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Market Competition and Social Welfare Analysis for E10 and E85 with a 1 Game Theory Model
International Journal of Sustainable Economy
  • Minwen Yang, Iowa State University
  • Guiping Hu, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
1-1-2013
DOI
10.1504/IJSE.2013.056791
Abstract

With the increasing concerns about the petroleum reserve, and the global warming, people have been looking for renewable and environmental friendly energy sources to supplement and replace fossil fuels. Ethanol has been an appropriate substitute to fossil fuels. Currently, E10 and E85 are two of the main transportation fuels with ethanol and they are competing in the market. This study investigates the competition between E10 and E85 with an oligopoly Cournot model and derives three indicators from the equilibrium to measure the performance of the market: E85's market share, E85 price premium which indicate the consumers' additional willingness to pay, and the social welfare which indicates the societal wellbeing from the products. The authors also studied how the government policies impact the market equilibrium, how the industry size affects the market performance of E85, and whether E85 has a bright prospect with the increase of FFVs number. The results not only provide some prospects of E85, but also benefit the policy makers by quantitatively showing the effectiveness of tax credits and other government policies to promote the ethanol industry

Comments

This is a manuscript of an article from International Journal of Sustainable Economy 5 (2013): 385, doi: 10.1504/IJSE.2013.056791. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
Inderscience Publishers
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Minwen Yang and Guiping Hu. "Market Competition and Social Welfare Analysis for E10 and E85 with a 1 Game Theory Model" International Journal of Sustainable Economy Vol. 5 Iss. 4 (2013) p. 385 - 403
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/guiping_hu/21/