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This paper utilizes survey data to compare several non-survey methods of modeling the economic impacts of biofuels plants. It examines differences in the input coefficients derived from the survey versus the trade coefficients generated through the non-survey methods. It finds that of the three non-survey methods examined, the Swenson (2006) scenario input coefficients most closely represent those found in the survey based on the performance of the non-survey scenario input coefficients in a variety of statistical tests. Further, it examines the economic impacts (multipliers) generated by these scenarios compared to those generated from the survey. Based upon statistical tests of the multipliers, the Swenson scenario’s estimated impacts most closely represent the impacts derived from the survey.
| Advisor: | Stallmann, Judith I. |
| Commitee: | Johnson, Thomas G., Sharpe, Deanna L., Stallmann, Judith I. |
| School: | University of Missouri - Columbia |
| Department: | Agricultural and Applied Economics |
| School Location: | United States -- Missouri |
| Source: | MAI 58/04M(E), Masters Abstracts International |
| Source Type: | DISSERTATION |
| Subjects: | Area Planning and Development, Agricultural economics, Public policy |
| Keywords: | Biofuels, Ethanol, IMPLAN, Impact analysis, Input coefficients, Input-output |
| Publication Number: | 13850745 |
| ISBN: | 9780438978041 |
