Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology

Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Introduction and Overview.- Agricultural Biotechnology in the Context of a Regulated Agricultural Sector.- Economic Analysis and Regulating Pesticide Biotechnology at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.- Compliance Costs for Regulatory Approval of New Biotech Crops.- Regulation of Technology in the Context of U.S. Agricultural Policy.- Managing Liabilities Arising from Agricultural Biotechnology.- Status of Agricultural Biotechnology: An International Perspective.- Interactions Between Trade Policies and GM Food Regulations.- The Value of Non-Pecuniary Characteristics of Crop Biotechnologies: A New Look at the Evidence.- Bt Corn's Reduction of Mycotoxins: Regulatory Decisions and Public Opinion.- Consumer Attitudes and Market Resistance to Biotech Products.- Comparison of Consumer Responses to Genetically Modified Foods in Asia, North America, and Europe.- Conceptual Issues in Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology.- The Economics of Biotechnology Regulation.- Labeling Regulations and Segregation of First- and Second-Generation GM Products: Innovation Incentives and Welfare Effects.- Regulation of Technology in the Context of Risk Generation.- Environmental Effects of Genetically Modified Crops: Differentiated Risk Assessment and Management.- Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and the Adoption of Transgenic Crops: Experiences from Applications to HT Sugar Beets, HT Corn, and Bt Corn.- Anticompetitive Impacts of Laws that Regulate Commercial Use of Agricultural Biotechnologies in the United States.- Regulation, Trade, and Market Power: Agricultural Chemical Markets and Incentives for Biotechnology.- Regulation and the Structure of Biotechnology Industries.- The Social Welfare Implications of Intellectual Property Protection: Imitation and Going Off Patent.- Case Studies on the Economics of Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology.- International Approval and Labeling Regulations of Genetically Modified Food in Major Trading

Richard E. Just is Distinguished University Professor and former Chair, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland at College Park.

Julian M. Alston is Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Davis.

David Zilberman is Chair, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley.