Innovation behaviour at micro level - selection and identification (2009)
Sauer, Johannes, Zilberman, David
Using a sequential logit model and a mixed-effects logistic regression approach this empirical study investigates factors for the adoption of automatic milking technology (AMS) at the farm level...
Investment Policy for New Environmental Monitoring Technologies to Manage Stock Externalities (2009)
Millock, Katrin, Xabadia, Angels, Zilberman, David
With the development of modern information technologies, relying on nanotechnologies and remote sensing, a number of systems can be envisaged that allow for monitoring of the negative externalities...
Investment Policy for New Environmental Monitoring Technologies to Manage Stock Externalities (2009)
Millock, Katrin, Xabadia, Angels, Zilberman, David
With the development of modern information technologies, relying on nanotechnologies and remote sensing, a number of systems can be envisaged that allow for monitoring of the negative externalities...
Agricultural Biotechnology in California and the EU (2008)
Hochman, Gal, Rausser, Gordon, Sexton, Steve, Zilberman, David
Bulte, Erwin, Lipper, Leslie, Stringer, Randy, Zilberman, David
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008
Bulte, Erwin, Lipper, Leslie, Stringer, Randy, Zilberman, David
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008
Green Markets, Eco-Certification, and Equilibrium Fraud (2006)
Hamilton, Stephen F., Zilberman, David
Consumers voluntarily pay significant price premiums to acquire unobservable environmental attributes in green markets. This paper considers the performance of eco-certification policy under...
Graff, Gregory D., Wright, Brian D., Bennett, Alan B., Zilberman, David
Inefficiencies in accessing intellectual property (IP) appear to be hindering otherwise valuable research and development (R&D) in horticultural crop varieties. While leading private sector...
Collective penalties and inducement of self-reporting (2006)
Millock, Katrin, Zilberman, David
Random accidents can be contained by collective penalties. These penalties are not likely to be enforced but rather induce self-reporting that enhances welfare due to early containment....
Collective penalties and inducement of self-reporting (2006)
Millock, Katrin, Zilberman, David
Random accidents can be contained by collective penalties. These penalties are not likely to be enforced but rather induce self-reporting that enhances welfare due to early containment....
An Empirical Test of Rubinstein’s Similarity Definitions (2006)
David Buschena, David Zilberman
This paper tests two alternative definitions of probability similarity using experimental data. These definitions are key components of Rubinstein’s [14] larger axiomatic model for risky choice...
Effects of decoupling on the mean and variability of output (2006)
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Goodwin, Barry K., Featherstone, Allen
The influence of inputs on output risk in the context of agricultural production decisions taken by non-risk neutral agents has been ignored by previous research assessing the effects of decoupled...
Effects of decoupling on the mean and variability of output (2006)
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Goodwin, Barry K., Featherstone, Allen
The influence of inputs on output risk in the context of agricultural production decisions taken by non-risk neutral agents has been ignored by previous research assessing the effects of decoupled...
ARE Update Volume 9, Number 1 (2005)
Sexton, Richard J., Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun, Hu, Ruifa, Carter, Colin A., Chalfant, James A., ...
Co-editors' Introduction: Special Issue: China's Agricultural Boom, with Implications for California.Genetically Modified Rice in China: Effects on Farmers-in China and California.China's Strawberry...
The Use of Pricing and Markets for Water Allocation (2005)
Zilberman, David, Schoengold, Karina
This paper will argue that increased demand for water resources and higher cost of development of new water resources require a transition toward water systems that enhance conservation by adoption...
Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development (2005)
Cooper, Joseph (ed.), Lipper, Leslie M. (ed.), Zilberman, David (ed.)
0-387-25409-9
DRAFT Money-Back Guarantees and the Value of Decision Time: An Empirical Analysis (2005)
Amir Heiman, David R. Just, Bruce Mcwilliams, David Zilberman, Amir Heiman, David R. Just, ...
*The authors acknowledge support from AgMRC for their financial support of this research. Money-Back Guarantees and the Value of Decision Time: An Empirical Analysis This paper uses the...
Marketing Institutions, Risk, and Technology Adoption (2005)
Jenny C. Aker, Amir Heiman, Bruce Mcwilliams, David Zilberman, Bruce Mcwilliams, Jenny C. Aker, ...
Preliminary draft. Please do not cite or quote. Abstract: Marketing can be an important mechanism for farmers and traders to reduce risk inherent in the production and sale of agro-food products....
Conservation capital and sustainable economic growth (2005)
Harrington, Donna Ramirez, Khanna, Madhu, Zilberman, David
An endogenous growth model, which links pollution to ineffective input-use, is developed to examine the potential for achieving balanced growth while preserving the environment through investment in...
Conservation capital and sustainable economic growth (2005)
Harrington, Donna Ramirez, Khanna, Madhu, Zilberman, David
An endogenous growth model, which links pollution to ineffective input-use, is developed to examine the potential for achieving balanced growth while preserving the environment through investment in...
Conservation capital and sustainable economic growth (2005)
Harrington, Donna Ramirez, Khanna, Madhu, Zilberman, David
An endogenous growth model, which links pollution to ineffective input-use, is developed to examine the potential for achieving balanced growth while preserving the environment through investment in...
Agricultural Biotechnology: Productivity, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights (2004)
Zilberman, David, Ameden, Holly, Graff, Gregory, Qaim, Matin
This paper argues that current forms of agricultural biotechnology have significant potential for developing countries; the challenge is to realize this potential. We develop a conceptual model that...
Agricultural Biotechnology: Productivity, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights (2004)
Zilberman, David, Ameden, Holly, Graff, Gregory, Qaim, Matin
This paper argues that current forms of agricultural biotechnology have significant potential for developing countries; the challenge is to realize this potential. We develop a conceptual model that...
Agricultural Biotechnology: Productivity, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights (2004)
Zilberman, David, Ameden, Holly, Graff, Gregory, Qaim, Matin
This paper argues that current forms of agricultural biotechnology have significant potential for developing countries; the challenge is to realize this potential. We develop a conceptual model that...
Agricultural Biotechnology: Productivity, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights (2004)
Zilberman, David, Ameden, Holly, Graff, Gregory, Qaim, Matin
This paper argues that current forms of agricultural biotechnology have significant potential for developing countries; the challenge is to realize this potential. We develop a conceptual model that...
ARE Update Volume 6, Number 6 (2003)
Qaim, Matin, Zilberman, David, Lewis, Hope, Sunding, David
Bt Crops Can Increase Yields Substantially in Developing Countries.Determining the Minimum Acreage for Cost-Effective Adoption of Auto-Guidance Systems in Cotton Production.The Economic Impacts of...
Public Goods and the Value of Product Quality Regulations: The Case of Food Safety (2003)
Hamilton, Stephen F., Sunding, David L., Zilberman, David
The paper examines preferences for product quality regulations. Our premise is that preferences for product quality regulations derive from preferences for both private and public goods. The model is...
ARE Update Volume 6, Number 3 (2003)
Farzin, Y. Hossein, Graff, Gregory, Heiman, Amir, Yarkin, Cherisa, Zilberman, David, Jiang, Jessica Z., ...
What Price Should be Paid to Keep U.S.Dependence on Foreign Oil in Check?; Privatization and Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology; ARE Faculty Profile: Scott Rozelle; Prices,Volumes and...
ARE Update Volume 6, Number 1 (2002)
Carter, Colin A., Just, David, Zilberman, David, Karp, Larry
International Approaches to the Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods; Information Systems in Agriculture; Global Warming Policy and the Role of Improved Scientific Information; ARE Faculty Profile:...
ARE Update Volume 5, Number 1 (2001)
DeBiase, Terry A., Zilberman, David, Martin, Philip L.
The Farm Bill and the Environment; Guest Workers in California Agriculture.
Resolving Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues (1999)
Carson, Richard, Zilberman, David
To resolve Palestinian-Israeli conflicts over water resources, water should be treated as an economic commodity with resulting revenue divided according to a mutually agreed formula.
Alain De Janvry, Gregory Graff, Elisabeth Sadoulet, David Zilberman
The challenge for developing country agriculture in the next 25 years is enormous, particularly if it is not only to satisfy the growing effective demand for food, but also to help reduce poverty and...
IMPACT ASSESSMENT DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 7 THE VALUE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (1999)
Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that most...
Political structure and management decisions in California's agricultural water districts (1997)
McCann, Richard J, Zilberman, David
In California, special districts which provide agricultural customers with water supplies and service control the vast majority of water rights and contracts. The structure of these districts has...
Changes in Water Allocation Mechanisms for California Agriculture (1994)
Zilberman, David, MacDougall, Neal, Shah, Farhed
Existing institutions allocating water in California reflect prior appropriation water rights established when water was abundant. These allocation rules queue users and do not encourage water...
CHANGES IN WATER ALLOCATION MECHANISMS FOR CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE (1994)
ZILBERMAN, DAVID, MACDOUGALL, NEAL, SHAH, FARHED
Existing institutions allocating water in California reflect prior appropriation water rights established when water was abundant. These allocation rules queue users and do not enc.ou rage water...
UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS: IMPACTS ON LOCAL AND U.S. ECONOMIES (1993)
PARKER, DOUGLAS D., ZILBERMAN, DAVID
In the past two decades, many universities have established Offices of Technology Transfer to increase the transfer rate of certain research innovations to the private sector. More recently, some of...
MANAGING CALIFORNIA'S WATER IN THE LONG RUN (1990)
CASWELL, MARGRIET F., ZILBERMAN, DAVID
Water development in the western states has passed through an “expansive” phase and now is entering an “intensive” phase. Large untapped sources of high-quality fresh water no longer are...
A putty clay approach to environmental quality control /--by David Zilberman. (1978)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley.
An online agricultural and resource economics text at an intermediate to advanced level.
Conservation capital and sustainable economic growth
Donna Ramirez Harrington, Madhu Khanna, David Zilberman
An endogenous growth model, which links pollution to ineffective input-use, is developed to examine the potential for achieving balanced growth while preserving the environment through investment in...
Environmental and Distributional Impacts of Conservation Targeting Strategies
JunJie Wu, David Zilberman, Bruce A. Babcock
Resource purchasing funds have become a major tool for environmental protection and resource conservation. Existing conservation funds do not use identical strategies for targeting purchases, which...
Stanley R. Johnson, P. G. Lakshminarayan, Bruce A. Babcock, Andrew Manale, David Zilberman
A viable agricultural policy should adapt to any changes occurring within the agricultural sector. With the growing focus on environmentally friendly agriculture, increased role for markets by...
Economics of a Public Fund for Environmental Amenities (The)
Babcock, Bruce A., Lakshminarayan, P. G., Wu, JunJie, Zilberman, David
The problem of targeting CRP purchases to buy environmental amenities under productivity and environmental heterogeneity is considered. Gini coefficients and Lorenz curves are used to measure the...
Compensation and Political Feasibility: Facilitating Welfare Improving Policies
Richard E. Just, Gordon C. Rausser, David Zilberman
There is a broad consensus among economists, policymakers, and informed citizens that free-market economics do not preclude many inefficiencies in resource allocation. There are many circumstances...
Framework for Analyzing Specific Agricultural Policy Reform, A
Richard E. Just, Gordon C. Rausser, David Zilberman
The agricultural sectors of the United States and other developed countries have been subjected to a myriad of policies and regulations that have contributed to unsatisfactory production patterns and...
Collective penalities and inducement of self-reporting.
Katrin Millock, David Zilberman
Random accidents can be contained by collective penalties. These penalties are not likely to be enforced but rather induce self-reporting that enhances welfare due to early containment....
Collective penalities and inducement of self-reporting.
Katrin Millock, David Zilberman
Random accidents can be contained by collective penalties. These penalties are not likely to be enforced but rather induce self-reporting that enhances welfare due to early containment....
Fixed Costs, Efficient Resource Management and Conservation
Zhao, Jinhua, Zilberman, David
This article develops a framework to analyze the impacts on resource development of efficient management practices that account for possible resource conserving technological changes. Compared with...
Transaction costs and trading behavior in an immature water market
Carey, Janis, Sunding, David L., Zilberman, David
Water scarcity is a constraint on economic activity in many regions, and improving the allocation of water is an important part of the process of economic development. Economists have advocated water...
Effects of decoupling on the mean and variability of output
Teresa Serra, David Zilberman, Barry K. Goodwin, Allen Featherstone
The influence of inputs on output risk in the context of agricultural production decisions taken by non-risk neutral agents has been ignored by previous research assessing the effects of decoupled...
Irreversibility and Restoration in Natural Resource Development
Zhao, Jinhua, Zilberman, David
We extend Real Option Theory to evaluate natural resource development projects that may bring negative net benefits and require costly restoration. Based on a new concept, irreversibility cost, we...
Putting Payments for Environmental Services in the Context of Economic Development
David Zilberman, Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy
Paying for the provision of environmental services is a recent policy innovation that is attracting much attention in both developed and developing countries. The innovation involves a move away from...
The Economics of Water, Irrigation, and Development
Schoengold, Karina, Zilberman, David, Robert Evenson, Prabhu Pingali
The post-World War II era has witnessed a drastic increase in irrigation activities that have contributed substantially to the massive growth in agricultural production that enables humanity to feed...
Lori Lynch, Scott Malcolm, David Zilberman
It has been hypothesized that differentially applied environmental regulations create pollution havens, as firms will choose to invest in countries with lax environmental standards. Using a...
When are Payments for Environmental Services Beneficial to the Poor?
David Zilberman, Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy
The impact of payment for environmental services (PES) on poverty varies. Generally, PES is good for landowners and may negatively affect consumers if food demand is inelastic. Impacts also depend on...
Performance of the Similarity Hypothesis Relative to Existing Models of Risky Choice.
Buschena, David, Zilberman, David
Experimental studies have discovered behavior that is inconsistent with the expected utility model (EU) of risky choice (von Neumann and Morgenstern, 1953). The two approaches to address these...
Demonstrations and money-back guarantees : market mechanisms to reduce uncertainty
Heiman, Amir, Zilberman, David, Purohit, Devavrat
Consumers' preferences; Marketing; Risk
The economics of demonstration
Heiman, Amir, Zilberman, David
Advertising; Consumer education; Consumers' preferences; Marketing
The economics of land-augmenting irrigation technologies
Caswell, Margriet F., Zilberman, David
Land utilization; Technology
Just, Richard E., Zilberman, David
Agricultural policies; Econometrics; Farm sizes; Farm income; Mathematical models; Risk; Technology
Equity and efficiency in agricultural production systems
Just, Richard E., Rausser, Gordon C., Zilberman, David
Economic development; Economic policy; Production (economics)
Equity implications of agricultural policies
Just, Richard E., Zilberman, David
Agricultural policies; Crop insurance; Price stabilization; Price supports; Prices; Risk
Equity implications of environmental policy decisions in agriculture
Just, Richard E., Zilberman, David
Agricultural policies
Equity implications of market policies
Just, Richard E., Zilberman, David
Agricultural policies; Farm products; Marketing; Mathematical models; Risk
A framework for analyzing specific agricultural policy reform
Just, Richard E., Rausser, Gordon C., Zilberman, David
Agricultural policies; Technology
Lichtenberg, Erik, Zilberman, David
Agricultural policies; Economic aspects; Economics; Environmental policy; Pest management; Pollution
Learning, forgetting, and the diffusion process of food and agricultural products
Heiman, Amir, Zilberman, David
Consumers' preferences; Farm products; Food marketing; Marketing
A model of nutrient demand and the allocation of time
Gawn, Glynis, Rausser, Gordon C., Zilberman, David
Economic aspects; Food consumption; Income; Nutrition
Modeling money-back guarantees as options
Heiman, Amir, Zilberman, David
Consumers' preferences; Mathematical models
Modeling the effects of policy on farmers in developing agriculture
Just, Richard E., Rausser, Gordon C., Zilberman, David
Agricultural policies; Mathematical models; Risk; Technology
Buschena, David E., Zilberman, David
Mathematical models; Risk
Price transmission across marketing levels in a hedonic framework
Parker, Douglas Davidson, Zilberman, David
Consumers' demand; Farm products; Marketing; Peaches; Prices
Risk attitudes over wealth under discrete status levels
Buschena, David R., Zilberman, David
Multivariate analysis; Probabilities
The use of computer technology in California agriculture
Putler, Daniel S., Zilberman, David
Computers
Adoption of Bt Cotton and Impact Variability: Insights from India
Matin Qaim, Arjunan Subramanian, Gopal Naik, David Zilberman
There is a growing body of literature about the impacts of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton in developing countries. While many studies show remarkable benefits for farmers, there are also reports...
Household Use of Agricultural Chemicals for Soil-Pest Management and Own Labor for Yard Work
Scott Templeton, David Zilberman, Seung Yoo, Andrew Dabalen
Agricultural chemicals, Do-it-yourself application, Discrete-continuous choice model, Fertilizers, Hired application, Household model of consumption and production, Lawn and garden, Organic...
David R. Just, Steven A. Wolf, David Zilberman
We analyze sources of information in agricultural markets to understand patterns of demand for decision support services and the division of labor in the supply of these services. Information...
Teresa Serra, David Zilberman, Barry K. Goodwin, Keijo Hyvonen
This article determines the contribution of recent European Union agricultural policy reforms on the use of pesticides. Our theoretical model extends the multioutput generalization of the...
A Model of Investment under Uncertainty: Modern Irrigation Technology and Emerging Markets in Water.
Carey, Janis M, Zilberman, David
This article develops a stochastic dynamic model of irrigation technology adoption. It predicts that farms will not invest in modern technologies unless the expected present value of investment...
The Economics of Controlling Insect-Transmitted Plant Disease.
Brown, Cheryl, Lynch, Lori, Zilberman, David
A framework is developed to analyze a spatially dependent economically significant pest problem emanating from a source and spreading via a carrier such as an insect. Transmission and/or source...
Fixed Costs, Efficient Resource Management, and Conservation.
Zhao, Jinhua, Zilberman, David
This article develops a framework to analyze the impacts on resource development of efficient management practices that account for possible resource conserving technological changes. Compared with...
Choosing Brands: Fresh Produce versus Other Products
Yanhong H. Jin, David Zilberman, Amir Heiman
Assuming that brands contribute to quality risk reduction, prestige, and design, we derive and test hypothesis on the willingness to pay (WTP) for brands across different product categories...
Generalized Expected Utility, Heteroscedastic Error, and Path Dependence in Risky Choice
David Buschena, David Zilberman
generalized-expected utility, heteroscedastic error, path-dependence,
Farms' technical inefficiencies in the presence of government programs *
Teresa Serra, David Zilberman, José M. Gil
We focus on determining the impacts of government programs on farms' technical inefficiency levels. We use Kumbhakar's stochastic frontier model that accounts for both production risks and risk...
An Economic Analysis of Yard Care and Synthetic Chemical Use: The Case of San Francisco
Scott Templeton, Seung Yoo, David Zilberman
Yard care is an economically important household production activity that also has potentially significant environmental or health impacts. Of particular concern are the possible negative impacts of...
Ariel Dinar, Mark Campbell, David Zilberman
Modern irrigation technologies have been suggested as a means of conserving scarce water and reducing environmental pollution caused by irrigated agriculture. This paper applies an economic model of...
Review of environmental, economic and policy aspects of biofuels
Rajagopal, Deepak, Zilberman, David
The world is witnessing a sudden growth in production of biofuels, especially those suited for replacing oil like ethanol and biodiesel. This paper synthesizes what the environmental, economic, and...
Mining the soil: Agricultural production system on peatland
Soil is usually considered as a renewable resource for dynamic crop and production management decision problems. For peatland, however, soil should be regarded as an exhaustible resource. This paper...
Farhed Shah, David Zilberman, Erik Lichtenberg
The adoption of pollution prevention and abatement practices is examined in the context of a model of exhaustible resource use with a backstop technology. For the sake of concreteness, the paper...
The impact of agricultural biotechnology on yields, risks, and biodiversity in low-income countries
David Zilberman, Holly Ameden, Matin Qaim
This paper shows that the current generation of transgenic crop varieties has significant potential to improve economic welfare in low-income countries. These varieties might increase crop yields in...
Environmental and Distributional Impacts of Conservation Targeting Strategies
Wu, JunJie, Zilberman, David, Babcock, Bruce A.
Resource purchasing funds have become a major tool for environmental protection and resource conservation. These funds use various strategies to target resources for conservation, the choice of which...
Managing a Multiple-Use Resource: The Case of Feral Pig Management in California Rangeland
Hueth, Brent, Zivin, Joshua, Zilberman, David
Many wildlife populations cause damage in agricultural systems but are also valued resources, either for their recreational value or for their existence and contribution to biological diversity. As a...
Spatially and Intertemporally Efficient Management of Waterlogging
Xabadia, M. Àngels, Goetz, Renan U., Zilberman, David
Agricultural production is as a major contributor to numerous environmental problems. Most of these problems have a dynamic aspect and, moreover, the magnitude of these environmental problems depends...
Sunding, David, Zilberman, David, B. L. Gardner, G. C. Rausser
The chapter reviews the generation and adoption of new technologies in the agricultural sector. The first section describes models of induced innovation and experimentation, considers the political...
Non-Predator Vertebrate Pest Damage in California Agriculture: An Assessment of Economic
Cohen, Dan, Zilberman, David, Hueth, Brent
abstract currently unavailable
Modeling Money-back Guarantees as Financial Options
Zhao, Jinhua, Zilberman, David, Heiman, Amir, McWilliams, Bruce
In this article, we model money-back guarantees (MBGs) as put options. This use of option theory provides retailers with a framework to optimize the price and the return option independently and...
Privatizing Water Distribution
Ujjayant Chakravorty, Eithan Hochman, Chieko Umetsu, David Zilberman
Billions of dollars will be spent globally to upgrade water infrastructure in the coming years. The standard economic prescription is privatization and the introduction of water markets. A major...
Efficient Regulation of Environmental Health Risks.
Lichtenberg, Erik, Zilberman, David
This paper introduces a decision framework for regulating environmental health risks which incorporates the characteristic uncertainty about the dissemination and toxicological impacts of...
Irreversibility and Restoration in Natural Resource Development.
Zhao, Jinhua, Zilberman, David
The authors extend real option theory to evaluate natural resource development projects that may bring negative net benefits and require costly restoration. Based on a new concept, irreversibility...
Agricultural Biotechnology: Productivity, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights
David Zilberman, Holly Ameden, Gregory Graff, Matin Qaim
This paper argues that current forms of agricultural biotechnology have significant potential for developing countries; the challenge is to realize this potential. We develop a conceptual model that...
University Technology Transfers: Impacts on Local and U.S. Economies.
Parker, Douglas D, Zilberman, David
In the past two decades, many universities have established Offices of Technology Transfer to increase the transfer rate of certain research innovations to the private sector. More recently, some of...
Managing California's Water in the Long Run.
Caswell, Margreit F, Zilberman, David
Water development in the western states has passed through an " expansive" phase and now is entering an "intensive" phase. Large untapped sources of high-quality fresh water no longer are available....
Collective penalities and inducement of self-reporting.
Katrin Millock, David Zilberman
Random accidents can be contained by collective penalties. These penalties are not likely to be enforced but rather induce self-reporting that enhances welfare due to early containment....
Teresa Serra, David Zilberman, José M. Gil
The growing importance of economic factors in farmers' decisions to go organic has raised interest in characterizing the economic behavior of organic versus conventional farms. In general, published...
The Gains from Differentiated Policies to Control Stock Pollution when Producers Are Heterogeneous
Angels Xabadia, Renan U. Goetz, David Zilberman
We derive optimal input taxes to control stock pollution problems generated by heterogeneous agents. The taxes vary over time and in response to differences of asset quality and technology choice. We...
Collective penalties and inducement of self-reporting
Katrin Millock, David Zilberman
Random accidents can be contained by collective penalties. These penalties are not likely to be enforced but rather induce self-reporting that enhances welfare due to early containment....
Collective penalties and inducement of self-reporting
Katrin Millock, David Zilberman
Random accidents can be contained by collective penalties. These penalties are not likely to be enforced but rather induce self-reporting that enhances welfare due to early containment....
Risk Aversion, Liability Rules, and Safety
Joshua Graff Zivin, Richard Just, David Zilberman
This paper investigates the performance of liability rules in two-party stochastic externality problems where negotiations are feasible and side payments are based on the realized level of...
Financial incentives and pesticide use
Katti Millock, David Zilberman
This paper argues that the current pesticide regulatory system is inefficient. An elaborate set of registration requirements has led to high costs of new pesticides. The current system does not...
Pesticide Use and Regulation: Making Economic Sense Out of an Externality and Regulation Nightmare
David Zilberman, Katti Millock
This article argues that the existing maze of pesticide policies reflects the multidimensionality of side effects of pesticide use that cannot be addressed by uniform policies. Pesticide policies...
Collective penalties and inducement of self-reporting
Katrin Millock, David Zilberman
Random accidents can be contained by collective penalties. These penalties are not likely to be enforced but rather induce self-reporting that enhances welfare due to early containment....
The value of economic research:
Zilberman, David, Heiman, Amir
Economic research generates a wide array of benefits. These include information, technological change, and improved policy. There are few quantitative studies of the benefits of economic research,...
STORAGE TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Lichtenberg, Erik, Zilberman, David
Environmental Economics and Policy,
THE ECONOMICS OF CONTROLLING INSECT-TRANSMITTED PLANT DISEASES
Brown, Cheryl, Lynch, Lori, Zilberman, David
Crop Production/Industries,
CONSERVATION CAPITAL AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH
Ramirez, Donna Theresa J., Khanna, Madhu, Zilberman, David
This paper develops an endogenous growth model which links pollution to ineffective input-use, which can be reduced through conservation capital investment. It derives the conditions under which...
HEALTH TRADEOFFS IN PESTICIDE REGULATION
Cash, Sean B., Sunding, David L., Zilberman, David
EPA has the authority to ban pesticides to reduce health risks to consumers from food residues. Such bans influence the price of fruits and vegetables, and the resulting consumption shifts impact...
Goetz, Renan U., Zilberman, David
Land-use restrictions are frequently applied to separate polluting from non-polluting activities. In contrast to the existing literature, we incorporate spatial and intertemporal aspects of the...
INCENTIVE-BASED POLICIES FOR CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLLUTION AND OUTPUT
Khanna, Madhu, Isik, Murat, Zilberman, David
The cost-effectiveness of alternative green payment policies designed to achieve a targeted level of abatement by heterogeneous microunits is analyzed. Abatement costs and implications for production...
WHO WEARS THE PANTS IN THE FAMILY: POWER DISTRIBUTION IN FAMILY CONSUMPTION
Just, David, Heiman, Amir, Zilberman, David
This paper combines the Becker family production model with a cooperative bargaining model to analyze power distribution within the family. Family consumption decisions are often made by one person,...
ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CALIFORNIA'S GOLF COURSE FACILITIES IN 2000
Templeton, Scott R., Henry, Mark S., Jin, Bihui, Zilberman, David
People spent $4.350 billion at California golf course facilities in 2000. The total sales, income, and tax impacts on the state economy were $7.872 billion, $4.546 billion, and $1.370 billion in...
Farms' Technical Inefficiencies in the Presence of Government Programs
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Gil, Jose M.
We focus on determining the impacts of government programs on farms’ technical inefficiency levels. We use Kumbhakar’s (2002) stochastic frontier model that accounts for both production risks and...
Invasive Species Management: Importers, Border Enforcement, and Risk
Ameden, Holly A., Cash, Sean B., Zilberman, David
Invasive species are a negative externality associated with imported goods. Policies aimed at excluding pests associated with imports include pre-shipment treatment requirements, varied inspection...
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Gil, Jose M.
The growing importance of economic factors in farmers’ decision to go organic has raised interest in characterizing the economic behavior of organic versus conventional farms. Published analyses so...
Technology Adoption by Heterogeneous Producers to Regulate a Stock Externality
Xabadia, Angels, Goetz, Renan, Zilberman, David
This paper presents a framework to determine optimal resource allocation over time for the production of a good by heterogeneous producers who generate a stock externality. We analyze the optimal...
Collective penalties and inducement of self-reporting
Katrin Millock, David Zilberman
Random accidents can be contained by collective penalties. These penalties are not likely to be enforced but rather induce self-reporting that enhances welfare due to early containment....
Decoupling farm policies: how does this affect production?
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Goodwin, Barry K., Featherstone, Allen M.
This paper studies the extent to which decoupled income support measures in agriculture can have production implications both at the extensive and intensive margins. We develop a theoretical...
Choosing Brands: Fresh Produce versus other Products
Jin, Yanhong, Zilberman, David, Heiman, Amir
This study presents a framework to analyze how uncertainty about product attributes affects consumers' WTP for brand name products over generic ones, incorporating key elements of a random utility...
Nonlinearities in the US corn-ethanol-oil price system
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Gil, Jose M., Goodwin, Barry K.
We use a smooth transition vector error correction model to assess price relationships within the US ethanol industry. Daily ethanol, corn and oil futures prices observed from mid-2005 to mid-2007...
COOPERATIVE LABOR ALLOCATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Parliament, Claudia, Tsur, Yacov, Zilberman, David
Understanding the allocation of labor between collective and private activities within cooperatives has been an issue of interest for economists and policy makers. This paper extends existing...
CERTAINTY EQUIVALENT PRICES AND PRODUCER WELFARE UNDER OUTPUT PRICE UNCERTAINTY
Producer welfare indices under price uncertainty are derived using the concept of certainty equivalent prices. In this approach the marginal cost function is used instead of the ex-ante supply...
Food Insecurity, Food Storage, and Obesity
Cash, Sean B., Zilberman, David
Although individuals with poor food security might be expected to have reduced food intake, and therefore a lower likelihood of being overweight, some empirical evidence has indicated that overweight...
On the spatial nature of the groundwater pumping externality
Brozovic, Nicholas, Sunding, David, Zilberman, David
Most existing economic analyses of optimal groundwater management use single-cell aquifer models, which assume that an aquifer responds uniformly and instantly to groundwater pumping. This paper...
DEMAND FOR AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC INFORMATION
Wu, Steve, Just, David, Zilberman, David, Wolf, Steven A.
Using data gathered in two surveys we analyze the movement of information in agriculture. The relative importance of varying classes of information providers are assessed by classes of users. A...
The Effect of Market Structure on Pest Resistance Buildup
Alix-Garcia, Jennifer, Zilberman, David
In this paper we present a continuous time optimal control analysis of resistance buildup in agricultural chemicals when the supplier is a monopolist. We compare the monopolistic, competitive and...
Prices versus Quantities Reconsidered
Brozovic, Nicholas, Sunding, David L., Zilberman, David
In comparing second-best prices and quantities, studies assume that quantities bind with probability one. We present a more general and realistic model of second-best regulation where quantity...
MEASURING THE GAINS FROM MANAGEMENT OF SPATIALLY HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES: THE CASE OF GROUNDWATER
Brozovic, Nicholas, Sunding, David L., Zilberman, David
We develop a model for the dynamic management of spatially heterogeneous resources with multiple users. We apply our model to the case of groundwater and show that – contrary to the results of...
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Goodwin, Barry K., Hyvonen, Keijo
The objective of this research is to determine the contribution of recent agricultural policy reforms in the E.U. on the use of crop protection products. Specifically, we concentrate on the 1992 CAP...
FAT TAXES AND THIN SUBSIDIES: PRICES, DIET, AND HEALTH OUTCOMES
Cash, Sean B., Sunding, David L., Zilberman, David
"Fat taxes" have been proposed as a way of addressing food-related health concerns. In this paper, we investigate the possible effects of "thin subsidies," consumption subsidies for healthier foods....
Schoengold, Karina, Zilberman, David
In this paper, we model the trade-off between equity and efficiency in a market for a resource when users of that resource are heterogeneous. We develop the analytical model, and show that under...
DYNAMICS OF AGRICULTURAL GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION
Hellegers, Petra, Zilberman, David, Van Ierland, Ekko
Agricultural shallow groundwater extraction can result in desiccation of neighbouring nature reserves and degradation of groundwater quality in the Netherlands, whereas both externalities are often...
Revisiting the demand of agricultural insurance: The case of Spain
Garrido, Alberto, Zilberman, David
We use the actual insurance records of 52,300 farmers and 11 years to estimate two sets of insurance demands. We define measures of insurance’s expected returns, variance and third moment, based on...
Effects of Decoupling on the Average and the Variability of Output
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Goodwin, Barry K., Featherstone, Allen
Previous research has ignored the influence of inputs on output risk when assessing the effects of decoupled income-support payments on production decisions. This paper studies the impacts of...
Biotechnology and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Graff, Gregory, Roland-Holst, David, Zilberman, David
sustainable development, technology, food, health, agriculture
Payments for ecosystem services and poverty reduction: concepts, issues, and empirical perspectives
BULTE, ERWIN H., LIPPER, LESLIE, STRINGER, RANDY, ZILBERMAN, DAVID
Water allocation under distribution losses: Comparing alternative institutions
Chakravorty, Ujjayant, Hochman, Eithan, Umetsu, Chieko, Zilberman, David
The distribution of water resources is characterized by increasing returns to scale. Distribution links water generation to its end-use. Standard economic analysis overlooks the interaction among...
Indirect Effects of Pesticide Regulation and the Food Quality Protection Act
Cash, Sean B., Sunding, David L., Swoboda, Aaron, Zilberman, David
A driving factor behind pesticide regulation in Canada and the United States is the desire to protect consumers from harmful residues on food. The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) was unanimously...
Xabadia, Angels, Goetz, Renan U., Zilberman, David
The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Farms' Technical Inefficiencies in the Presence of Government Programs
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Gil, Jose M.
We focus on determining the impacts of government programs on farmsÂ’ technical inefficiency levels. We use KumbhakarÂ’s (2002) stochastic frontier model that accounts for both production risks...
Invasive Species Management: Importers, Border Enforcement, and Risk
Ameden, Holly A., Cash, Sean B., Zilberman, David
Invasive species are a negative externality associated with imported goods. Policies aimed at excluding pests associated with imports include pre-shipment treatment requirements, varied inspection...
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David, Gil, Jose M.
The growing importance of economic factors in farmersÂ’ decision to go organic has raised interest in characterizing the economic behavior of organic versus conventional farms. Published analyses...
ECONOMICS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
Border Enforcement and Firm Response in the Management of Invasive Species
Ameden, Holly A., Cash, Sean B., Zilberman, David
This analysis presents a theoretical model of firm response to border enforcement and evaluates both the intended and unintended effects under two enforcement regimes: destruction versus treatment of...
THE USE AND POTENTIAL OF OPTIMAL CONTROL MODELS IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,
THE DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF LAND CONTROLS IN AGRICULTURE
Rausser, Gordon C., Zilberman, David, Just, Richard E.
The paper introduces a framework for analyzing the impacts of land control programs on agricultural production under heterogenous land qualities, heterogenous production technologies and imperfect...
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF WATER POLICY DECISIONS
Just, Richard E., Zilberman, David
Intrasectoral issues have received relatively little attention in analysis of the distributional consequences of natural resource policy decisions. This paper presents a framework for such analysis...
IN DEFENSE OF FENCE TO FENCE: CAN THE BACKWARD BENDING SUPPLY CURVE EXIST?
Just, Richard E., Zilberman, David
Politicians dealing with the “"farm problem”" sometimes lament that output increases when prices go up and when prices go down. This article presents three possible theoretical explanations....
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT DECISION MAKING UNDER RISK AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Buschena, David E., Zilberman, David
This article reviews two major approached used in the past for risk analysis—the expected utility approach and the use of safety rules—and endeavors to reconcile their applicability and use...
PESTICIDE USE AND REGULATION: MAKING ECONOMIC SENSE OUT OF AN EXTERNALITY AND REGULATION NIGHTMARE
Zilberman, David, Millock, Katti
This article argues that the existing maze of pesticide policies reflects the multidimensionality of side effects of pesticide use that cannot be addressed by uniform policies. Pesticide policies...
ACTUAL VERSUS STATED WILLINGNESS TO PAY: A COMMENT
Cohen, Daniel R., Zilberman, David
Offering evidence from the California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) and centering around Kenkel and Norris conclusions regarding “"Agricultural Producers'’ Willingness to...
STORAGE TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Lichtenberg, Erik, Zilberman, David
A dynamic framework is presented for analyzing regulations affecting the use of spoilage-reducing inputs with potential negative environmental effects, such as pesticides, growth regulators, chemical...
DYNAMIC SUPPLY RESPONSE AND AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT: DISCUSSION
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Heiman, Amir, Just, David R., Zilberman, David
Consumer resistance is a key barrier to the diffusion of genetically modified foods (GMFs). Several studies have shown that consumers in general have a negative attitude toward GMFs. Through analysis...
THE INCREASING ROLE OF AGRIBUSINESS IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Heiman, Amir, Miranowski, John, Zilberman, David, Alix, Jennifer
While the demand for traditional agricultural economics is diminishing, there is a growing need for the economics and management of the food sector and the environment. Departments of agricultural...
Lynch, Lori, Malcolm, Scott, Zilberman, David
It has been hypothesized that differentially applied environmental regulations create pollution havens, as firms will choose to invest in countries with lax environmental standards. Using a...
Irrigation production functions with water-capital substitution
Uri Shani, Yacov Tsur, Amos Zemel, David Zilberman
The dynamics of biomass growth implies that the yield of irrigated crops depends, in addition to the total amount of water applied, on irrigation scheduling during the growing period. Advanced...
Water Allocation Under Distribution Losses: Comparing Alternative Institutions
Chakravorty, Ujjayant, Hochman, Eithan, Umetsu, Chieko, Zilberman, David
The distribution of water resources is characterized by increasing returns to scale. Distribution systems link water generation to its end-use. Standard economic analysis overlooks the interaction...
Agricultural Biotechnology: Productivity, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights
David Zilberman, Holly Ameden, Gregory Graff, Matin Qaim
This paper argues that current forms of agricultural biotechnology have significant potential for developing countries; the challenge is to realize this potential. We develop a conceptual model that...
The Economics of Biofuel Policy and Biotechnology
Gal Hochman, Steven Sexton, David Zilberman
This paper employs a partial equilibrium trade framework to show that biofuel policy can substitute for traditional agricultural policy intended to boost farm welfare. It also shows how food market...
When could payments for environmental services benefit the poor?
ZILBERMAN, DAVID, LIPPER, LESLIE, MCCARTHY, NANCY
Since modification of agricultural production choices in developing countries often provides positive environmental externalities to people in developed countries, payment for environmental services...
Lichtenberg, Erik, Zilberman, David
We develop a model of regulation of environmental risks in a heterogeneous industry when policy makers are sensitive to uncertainties about the processes generating the risks. Optimal source...
Investment Policy for New Environmental Monitoring Technologies to Manage Stock Externalities.
Katrin Millock, Angels Xabadia, David Zilberman
With the development of modern information technologies, relying on nanotechnologies and remote sensing, a number of systems can be envisaged that allow for monitoring of the negative externalities...
GM Technology Adoption, Production Risk and On-farm Varietal Diversity
Krishna, Vijesh V., Zilberman, David, Qaim, Matin
This paper examines the impact of transgenic technology adoption on varietal diversity. Transgenic pest-resistant varieties are hypothesized to reduce farmersâ demand for on-farm diversity through...
Price volatility in ethanol markets
Serra, Teresa, Zilberman, David
Our paper looks at how price volatility in the Brazilian ethanol industry changes over time and across markets by using a new methodological approach suggested by Seo (2007). The main advantage of...
Ifft, Jennifer, Roland-Holst, David, Zilberman, David
The valuation of traceable or safety-branded food by consumers in developing countries affected by diseases such as avian influenza, or with food safety issues in general, is very difficult to...
Risk, Overconfidence and Production in a Competitive Equilibrium
Just, David R., Cao, Ying, Zilberman, David
Previous studies have found underestimation of risk, or overconfidence, to be pervasive. In this paper, we model overconfidence as a reduction in perceived variance. We generalize the analysis of...
IRRIGATION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS WITH WATER-CAPITAL SUBSTITUTION
Shani, Uri, Tsur, Yacov, Zemel, Amos, Zilberman, David
The dynamics of biomass growth implies that the yield of irrigated crops depends, in addition to the total amount of water applied, on irrigation scheduling during the growing period. Advanced...
Biofuel: distributional and other implications of current and the next generation technologies
Sexton, Steven E., Rajagopal, Deepak, Hochman, Gal, Roland-Holsts, David W., Zilberman, David
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
The economics of climate change in agriculture
David Zilberman, Xuemei Liu, David Roland-Holst, David Sunding
CHANGES IN WATER ALLOCATION MECHANISMS FOR CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE
DAVID ZILBERMAN, NEAL MACDOUGALL, FARHED SHAH
"Existing institutions allocating water in California reflect prior appropriation water rights established when water was abundant. These allocation rules queue users and do not encourage water...
UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS: IMPACTS ON LOCAL AND U.S. ECONOMIES
DOUGLAS D. Parker, DAVID Zilberman
In the past two decades, many universities have established Offices of Technology Transfer to increase the transfer rate of certain research innovations to the private sector. More recently, some of...
MANAGING CALIFORNIA's WATER IN THE LONG RUN
MARGRIET F. CASWELL, DAVID ZILBERMAN
Water development in the western states has passed through an "expansive" phase and now is entering an "intensive" phase. Large untapped sources of high-quality fresh water no longer are available....
Revisiting the demand for agricultural insurance: the case of Spain
Alberto Garrido, David Zilberman
This paper seeks to characterize the factors that explain crop insurance participation. A stylized model of insurance demand, with a simple setup of one crop. CARA preferences, yield insurance, and...
Principal Issues in the Evaluation of Public Research in Agriculture
Rausser, Gordon C., De Janvry, Alain, Schmitz, Andrew, Zilberman, David
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
Environmental Lifecycle Assessment for Policy Decision-Making and Analysis
Rajagopal, Deepak, Zilberman, David
A key argument in the societal debate against polices to support biofuels is that production of these alternative fuels may in fact consume more energy than they generate and emit more greenhouse...
Investment Policy for New Environmental Monitoring Technologies to Manage Stock Externalities
Katrin Millock, Angels Xabadia, David Zilberman
With the development of modern information technologies, relying on nanotechnologies and remote sensing, a number of systems can be envisaged that allow for monitoring of the negative externalities...
Food Safety, the Environment, and Trade
Zilberman, David, Hochman, Gal, Sexton, Steven E.
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Investment Policy for New Environmental Monitoring Technologies to Manage Stock Externalities
Katrin Millock, Angels Xabadia, David Zilberman
With the development of modern information technologies, relying on nanotechnologies and remote sensing, a number of systems can be envisaged that allow for monitoring of the negative externalities...
The effects of decoupling on land allocation
Teresa Serra, David Zilberman, Jose Gil, Allen Featherstone
The purpose of this article is to study the impact of agricultural policy decoupling on land allocation decisions. Our analysis contributes to the literature by formally assessing the effects of...
Innovation Behaviour At Farm Level â Selection And Identification
Sauer, Johannes, Zilberman, David
Using a squential logit model and a mixed-effects logistic regression approach this empirical study investigates factors for the adoption of automatic milking technology (AMS) at the farm level...
Barriers to Energy-Efficiency in Electricity Generation in India
This paper explores the sources and magnitude of energy-inefficiency in the electricity generating sector in India and its implications for carbon emissions from this sector. An econometric...
Regulation of GHG emissions from biofuel blended energy
Hochman, Gal, Rajagopal, Deepak, Zilberman, David
Regulatory agencies are planning to implement policies targeted at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)âe.g., low carbon fuel standards and carbon trading. Biofuels are viewed as a path to...