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  1. Implied objectives of US biofuel subsidies
    Author: Rubin, Ofir D.; Carriquiry, Miguel; Hayes, Dermot J.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  CARD, Ames, Iowa

    Biofuel subsidies in the United States have been justified on the following grounds: energy independence, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, improvements in rural development related to biofuel plants, and farm income support. The 2007 energy... more

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    Biofuel subsidies in the United States have been justified on the following grounds: energy independence, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, improvements in rural development related to biofuel plants, and farm income support. The 2007 energy act emphasizes the first two objectives. In this study, we quantify the costs and benefits that different biofuels provide. We consider the first two objectives separately and show that each can be achieved with a lower social cost than that of the current policy. Then, we show that there is no evidence to disprove that the primary objective of biofuel policy is to support farm income. Current policy favors corn production and the construction of corn-based ethanol plants. We find that favoring corn happens to be the best way to remove land from food and feed production, thus providing higher commodity prices and income to farmers and landowners. Next, we calculate two sets of alternative biofuel subsidies that are targeted to meeting income transfer objectives and either greenhouse gas emission reductions or fuel energy reductions. The first of these assumes that greenhouse gas emissions and high crop prices are joint objectives, and the second assumes that fuel independence and high crop prices are the joint objectives. Finally, we infer the social willingness to pay for biofuel services. This, in turn, allows us to propose a subsidy schedule that maintains (inferred) social preferences and provides a higher incentive for farmers to choose production of cellulosic materials. This is particularly relevant since the 2007 energy act sets a renewable fuels standard that relies heavily on cellulosic biofuel but does not specify a higher "per gallon" incentive to producers

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    Series: Working paper / Center for Agricultural and Rural Development ; 459
    Subjects: Biokraftstoff; Subvention; Förderung erneuerbarer Energien; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; USA; Biomass energy industries; Agriculture and state
    Scope: 31 S., graph. Darst.
  2. Greenhouse gas impacts of ethanol from Iowa corn
    life cycle analysis versus system-wide accounting
    Author: Feng, Hongli; Rubin, Ofir D.; Babcock, Bruce A.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  CARD, Ames, Iowa

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    Series: Working paper / Center for Agricultural and Rural Development ; 461
    Subjects: Klimawandel; Biokraftstoff; Agrarproduktion; Anbausystem; Förderung erneuerbarer Energien; USA; Greenhouse gases; Alcohol as fuel; Corn
    Scope: 37 S., graph. Darst.
  3. State-space cointegration modeling for the analysis of exogenous shocks to prices in Israeli-Palestinian food trade
    Author: Ihle, Rico; Götz, Linde Johanna; Rubin, Ofir D.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Courant Research Centre, Göttingen

    The Israeli-Palestinian conflict constitutes a prominent example of a long-lasting political conflict which has major consequences for the livelihoods of the people on both sides. The agricultural sectors of the Palestinian and Israeli economies are... more

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    The Israeli-Palestinian conflict constitutes a prominent example of a long-lasting political conflict which has major consequences for the livelihoods of the people on both sides. The agricultural sectors of the Palestinian and Israeli economies are tightly connected. However, various security measures occasionally implemented in consequence of the political conflict between Israelis and Palestinians strongly inhibit the movement of people and commodities. In order to obtain evidence on the impacts of such abrupt trade impediments on price dynamics, we estimate a vector error correction model in state space form employing the Kalman filter. The time-varying cointegration parameters suggest that the security measures indeed impacted price interdependencies on a short-term scale.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/90446
    Series: Discussion papers / Courant Research Centre ; 100
    Scope: Online-Ressource (19 S.), graph. Darst.