore potential pathways and barriers to a biofuels transition. The scenarios illustrate different …