Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102569 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IES Working Paper No. 16/2013
Publisher: 
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), Prague
Abstract: 
For the biofuel markets and related commodities, we study their price transmission, which is in fact equivalent to studying price cross-elasticities. Importantly, we focus on the price dependence of the price transmission mechanism. Several methodological caveats are discussed. Specifically, we combine the memory robust feasible generalized least squares estimation with two-stage least squares to control for endogeneity bias and inconsistency. We find that both ethanol and biodiesel prices are responsive to their production factors (ethanol to corn, and biodiesel to German diesel). The strength of transmission between both significant pairs increased remarkably during the food crisis of 2007/2008.
Subjects: 
biofuels
price transmission
non-linearity
JEL: 
C22
Q16
Q42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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