Monopolistic pricing power for transgenic crops when technology adopters face irreversible benefits and costs

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 969-973

  Weaver, Robert D ^a   Wessler, Justus ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; MONOPOLY; PRICE DYNAMICS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 12144264251     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000285814     Document Type: Article

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