The Impact of Climate Change on the Profitability of Site Specific Technologies

Robert Finger and Claude N. Gerwig

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Site Specific Technologies (SST) can reduce environmental pollution caused by common agricultural practice. Using a case study for corn yields, we investigate the impact of climate change (CC) on profitability of SSTs. We find CC to increase spatial variability of soils with respect to optimal input application and yield variability. This leads, ceteris paribus, to higher incentives for SST adoption in the future.

Keywords: Climate Change; Site Specific Technologies; Adaptation; Crop Production Function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 O31 Q01 Q12 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-ene and nep-env
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Journal Article: The Impact of Climate Change on the Profitability of Site Specific Technologies (2008)
Working Paper: THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE PROFITABILITY OF SITE SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES (2007)
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