An Ex-ante Evaluation of the Economic Impact of Bt Cotton Adoption by Spanish Farmers Facing the EU Cotton Sector Reform

An Ex-ante Evaluation of the Economic Impact of Bt Cotton Adoption by Spanish Farmers Facing the EU Cotton Sector Reform

Michele G. CeddiaUniversity of Reading, UKManuel Goméz-Barbero and Emilio Rodríguez-CerezoEuropean Commission, DG JRC, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Cotton production in the European Union (EU) is limited to areas of Greece and Southern Spain (Andalusia). The 2004 reform of the EU cotton…

Trust and Distrust in Biotechnology Risk Managers: Insights from the United Kingdom, 1996-2002

Trust and Distrust in Biotechnology Risk Managers: Insights from the United Kingdom, 1996-2002

Harvey S. James, Jr. and Leonie A. MarksUniversity of Missouri During the late 1990s, negative events related to biotechnology were reported in the UK media. According to the trust asymmetry hypothesis, such events should cause public trust in biotechnology risk managers to…

Public Attitudes Toward Molecular Farming in the UK

Public Attitudes Toward Molecular Farming in the UK

Richard MilneUniversity College, London Plant-made pharmaceuticals represent the third generation of genetically modified crops as well as a potentially significant development in pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturing. Successful development is contingent on a number of factors, one of which is social acceptance. This…

How External Political-Economic Forces Affect Firms’ Attitudes Toward the Industrial Use of Genetically Modified Organisms: An Analysis in the South Korean Context

How External Political-Economic Forces Affect Firms’ Attitudes Toward the Industrial Use of Genetically Modified Organisms: An Analysis in the South Korean Context

Bongsuk Sung and Homin JangKorea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology Based on survey data, this article investigates the effects of external political-economic forces on firms’ attitudes toward the industrial use of GMOs in the South Korean context by performing an ordered…

Does Biotech Labeling Affect Consumers’ Purchasing Decisions? A Case Study of Vegetable Oils in Nanjing, China

Does Biotech Labeling Affect Consumers’ Purchasing Decisions? A Case Study of Vegetable Oils in Nanjing, China

William Lin and Francis TuanUSDA Economic Research ServiceYingchun Dai, Funing Zhong, and Xi ChenNanjing Agricultural University This study analyzes whether biotech labeling has an impact on consumers’ purchasing behavior in China using vegetable oils in Nanjing as a case study. An Almost…

Pricing and Welfare Impacts of New Crop Traits: The Role of IPRs and Coase’s Conjecture Revisited

Pricing and Welfare Impacts of New Crop Traits: The Role of IPRs and Coase’s Conjecture Revisited

Richard K. Perrin and Lilyan E. FulginitiUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln Crop traits are durable when embedded in varieties, and thus they may be subject to Coase’s conjecture that monopolists who sell durables may be unable to earn normal monopoly rents, or in the…

Insiders’ Views on Business Models Used by Small Agricultural Biotechnology Firms: Economic Implications for the Emerging Global Industry

Insiders’ Views on Business Models Used by Small Agricultural Biotechnology Firms: Economic Implications for the Emerging Global Industry

Steven C. BlankUniversity of California, Davis and Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics The source of most innovations coming from the emerging agricultural biotechnology industry is small and medium enterprises (SMEs), yet SMEs have a high failure rate, which raises questions, such as…