# Ethylene and Fatty alcohols

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/ethylene-and-fatty-alcohols/

[Ethylene](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/ethylene/) (chemical) and [Fatty alcohols](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/fatty_alcohols/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: substitute route

*Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways*

Part of supply is synthetic, built from ethylene by the Ziegler or oxo routes, so a wide gap between lauric oil and ethylene shifts buyers between them. The link is loose in the data: monthly moves correlate at 0.22 and yearly moves at 0.57.

- **0.22** monthly change correlation
- **0.57** 12-month change correlation
- **0.47** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.