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| Title: | | Genetic contamination of traditional products  |
| Authors: | | Choi, E. Kwan |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper: Resource and Environment Economics 3624 |
| Abstract: | | Cross-pollination can be caused by birds, insects and wind. Genetically modified (GM) seeds are produced each year in a controlled environment to maintain their purity. However, pollen from the GM crop can be transferred to traditional crops. When the GM crop producers are in long-run equilibrium and buy seeds from a monopolistic seed producer, the resulting market equilibrium is identical to that when a seed monopolist produces the GM crop directly. When involuntary genetic contamination occurs, the monopolist eventually loses its advantage and stops its protection of GM seeds. A terminator gene can stop genetic contamination but imposes spillover costs on the traditional producers and reduces their outputs. |
| Subjects: | | genetic contamination |
| JEL: | | Q50 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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