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

Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets. Beginning with a look at the distribution of funds by insurance programs-created to support far...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Graff Zivin, Joshua S., Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Temas:
Agriculture and state > United States.
Agricultural subsidies > Government policy > United States.
Agriculture and energy > Government policy > United States.
Agricultural biotechnology > Government policy > United States.
Crop insurance > United States.
Biomass energy > Government policy > United States.
Politique agricole > États-Unis.
Aide de l'État à l'agriculture > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Agriculture et énergie > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Biotechnologie agricole > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Assurance-récolte > États-Unis.
Bioénergie > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Agricultural biotechnology > Government policy
Agricultural subsidies > Government policy
Agriculture and energy > Government policy
Agriculture and state
Biomass energy > Government policy
Crop insurance
United States
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 François Ortalo-Magné
  • 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 Önal
  • Land for food and fuel production: the role of agricultural biotechnology / Steven Sexton and David Zilberman.

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