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This paper serves to disentangle the complex system of Indian food policies, related to wheat and rice procurement … strong impact of the policy measures on the production, procurement, stocks and trade. We detected several market distortions … and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly responds to the minimum support price (MSP …
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policy tool has been mixed, with corn-based ethanol production successfully meeting targets but cellulosic ethanol falling … this policy to two benchmark situations: laissez-faire and a carbon tax. We find that a mandate creates relatively strong …
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abundant inflows. The result provides important policy implications about the impact of integrated water reforms, rising …
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In the United States, public universities may choose to license a plant variety to a limited number of producers (an exclusive license) or to an unlimited number of producers (an open license). This choice has implications for the quantity and distribution of total benefits from the variety....
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Social networks play an important role in generating learning externalities that can drive the diffusion of innovative, and potentially poverty-reducing, technologies. This is particularly the case in developing countries where rural education, extension, and agricultural information services...
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We investigate the role of risk and learning in biotechnology adoption, with an empirical focus on the adoption of Genetically Modified (GM) corn in the U.S. Corn Belt. Relying on the Kalman filter algorithm, a conceptual structural dynamic programming (DP) model is developed to capture the...
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The adoption of new technologies by farmers may impact the environment, and hence affect consumer welfare. This channel of impact is seldom assessed in the literature, especially when the production technologies adopted are not labeled on the consumption goods, and as a result are not directly...
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Risk is pervasive in developing country agriculture, and risk preferences are though to impact seed and technology choice. Empirical research on risk preferences and technology adoption typically only consider the risk preferences of a single household member. In this paper experimental...
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