examined for reduction in yield and gross farm income variability, including deficiency payments, using farm-level wheat yield … moral hazard and adverse selection problems, it provides more gross farm income risk reduction than an area plan. …

strategies can resolve these challenges. Contracts can be designed to induce legal adoption of GM wheat by varying technology … determine terms to minimize technology agreement violation and to induce legal adoption of GM wheat. A simulation model of a … crop budget for Hard Red Spring wheat was developed. Results illustrate that contracts can be designed to induce desired …

grains increased costs due to testing requirements and increased segregation demands as the number of wheat categories rises. … determine how testing strategies affect the logistical costs of a grain pipeline when GM wheat is present. A logistical model …

development goals. Currently international law requires only Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) of specific biotechnology … Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for use in evaluating biotechnology policies. SEA may be a useful tool to inform the … evaluation of biotechnology policies and priorities by taking account of information on the economic, social, and environmental …

(student) segregation as that emerging when families with identical ordinal preferences submit different rankings of schools in … a centralised school choice procedure. With the Boston Mechanism (BM), when higher types are less risk-averse, and there … is sufficient vertical differentiation of schools, any equilibrium presents cardinal segregation. Transportation costs …

production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic …