How market efficiency and the theory of storage link corn and ethanol markets

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2157-2166

  Mallory, Mindy L ^a   Irwin, Scott H ^a   Hayes, Dermot J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbitrage; Cointegration; Corn; Energy; Ethanol; Futures; Price analysis; Storage

Indexed keywords

ARBITRAGE; COINTEGRATION; CORN; ENERGY; FUTURES; PRICE-ANALYSIS;

COSTS; ENERGY STORAGE; ETHANOL; PROFITABILITY;

COMMERCE;

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY CROP; ENERGY MARKET; ETHANOL; MAIZE; MODELING; NATURAL GAS; PRICE DETERMINATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84867733437     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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