UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics

Faculty

Mark Agerton

Assistant Professor

Energy Economics and Applied Economics

Mark Agerton's Personal Website

ARE 254: Dynamic Optimization with Economic Applications (Ph.D.)
ARE 275: Economic Analysis of Resource and Environmental Policies (M.S.)


Tim Beatty

Professor

Economics of Food, Nutrition and Health.

Tim Beatty's Personal Website

ARE 130: Agricultural Markets
ARE 256A: Applied Econometrics I (M.S.)


Steve Boucher

Associate Professor

Microeconomics of Agricultural Development, Rural Credit Markets, Agrarian Contracts, Economics of Information and Uncertainty

ARE 115A: Economic Development
ARE 214: Development Economics (M.S.)
ARE 215A: Microdevelopment Theory and Methods I (Ph.D.)


James Bushnell

Graduate Program Member
Professor, Economics

Energy and Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Regulation

ECN 100: Intermediate Microeconomics
ECN 221: Graduate Industrial Organization


Colin Carter

Distinguished Professor

Commodity markets, International trade, China's rural economy

ARE 139: Futures and Options Markets
ARE 222: International Agricultural Trade and Policy (M.S.)
ARE 233: Agricultural Policy (Ph.D.)


Michael R Carter

Distinguished Professor

Development economics, poverty dynamics, rural credit and insurance markets, agricultural development and income distribution, land tenure and land reform

ARE 215B: Microdevelopment Theory and Methods II (Ph.D.)


Bulat Gafarov

Assistant Professor

Econometric Theory, Macroeconometrics, Energy economics

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ARE 155: Operations Research and Management Science
ARE 240C: Time Series Econometrics (Ph.D.)
ARE 256B: Applied Econometrics II (M.S.)


Dalia Ghanem

Associate Professor

Panel Data Econometrics, Causal Inference, Nonlinear Models, Environmental Economics

ARE 107: NEW-Econometrics for Business Decisions
ARE 240B: Econometric Methods (Ph.D.)
ARE 256B: Applied Econometrics II (M.S.)


Rachael Goodhue

Department Chair and Professor

Agricultural marketing and organization, industrial organization, contracting, agricultural and agri-environmental regulation and policy, pesticide use and regulation, property rights

ARE 100B: Intermediate Microeconomics
ARE 232: Agricultural Commodity Markets (Ph.D.)
ARE 293: Analysis of California Agriculture and Resources (M.S./Ph.D.)


Brittney Goodrich

Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension

Risk and Uncertainty, Agricultural Contracts, Agricultural Policy

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Jamie Hansen-Lewis

Assistant Professor

Environmental Economics, Development Economics

ARE 276B: Environmental Economics (Ph.D.)


Jens Hilscher

Professor

Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Credit Risk, Sovereign Debt, Behavioral Finance

Jens Hilscher's Personal Website

ARE 171: Principles of Finance
ARE 173: Capital Markets
ARE 271: Financial Economics


Katrina Jessoe

Associate Professor

Environmental and energy economics

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ARE 146: Business, Government Regulation, and Society
ARE 276A: Environmental Economics (Ph.D.)


Kristin Kiesel

Associate Professor of Teaching

Food Policy, Marketing, Economics of Information, Behavioral Economics

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ARE 100B: Intermediate Microeconomics
ARE 132: Cooperative Business Enterprises
ARE 133: Introduction to Behavioral Economics
ARE 136: Managerial Marketing


Travis J. Lybbert

Professor

Economic Development, Agriculture & Nutrition, Behavioral Economics, Technology Adoption, Innovation

ARE 115A: Economic Development
ARE 215C: Microdevelopment Theory and Methods III (Ph.D.)
ARE 258: Demand and Market Analysis (M.S.)


Pierre Mérel

Professor

Industrial Organization, Mathematical Programming, Air Quality, Climate Change and Agriculture

ARE 202B: Applied Microeconomics I (Ph.D.)
ARE 204A: Microeconomic Analysis I (M.S.)


Fran Moore

Graduate Program Member
Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Policy

Global Change, Agriculture Sustainability, Climate Policy, Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Policy Evaluation and Impact Analysis, Environmental Policy


Kevin Novan

Associate Professor

Energy and Environmental Economics

ARE 100A: Intermediate Microeconomics
ARE 176: Environmental Economics
ARE 202C: Research Design for Applied Microeconomics (Ph.D.)
ARE 275: Economic Analysis of Resource and Environmental Policies (M.S.)


Matthew Reimer

Associate Professor

Public Policy Evaluation, Natural Resource Economics, Fisheries Economics, Applied Microeconometrics, Bioeconomics

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Tina Saitone

Professor of Cooperative Extension

Livestock and Rangeland Economics, Agricultural Economics and Policy, Producer Organizations, Cooperatives, Industrial Organization, Product Differentiation and Marketing, and Food Policy.


James Sanchirico

Graduate Program Member
Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Economics

ARE 254: Dynamic Optimization with Economic Applications (Ph.D.)
ARE 277: Natural Resource Economics (Ph.D.)
ESP 166N: Ocean and Coastal Policy
ESP 168B: Environmental Policy Analysis


Richard Sexton

Distinguished Professor

Agricultural Supply Chains Industrial Organization International Economic Development

ARE 100B: Intermediate Microeconomics
ARE 204A: Microeconomic Analysis I (M.S.)
ARE 204B: Microeconomic Analysis II (M.S.)
ARE 232: Agricultural Commodity Markets (Ph.D.)


Ashish Shenoy

Assistant Professor

Development Economics, Migration, Seasonality, Local Institutions, Poverty Measurement

Ashish Shenoy's Personal Website

ARE 100A: Intermediate Microeconomics
ARE 215B: Microdevelopment Theory and Methods II (Ph.D.)


Aaron Smith

DeLoach Professor of Agricultural Economics

Econometrics; Commodity Markets; Agriculture; Finance; Energy

Aaron Smith's Personal Website

ARE 106: Econometric Theory and Applications
ARE 231: Supply & Demand for Agricultural Products (Ph.D.)
ARE 240A: Econometric Methods (Ph.D.)


Michael Springborn

Graduate Program Member
Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Policy

Environmental economics, resource economics, decision-making under uncertainty

ESP 162: Environmental Policy
ESP 165: Climate Policy
ESP 212B: Environmental Policy Evaluation


Daniel A. Sumner

Frank H. Buck, Jr. Distinguished Professor

National and International Agricultural Economics and Policy

ARE 121: Economics of Agricultural Sustainability


J. Edward Taylor

Distinguished Professor

Economic Development, Population and Resources, Labor Economics, Economywide Modeling and Applied Microeconomics

ARE 106: Econometric Theory and Applications
ARE 150: Agricultural Labor
ARE 202B: Applied Microeconomics I (Ph.D.)
ARE 215A: Microdevelopment Theory and Methods I (Ph.D.)


Jeffrey Williams

Professor

Commodity Markets, Financial Markets, Finance, Public Finance, Mathematical Programming, Econometrics, Economic History

ARE 233: Agricultural Policy (Ph.D.)
ARE 254: Dynamic Optimization with Economic Applications (Ph.D.)


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