estimates. To bring more clarity to this issue, we review studies on U.S. corn ethanol expansion released between 2008 and 2013 …. Normalizing corn price impacts by the increase in corn ethanol volume, we find that each billion gallon expansion in ethanol …, projection year, inclusion of ethanol co-products, international biofuel production, and baseline and policy ethanol volumes …

enhanced if the mandate policies are accompanied by liberalization in ethanol trade. …

U.S. ethanol production capacity increased more than threefold between 2002 and 2008. We study the effect of this … growth on corn acreage. Connecting annual changes in county-level corn acreage to changes in ethanol plant capacities, we … 500 acres and to increase acreage in surrounding counties up to almost 300 miles away. All ethanol plants are estimated to …

among these six variables: rice, wheat, corn, coal, crude oil and ethanol. Our major contribution to the existing literature … energy prices. We also find that ethanol price is neither in the long-run equilibrium nor responding to deviation from long …-run equilibrium. It supports that under the current policy, Chinese government has done well to prevent the ethanol price driving up …

The recent 9-billion-gallon increase in corn-based ethanol production, which resulted from a combination of rising …