Dynamic pricing of Genetically Modified Crop Traits

Richard Perrin () and Lilyan Fulginiti ()

Industrial Organization from EconWPA

Abstract: The issue considered here is the retail pricing of patented crop traits such as Roundup Ready herbicide resistance or Bt insect resistance. Our concern is not with the price of the seeds in which the traits are embodied, but rather with the implicit or explicit price for the traits themselves. Intellectual property rights are now available for traits, and while monopoly pricing of them has received some limited consideration in theeconomics literature1, no one has yet examined the possible implications of the durability of these traits as a factor in determining such monopolists' pricing behavior.

Keywords: Coase; dynamic monopoly; traits. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-01-06
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 15. in The Governance of Agriculture, R. Evenson and V. Santianiello, eds., CABI, 2004
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Working Paper: DYNAMIC PRICING OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP TRAITS (2002)
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