Keeping Track
August 2009
Calendar of Events:
August 20-21 |
New Graduate Student Orientation |
Going Green Tip for August: Leave bar soap by the sink BECAUSE most liquid soap comes in nonrenewable plastic packaging. Substituting one bottle with a bar in each U.S. home would keep 2.5 million pounds of plastic out of landfills.
AAEA Congratulations:
John Connor and Matt Hold were named AAEA Fellows
Phil Abbott, Chris Hurt, and Wally Tyner : Quality of Communication Award
Joan Fulton and Maria Marshall Group Distinguished Extension Award
Benjamin Gramig: Dissertation Honorable Mention
Ken Foster: Graduate Teaching, 10 or more years
Anna Flaig: Graduate Student Extension Competition Award
The Food Safety and Nutrition Section of AAEA awarded the best economics paper to “Determining the Impact of Food Price and Income Changes on Body Weight” by Christiane Schroeter, Jason Lusk, and Wallace Tyner. It appears in the Journal of Health Economics 27 (2008). The award was presented at their section meeting on July 28.
Sam Clark won the undergraduate paper competition at the AAEA. Corinne Alexander served as his advisor.
Posters:
Does Experience Determine Performance? A meta-analysis on the Experience-Performance Relationship – Whitney Peake, Murray State University and Maria Marshall
Ethanol Plant Profitability and Excess Capacity – Frank Dooley, Maria Cox and Lydia Cox
A Meta-analysis of Spatial Effects in Economic Growth – Guyslain Ngeleza, Raymond Florax and William Masters
The Geography of Bilateral Trade and the Indirect Land Use Effects of Biofuel Policy – Nelson Villoria and Thomas Hertel
Spatial Panel Analysis of Precision Agriculture Data: The Case of Managed Drainage in Indiana – Benoit Delbecq, Raymond Florax, Adela Nistor, Jason Brown and Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer
Selected papers:
Effects of Supply Chain Management for Food and Grocery Companies, Bobby Martens, Frank Dooley and Philip Blomeke
China and the Agricultural Exports of South America, Nelson Villoria
Latest Developments in Cellulosic Biofuels, Wally Tyner
Vertical Economies of Scope for Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the United States, Carlos Mayen, Joseph Balagtas, and Corinne Alexander
Balancing the Responsibilities of a Research/Teaching/Extension Assistant Professor – Joseph Balagtas
Jointly-determined Livestock Disease Dynamics and Decentralized Economic Behavior – Benjamin Gramig and Richard Horan
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Alternative Extension Methods: Triple-bag Storage of Cowpeas by Small-scale Famers in West Africa – Bokar Moussa, Miriam Otto, Joan Fulton, and Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer
Gender Gaps in Goal Orientation in Family Businesses – Maria Marshall
Global Land Use Change from Biofuel Policies and Agricultural Supply Adjustment at the Intensive and Extensive Margins – Thomas Hertel and Roman Keeney
Risk in Livestock Disease and Invasive Species – Benjamin Gramig
Consumer Preferences for U.S. Pork in Urban China – David Ortega and H. Holly Wang
The Economy-wide Greenhouse Gas Impacts of the Biofuels Boom (or Bust) – Dileep Birur, Alla Golub, and Thomas Hertel
Implications of Expansion of Biofuel Industries for the Global Livestock Industry: A Computable General Equilibrium analysis – Farzad Taheripour, Thomas Hertel, and Wally Tyner
Innovation in the Food and Agricultural Industries: A Complex Adaptive System – Mike Boehlje, Stefanie Broring
Innovativeness and Core Competencies: A Model for Agribusiness Food Chain Innovation – Aaron Johnson, Joshua Detre and Allan Gray
Obesity, Fast Food and Grocery stores: Evidence from Geo-referenced Mcro Data – Susan chen, Raymond Florax and Samantha Snyder
Commodity Price Volatility and Nutrition Vulnerability – Monika Verma and Thomas Hertel
Agricultural Prices and Income Distribution among Famers: A Whole-household, Multi-country, Multiyear Analysis – Ana Rios, Gerald Shively and William Masters
The Relative Role of Land in Climate Policy – Alla Golub and Thomas Hertel, Steven Rose Brent Sohngen and Misak Avetisyan
Climate Volatility and the Poverty Vulnerability in Tanzania – Syud Ahmed, Noah Diffenbaugh and Thomas Hertel
Firm Birth and Death in U.S. Manufacturing: A Regional Adjustment Model – Jason Brown, Dayton Lambert and Raymond Florax
Employment Growth and Income Inequality: Accounting for Spatial and Sectoral Differences – Valerien Pede and Raymond Florax, Mark Partridge
Round Pegs in Square Holes: Incorporating Livestock Depopulation into Economics Models – Kenneth Matthews, Philip Paarlberg, Ann Seitzinger, John Lee
Geography and Economic Transition: Spatial Analysis at the Grid Cell Level – Mesbah Motamed, Raymond Florax and William Masters
Estimating Structural Change with Smooth Transition Regressions: An Application to Meat Demand – Matthew Holt and Joseph Balagtas
Consequences of Biofuel Policies on U.S. Farm Household Wealth – Jayson Beckman and Roman Keeney
Market Competition, Institutions, and Contracting Outcomes – James MacDonald and Steven Wu
Ownership compositions in Local Hotel Markets: A Spatial Analysis of Texas Hotels – Claes Gustav Helmers, John Connor, Raymond Florax and Govert Vroom
Optimal Allocation of Authority in Agricultural Production Contracts – Metin Cakir, Joseph Balagtas and Steven Wu
The Economics of Integrated Insect Pest Management in Stored corn – Yigezu Yigezu, Paul Preckel, and Corinne Alexander
Nonlinearities in the World Vegetable Oil Price System: El Nino Effect – David Ubilava and Matthew Holt
Organizer:
David Ubilava – Student Adviser Match: Path to the Successful Career
William Masters - New Data Sources for Research on Agricultural Development
Maria Marshall – Integrating the Family into the Business
Thomas Hertel and Roman Keeney – Global Land Use Impacts of Biofuels: Evidenceon the Intensive and Extensive Margins
William Masters – Effects of Food Price Spikes on Dietary Quality in the United States, Mexico, and Worldwide
Paul Preckel – Publishing the AJAE: The Editors’ Perspective
Allan Gray – Innovation Strategy; A New Frontier in Global Agrifood Supply Chains
William Masters – The Empirics of Economic Development and Agriculture
Discussant
David Perkis – Understanding the Schism between Digital natives (Students) and Digital Immigrants (Faculty) and Its Implications for Classroom Teaching and Learning
Panelists
Thomas Hertel – Paul Krugman: His Contributions to Trade Analysis and Economic Geography
Moderator:
Farzad Taheripour – Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, and Greenhouse Gasses
Allan Gray – Biofuel Production and Performance Issues
Matt Holt – Economic Models of Time or Space
Graduate Student News :
Graduate Students – David Moll, Amber Rankin and Josh Yoder represented the department in the IAMA Case Study competition. We are proud to announce that they placed 4th.
David Ortega is in China from June 1st - August 23rd on a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Student Research Fellowship. He is participating in the NSF East Asia & Pacific Summer Institute Program. His research is titled "Investigating the Effects of Economic Growth on Consumer Preferences and Demand for Goods."
Thought You Would Like to Know:
Otto Doering has been appointed to the National Academy of Science’s Water Science and Technology Board.
New Ambassadors to represent International Agriculture
International Programs in Agriculture is pleased to announce the first class of international agriculture ambassadors. The new class includes Sasha Broadstone, Jessica Gilson(AGEC), Keith Hoeing (AGEC), Benjamin Kloc, Carissa McCay (AGEC), Chelsea Scheidler, James Sibray, and Kali Smith (AGEC). As an international agriculture ambassador, they will become a buddy to an international exchange student, give tours to international visitors, promote study abroad in the classroom and at events, give presentations to off-campus groups, and increase global awareness in any way possible. All of the ambassadors have studied abroad and are interested in international activities. If you would like an international agriculture ambassador to speak at an organization meeting, in a classroom, or a 4-H/Extension meeting, please email Kara Hartman at khartman@purdue.edu.
Welcome to the following Visiting Scholars -
(Ms) Yanping Zhang from China Agricultural University in Beijing.
Hosted by Holly Wang
Will research agri-food supply issues
Aug 10, 2009 – July 31, 2010
(Ms) Rong Zhao from China Agricultural University in Beijing.
Hosted by Steven Wu.
Will research Chinese agricultural food safety and traceability systems.
Aug 10, 2009 – July 31, 2010
News from GTAP:
GTAP website at: http://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/events/conferences/2009/default.asp.
Contact information:
Meghan Alexander
megalex@purdue.edu
765-494-4267
News from Center for Food and Agricultural Business:
Center delivers financial decision-making program
The center hosted 21 John Deere field managers at the Burton Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship for a two-day session on financial decision making. Purdue Professor Mike Boehlje and Professor Mike Gunderson from the University of Florida taught participants how to translate the quantitative aspects of financial analysis into a story that becomes a useful planning tool and helps them deepen their relationships with their dealers in a cooperative manner.
ALPs participants
The fifth class of Agribusiness Leadership Plus at Purdue (ALPs), comprised of 33 Syngenta employees, spent a week in Washington D.C. at the end of July. With more than 20 expert speakers, the participants were immersed in discussions regarding global politics and policies. This was the class’s fourth in-person session; they have also completed four pre-session, distance-delivered courses. In October, they will travel to Syngenta’s world headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, to deliver a group project presentation to key Syngenta executives. Their final session, scheduled for January 2010, will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
MS-MBA holds graduation celebration, starts new class
Eighteen agribusiness professionals will graduate Aug. 8 from the M.S. portion of the MS-MBA in Food and Agribusiness Management. They will earn their MBA degree from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business this fall, after completing their final coursework. This dual-degree, distance-delivered program allows professionals to maintain their full-time careers while earning graduate degrees. Except for five one-week residencies, the students completed all of their coursework via the Internet.
The new class of MS-MBA students will kick-off their program at their first IU residency, set to begin on Aug. 8. To learn more, visit www.agecon.purdue.edu/agribusiness.
Oilwell employees coming to Purdue
The center is looking forward to hosting 40 employees from National Oilwell Varco (NOV) for their third session of the NOV-Purdue Sales Management Program: Building World-Class Capabilities. Program content focuses on three themes: Leading NOVs Growth—Strategic Approaches in the Field; Developing Leadership Ability—Individual Growth and Leading the Team; and Building Value in Teams—The Global Account Projects. With three on-site sessions, distance-delivered coursework and assignments, and one-on-one coaching from Purdue experts, the NOV sales and sales management professionals enhance their advanced management skills. The center collaborates with the Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing to develop and deliver the program.
Upcoming Programs
Sept. 15-17 Structuring Decision: Innovating through Turbulence
Oct. 12-16 Strategic Agrimarketing
To learn more or refer a colleague to one of our seminars, visit www.agecon.purdue.edu/cab.
News from Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE):
The Indiana Council for Economic Education (ICEE) held a three-day Financial Literacy Institute for 28 teachers from four Indianapolis high schools. The project was funded by JP Morgan Chase through a grant to the Council for Economic Education in New York, ICEE’s parent organization. Teachers learned fundamentals of personal finance and were introduced to curriculum materials that teach the concepts. The teachers also received sets of ICEE’s new Interest Posters and Financial Literacy Posters (See www.kidseconposters.com). If funding is received for the upcoming year, the plan is to turn Institute content and video footage into online training modules. Stay tuned!
Resources at Purdue :
PURE—Purdue University Research Expertise database—has evolved into INDURE—Indiana Database for University Research Expertise. PURE is outdated and will soon be retired. INDURE is supported through the state and Purdue. Plans are to continue INDURE upgrade and maintenance.
https://www.indure.org/index.cfm?InstitutionFilter=1
Travel, Speeches, Presented Papers:
Anna Flaig presented a poster at the Soil and Water Conservation Society Meetings in Dearborn Michigan July 12-14- the poster was called “US Sugar Corp. Buyout and Florida Everglades Restoration: Sweet Deal for Tax Payers?” with Dr. John Lee and Dr. Philip Paarlberg.
Wally Tyner will present a seminar at the University of Tennessee entitled “2009/10 Policy Options and Key Issues for Biofuels” on August 3.
Wally Tyner will do a presentation entitled “The Role of Biofuels in Low Carbon Policies and Calculating Direct and Indirect Emissions” at the American Coalition for Ethanol 22nd annual ethanol conference on August 12.
Wally Tyner will present an invited paper entitled “The Integration of Energy and Agricultural Markets” at the meetings of the International Association of Agricultural Economists in Beijing, China, August 16-22.
Wally Tyner will do a presentation entitled “Emission Factors and Land Use Change Modeling” at the National Corn Growers Association Land Use and Carbon Impacts of Corn-based Ethanol Conference in St. Louis, August 25-26.
Brigitte Waldorf presented the paper Copula Models for Spatial Point Patterns and Processes at the Third World Congress of the Spatial Econometrics Association in Barcelona, Spain, July 2009. The primary authors of the paper are Purdue agricultural economics Ph.D. candidates Todd Kuethe and Todd Hubbs.
Estimating Changes of Global Vegetation and Soil Carbon Storage due to Biofuel Production by Zhuang, Qianlai, Farzad Taheripour, Wally Tyner and Thomas Hertel – presented at the GTAP conference.
Publications:
David L. Ortega, H. Holly Wang, Laping Wu, "Assessing Consumer Preferences and Attitudes toward Imported Pork in Urban China." International Association of Agricultural Economists 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China. Presented by David L. Ortega.
David L. Ortega, " Investigating the Effects of Economic Growth on Consumer Preferences and Demand for Goods." Presented to the National Science Foundation (US), Ministry of Science and Technology (China), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and National Natural Science Foundation of China, August 6, 2009, Beijing, China.
Internship Opportunities:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/careers/intern_research.htm
http://www.fsdinternational.org/intlopps/programs/internships1
http://www.fcnl.org/young/intern.htm
http://www.uschamber.com/careers/internships/default
http://www.unausa.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=317257
WorldbankJob Announcements:
West Texas A&M: Faculty position in Agricultural Business and Economics
USDA-ERS-FED: Food Safety Economist
APHIS: Economist position on Policy Analysis www.usajobs.opm.gov
University of Illinois: http://www.ace.illinois.edu/employment.aspx?typeid=1
ERS: http://www.ers.usda.gov/AboutERS/Employment/OpportunitiesPage.htm
Career and Job Sites on the Internet:
| Purdue | http://www.purdue.edu/jobs |
| AAEA Job Posting | http://www.aaea.org/classifieds/ |
| Academic Employment Network | http://www.academploy.com/ |
| Academic Position Network | http://www.apnjobs.com/ |
| Agriculture Career Connection | http://www.ag-biz.com/ |
| Community Colleges, misc | http//www.aacc.nche.edu/ |
| Chronicle of Higher Education | http://chronicle.com/jobs/ |
| Congressional Budget Office | http://www.cbo.gov |
| Education Jobs Page | http://www.nationjob.com/education |
| Employment/Resume Posting | http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/employment.html |
| EPA | http://jobs.quickhire.com/scripts/epa.exe |
| Foreign Ag Service | http://www.fao.org/VA/vac_en.htm |
| Government Career | http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/ |
| National Job Bank | http://www.jobs.joe.org |
| USDA, Ag Research Service | http://www.ars.usda.gov/careers/docs.htm?docid=11797 |
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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