The economics of administering import quotas with
licenses-on-demand in agriculture.
The Agreement on Agriculture in the Uruguay Round (URAA) currently
has 1,425 tariff quotas (WTO, 2002a). Rents generated by import quotas
provide an opportunity for firms to compete for these . . .
An ordered tobit model of market participation: evidence from
Kenya and Ethiopia.
Do rural households in developing countries make market
participation and volume decisions simultaneously or sequentially? That
is, does the household decide whether to be a net buyer, autarkic, or . . .
Regulatory actions under adjustment costs and the resolution of
scientific uncertainty.
In an increasingly globalized world, regulators in the agricultural
and food system are facing a growing demand for action on a number of
fronts. Consider, for example, the issues surrounding the . . .
How firms construct price changes: evidence from restaurant
responses to increased minimum wages.
How are industry-wide cost shocks, such as an increase in minimum
wages, passed on to retail consumers? The question is more complicated
than it may first appear. It first implies an aggregated . . .
Subsistence response to market shocks.
No [one] is an island, entire of itself ...
--John Donne
It is received wisdom that subsistence producers are isolated from
output markets in which they do not participate; that is, their . . .
Integrating agronomic principles into production function
specification: a dichotomy of growth inputs and facilitating
inputs.
Agronomy and agricultural economics both study agricultural
production, but with different focuses and approaches. Agronomy focuses
on the natural processes of crop growth in terms of the role of . . .
Errata for Ph.D. recipients by institution, 2003.(Correction
Notice)
In the August, 2004 listing for 2003, recipients from University of
California at Davis should have been listed as follows:
Corinne Alexander
Jing Chen
Frank Han
Bradley . . .
Ph.D. recipients by institution, 2004.
University of Alberta
Mohamed S. Gheblawi
Wuyang Hu
Xiaozhan Liu
University of Arizona
Ahmet Tolga Ergun
University of California at Berkeley
Yanhong Jin
Bo Yu MacInnis
University . . .
Ph.D. recipients by subject, 2004.
Agricultural and Food Policy: regulation, taxation, welfare
Balagtas, Joseph, University of California at Davis, "New
Perspectives on the Economics of Milk Marketing Orders: Rent . . .
Smil, Vaclav. Energy at the Crossroads.(Book Review)
Smil, Vaclav. Energy at the Crossroads. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2003, 427 pp.
This year, the United States will deplete essentially all its oil
fields, producing a mere one million barrels per . . .
Davis, Christina L. Food Fights over Free Trade.
Davis, Christina L. Food Fights over Free Trade. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2003, 401 pp.
It is worthwhile for agricultural economists to take time
periodically to look at the . . .
Brannon, Ian, and Paul Collier, eds. Natural Resources and
Violent Conflict: Options and Actions.(Book Review)
Brannon, Ian, and Paul Collier, eds. Natural Resources and Violent
Conflict: Options and Actions. Washington DC: The World Bank, 2003, 409
pp., $30.
Among the 34 natural resource related books on . . .
Quisumbing, Agnes R., ed. Household Decisions, Gender, and
Development: A Synthesis of Recent Research.(Book Review)
Quisumbing, Agnes R., ed. Household Decisions, Gender, and
Development: A Synthesis of Recent Research. Washington DC:
International Food Research Institute, 2003, 289 pp.
This book presents a . . .
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. Stochastic Modeling in Range Management:
Selected Essays.(Book Review)
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. Stochastic Modeling in Range Management:
Selected Essays. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2004, 120
pp. (ISBN 1-59033-844-8).
Range management is one of the . . .
Price behavior in a dynamic oligopsony: Washington processing
potatoes--a reply.(Comment and Reply)
In her comment, Lavoie suggests that the oligopsony model used in
Richards, Patterson, and Acharya (RPA) contains errors that "...
have important implications for the interpretation of the results . . .
Price behavior in a dynamic oligopsony; Washington processing
potatoes--a comment.(Comment and Reply)
In a recent article in this journal, Richards, Patterson, and
Acharya (RPA) evaluate whether the Washington State frozen potato
processors behave as an oligopsony and determine the welfare . . .
Forms of scale curves and differential inverse demand
systems.
Expressing normalized prices (nominal prices divided by total
expenditure) as functions of quantities, theoretically consistent,
complete systems of inverse demand functions--that is, inverse . . .
Effect of experimental design on choice-based conjoint valuation
estimates.
Choice-based conjoint analysis or choice experiments (CEs) are
popular tools used to estimate the value of nonmarket goods (e.g.,
Adamowicz et al.; Brownstone and Train; Boyle et al.; Layton and . . .
Time to burn: modeling wildland arson as an autoregressive crime
function.
Arsonists set 1 million fires each year in the United States,
resulting in over $3 billion in damages, 500 fatalities, and thousands
of injuries (TriData Corporation). From the standpoint of . . .
On solving the multirotational timber harvesting problem with
stochastic prices: a linear complementarity formulation.(Brief
Art
The forest economics literature has long dealt with the problem of
optimal harvesting under uncertainty. An overview is provided in recent
bibliographies by Newman, and Brazee and Newman. A . . .
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