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We analyze the long-term impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on land-usechange, food supply and prices, and the overall economy in various countries or regions using amulti-country, multi-sector global computable general equilibrium model augmented with an explicitland-use module and...
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emphasis on corn-based ethanol, on the U.S. economy. The modelspecification incorporates world and domestic markets, assumes … ethanol. The model is calibrated to represent a recent benchmark data set for 2009 andis used to simulate the positive and … normative effects of alternative policies. We find that asecond best policy of a fuel tax and ethanol subsidy approximates …
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growing feedstock for ethanol (corn, sorghum, wheat,sugarcane, and other grains) and major crops competing with feedstock for … land resources suchas oilseeds. We shock the model with exogenous changes in ethanol demand, first in the UnitedStates … for ethanol. Land moves awayfrom major crops and pasture competing for resources with feedstock crops. Because of the …
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by allegedly positive effects on climate, energy, and agricultural policy goals. The paper takes a closer look at bio-ethanol … of biofuels and show that the production of bio-ethanol in Germany is not competitive. Using energy and greenhouse gas … there are preferred alternative strategies. In addition, scenarios on the development of the bio-ethanol market are derived …
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closer look at bio-ethanol as a substitute for gasoline and analyzes the underlying basic national and international … of the support and a possible increased use of biofuels are examined. The results show that the use of bio-ethanol to … Agrarpolitik gerechtfertigt. Das Arbeitspapier analysiert am Beispiel Bio-Ethanol als Benzinsubstitut auf nationaler und …
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ubiquitously distributed alternative to oil-based fuels in road transportation: ethanol from sugarcane. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the … industry which incorporates arbitrage by producers, across domestic and export markets for ethanol and sugar, and arbitrage by … consumers, across ethanol and gasoline at the pump. We show that the model stands up well to the empirical covariation in prices …
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