一家销售转基因种子的公司的产品线策略

Q3 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2017-01-01 DOI:10.1515/jafio-2016-0030

S. Lemarié, D. Baghdasaryan, Etienne Campens

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摘要

摘要转基因生物的经济影响在很大程度上取决于种子公司提供的产品线。本文分析了种子生产线与种子公司与上游拥有转基因性状的农业生物技术公司签订的许可合同之间的内在联系。我们发现，如果农民具有足够的异质性，种子公司倾向于通过同时提供转基因和传统种子来进行价格歧视。在这种情况下，尽管转基因种子的效率更高，但价格上涨导致农民的剩余减少。这种损失甚至可能超过种子和农业生物技术公司的总收益，从而导致总福利损失。

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The Product Line Strategy of a Company Selling Seed with a Licensed GM Trait

Abstract The economic impact of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) depends heavily on the product line supplied by the seed companies. In this paper, we analyze the interlinking between seed product line and license contract signed between the seed company and the upstream agbiotech firm which owns the Genetically Modified (GM) trait. We show that if the farmers are sufficiently heterogeneous, the seed company prefers to price discriminate by supplying both GM and conventional seeds. In those circumstances, despite higher efficiency of the GM seed, the price increase is such that the farmer’s surplus decreases. This loss may even outweigh the aggregate gains of the seed and the agbiotech companies, thereby leading to a total welfare loss.

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization (JAFIO) is a unique forum for empirical and theoretical research in industrial organization with a special focus on agricultural and food industries worldwide. As concentration, industrialization, and globalization continue to reshape horizontal and vertical relationships within the food supply chain, agricultural economists are revising both their views of traditional markets as well as their tools of analysis. At the core of this revision are strategic interactions between principals and agents, strategic interdependence between rival firms, and strategic trade policy between competing nations, all in a setting plagued by incomplete and/or imperfect information structures. Add to that biotechnology, electronic commerce, as well as the shift in focus from raw agricultural commodities to branded products, and the conclusion is that a "new" agricultural economics is needed for an increasingly complex "new" agriculture.