AN EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF ANTIBIOTICS BANS ON INVESTMENT IN APPLE ORCHARDS

Hennessy, David A.; Roosen, Jutta

doi:10.22004/ag.econ.21698

AN EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF ANTIBIOTICS BANS ON INVESTMENT IN APPLE ORCHARDS

The decision to replant a fire blight-susceptible apple orchard is analyzed. Embedding the problem into an equilibrium framework facilitates the welfare analysis of changes in orchard survival probabilities arising from a ban on antibiotics use. We estimate the structural impacts and welfare changes of the ban.

Keywords:

antibiotics ; apple orchard ; dynamics ; equilibrium ; replanting ; resistance ; truncated Poisson process

Subject(s):

Environmental Economics and Policy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

Issue Date:

1999

Publication Type:

Conference Paper/ Presentation

DOI and Other Identifiers:

10.22004/ag.econ.21698

Record Identifier:

https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21698