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Title:

The intended and unintended effects of US agricultural and biotechnology policies / edited by Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Jeffrey M. Perloff.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

Graff Zivin, Joshua S.
Perloff, Jeffrey M.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 Fran©ʹois Ortalo-Magn©♭ -- 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 ©nal -- Land for food and fuel production: the role of agricultural biotechnology / Steven Sexton and David Zilberman.

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

ISBN:

0226988031 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226988030 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)723530597

LCCN:

2011020188

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)