Joe Balagtas

Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics

Purdue University

 


C.V.

 

Fields of Interest

Economics of agricultural markets and policy, dairy markets and policy

 

Courses

AGEC 220 Marketing Farm Products

AGEC 619 Applied Economics

AGEC 620 Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Policy

AGEC 621 Agricultural Markets and Policy

 

Research

(Click on the links for pdf or online versions. Electronic versions of some of these papers and a few others can also be found here, although subscription may be required.)

Selected Journal Publications

Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency: Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the United States (with Carlos Mayen and Corinne Alexander) American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2010)

 

Econometric Evidence of Cross-Market Demand Effects of Generic Advertising (with Metin Cakir) Agribusiness: an International Journal (2010)

 

Estimating Structural Change with Smooth Transition Regressions: An Application to Meat Demand (with Matt Holt) American Journal of Agricultural Economics (proceedings) (2009)

 

Vertical Economies of Scope in U.S. Dairy Farming (with Carlos Mayen and Corinne Alexander) Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization

 

The Commodity Terms of Trade, Unit Roots, and Nonlinear Alternatives: A Smooth Transition Approach (with Matt Holt) American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2009)

 

Effects of Milk Marketing Order Regulation on the Share of Fluid Grade Milk in the United States (with Aaron Smith and Dan Sumner) American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2007)

 

Measuring the Effects of Generic Dairy Advertising in a Multi-market Equilibrium (with Sounghun Kim) American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2007)

 

Supply and Demand for Commodity Components: Implications of Free Trade vs. the AUSFTA for the U.S. Dairy Industry (with Julian Alston, Henrich Brunke, and Dan Sumner) Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2006)

   

 

Working Papers

Estimating Market Power of U.S. Dairy Cooperatives in Fluid Milk Markets (with Metin Cakir)

 

Commodity Policies and Product Differentiation: the California Milk Marketing Order and the Organic Dairy Sector (with Kristina Kreutzer)

 

 

Current Projects

Consumer Response to Package Size Changes

         Slides from a talk I gave at the NEC-63 Conference, Banff, Canada, 9/28/2009.

 

Acreage Response to Fruit & Vegetable Planting Restrictions

 

Demand for Palm Oil

 

Crowding Out of Conventional Products by Non-GMO Products

 

 

Contact

email: balagtas@purdue.edu

 

mailing address:

Department of Agricultural Economics

Purdue University

403 W. State Street

West Lafayette, IN 47907

 

phone: 765.494.4298

 

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