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OPTIMAL PESTICIDE USAGE WITH RESISTANCE AND ENDOGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
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OPTIMAL PESTICIDE USAGE WITH RESISTANCE AND ENDOGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

Silvia Secchi and Bruce A Babcock
Selected Paper
American Agricultural Economics Association>2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL
2001

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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.
Crop Production/Industries

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