Vegetable oil market and biofuel policy: An asymmetric cointegration approach

Energy Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-693

  Peri, Massimo ^a   Baldi, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biofuel policy; Diesel price; European Union; Threshold cointegration; Vegetable oils market

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; DIESEL PRICES; EUROPEAN UNION; EXTERNAL SHOCKS; RAPESEED OIL; SOYBEAN OIL; SUNFLOWER OIL; THRESHOLD COINTEGRATION; TWO-REGIME;

BIODIESEL; COMMERCE; GAS INDUSTRY; HYDROCARBONS; LUBRICATING OILS; MINERAL OILS; VEGETABLE OILS;

COSTS;

BIOFUEL; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; COMMODITY PRICE; DIESEL; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUOTA SYSTEM; VEGETABLE OIL;

EUROPE;

BRASSICA NAPUS; GLYCINE MAX; HELIANTHUS;

EID: 77950516090     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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