Economic Evaluation of GM Plant Breeding Innovations

This dissertation combines five empirical studies of socio-economic consequences from releases of GM crops. The first two studies (Empirical Studies 1 and 2) analyze situations of unintended appearances of unauthorized GM seeds. The Empirical Studies 3 and 4 measure socio-economic potential associated with the release of specific GM crops. In the Empirical Study 5, marginal farm-level benefits from a yield increasing innovation in wheat seeds are evaluated. The applied methodologies include cointegration analysis, real options, and stochastic frontier analysis.