The purpose of this study is to analyze the welfare effects of the ethanol and biodiesel mandates on edible oil, gasoline and corn uses in the United States, as well as potential price increase caused by such mandates and policies. Despite all the claims that the federal mandates and policies...

This study examines the impacts of a sorghum-based ethanol plant established in a major cotton producing area on local sorghum basis and cotton acreage distribution using county-level panel data from 2002 to 2014. Spatial econometric models are employed to account for any spatial dependence. Our...