@article{Forslund:207810,
      recid = {207810},
      author = {Forslund, Agneta and Gohin, Alexandre and Le Mouël,  Chantal and Levert, Fabrice},
      title = {Biodiesel vs. ethanol, UE vs. US biofuels: So different in  terms of LUC impact?},
      address = {2014},
      number = {913-2016-72284},
      series = {14-04},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Available estimates of biofuel-induced land use change  (LUC) and corresponding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions vary  on a wide range while estimations obtained from each model  are highly sensitive to certain assumptions and key  parameter values. Available studies often suggest that  biodiesel and ethanol and/or EU and US biofuels would lead  to different LUC and GHG emissions but they don’t agree on  the type and/or the origin of the biofuel which would  induce the least LUC and GHG emissions. In this paper we  investigate the reasons behind this feature. We show that  the Armington modeling of trade flows, which is currently  used in models, contributes to this pattern. Using both  observed data and the partial equilibrium model  MATSIM-LUCA, we show that LUC stemming from the development  of biofuels is highly dependent on assumptions made on  trade: the Integrated World Market (IWM) approach, which  relies on the homogenous product assumption, tends to erase  differences in estimates of induced LUC from biodiesel and  ethanol and from EU and US biofuels as compared to the  Armington approach, that postulates that product are  differentiated according to their origin and thus less  substitutable.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/207810},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.207810},
}