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| dc.contributor.advisor | Brugiavini, Agar | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pietracci, Breno <1977> | it_IT |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-14T07:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-14T07:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05-06 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10579/3016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the microeconomics of bioenergy with focus on Brazil. The three chapters are interconnected by this thread. The first chapter investigates empirically land use patterns for liquid biofuels production in Brazil using the neoclassical land use model. It analyzes the determinants of sugarcane and soybean production location. The second chapter inquire empirically, using regional variables, location and capacity decision drivers for ethanol and biodiesel mills in Brazil. The third chapter proposes a microeconomic framework for modeling several types of bioenergy production. It provides a definition of bioenergy clusters and tests it employing statistical cluster analysis considering three different bioenergy production chains. | it_IT |
| dc.description.abstract | Questa tesi esplora la microeconomia della bioenergia con un focus nel Brasile. I tre capitoli sono interconnessi da questo filo. Il primo capitolo analizza empiricamente i modelli di uso del suolo per la produzione di biocarburanti liquidi in Brasile utilizzando il modello neoclassico d'uso del suolo, analizzando le determinanti di localizzazione della produzione di canna da zucchero e soia. Il secondo capitolo investiga empiricamente i meccanismi alla base delle decisioni di localizzazione e di capacità per impianti d'etanolo e biodiesel in Brasile utilizzando variabili regionali. Il terzo capitolo propone un quadro microeconomico per modellare diversi tipi di produzione di bioenergia e fornisce una definizione di cluster bioenergetico validata usando l'analisi statistica di cluster considerando tre differenti catene di produzione di bioenergia. | it_IT |
| dc.language.iso | en | it_IT |
| dc.publisher | Università Ca' Foscari Venezia | it |
| dc.rights | © Breno Pietracci, 2013 | it_IT |
| dc.subject | Biofuels | it_IT |
| dc.subject | Brazil | it_IT |
| dc.subject | Alternative energy sources | it_IT |
| dc.subject | Land use patterns | it_IT |
| dc.subject | Location theory | it_IT |
| dc.subject | Cluster analysis | it_IT |
| dc.subject | Organization of production | it_IT |
| dc.title | Essays on the microeconomics of bioenergy | it_IT |
| dc.type | Doctoral Thesis | en |
| dc.degree.name | Economia | it_IT |
| dc.degree.level | Dottorato di ricerca | it |
| dc.degree.grantor | Scuola superiore di Economia | it_IT |
| dc.description.academicyear | 2013 | it_IT |
| dc.description.cycle | 24 | it_IT |
| dc.degree.coordinator | Bernasconi, Michele | |
| dc.location.shelfmark | D001229 | it |
| dc.location | Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato | it |
| dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | it_IT |
| dc.thesis.matricno | 955551 | it_IT |
| dc.format.pagenumber | VI, 181 p. | it_IT |
| dc.subject.miur | SECS-P/01 ECONOMIA POLITICA | it_IT |
| dc.description.note | Doctor Europaeus | it_IT |
| dc.description.tableofcontent | Introduction to the Dissertation 1 1 The Neoclassical Land Use Model Applied to Liquid Biofuels Production in Brazil 4 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 The Sugarcane and Soybean Sectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.3 Literature Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.4 The Neoclassical Land Use Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.5 Sample and Dataset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 1.6 Empirical Results and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 1.6.1 The Agricultural Production Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 1.6.2 Result 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 1.6.3 Result 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 1.6.4 Result 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 1.6.5 Result 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 1.6.6 Bid-Rent Functions and Elasticities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 1.7 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 1.8 Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 1.9 Appendix B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 2 Biofuel Mills: Location and Capacity Decisions in Brazil 61 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 2.2 Liquid Biofuels in Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 2.2.1 Ethanol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 2.2.2 Biodiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 2.3 Literature Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 2.4 Conceptual Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 2.5 Sample, Dataset and Empirical Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 2.5.1 Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 2.5.2 Dataset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 2.5.3 Empirical Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 2.6 Empirical Results and Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 2.6.1 Ethanol Mills Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 2.6.2 Ethanol Mills Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 2.6.3 Biodiesel Mills Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 2.6.4 Biodiesel Mills Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 2.6.5 Entry and Capacity Expansion in Biodiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 2.7 Towards First Generation Bio-re neries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 2.8 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 2.9 Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 2.10 Appendix B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 3 Bioenergy Clusters: A Model of Bioenergy Production 139 3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 3.2 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 3.3 Examples of Bioenergy Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 3.3.1 Sugarcane and Ethanol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 3.3.2 Soybean and Biodiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 3.3.3 Forestry, Firewood, Charcoal, Paper and Pulp and Black Liquor 147 3.4 Bioenergy Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 3.4.1 The Bioenergy Cluster Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 3.5 Sample and Dataset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 3.6 Cluster Analysis Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 3.7 Agriculture Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 3.8 Bioenergy Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 3.9 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 3.10 Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 3.11 Appendix B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Bibliography 176 | it_IT |
| dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | Pietracci, Breno. "Essays on the microeconomics of bioenergy", Ca' Foscari University of Venice, PhD thesis, 24th cycle, 2013 | it_IT |
