Modeling biofuels policies in general equilibrium: Insights, pitfalls, and opportunities

Frontiers of Economics and Globalization

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages 153-187

  Golub, Alla ^a   Hertel, Thomas W ^a   Taheripour, Farzad ^a   Tyner, Wallace E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Economic analysis; General equilibrium; Land use; Renewable fuel standard

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860913217     PISSN: 15748715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1574-8715(2010)0000007009     Document Type: Article

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