How policies affect international biofuel price linkages

Energy Policy

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 857-865

  Rajcaniova, Miroslava ^a   Drabik, Dusan ^b   Ciaian, Pavel ^c  

^a SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN NITRA   (Slovakia)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Policies; Prices

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL POLICIES; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; EU POLICY; PRICES; TAX CREDITS; TAX EXEMPTIONS; TIME-PERIODS; VECTOR ERROR CORRECTION;

BIODIESEL; BIOFUELS; BLENDING; COMMERCE; ERROR CORRECTION; ETHANOL; PUBLIC POLICY; TAXATION;

COSTS;

BIOFUEL; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; ETHANOL; PRICE DYNAMICS;

BRAZIL; EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879504618     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.04.049     Document Type: Article

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