Wallace Tyner
- Office: KRAN 591B
- Phone Number: (765) 494-0199
- E-mail: wtyner@purdue.edu
- James and Lois Ackerman Professor of Agricultural Economics
- Ph.D. University of Maryland
Curriculum Vitae, Papers, Presentations
Professor Tyner's research interests are in the area of energy, agricultural, and natural resource policy analysis and structural and sectoral adjustment in developing economies. His work in energy economics has encompassed oil, natural gas, coal, oil shale, biomass, ethanol from agricultural sources, and solar energy. Most of his recent work has focused on economic and policy analysis for biofuels.
Most of his recent international work has focused on agricultural trade and policy issues in developing economies, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, and West Africa. Professor Tyner has extensive overseas experience in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe including short term assignments in seventeen countries. He also has long term overseas experience in India and Morocco. He is fluent in French.
Dr. Tyner and his students have received numerous awards from Purdue and the AAEA. In 2005 he received the AAEA Distinguished Policy Contribution Award. In 2007 he received the “Energy Patriot Award” from Senator Richard Lugar. In 2009, he was named the Outstanding Graduate Educator in the College of Agriculture, received the College Team award (with colleagues) for biofuels research, and received (with Abbott and Hurt) the AAEA Quality of Communication award. He teaches a graduate course in benefit-cost analysis.
Professor Tyner is author or co-author of three books: Energy Resources and Economic Development in India; Western Coal: Promise or Problem (with R. J. Kalter); and A Perspective on U.S. Farm Problems and Agricultural Policy (with Lance McKinzie and Tim Baker).
Recent publications include “The Global Impacts of Multinational Biofuels Mandates.” Energy Journal (2009); “What’s Driving Food Prices?, Farm Foundation (2008); “Policy Options for Integrated Energy and Agricultural Markets.” Review of Agricultural Economics (2008); “Ethanol Pricing Issues for 2008,” Industrial Fuels and Power, 2008; “Measuring the relative Importance of Preferences for Country-of-Origin in China, France, Niger, and the United States.” Agricultural Economics 38 (2008); “Applying Cointegration and Error Correction to Measure Trade Linkages: Maize Prices in the U.S. and Mexico” Agricultural Economics (2008); “The US Ethanol and Biofuels Boom: Its Origins, Current Status, and Future Prospects” BioScience (2008); “Policy Alternatives for the Future Biofuels Industry.” Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization (2007); “Renewable Energy Policy Alternatives for the Future.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2007); “Economic Analysis of a Modified Dry Grind Ethanol Process with Recycle of Pretreated and Enzymatically Hydrolyzed Distillers’ Grains.” Bioresource Technology, (2007); “Determining the Impact of Food Price and Income Changes on Body Weight,” Journal of Health Economics (2007); “Biofuels, Energy Security, and Global Warming Policy Interactions.” in Agricultural Biofuels: Technology, Sustainability and Profitability (2007); “U.S. Ethanol Policy – Possibilities for the Future.” Purdue Extension Publication ID-342, 2007; “Comparison of A Fixed and Variable Corn Ethanol Subsidy” Choices, Volume 21, No. 3, 2006; “Economics of Ethanol.” Purdue Extension Publication ID-339, 2006; “Policy Options to Improve Water Allocation Efficiency: Analysis on Egypt and Morocco” Water International (2006); “La stabilisation du revenu des agriculteurs : un objectif central dans les politiques agricoles des Etats - Unis et de l’Union Européenne.” Economie Rurale (2004); Middle East and North Africa: Reaching the Rural Poor – Rural Development Strategy. World Bank, (2001); “Agricultural Policy Analysis Needed to Ensure that the Economic Policy Set is Aligned with the Climatic Reality,” Plenary paper presented at the Association Marocaine de l’Agro-Economie (2001); "Analysis of the Impacts of Reducing Maize Protection Levels on the Moroccan Poultry Sector" abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1995).