Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o impacto do crescimento do preço de etanol no preço do açúcar. Para tal análise utiliza-se a metodologia de vetores autorregressivos para identificar a relação de causalidade entre os preços do etanol e do açúcar. O crescimento do preço do...

This paper analyses the economics of biofuel production and the implications that the accelerating growth in biofuel production in many countries could have on agricultural markets. It shows that production costs of ethanol and biodiesel differ significantly across countries and feedstock crops....

The flow of agricultural products between countries is conditioned by several factors including domestic and trade policy tools for the main competing exporters countries, and macroeconomic variables (such as real income per capita, rate of population growth,etc). Important structural changes...

The production, trade, and market share of palm oil has shown impressive growth in the last two decades. As a result of sustainability concerns over issues such as deforestation in Indonesia, the causes of the growth in the palm oil market have received considerable attention. The growth of the...