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

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 François Ortalo-Magné -- 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 Önal -- Land for food and fuel production: the role of agricultural biotechnology / Steven Sexton and David Zilberman.
Summary Using economic models and empirical analysis, this volume examines a wide range of agricultural and biofuel policy issues and their effects on American agricultural and related agrarian insurance markets. Beginning with a look at the distribution of funds by insurance programs-created to support farmers but often benefiting crop processors instead-the book then examines the demand for biofuel and the effects of biofuel policies on agricultural price uncertainty. Also discussed are genetically engineered crops, which are assuming an increasingly important role in arbitrating ten.
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Subject Agriculture and state -- United States.
Agriculture and state.
United States.
Agricultural subsidies -- Government policy -- United States.
Agricultural subsidies -- Government policy.
Agricultural subsidies.
Agriculture and energy -- Government policy -- United States.
Agriculture and energy -- Government policy.
Agriculture and energy.
Agricultural biotechnology -- Government policy -- United States.
Agricultural biotechnology -- Government policy.
Agricultural biotechnology.
Crop insurance -- United States.
Crop insurance.
Biomass energy -- Government policy -- United States.
Biomass energy -- Government policy.
Biomass energy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Graff Zivin, Joshua S.
Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Other Form: Print version: Intended and unintended effects of U.S. agricultural and biotechnology policies. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226988030 (DLC) 2011020188 (OCoLC)723530597
ISBN 9780226988061 (electronic book)
0226988066 (electronic book)
1299104762
9781299104761
9780226988030
0226988031