Conference proceeding
OPTIMAL PESTICIDE USAGE WITH RESISTANCE AND ENDOGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Selected Paper
American Agricultural Economics Association>2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL
2001
Abstract
This paper develops a model analyzing the first best policy for a social planner when pesticide use causes resistance, the level of pest infestation is heterogeneous among farmers, and the development of a backstop technology is an endogenous and uncertain process which depends on the cumulative amount of R&D effort.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- OPTIMAL PESTICIDE USAGE WITH RESISTANCE AND ENDOGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
- Creators
- Silvia SecchiBruce A Babcock
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Conference
- American Agricultural Economics Association>2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL
- Series
- Selected Paper
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- Geographical and Sustainability Sciences; University College Courses; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984215903002771
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