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Emeritus Professors Honored by PROSE Awards for Ecosystems of California
May 22, 2017
Emeritus Professors Alex McCalla and Richard E. Howitt are among those honored through Ecosystems of California winning two 2017 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers. The book won ...
Brittney Goodrich: Cooperative Extension Assistant Professor at Auburn University
May 15, 2017
Brittney Goodrich will join Auburn University as an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology in August 2017. There she will develop a Cooperative Extension program ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Recent Publications
J. Bendabenda, L. Alho, U. Ashorn, Y.B. Cheung, K.G Dewey, S.A. Vosti, et al. Public Health Nutrition (2016) 19 (10): 1893-1903.
B. Ahn and H. Lee. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2015) 40 (3): 405-424.
Cooperative Stability Under Stochastic Quality and Farmer Heterogeneity
P. Mérel, T.L. Saitone, and R.J. Sexton. European Review of Agricultural Economics (2015) 42 (5): 765-795.
Valuing the Wind: Renewable Energy Policies and Air Pollution Avoided
K. Novan. American Economic Journal (2015) 7 (3): 291-326.
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