Full Title: Indirect Land Use Change Effects of Biofuel Mandates: Insights from a CGE Approach (PRELIMINARY DRAFT)
Author(s): P. Al-Riffai, B. Dimaranan, D. Laborde, H. Valin
Publisher(s): n/a
Publication Date: April 1, 2010
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Paper submitted for presentation at the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Bangkok, Thailand, 9-11 June 2010
This paper aims to discuss the concept of the indirect land use change (ILUC) and its measurement using the the MIRAGE-Biofuel CGE model. Using the most recent modeling approach and available data, we assess the ILUC effects of the main biofuels mandates and discuss the robustness of these computations under alternative assumptions, as well as the relevance of the ILUC approach. Indeed, we aim to answer two questions: Is the ILUC notion relevant for policy making? Could we trust CGE estimates to compute this ILUC?