Calendar of Events:
August 17/18
August 21
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Graduate Student Orientation
First Day of Fall 2006 classes |
Congratulations and Names in the News:
American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Awards
Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
Richard Tolentino Yao, “Impacts of Irrigation Development on Agricultural Productivity, Resource Allocation and Income Distribution: A Longitudinal Analysis from Palawan, The Philippines ,” Gerald Shively, Advisor
Distinguished Teaching
Less Than 10 Years' Experience
Christine Wilson
INVenture (Agricultural Innovation and Commercialization Center ) received the 2006 “Outstanding Agricultural Economics Extension Website” Award from the Extension Section of AAEA. Maria Marshall
AAEA Annual Meeting
Presentations:
Wallace Tyner: Posting the Position Announcements: What to Expect from the Applicant?
Otto Doering: Responding to Job Postings and Preparing the Application Package.
Dana Marcellino and Christine Wilson: Valuing Farm Financial Information
Joe Balagtas and Jeane Coulibaly: Import Demand for Dairy products in Cote D/Ivoire
Ernesto Valenzuela and Thomas Hertel: Poverty Vulnerability and Trade Policy: Are the Impacts Discernable?
Brian Briggeman & Allan Gray: A New U.S. Farm Household Typology: Implications for Agricultural Subsidies
Angel Aquiar & Ken Foster: Evaluation of the Substitutability between U.S. and Canadian Softwood Lumber
Matt Holt and Joe Balagtas: Unit Roots, TV-STAR's and the Commodity Terms of Trade: A Further Assessment of the Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis
Huey-Lin Lee, Steven Rose, Thomas Hertel and Navin Ramankutty: The Role of Land Heterogeneity in Determining Climate Change Mitigation Costs
Channing Arndt: Orphans and Discrimination in Mozambique : An Outlay Equivalence Analysis
Jay Akridge and Mike Boland: NFAMEC Recommendations
George Patrick: The role of Regional Committees and AAEA Sections in Scholarship Development
Michael Gunderson: Understanding How Farmers Evaluate and Value Services
Anetra Harbor , Marshall Martin and Jay Akridge: Assessing Agricultural Input Brand Loyalty among U.S. Mid-Size and Commercial Producers
Bobby Martens, Frank Dooley and Sounghun Kim: The Effect of Entry by Wal-Mart Supercenters on Retail Grocery Concentration
Roman Keeney: Supply Response in Agriculture: Farm-Level and Sector-Wide Adjustment Reconciled
Jacob AcMoody, Joe Balagtas, Michael Boehlje and Allan Gray: The 2007 Farm Bill: Farm-Level Financial Implications
Yuliya Bolotova: Crop Production Using Variable Rate Technology for P&K in the United States Midwest : Evaluation of Profitability.
Brigitte Waldorf: A Continuous Multi-Dimensional Measure of Rurality: Moving beyond Threshold Measures
Valerien Pede and Raymond Florax: The Role of Knowledge Externalities in the Spatial Distribution of Economic Growth: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for U.S. counties, 1969-2003
Linda Young and Philip Abbott: The WTO Negotiations and Disciplines for Food Aid
Carolos Ludena and Sata Wong: Domestic Support Policies for Agriculture and the U.S.-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement: An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis
Jason Grant, Thomas Hertel and Thomas Rutherford: Extending General Equilibrium analysis to the Tariff Line: U.S. Dairy in the Doha Development Agenda
Adela Nistor and James Lowenberg-Deboer: Drainage Water management Impact on Farm Profitability
Corinne Alexander and Thuy Van Mellor: An Economic Analysis of Control of the Western Corn Rootworm Variant in Indiana
Yigezu Yigezu, Kenneth Foster and Van Lantz: Production Structure, Technological Change and Scale Economies in the Saw and Planing Mills Industry , New Brunswick , Canada
Corinne Alexander and Andrew McKenzie: Event Studies of Impact of Katrina on Corn and Soybean Cash and Futures Prices
Michael Wilcox and Philip Abbott: Can Cocoa Farmer organizations Countervail Buyer Market Power?
Maria Marshall and Ananya Samal: The Effect of Human and Financial Capital on the Entrepreneurial Process: An Urban-rural Comparison of Entrepreneurs in Indiana
Joan Fulton, Germaine Ibro and James Lowenberg-DeBoer: Factors Affecting Success for Women Entrepreneurs in West Africa
Jeffrey Vitale and David Bessler: The 2004 Niger Food Crisis: What Role Can Price Discovery Play in Famine Early Warning Systems?
Organizer:
Channing Arndt: Orphaning and HIV/AIDS: Three Analyses from Africa
Joe Balagtas and Allan Gray: Incidence of 2007 Farm Bill Alternatives
Panelist:
Frank Dooley: Implementing Best Practices for Learning Outcomes in Agribusiness Education
Moderator:
Corinne Alexander: Produce and Food Ingredient Markets
Maria Marshall: Agribusiness Contracting and Production Agriculture
William Masters: Orphaning and HIV/AIDS: Three Analyses from Africa
James Eales: Fruit and Vegetable Demands and Some Externalities
Carlos Ludena: Applications of General Equilibrium Models to International Trade
Corinne Alexander: Impact of Disaster Events on the U.S. Grain and Oilseed Sector: The Case of Hurricane Katrina
Allan Gray: Incidence of 2007 Farm Bill Alternatives
Matthew Holt: Green Revolution and Agricultural Productivity in Developing Countries
Thought you would like to know:
Professor Stephen Lovejoy announced his retirement from Purdue University after 26 years of service effective July 21, 2006. Dr. Lovejoy accepted a position at Michigan State University as Associate Director of Programs for Michigan Extension.
Will Masters and Jerry Shively will become editors-in-chief of Agricultural Economics , effective January 1st 2007. They will receive all new manuscripts for this journal starting Sept. 1st 2006. Agricultural Economics is the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and is among the most important outlets for worldwide research in our field.
The Center for Global Trade Analysis:
The Center for Global Trade Analysis recently held the Fourteenth Annual Short Course in Global Trade Analysis here on the campus of Purdue University from July 29 – August 4, 2006.
The course consisted of two main parts:
Part I was a series of weekly, online modules aimed at increasing the familiarity of the course participants with the theory behind GTAP, the standard GTAP notation, and the course software.
Part II was an intensive, week-long course consisting of a mix of daily lectures, lab assignments, and informal discussions designed to introduce participants to the basic features of the model and GTAP Data Base.
In total, 32 individuals from 12 different countries participated in this course; all contributing to its astounding success.
More information on the Fourteenth Annual Short Course in Global Trade Analysis can be found on the GTAP website at: http://www.gtap.org/events/Short_Courses/2006/default.asp .
Harlan Day offered a Summer Workshop in Economics Education, July 19-July 28 th in Columbus , Indiana.
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Otto Doering, Tom Hertel, Will Masters, and Wally Tyner will be participating in the meetings of the International Association of Agricultural Economics August 12-19 in Brisbane , Australia
Lowenberg-DeBoer, J., "Adoption and Profitability of Precision Agriculture Worldwide", keynote address at the 8th International Precision Agriculture Conference, Minneapolis, MN, July 23-26, 2006.
Griffin, T.W., J.M. Lowenberg-DeBoer and R.J.G.M. Florax, "Improving Farm Management Decision Making: Experience from Spatial Analysis of Yield Monitor Data from Field-Scale On-Farm Trials," paper presented at the 8th International Precision Agriculture Conference, Minneapolis, MN, July 23-26, 2006.
Lowenberg-DeBoer, J.M., T.W. Griffin, and R.J.G.M. Florax, "Use of Cross Regresson to Model Local Spatial Autocorrelatoin in Precision Agriculture," paper presented at the 8th International Precision Agriculture Conference, Minneapolis, MN, July 23-26, 2006.
Publications:
Will Masters' new textbook, Economics of Agricultural Development , will be available soon in hardback and paperback. It can be pre-ordered from Amazon.com or through Dr. Masters' website, www.agecon.purdue.edu/staff/masters. The citation is: Economics of Agricultural Development , by George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang and William A. Masters (Routledge Press, July, 2006).
Job Announcements:
Cornell University : Research Associate
Texas Tech: Assist Prof in Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Florida : Two faculty positions
University of Tennessee : Endowed Chair in Agri-business Development
Michigan State University : 3 tenure faculty positions
Western Kentucky : Analysis Position
North Carolina State University : three tenure track faculty positions
University of Georgia : Agribusiness Finance faculty position
Purdue Extension Service: www.ces.purdue.edu/careers/
Career and Job Sites on the Internet:
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