Joe Balagtas
Associate Professor of Agricultural
Economics, Purdue University
Visiting Research Fellow, International Rice Research Institute
Adjunct Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of the Philippines, Los Banos
Fields of Interest
Economics of
agricultural markets and policy, price dynamics, industrial organization, food
security, dairy markets, rice markets
Courses
AGEC 220 Marketing Farm Products (undergraduate)
AGEC 619 Applied Economics (Ph.D.)
AGEC 620 Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Policy (Ph.D.)
AGEC 621 Agricultural Markets and Policy (Ph.D.)
AGEC 651 Econometrics I (Ph.D.)
Research
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Selected Journal Publications
Estimating
Market Power of U.S. Dairy Cooperatives in the Fluid Milk Market (with
Metin Cakir) American Journal of
Agricultural Economics (2012)
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
Forecasting Global Rice
Consumption (with R. Rejesus and S. Mohanty)
Effect of the
2007-08 Price Spike on Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh (with H. Bhandari, E. Cabrera, S. Mohanty, and M. Hossain)
Revisiting
the Palm Oil Boom in Southeast Asia: Food vs Fuel
Demand Drivers (with Dan Sanders and Guillaume Gruere)
Estimating
Consumer Response to Package Downsizing: an Application to the Chicago Ice
Cream Market Market (with Metin Cakir)
Commodity Policies
and Product Differentiation: the California Milk Marketing Order and the
Organic Dairy Sector (with Kristina Kreutzer)
Current Projects
Acreage Response to Fruit & Vegetable Planting
Restrictions
Demand for Rice in the Philippines
Impact of the 2007-08 Price Spike on Poverty Dynamics in
Rural Bangladesh
Effectiveness of Government Efforts to Stabilize Rice Prices
in the Philippines
Household Grain Management in Rural Bangladesh
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