Market distortions and the benefits from research into new uses for agricultural commodities: Ethanol from corn

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-29

  Alston, Julian M ^a   Beach, E Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ohio Development Dept   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; Ethanol; Market distortions; Research benefits; Technical change

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ACCOUNTING; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY;

CORN;

ETHANOL;

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; MARKET DISTORTION; MODELLING APPROACH; SIMULATION MODEL; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0030093992     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0928-7655(96)00002-4     Document Type: Article

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