The intended and unintended effects of U.S. agricultural and biotechnology policies

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Graff Zivin, Joshua S., Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Table of Contents:
  • An overview of the intended and unintended effects of U.S. agricultural and biotechnology policies / Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Jeffrey M. Perloff
  • Agricultural policy
  • The buck stops where? The distribution of agricultural subsidies / Barry K. Goodwin, Ashok K. Mishra, and Francois Ortalo-Magne
  • Modeling processor market power and the incidence of agricultural policy: a non-parametric approach / Rachael E. Goodhue and Carlo Russo
  • The politics and economics of the U.S. Crop Insurance Program / Bruce A. Babcock
  • Supply and effects of specialty crop insurance / Ethan Ligon
  • Risk response in agriculture / Jeffrey LaFrance, Rulon Pope, and Jesse Tack
  • Biofuels and biotechnology
  • Commodity price volatility in the biofuel era: an examination of the linkage between energy and agricultural markets / Thomas W. Hertel and Jayson Beckman
  • Meeting the mandate for biofuels: implications for land use, food and fuel prices / Xiaoguang Chen, Haixiao Huang, Madhu Khanna, and Hayri Onal
  • Land for food and fuel production: the role of agricultural biotechnology / Steven Sexton and David Zilberman.