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Biofuels are becoming an alternative to non-renewable energy sources but we know little about the economic mechanisms influencing their prices. This paper studies the interrelationships between the spot prices of oil and those of agricultural commodities used as biofuel feedstocks. Using daily...
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We investigate mean and volatility spillovers between the crude oil market and the main biofuel feedstock markets (corn, soybean, and sugar). In doing so, we estimate a four-variable vector error correction (VEC) GARCH-in-Mean model with a BEKK representation for the variance equation, and also...
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U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation … in the real price of oil. That link, however, appears largely driven by common macroeconomic determinants of the prices … little to U.S. retail food price increases, because of the small cost share of agricultural products in food prices. There is …
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