alternatives for doing an analysis of income convergence for Brazil. One alternative would be to do the income convergence analysis …

under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on …

The relationship between ethanol, corn and oil prices are analyzed under two alternative situations, depending on … whether or not consumers purchase ethanol on the basis of its contribution to mileage. In all cases, market prices of ethanol … can be above or below the consumer price paid for ethanol. With a tax credit, we determine several key parameters …

It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in … estimate the market's expectations of the prices of ethanol, unfinished motor gasoline and crude oil at horizons from three …) is likely to have increased ethanol price expectations by as much $1.45 in the year before and in the year after the …

It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in … estimate the market's expectations of the prices of ethanol, unfinished motor gasoline and crude oil at horizons from three …) is likely to have increased ethanol price expectations by as much $1.45 in the year before and in the year after the …

It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in … estimate the market's expectations of the prices of ethanol, unfinished motor gasoline and crude oil at horizons from three …) is likely to have increased ethanol price expectations by as much as $1.50 in the year before and in the year after the …

tax credit alone acts as a subsidy to ethanol producers, equally benefiting exporters like Brazil. If an import tariff is …This paper analyzes the impact of an ethanol import tariff in conjunction with a consumption mandate and tax credit. A … imposed to offset the tax credit, world prices of ethanol decline by less than the tariff (unless oil prices are unaffected …

With a mandate, U.S. policy of ethanol tax credits designed to reduce oil consumption does the exact opposite. A tax … credit is a direct gasoline consumption subsidy with no effect on the ethanol price and therefore does not help either corn … or ethanol producers. To understand this, consider first the effects of each policy alone (a mandate and a tax credit …

particular farm size. Our empirical strategy relies on the opening of an ethanol plant in a farmer’s local neighborhood. We … identify the effect of the RFS on the size of farms located in the vicinity of new ethanol plants. Using a unique farm … treatment effect on farm size of an ethanol production facility. We then measure the effect of the RFS program on farmland …