This paper summarizes the main findings of the results in the literature on the role of ethanol in reducing retail … gasoline prices in the United States. We provide a comprehensive overview of the key results and methodologies used to obtain … identifes the main directions of the corn-ethanol focused biofuels literature through the analysis of predominant clusters. The …

differenced unemployment rate, to isolate three 'structural' shocks which drove business cycle fluctuations in Spain during 1970 …-94. These shocks are interpreted as aggregate demand, labour demand and labour supply disturbances in a framework where there is …

ascertain which shocks and what propagation mechanism underlie the functioning of the labour markets in both countries. Our … evidence, we find that, although shocks hitting both economies since the beginning of the eighties were not too dissimilar …

We reinvestigate the "rockets and feathers" effect between retail gasoline and crude oil prices in a new framework of … complicated time series characteristics. On the dataset of seven national gasoline prices, we find no statistically significant … asymmetry. The proposed methodology is not limited to the gasoline and crude oil case but it can be utilized for any asymmetric …

The pricing mechanism in the gasoline market has often been the subject of public debate in Greece during the crisis … inefficient pricing, is by testing for asymmetries in the adjustment of domestic gasoline prices to world oil price changes. The … present paper tests for asymmetric adjustment of gasoline prices to oil price variations in the Greek market and examines …

consumers, across ethanol and gasoline at the pump. We show that the model stands up well to the empirical covariation in prices … the retail price of ethanol to that of gasoline. Of relevance to the current food-versus-fuel" debate, the outward shift … of the ethanol demand curve, at price levels where traditional gasoline consumers arbitrage, may lead to higher sugar …