Do ethanol prices in Brazil follow Brent price and international gasoline price parity?

Renewable Energy

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 423-433

  Cavalcanti, Marcelo ^a   Szklo, Alexandre ^a   Machado, Giovani ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian ethanol; Fuel prices; Petroleum correlation

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROUS ETHANOL; FLEX-FUEL; FUEL PRICES; GASOLINE PRICES; HYDRATED ETHANOL; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; PAPER TESTS; PRICE FLUCTUATION; PRICE VARIATION; SECOND ORDER EFFECT; SPOT PRICE;

CRUDE OIL; ELASTICITY; ETHANOL; GASOHOL; GASOLINE; HYDRATION; REFINING;

COSTS;

CORRELATION; ELASTICITY; ETHANOL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; PETROLEUM; PUMP; RESOURCE ECONOMY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84856556558     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.11.034     Document Type: Article

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