@article{Mann:307423,
      recid = {307423},
      author = {Mann, Stefan},
      title = {Competitiveness of cattle breeding in Switzerland: the  value of policies enabling informed decisions},
      journal = {Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal},
      address = {2019-12-31},
      number = {1050-2020-1755},
      month = {Dec},
      year = {2019},
      abstract = {Using  the  case  of  of  Swiss  Brown  Cattle  breeding,   this  paper  develops  the  hypothesis  that  a  two-angle   strategy  of  fostering  competition  and  providing   maxi-mum  access  to  information  is  promising  for   states  to  attain  high  competitiveness  on  a national  level. Abandoning the monopoly on bull sperm while  subsidising classifica-tions of animals in order to provide  a maximum base of knowledge helped to increase  Switzerland’s  self-sufficiency  in  Brown  Cattle  sperm   from  under  50  to  almost  100  per  cent.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/307423},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.307423},
}