. One chapter of this dissertation develops a model that links the distribution of preferences for ethanol to aggregate … price responses and then estimates the model using data from a large number of retail ethanol stations. Ethanol demand is …Government policies increasingly promote ethanol and other biofuels for security, air quality, and climate benefits …

blending, or blend above themandate and sell their excess RINs. Because some refiners should have lower ethanol sourcingcosts … than others, it is expected that they will be able to trade RINs, therefore decreasing totalmandate compliance costs.Ethanol … ethanol supply chain may influence the RINs market.This thesis analyzes the role of logistics in the ethanol supply chain …

several years. However, the welfare effect of biofuelpolicies, specifically the ethanol tax credit for corn ethanol, ethanol … examines themarket and welfare effects of biofuel policies in the US, specifically those relating tocorn and sugarcane ethanol … of three papers. In the first paper, a stylized modelof the US miles and fuel market, including ethanol trade is …

influencing key-parameters of the proposed model, matching ex-ante expectations based on the regional policy-history of the … analysis through the exploration of financial ratios. More precisely, for comparing the alternatives, a systems-model approach … assessed in terms of the levels of physical-assets performance it presents across three-defined ethanol production clusters …

-temporal implications of relaxing these constraints. We fit a multi-sector Ramsey model to Brazilian data, validate its fit to times data … security and independence, Brazil has supported the production and use of ethanol. Brazil's leadership in this market reveals … complex inter-linkages between ethanol, sugarcane, sugar and fossil fuels. These sectors have been growing an average of 14 …

This paper investigates the dynamics of price transmission among ethanol a biodiesel related prices on the Brazilian … followed by the Vector Error Correction Model over the period 2003-2020. The period was further divided into 4 periods, defined … by our estimations was stronger for Brazilian sugarcane-based ethanol and European biodiesel than for US corn …

This paper summarizes the main findings of the results in the literature on the role of ethanol in reducing retail … identifes the main directions of the corn-ethanol focused biofuels literature through the analysis of predominant clusters. The …