@article{Nunez:275921,
      recid = {275921},
      author = {Nunez, H.},
      title = {Building a Bioethanol Market in Mexico},
      address = {2018-07},
      number = {2058-2018-5249},
      pages = {43},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {This article aims to develop a framework to forecast  bioethanol policies impacts a decade ahead in Mexico, where  there have been several attempts to introduce biofuels into  the market but so far no success. Technically, an  endogenous-price mathematical programming model is  developed emphasizing the Mexican agricultural and fuel  sectors, which are embedded in a multi-region,  multi-product, spatial partial equilibrium model of the  world economy. There is a module for the U.S. and another  for ROW. Mexico is disaggregated into 193 crop districts.  Production functions are specified for 14 major crops and  pasture. Bioethanol can be produced both from a dedicated  crop and from agroindustrial residues. Three policy  alternatives are considered as well as a base case in  which, as now, liquid fuels are all derived from fossil  sources. The rest alternative consists of subsidies to  biofuel producers, the second of blending mandates and the  third of both combined. Biofuel imports are allowed in all  cases. Results show some losses for fuel and agricultural  consumers, that are not o set by both ethanol producer and  GHG emissions reduction gains. This suggests that some  compensating redistribution may be needed if these policies  are to be seen as politically sustainable.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/275921},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.275921},
}