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标题：Economic impact of farming innovations: Arbitration between hybrid and inbred line in the seed sector Arbitration between hybrid and inbred line in the seed sector
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作者：Ambec, Stefan ; Lemarié, Stéphane
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2006
卷号：37
期号：11
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：Innovations concerning crop seeds essentially stem from private research. Seed companies may appropriate a larger part of the economic profits from innovation by choosing to create hybrid seeds rather than inbred line seeds. Yet this technological choice also has an impact in terms of efficiency since production costs differ according to the type of seed. This text surveys research work in which we show that, from an economic viewpoint, in some cases, firms’ technological choices may entail a loss. We also show that this loss is reduced by implementing a tax on on-farm-produced seeds from inbred-line seeds, like the “contribution volontaire obligatoire” (compulsory voluntary contribution) (CVC) in the case of wheat in France.