Trade, Standards, and the Political Economy of Genetically Modified Food

A common-agency lobbying model is developed to help understand why North America and the European Union have adopted such different policies toward genetically modified (GM) food. Results show that when firms (in this case farmers) lobby policy ma...

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Main Authors:	Anderson, Kym, Damania, Richard, Jackson, Lee Ann
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	ADVERSE IMPACTS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AGRICULTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY CLIMATIC CONDITIONS COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONSUMER PREFERENCES CONSUMERS COST FUNCTIONS COST SAVINGS CROP PRODUCTION CROPS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MODELS ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIC WELFARE ECONOMISTS ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY EQUILIBRIUM EQUIVALENT VARIATION EXPORTS EXTERNALITIES FARMERS FARMS FOOD POLICY RESEARCH FOOD PRODUCTION FUTURE RESEARCH GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL HOUSEHOLDS HUNGER IMPORTS INCOMES INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS INNOVATIONS INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT INCENTIVES LAND USE LOBBYISTS MARGINAL BENEFITS MARGINAL COST MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION NATURAL ENVIRONMENT POLICY DECISIONS POLICY MAKERS POLITICAL ECONOMY POLLUTION PRICE DECLINES PRODUCERS PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION PRODUCTION COSTS PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC GOODS QUALITY STANDARDS REGULATORY REGIMES RENT SEEKING RESOURCE ALLOCATION SAFETY STATIC ANALYSIS TERMS OF TRADE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE BARRIERS VOTERS WEALTH WELFARE EFFECTS WILLINGNESS TO PAY WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION WTO
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/09/5126874/trade-standards-political-economy-genetically-modified-food http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14144

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