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Dan Scheitrum: Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
May 11, 2017
In August 2017, Dan Scheitrum will join the University of Arizona as an assistant professor in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Dan's research focuses on commodity markets ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ted Gilliland: Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College
May 16, 2017
Ted Gilliland will join the Economics Department at Mount Holyoke College as an assistant professor. Ted Gilliland’s research is at the intersection of natural resource economics and development economics ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Commercial and Industrial Demand Response Under Mandatory Time‐of‐Use Electricity Pricing
K. Jessoe, D. Rapson. The Journal of Industrial Economics (2015) 63 (3): 397-421.
D. Farnsworth,K. Hamby, M. Bolda, R. Goodhue, J. Williams, and F. Zalom. Pest Management Science (2016) 73 (6): 1083-1090.
P. Valdes-Donoso, K. VanderWaal, L.S. Jarvis, S.R. Wayne, and A.M. Perez. Frontiers in Veterinary Science (2017) 19.
Cost function and positive mathematical programming
Q. Paris. Bio-based and Applied Economics (2017) 6 (1): 19-35.
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