This paper fills a gap in the macroeconomic literature on renewable sources of energy. It offers a definition of green investment and analyzes the trends and determinants of this investment over the last decade for 35 advanced and emerging countries. We use a new multi-country historical dataset...

During recent years increased attention has been given to second-generation wood-based bioenergy. The carbon stored in the forest is highest when there is little or no harvest from the forest. Increasing the harvest from a forest, in order to produce more bioenergy, may thus conflict with the...

Themes of the volume: Biofuels: Potential Alternatives to Fossil Fuels -- Biofuel Economics and Policy: Biofuel Standard, Blending, and Future Insecurities -- Economic Transitions: from Biomass to Biofuels -- Biofuel Economy, Development, and Food Security.