available gasoline additive. Some studies have then argued that ethanol and biodiesel subsidies in advanced economies may have …

The European Union has a common rural development policy, motivated by the fact that more than 90% of the entire … Rural Development Programme (RDP) focused on three main axes: economic development, environment protection and quality of … the impact of development policy in a systematic way. …

In this paper, we analyze the relationships between the prices of biodiesel, ethanol and related fuels and agricultural … commodities with a use of minimal spanning trees and hierarchical trees. We find that in short-term, both ethanol and biodiesel … system splits into two well separated branches -- a fuels part and a food part. Biodiesel tends to the fuels branch and …

applied within the EU. In a recent working paper, we analyze the GHG emissions savings potential of rapeseed biodiesel. For … this purpose, we ran a life cycle assessment of rapeseed biodiesel using the same basic methodology and background data …. In most of the scenarios, rapeseed biodiesel does not reach the GHG emissions saving values using the formula contained …

This paper aims at explaining the major drivers of bio-diesel market prices by examining agricultural resource prices … and gas-oil prices for automotive fuels in the context of the EU environmental policy. The EU policy has enhanced bio-diesel … production since 2006. Bio-diesel prices are impacted by the EU policy as well as rapeseed and oil prices which have fluctuated a …

In this paper, we analyze the relationships between the prices of biodiesel, ethanol and related fuels and agricultural … commodities with a use of minimal spanning trees and hierarchical trees. We find that in short-term, both ethanol and biodiesel … system splits into two well separated branches - a fuels part and a food part. Biodiesel tends to the fuels branch and …

, reducing oil consumption, or increasing rural economic development) and designing an instrument to efficiently meet that … the tariffs that are imposed by both the European Union and the United States on imported ethanol and biodiesel. These … also limit the development benefits than poor countries might enjoy from producing them …