Profits from generic advertising by a producer group often come partly at the expense of producers of closely related commodities. The resulting tendency toward excessive advertising is exacerbated by check-off funding. To analyze this beggar-thy-neighbor behavior we compare a scenario where...

Agricultural commodity taxes, called check-offs, are used to finance promotion, research, and other activities that can be regarded as industry collective goods. The collection of the check-offs and the programs they are used to fund have implications for the welfare of consumers, other...

Ce rapport examine la bibliographie sur le rôle que joue la recherche-développement en agriculture en matière d’encouragement de l’innovation et de la productivité dans le secteur agricole. Cet examen cherche à clarifier les concepts et la terminologie utilisés dans le domaine, à...