Biofuels and Food: Can Brazilian Ethanol Production Affect Domestic Food Prices?

This paper examines the impacts of Brazilian domestic ethanol production over several local agricultural food commodities, using a structural autoregressive model with error correction (VECM). Other variables are included in the model, as oil prices and exchange rate. Overall, results point out tha...

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Main Author: Daniel Henrique Dario Capitani
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2018-03-01
Series:Economia Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/ecoa/article/view/124294