Biofuel and food-commodity prices

Agriculture (Switzerland)

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 272-281

  Hochman, Gal ^a   Kaplan, Scott ^b   Rajagopal, Deepak ^c   Zilberman, David ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Commodity food prices; Economic growth; Energy prices; Exchange rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896696474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture2030272     Document Type: Article

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