This article shows, for the first time, where U.S. ethanol prices are discovered across the major regional markets in the country. We adopt a bivariate approach that compares each regional market against Chicago, as it is equipped with one of the largest terminals in the U.S. and is widely...

Outliers are a well-known problem in survey estimation, and a variety of approaches have been suggested for dealing with them in this context. However, when the focus is on small area estimation using the survey data, much less is known – even though outliers within a small area sample are...