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Congratulations and Names in the News:
Congratulations to Jay Akridge, appointed Interim Dean of Agriculture.
Sally Thompson has accepted the position of Director, Market and Trade Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA beginning in early September. Faculty and staff of Agricultural Economics thank her for six outstanding years of service to Purdue and wish her all the best in her new position in Washington, DC.
We welcome Ken Foster as Interim Head of Department and Gerald Shively as Director of the Graduate Program.
Christine Wilson has resigned to take a position at Kansas State University as Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Academic Programs. She will begin in August and will take a leadership role in student retention issues and activities, and an entrepreneurial program.
Allan Gray has been named as the Interim Director of CAB.
Megan Sheely won the Best Undergraduate Student Paper at the AAEA meetings. The title of her paper was “Global Adoption of Convenience Foods”. Frank Dooley served as her advisor.
Congratulations to the following PhD student who have successfully completed the economic theory prelim:
Bokar Moussa So Yeong Lim
Yuanlong Ge Miriam Otoo
Amanda Leister Samantha Snyder
May 2008 Graduates
Amelie Belanger – MS
Sarah Breechbill – MS
Manuel Filipe – PhD
Sika Gbegbelegbe – PhD
Liesel Grauberger – MS
Brandon Hollas – MS
Quintrell Hollis – MS
Aura Mejia – MS
Anthony Oliver – MS
Jong Won Park – MS
Whitney Oliver Peake – PhD
Micah Pope – MS
Justin Quear – MS
Ana Rios – PhD
Della Serna – MS
Samantha Snyder – MS
Ian Van Lieu – MS
Ce Wu – MS
August 2008 Graduates
Syam Ambadipudi - MSN
Behnam Arjomandi - MS
Priya Bhagowalia - PhD
Mahesh Srinivasan - MS
Kosuke Tamura - MSN
MS/MBA
Ron Cantwell
Andrew Carlson
Garrett Costello
Heather Dale
Shara Engel
Edward Fischer
Andrew Karl
Loren Koeman
Ryan Kruger
Kara McDonald
Bryan Mergen
Kristin Monnier
Adam Otts
Carl Peterson
David Reznicek
Sean Rosario
Steven Tomac
Bruce Ulmer
Lloyd Ward
Thought you would like to know :
Farm Foundation Forum - Farm Foundation works as a catalyst for sound public policy by providing objective information to foster a deeper understanding of issues shaping the future for agriculture, food systems and rural regions. Farm Foundation has a 75-year history of objectivity. It does not lobby or advocate.
A new Farm Foundation report, What's Driving Food Prices?, was released Wednesday, July 23, at the Farm Foundation Forum. Farm Foundation commissioned the report to provide an objective context for interpreting the rapidly growing literature on the forces driving food prices. The report discusses key drivers, including commodity supply and demand shocks, trade and exchange rates and biofuels. An annotated bibliography of recent literature is also included in the report.
The report's authors- Wallace Tyner, Christopher Hurt and Philip Abbott, all of Purdue University- discussed highlights of the report July 23rd, First Amendment Lounge, National Press Club, Washington, DC
Presentations at the AAEA Annual Meeting:
Posters:
Will Too Many Lower Quality Fruits Damage the Organic Market - Yuanong Ge and Holly Wang
Linkages Between Market Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-Country Household Sample – Ana Rios, Will Masters and Gerald Shively
Innovation and Uncertainty: Application of Option and Portfolio Concepts to Strategy Development: Mike Boehlje, Allan Gray and Maud Roucan
Production Efficiency of Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the United States: Carlos Mayen, Joe Balagtas and Corinne Alexander
Optimal Management of Molds in Stored Corn: Yigezu Yigezu, Paul Preckel and Corinne Alexander
Changes in the Transportation Flows Arising From an Expansion in Ethanol – Frank Dooley, Justin Quear and Wallace Tyner
Presentations:
Immigrants’ Selective Destination Choices by Educational Attainment Level – Brigitte Waldorf and Raymond Florax
The Midwest Potential for Cellulosic Ethanol and the Possible Role for Extension in Developing the Industry – Wallace Tyner
The Economic Effects of New Product Beef Promotion in Guatemala – Amanda Leister, C. Parr Rosson and Oral Capps
Policy Options for Integrated Energy and Agricultural Markets – Wallace Tyner and Farzad Taheripour
North American Oriented Strand Board Markets, Arbitrage Activity, and market Price Dynamics: A Smooth Transition Approach – Matt Holt, Barry Goodwin and Jeffrey Prestemon
Heteroskedasticity-Robust Covariance Estimation with Spatial Autocorrelation: Monte Carlo Experiments and an Application to Hedonic Pricing Models – Dayton Lambert and Raymond Florax
Traits Affecting Household Livestock Marketing Decisions in Rural Kenya – Katherine Baldwin and Ken Foster
Estimating Farm Level Multivariate Yield Distribution Using Nonparametric Methods – Qiujie Zheng, Holly Wang, Qinghua Shi
Public Perception and Food Safety Challenges Regarding Agricultural Biotechnology – Marshall Martin
Rebuilding Agricultural Higher Education in Afghanistan – Kevin McNamara
The Distribution of Child Nutritional Status across Countries and over Time – Priya Bhagowalia, Susan Chen and Will Masters
What’s Driving Food Prices? – Phil Abbott, Chris Hurt and Wally Tyner
Livestock Disease Indemnity Design When Moral Hazard is Followed by Adverse Selection – Ben Graming, Richard Horan and Christopher Wolf
The View from the Department – Frank Dooley, Dixie Reaves
A Spatial Hedonic Model with Time-varing Parameters: A New Method Using Flexible Least Squares – Todd Kuethe, Ken Foster and Raymond Florax
Modeling Non-Linear Spatial Dynamics: A Family of Spatial STAR Models and an Application to U.S. Economic Growth – Val Pede, Raymond Florax and Matt Holt
Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Certified Pork Chops when Facing Branded vs Non-branded Choices – David Ubilava, Ken Foster, Jayson Lusk and Tomas Nilsson
Biofuels and Their By-products: Global Economic and Environmental Implications – Farzad Taheripour, Dileep Birur, Jayson Beckman, Thomas Hertel and Wally Tyner
Retaining Competitiveness of the Cotton Sector in Francophone West Africa: Increase Productivity or Policy Reform? Felix Baquedano and John Sanders
Lome Convention Expiration and the Demand for Imported Cut Flowers in the EU: Implications for the Kenyan Cut Flower Sector – Andrew Muhammad, Jennifer Denis, William Amponsah
The Global Impacts of Multi-national Biofuel Mandates – Dileep Birur, Thomas Hertel and Wallace Tyner
Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts of U.S. Biofuels – Thomas Hertel, Alla Golub, Steven Rose and Brent Sohngen
Effects of U.S. Farm Policy on Equity and Efficiency – Micah Pope and Roman Keeney
How Beneficial is Tourism? An Analysis of the Economic Impact of Tourism in Il N’gwesi, Kenya – Vanessa DeVeau and Maria Marshall
The New Economic of Livestock Production management – Todd Hubbs, Paul Preckel, Allan Schinckel, John Deen, Ken Foster, Stan Curtis, Wayne Johnson
Farm and Non-farm Family Business Management Strategies – Maria Marshall
An Analysis of Successful Farm Family Businesses – Christine Wilson
News from GTAP:
The Center for Global Trade Analysis held two important events in the month of June in Helsinki, Finland: the GTAP Advisory Board Meeting and the Eleventh Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis.
GTAP Advisory Board Meeting
The annual GTAP Advisory Board Meeting was held at the House of the Estates (Säätytalo) in Helsinki, Finland from June 9-10, 2008. The purpose of this meeting of GTAP Consortium members was to advise the Center on matters of policy, research agenda, and funding.
More information on the Advisory Board Meeting can be found on the GTAP website at: https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/events/Board_Meetings/2008/default.asp.
Eleventh Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis
The Eleventh Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis  was held at the Marina Congress Center in Helsinki, Finland from June 12-14, 2008. The goal of the conference was to promote the exchange of ideas among economists conducting quantitative analysis of global economic issues. The overall theme of the conference was “Future of Global Economy”.
Purdue University was represented at the conference with the following presentations:
A Nested PE/GE Model for GTAP: Simulating the Disaggregated Impacts of Tariff-Liberalization on Automotive Industry in India
by Narayanan, Badri, Thomas Hertel and Mark Horridge
Biofuels and their By-Products: Global Economic and Environmental Implications
by Taheripour, Farzad, Thomas Hertel, Wally Tyner, Jayson Beckman and Dileep Birur
Economic Analysis of U.S. Immigration Reforms
by Aguiar, Angel H. and Terrie Walmsley
Estimation of Missing intra-African trade
by Villoria, Nelson
Modeling Endogenous Trade Facilitation
by Mirza, Tasneem
Biofuels for all? Understanding the Global Impacts of Multinational Mandates
by Hertel, Thomas, Wally Tyner and Dileep Birur
The Non-MFN Effects of MFN Specific Tariffs
by Chowdhury, Sohini
More information on the Eleventh Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis can be found on the GTAP website at: https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/events/conferences/2008/default.asp
News from Center for Food and Agricultural Business:
Upcoming program:
Precision Selling No. 1 July 31-Aug. 1
Precision Selling No. 2 on Aug. 21-22.
National Conference for Agribusiness – November 18-19
Program Overview Understanding the evolution of commercial agricultural production is fundamental to the success of firms providing products, services and information to these customers. The Large Commercial Producer Project, an in-depth survey conducted every five years by researchers at Purdue University, shares insight into trends and issues shaping this industry and allows agribusinesses to better understand commercial farming operations. At this conference, Purdue agribusiness faculty will lead a meaningful and directed exploration of commercial production operations and the decision makers charged with leading them. Using data uncovered through the survey, our team of faculty researchers will discuss the practical implications of changing commercial producer attitudes, preferences and buying behaviors.
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab/index.html
Travel, Speeches and Presented Papers:
Joe Balagtas, “Production Efficiency of Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the United States,” symposium paper at the European Agricultural Economics Congress in Ghent, Belgium August 2008 (co-authored with Mayen and Alexander)
Joe Balagtas, “Economic Analysis of the Ingreso Objetivo Policy in Mexico,” poster presentation at the European Agricultural Economics Congress in Ghent, Belgium August 2008 (co-authored with D.A. Sumner)
Jason Brown will attend the 48th Congress of the European Regional Science Association in Liverpool, UK August 27-31 where he will present a paper entitled “Evolution of Investment Flows in U.S. Manufacturing: A Spatial Panel Approach.” The paper is co-authored with Dr. Raymond Florax and Dr. Kevin McNamara.
Hertel, T.W. “Determining the Effects of US Biofuels on Global Land Use”, based on joint work with D. Birur, F. Taheripour and W.E. Tyner, presented to the California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, California, June 30, 2008.
Hertel, T.W. “Indirect Land Use Impacts of Biofuels Programs”, based on joint work with D. Birur, F. Taheripour and W.E. Tyner, presented to the Conference on Lifecycle Analysis of Biofuels, University of California at Berkeley, July 2, 2008.
Publications:
John Connor, Chapter “Optimal Cartel Fines”, Issues in Competition Law and Policy: Three Volumes, Wayne Dale Collins (editor). Chicago: Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association (released July 2008) [with Robert H. Lande]. (2450 pp.)
Optimal Cartel Fines, Issues in Competition Law and Policy: Three Volumes, Wayne Dale Collins (editor). Chicago: Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association (July 2008) [with Robert H. Lande].
Global Cartels Redux: The Amino Acid Lysine Antitrust Litigation (1996), The Antitrust Revolution (Fifth Edition), John E. Kwoka and Lawrence White (editors). Oxford: Oxford University Press (July 2008).
The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s Cartel Enforcement: Appraisal and Proposals: SSRN Working Paper. (Revised April 26, 2008). [with assistance of an AAI Task Force, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1130204]
A Critique of Partial Leniency for Cartels by the U.S. Department of Justice: SSRN Working Paper (revised May 26, 2008). [available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=977772]
Cartel Sanctions: An Empirical Analysis: SSRN Working Paper (April 2008). [with Yuliya Bolotova] [Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1116421]
Latin America and the Control of International Cartels: SSRN Working Paper (April 14, 2008). [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1156401]
Determinants of Cartel Duration: A Cross-sectional Study of Private International Cartels, 1990-2003: SSRN Working Paper (July 2008). [with Jeffrey Zimmerman] [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1158577]
Factors Influencing the Magnitude of Cartel Overcharges: An Empirical Analysis of Food Industry Cartels : SSRN Working Paper (July 14, 2008). [with Yuliya Bolotova and Douglas J. Miller] [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1101705]
Narayanan, Badri G. (2008). Indian Textile Sector: An Analysis of Aspects Related to Domestic Supply and Demand. In UNESCAP (eds), Unveiling Protectionism: Regional Responses to Remaining Barriers in the Textiles and Clothing Trade. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific, Bangkok. pp. 129-156
Narayanan, Badri G. (2008). “Effects of Phasing out of MFA Quotas on Indian Garment Exports, 1992-2003”. Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies Journal, 8(1): pp 71-88
Job Announcements:
Rutgers: Research Associate
University of Minnesota: Assistant or Associate Professor – Energy Economics
North Dakota State University: Temporary Lecturer in Agribusiness
University of Connecticut: Post-doctoral Fellow
University of Kentucky: Environmental Resources – Assistant Professor
North Carolina A&T University: Department Chairperson
California State University Chico: Two tenure track faculty positions in Agribusiness
University of Florida: Agribusiness – tenure track position
North Dakota State University: lecturer position – agribusiness, finance, marketing
ERS: http://www.ers.usda.gov/AboutERS/Employment/OpportunitiesPage.htm
Career and Job Sites on the Internet:
For further information, see the Job Posting File in Room 651
Contact Lou Ann Baugh concerning information to be included in future issues of KT
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