Ethanol demand under the flex-fuel technology regime in Brazil

Energy Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1146-1154

  de Freitas, Luciano Charlita ^a   Kaneko, Shinji ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cointegration; Elasticity; Ethanol demand

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; AUTOMOBILE FLEET; BOUNDS TEST; BRAZIL; CENTRAL COMPONENT; COINTEGRATION; DRIVING FACTORS; FLEX-FUEL; FUEL MIX; GASOLINE ADDITIVES;

ALTERNATIVE FUELS; ELASTICITY; ETHANOL; FUEL ADDITIVES; FUEL CONSUMPTION; GASOLINE;

ETHANOL FUELS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ALTERNATIVE FUEL; BIOFUEL; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENERGY RESOURCE; ETHANOL;

BRAZIL;

EID: 80755187754     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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