THE MARKET ACCEPTANCE AND WELFARE IMPACTS OF GENETIC USE RESTRICTION TECHNOLOGIES (GURTS)

Marianna Khachaturyan and Amalia Yiannaka

No 126880, 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: We develop an analytical framework of heterogeneous consumers and producers to examine the market and welfare effects of Technology Use Agreements (TUAs) and variety-level Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (V-GURTs). Specifically, we examine an innovator’s decision to introduce V-GURTs into a new seed variety that offers enhanced agronomic characteristics to producers and desirable functional properties to consumers, taking into account heterogeneous consumer preferences regarding interventions in the production process and farmer characteristics and incentives to engage in unauthorized use of proprietary seed.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2012
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Working Paper: The Market Acceptance and Welfare Impacts of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs) (2006)
Working Paper: The market acceptance and welfare impacts of genetic use restriction technologies (GURTS) (2006)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.126880

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