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Undergraduate Honors Thesis Students Presented Research Papers
April 5, 2017
As part of the Undergraduate Honors Thesis program, various Managerial Economics students presented their original, independent research papers to students and faculty in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Library in ...
Kristin Kiesel and Colleagues Receive USDA Grant to Promote "Farm to Fork" Food Business Incubator in Sacramento
Nov. 21, 2016
Kristin Kiesel has collaborated on a new USDA grant to incubate "farm-to-fork" businesses for low-income communities in Sacramento's Promise Zone, which encompasses one of the most economically hardest‐hit ...
Katrina Jessoe, Ed Taylor and Dale Manning Find Evidence That Climate Change Will Alter Labor Allocations in Rural Mexico, Including Migration
Nov. 21, 2016
The study, published in The Economic Journal, uses a 28-year panel on individual employment and daily weather-station readings to test the impacts of weather shocks on labor allocations. It finds ...
UC Davis Tops World Rankings in Agricultural Economics and Policy
April 6, 2017
UC Davis is number one in the world for agricultural economics and policy, according to the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) by Subject 2017.
This annual ranking is based ...
Aaron Smith and Colleagues Explain Why Grain Futures Contracts Fail to Accurately Price Commodities
Nov. 21, 2016
The failure of U.S. grain futures contracts to properly price commodities has spurred considerable controversy in agricultural futures markets and raised questions over the value of grain futures contracts ...
Colin Carter and Dalia Ghanem Find Evidence That Pollution Reduces Rice Production in China
Feb. 17, 2017
The reductions in rice yields are large enough to have price implications for the global rice market, affecting global food security for hundreds of millions of the world’s poor ...
Jens Hilscher and Mungo Wilson Propose a New Measure of Systematic Credit Risk
Nov. 21, 2016
The study shows that a straightforward and easy-to-implement and interpret measure of default probability contains significantly more information about future default and failure than S&P corporate credit ratings. Jens Hilscher ...
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell Wins Award for Economics of Groundwater Management
Feb. 17, 2017
Cynthia Lin Lawell was awarded Honorable Mention in the Bacon Public Lectureship and White Paper Competition for her work on the economics of groundwater management. She presented her lecture at ...
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Recent Publications
Producer Heterogeniety and Voting Power in Mandatory US Agricultural Marketing Organisations
Z. Plakias and R.E. Goodhue. European Review of Agricultural Economics (2015) 42 (5): 739-763.
M.K. Mridha, S.L. Matias, C.M. Chaparro, R.R. Paul, S. Hussain, S.A. Vosti, et al. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2016) 103 (1): 236-249.
Where and How Index Insurance Can Boost the Adoption of Improved Agricultural Technologies
M.R. Carter, L. Cheng, and A. Sarris. Journal of Development Economics (2016) 118: 59–71.
A Framework to Analyze the Performance of Thinly Traded Agricultural Commodity Markets
M.K. Adjemian, T.L. Saitone, and R.J. Sexton. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2016) 98 (2): 581-596.
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