FUEL ETHANOL SUBSIDIES AND FARM PRICE SUPPORT: BOON OR BOONDOGGLE?

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Review of Environmental, Economic and Policy Aspects of Biofuels (2007, background): “In fact, theoretically speaking, an ethanol mandate can be made to exactly duplicate the effect of a subsidy such as a tax credit on the producer (Gardner 2003).”
Volatility Spillovers between Food and Energy Markets, A Semiparametric Approach (2011, background): “…of this event by assessing, among other topics, the effects of the ethanol industry on economic welfare (Babcock, 2008; de Gorter and Just, 2007; Gardner, 2007), agricultural land allocation (Fabiosa et al., 2008; Susanto et al., 2008) and land values (Henderson and Gloy, 2009), and…”
The Economics of a Blend Mandate for Biofuels (2009, unknown): “Schmitz, Schmitz, and Seale (2003) model Brazil’s ethanol mandate as an outward shift in the sugar demand curve, while Gardner (2003) models the U.S. ethanol mandate as a fixed quantity of demand for corn while separately depicting the ethanol tax credit as an ethanol production subsidy.”