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Adoption and diffusion of agrobiotechnologies in the US cotton production
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
The study examines the farm level adoption and county level diffusion of three cotton biotechnologies in the US: insect resistant (Bollgard®), herbicide tolerance (Roundup Ready®), and stacked trait (Bollgard® & Roundup Ready®). Adoption...
Three essays on the competitiveness of the US corn seed industry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
which provides a measure of the degree of market power in the corn seed industry. The degree of market power is moderate given the large fixed cost that seed production and the development of biotechnologies necessitates. In the second essay I provide...