OPTIMAL PESTICIDE USAGE WITH RESISTANCE AND ENDOGENOUS TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

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.

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Year of publication:	2001
Authors:	Secchi, Silvia ; Babcock, Bruce A.
Institutions:	Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA
Keywords:	Crop Production/Industries

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series 2001 Annual meeting, August 5-8, Chicago, IL Number 20574
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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