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Congratulations and Names in the News:
Wally Tyner received the AAEA Distinguished Policy Contribution Award at the national meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association in Providence , Rhode Island .
Mariah Tanner Ehmke has accepted a faculty position at the University of Wyoming . Mariah will begin her career in mid-August.
Paul V. Preckel was selected as co-editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics for a four-year term covering 2007-2010.
Leatta McLaughlin was hired as a Fiscal Analyst for the Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee in downtown Phoenix .
AAEA Meeting Participation, Providence , RI . July 24-27:
Jay Akridge – Agribusiness Scholarship and Its Contributions to Food and Agribusiness Management
Joan Fulton – Cooperatives' Responses in a Complex World Marketplace: The Role of Strategy
Jeffrey Vitale and John Sanders – Estimating the Impacts of Liberalization in West Africa : The Malian Case
Christiane Schroeter, Jayson Lusk and Wallace Tyner – The Impact of Taxes and Subsidies on Obesity
James Binkley – The Effect of Nutrition Concerns on Food Away from Home Frequency
James Binkley – Food Choices and Nutritional Value: A Comparison of Fast-Food versus Table-Serving Restaurants
Douglas Miller and John Connor – The Impact of Collusion on Price Behavior: Empirical Results from Two Recent Cases
Lixia He, Wallace Tyner, Rachid Doukkali and Gamal Siam – Strategic Policy Options to Improve Water Allocation Efficiency: Analysis on Egypt and Morocco
Kathryn Boys, Ning Li, Paul Preckel, Ken Foster and Allan Schinckel – Economic Livestock Replacement with a Heterogeneous Herd
Terry Griffin, Glenn Fitzgerald, Dayton Lambert and James Lowenberg-DeBoer – Comparison of Spatial Statistical Methods for On-Farm Research Using Precision Technologies
Philip Paarlberg, John Lee and Ann Seitzinger – BSE Trade Restrictions and Their Impacts on Livestock and Products
Paul Preckel, John Cranfield and Thomas Hertel – Implicit, Additive Preferences – A Further Generalization of the CES
Kenneth Foster, Jason Grant and Dayton Lambert – An inverse Almost Ideal Demand System of Fresh Tomatoes in the U.S.
Gerald Shively and Ana Rios – Farm Size and Nonparametric Efficiency Measurements for Coffee Farms in Vietnam
Ernesto Valenzuela, Carlos Ludena, Maros Ivanic and Thomas Hertel – Crops and Livestock Productivity Growth Impacts on Income Distribution and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Michael Gunderson, Jayson Lusk and Bailey Norwood – Getting Something from Nothing: Using the Non Option to Investigate Demand Expansion and Substitution in the Presence of Beef Quality Heterogeneity
Thomas Hertel – Regional Poverty Impacts of Alternative Doha Scenarios
Channing Arndt – Impacts of Alternative Doha Scenarios on Poverty in Mozambique
Raymond Florax, Chiara Travisi, Peter Nijkamp – A Meta-Analysis of the Willingness to Pay for Reductions in Pesticide Risk Exposure
John Connor – Extraterritoriality of the Sherman Act and Deterrence of Private International Cartels
Blondel Brinkman and Douglas Miller – The Impact of Farmland Preservation Programs on the Rate of Urban Development
Kathryn Boys and Kenneth Foster – Bias and Scale Effects of Direct Government Payments
Otto Doering – Experience As a panel Manager of an NRI Multidisciplinary and Integrated Grants Programs
Maria Marshall and Whitney Peake – Human Capital and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship: A Key Component or Much Ado about Nothing?
Jay Lillywhite, Paul Preckel and James Eales – Maintaining Parameter Invariance in Censored Micro-Level Data
Joe Balagtas and Sounghun Kim – Beggar Thy-Self Advertising: A Multi-Market Model of Generic Promotion for Dairy Products
John Connor – Price-Fixing Overcharges: Legal and Economic Evidence
Richard Yao, Gerald Shively and William Masters – Are Government Interventions in Food Markets Successful? Insights from the Philippine Rice Market
Philip Paarlberg and Mildred Haley – Canadian/Japan/U.S. Beef Trade and Impacts of Market Shocks
Otto Doering and Douglas Lawrence – Green Payment Programs: Does the Conservation Security Program Fit the Bill?
James Lowenberg-DeBoer, Dayton Lambert and Gary Malzer – Managing Phosphorous Soil Fertility over Space and Time
Allan Gray and Ana Rios – U.S. Agriculture: Commercial and Large Producer Concentration and Implication for Agribusiness Marketing Strategies
Alexia Brunet – Protecting Our Homeland: Incorporating Vulnerability to Terrorism in State Homeland Security Grants
Carlos Ludena, Thomas Hertel, Paul Preckel, Alejandro Nin Pratt – Disaggregate Productivity Growth in Livestock Production: A Directional Malmquist Index Approach
Timothy Zimmer and William Masters – Foreign Entry and the Pricing Power of Marketing Orders: Mint Oils in the Far West
Renan Zhuang and Philip Abbott – Price Elasticities of Key Agricultural Commodities in China
Jeffrey Vitale and John Lee – Land Degradation in the Sahel : An Application of Biophysical Modeling in the Optimal Control Setting
Raymond Florax, Bobby Martens and Frank Dooley – The Effect of Entry by Supercenter and Warehouse Club Retailers on Grocery Retailers and Grocery Expenditures
Alla Golub and James Binkley – Determinants of Household Choice of Breakfast Cereals: Healthy or Unhealthy?
Brigitte Waldorf, Pillsung Byun, Raymond Florax – Strategic Interaction and Spatial Multiplier Effects in Local Growth Control Policies: The California Housing Market
Jason Grant and Dayton Lambert – Regionalism in World Agricultural Trade: Lessons from Gravity Model Estimation
Karin Larsen and Kenneth Foster – A Comparison of Technical Efficiency Measures between Organic and Conventional Producers in Sweden 1998-2002
Discussants/Organizer/Moderator/Panelist:
Corinne Alexander: Guidelines for Writing a Curriculum Vitae
Michael Boehlje: Agribusiness Consulting: New Norms and practices for the Agricultural Economics Profession
Corinne Alexander and Frank Dooley: Simulations as a Pedagogical Tool; Which Characteristics Increase Learning?
Brigitte Waldorf: Rural Poverty and International Development
Thomas Hertel: Impact of the Doha Agenda on Poverty in Developing Countries
Otto Doering: The Literature of Agricultural Economics; Scripture and Prophecy
William Masters: Using Prices to Reward Innovation in African Agriculture
Raymond Florax: Consumer Behavior and Preferences for Food Assurances
Gerald Shively: Household Decision-Making
Alexia Brunet: Budget Cuts, Buyout, Agro-Terrorism and Cartels
Corinne Alexander: Agroterrorism and Food Policy
Jason Grant: Economic Analyses of Free Trade Agreements Thought You Would Like To Know:
AWARD WINNING HOOSIER EDUCATORS NAMED
The Indiana Council for Economic Education is pleased to announce the 2005 Olin W. Davis Award for Excellence in Teaching Economics Awards .
Statewide Winner:
Mary Grabianowski, Zionsville High School
Regional Winners:
Donald Fortner, Munster High School
Mark Kosisko, Randolph Southern Elementary School, Lynn
Patricia O'Brien, Central Middle School , Kokomo
Megan Thompson, Central Elementary School , Plainfield
Kacie Withers, South Central Elementary School , Elizabeth
Honorable Mention:
Deborah Beam, Kids' Station Pre-School , Mexico
Tami Housholder, Kendallville Middle School
Vincent Huffman, Caston Jr./Sr High School, Fulton
Professor Olin W. Davis formalized the economic education programs at Purdue University in 1954. Under his leadership, economic education's sphere of influence grew to impact thousands of Indiana citizens. Professor Davis died in 1970. The Olin W. Davis Awards for Exemplary Teaching of Economics in Indiana is sponsored by the Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE), which is built on the foundation Professor Davis established and honors him with this fitting tribute, and funded by Indiana Farm Bureau & Farm Bureau Insurance.
Award recipients are selected based on their professional training and teaching experience, classroom projects in economic education, their influence on school economic education programs, and their involvement in activities outside the classroom that promote economic education.
These awards and others will be presented at the Indiana Council for Economic Education's Annual Awards for Excellence Program and Luncheon on Wednesday, October 12 th , 2005 at The Fountains in Carmel . For information on this event, call (765) 494-8545, or visit the ICEE website at www.econed-in.org .
FROM ICEE :
www.ces.purdue.edu/extmedia/EC/EC-734.pdf
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Janet Ayres gave a presentation titled, “Community Development Practice Informs Public Policy: A Case Study of a Rural School District ” at the Community Development Society annual meeting in Baltimore , June 26-29. During the awards banquet, she was recognized with a plaque and gift for having served three years on the Board of Directors.
Raymond Florax will present the following papers at the 45th European Congress of the Regional Science Association, to be held 23 – 27 August 2005 in Amsterdam , The Netherlands:
Daniel, Vanessa Eve, Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Piet Rietveld, “River flooding and housing values - an economic assessment of environmental risk.”
Hoogstra, Gerke, Jouke Van Dijk, Raymond J.G.M. Florax. “Do jobs follow people or people follow jobs? A meta-analysis of Carlino-Mills studies.”
De Dominicis, Laura, Henri L.F. De Groot, Raymond J.G.M. Florax. “Growth and Inequality - a Meta-Analysis.”
Florax, Raymond J.G.M., Henri L.F. De Groot, Peter Mulder. “A Spatial Economic Perspective on Energy Productivity in Different World Regions.”
Abreu, Maria, Henri L.F. De Groot, Raymond J.G.M. Florax. “Spatial Effects of Tax Regimes on Foreign Direct Investment”
Sá, Carla, Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Piet Rietveld. “Leaving parental home and university decisions of Dutch young adults.”
Edna Loehman presented a paper entitled, “ Sustaining Groundwater: Investment, Economic Organization, Pricing, And Public Participation” on June 27 at the AWRA specialty conference on Institutions for Sustainable Watershed Management in Honolulu , HI .
Allan Gray and Paul V. Preckel presented the invited paper “ Vertically Aligned vs. Open Market Coordination: Dominance or Co-Existence? ” at the IFORS (International Federation of Operations Research Society) meetings in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 11-15.
Brigitte Waldorf, a member of the Scientific Programme of the 45 th Congress of the European Regional Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 23-27, 2005, will present, “The emergence of a knowledge agglomeration: a spatio-temporal analysis of intellectual capital in Indiana.”
In addition, she will chair the Young Scientist Session: Labour Markets III . 45 th Congress of the European Regional Science Conference, Amsterdam , The Netherlands , August 23-27, 2005.
Brigitte Waldorf. Discussant of The spatial dimension of segregation - a case study in four french urban areas, 1990-1999 by Frédéric Gaschet and Julie Le Gallo. 45 th Congress of the European Regional Science Conference, Amsterdam , The Netherlands , August 23-27, 2005.
Brigitte Waldorf. Discussant of, Regional disparities in a small country? An assessment of the regional dimension to the Dutch labour market on the basis of regional unemployment and participation differentials by Wouter Vermeulen. 45 th Congress of the European Regional Science Conference, Amsterdam , The Netherlands , August 23-27, 2005.
Publications:
Abreu, Maria, Henri L.F. de Groot and Raymond J.G.M. Florax (2005) A Meta-Analysis of ?-convergence: The Legendary 2%, Journal of Economic Surveys , 19(3), 389-420.
Edwin, J. and W.A. Masters. 2005. “Genetic Improvement and Cocoa Yields in Ghana .” Experimental Agriculture , 41(4), in press.
Erickson, B. J., Mishili, F. J., and Lowenberg-DeBoer, J. M. 2005. “Value of more uniform nitrogen application across the toolbar.” Crop Management doi:10.1094/CM-2005-0714-01-RS ( http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/sub/cm/research/2005/toolbar/ ).
Gunderson, Michael, Josh Detre, Michael Boehlje. “Marketing's Role in Managing Assets,” AgriMarketing , 43(6): July/August 2005.
Gunderson, Michael, Josh Detre, Brian Briggeman, Michael Boehlje. “The Search for an Optimal Capital Structure: Using Debt Effectively,” Seed World , 16(6): July 2005.
Gunderson, Michael, Josh Detre, Michael Boehlje. “Pulling the Levers to Improve Profitability,” AgriMarketing , 43(5): June 2005.
Johnson , M.E. , W.A. Masters and P.V. Preckel, forthcoming 2006. "Diffusion and Spillover of New Technology: A Heterogeneous-Agent Model for Cassava in West Africa ." Agricultural Economics .
Kazianga, H. and W.A. Masters, forthcoming 2006. "Property Rights, Production Technology and Deforestation: Cocoa in Cameroon ." Agricultural Economics .
Masters, W.A. 2005. “Paying for Prosperity: How and Why to Invest in Agricultural R&D in Africa .” Journal of International Affairs , 58(2): 35-64.
Visit the AICC (Agricultural Innovation and Commercialization Center ) website for information on business planning: www.agecon.purdue.edu/planner .
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