The intended and unintended effects of US agricultural and biotechnology policies
By: edited by Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Jeffrey M. Perloff
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report; National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226988030
Subjects: Biomass energy; Agriculture and energy; Agricultural biotechnology; Crop insurance; Agricultural subsidies; Government policy; Agriculture and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of the intended and unintended effects of U.S. agricultural and biotechnology policies / Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Jeffrey M. Perloff; title: Agricultural policy; title: The buck stops where? The distribution of agricultural subsidies / Barry K. Goodwin, Ashok K. Mishra, and François Ortalo-Magné; title: Modeling processor market power and the incidence of agricultural policy: a non-parametric approach / Rachael E. Goodhue and Carlo Russo; title: The politics and economics of the U.S. Crop Insurance Program / Bruce A. Babcock; title: Supply and effects of specialty crop insurance / Ethan Ligon; title: Risk response in agriculture / Jeffrey LaFrance, Rulon Pope, and Jesse Tack; title: Biofuels and biotechnology; title: Commodity price volatility in the biofuel era: an examination of the linkage between energy and agricultural markets / Thomas W. Hertel and Jayson Beckman; title: Meeting the mandate for biofuels: implications for land use, food and fuel prices / Xiaoguang Chen, Haixiao Huang, Madhu Khanna, and Hayri Önal; title: Land for food and fuel production: the role of agricultural biotechnology / Steven Sexton and David Zilberman.