Argentina is one of the world's largest biodiesel producers and the largest exporter, using soybeans as feedstock. Using a computable general equilibrium model that explicitly represents the biofuel industry, this study carries out several simulations on two sets of issues: (i) international...

A computable general equilibrium model is used to estimate the macro-economic and distributional effects of the privatisation and regulation of utilities in Argentina, begun in 1989. Based on data available after the privatisation that indicate different kinds of efficiency gains in electricity,...