Biofuels and vertical price transmission: the case of the U.S. corn, ethanol and food markets

dc.creatorDrabik, Dusan
dc.creatorCiaian, Pavel
dc.creatorPokrivcak, Jan
dc.date2017-04-01T19:26:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T08:19:11Z
dc.descriptionThis is the first paper to analyze the impact of biofuels on the price transmission along the food chain. Specifically, we analyze the U.S. corn sector and its vertical links to food and ethanol markets. The key result of this paper is that the presence of biofuels affects the price transmission elasticity only when the blender's tax credit is binding and the shock originates in the food market. Our another important result is that the response of corn and food prices to exogenous shocks in the corn or food markets is always lower in the presence of biofuels when the tax credit is binding. However, the results are mixed for the binding mandate. The sensitivity analyses indicate that our results are robust to different assumptions about the model parameters.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.182697
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182697/files/Drabik-Biofuels_and_vertical_price_transmission-512_a.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182697
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/597852
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182697
dc.titleBiofuels and vertical price transmission: the case of the U.S. corn, ethanol and food markets
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