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Carbon Abatement in the Fuel Market with Biofuels: Implications for Second-Best Policies
Crago, Christine L.; Khanna, Madhu - 2010
A carbon tax would penalize carbon intensive fuels like gasoline and shiftfuel consumption to less carbon intensive alternatives like biofuels. Since biofuelproduction competes for land with agriculture, a carbon tax could raiseland rents, divert land towards fuel production, and raise...
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Welfare impacts of alternative biofuel and energy policies
Cui, Jingbo; Lapan, Harvey E.; Moschini, GianCarlo; … - 2010
We employ an open economy general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of government energy policy, with emphasis on corn-based ethanol, on the U.S. economy. The model specification incorporates world and domestic markets, assumes pollution costs from fuel consumption, and allows...
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The effect of biofuel on the international oil market
Hochman, Gal; Rajagopal, Deepak; Zilberman, David - 2010
This paper derives a method to quantify the short- to medium-run impact of biofuel on fuelmarkets, assuming that these markets are dominated by cartel of oil-rich countries, and that pricesin these countries are set to maximize the sum of domestic consumer and producer surplus, leadingto a wedge...
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ENERGIA RENOVÁVEL: UMA ANÁLISE SOBRE OFERTA E DEMANDA DE ETANOL NO BRASIL
Oliveira, Michelle Pinto; Alencar, Junia Rodrigues De; … - 2008
supply and demand for ethanol in Brazil, considering the period from 1995 to 2006. The method of analysis used was a …
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RINs and the ethanol supply chain: an alternative view
Figer, Luiz - 2011
Biofuels are meant to be an environmental friendly alternative for the use of fossil fuels. Thisidea led to the use of subsidies in order to support their production and use. In the USA, the EPAis in charge of establishing mandates to obligated parties and enforcing compliance....
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Price-cost mark-ups in the Spanish economy : a microeconomic perspective
Montero Montero, José Manuel; Urtasun Amann, Alberto - 2014
This paper explores the dynamics of price-cost mark-ups using firm-level data, paying particular attention to the crisis period 2008-2011. To this end, we apply the econometric framework developed by Klette (1999) to a comprehensive sample of Spanish non-financial corporations in order to...
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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries
Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008
acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from Brazil to establish a Clean Development Fund gave developing …
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Conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps in India and Brazil
Gadgil, A.; Martino Jannuzzi, G. de - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP - 2008
electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved … of avoided peak installed capacity is 6 and 9.5 times less than the cost of new installed capacity for India and Brazil … national savings of the order of US $1.2 million per day for India and US $2.5 million per day for Brazil are reached in 10 …
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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination
2009
Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....
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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania
Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....
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