OPTIMAL PESTICIDE USAGE WITH RESISTANCE AND ENDOGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

Silvia Secchi and Bruce Babcock

No 20574, 2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This paper develops a model analyzing the first best policy for a social planner when pesticide use causes resistance, the level of pest infestation is heterogeneous among farmers, and the development of a backstop technology is an endogenous and uncertain process which depends on the cumulative amount of R&D effort.

Keywords: Crop; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20574

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