Agricultural Economics

2005 - 2008

Edited by W.A. Masters and G.E. Shively

from International Association of Agricultural Economists

This journal is a continuation of Agricultural Economics.
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Volume 39, issue 1, 2008

Isolation and agricultural productivity pp. 1-15

David Stifel and Bart Minten

Measuring the impact of road rehabilitation on spatial market efficiency in maize markets in Mozambique pp. 17-28

Xavier Cirera and Channing Arndt

Applying cointegration and error correction to measure trade linkages: maize prices in the United States and Mexico pp. 29-39

Mesbah Motamed, Kenneth A. Foster and Wallace E. Tyner

More reasons why farmers have so little interest in futures markets pp. 41-50

David J. Pannell, Getu Hailu, Alfons Weersink and Amanda Burt

Technical efficiency and impact of environmental regulations in farrow-to-finish swine production in Taiwan pp. 51-61

Chih-Ching Yang, Ching-Kai Hsiao and Ming-Miin Yu

Raising offtake from cattle grazed on natural rangelands in sub-Saharan Africa: a transaction cost economics approach pp. 63-72

Herbert Kyeyamwa, Stijn Speelman, Guido Van Huylenbroeck, John Opuda-Asibo and Wim Verbeke

Modeling the length and shape of the R&D lag: an application to UK agricultural productivity pp. 73-85

Colin Thirtle, Jenifer Piesse and David Schimmelpfennig

The costs of global tariff barriers on wool products: 1997-2005 pp. 87-101

George Verikios

On farmland prices and rents in Japan pp. 103-109

Sawako Shigeto, Lionel Hubbard and Philip Dawson

Supply and demand estimates for feed grains in China pp. 111-122

Zhang Y. Zhou, Wei M. Tian and Bill Malcolm

Nonlinear adjustments in deviations from the law of one price for wholesale hog prices pp. 123-134

Pei-Fen Chen and Chien-Chiang Lee

Adoption of organic farming in Germany and Austria: an integrative dynamic investment perspective pp. 135-145

Oliver Musshoff and Norbert Hirschauer

Volume 38, issue 3, 2008

Quality control in nonstaple food markets: evidence from India pp. 251-266

Marcel Fafchamps, Ruth Vargas Hill and Bart Minten

Price determinants in top-quality e-auctioned specialty coffees pp. 267-276

M. Laura Donnet, Dave D. Weatherspoon and John P. Hoehn

Measuring the relative importance of preferences for country of origin in China, France, Niger, and the United States pp. 277-285

Mariah D. Ehmke, Jayson L. Lusk and Wallace Tyner

National policies and the sectoral pattern of economic growth pp. 287-299

Derek D. Headey

Would Indian farmers benefit from liberalization of world cotton and sugar markets? pp. 301-312

Surabhi Mittal and Jeffrey J. Reimer

The effects of NCPB marketing policies on maize market prices in Kenya pp. 313-325

T. S. Jayne, Robert J. Myers and James Nyoro

Assessing the impact of NERICA on income and poverty in central and western Uganda pp. 327-337

Yoko Kijima, Keijiro Otsuka and Dick Sserunkuuma

Dynamics of rice prices and agricultural wages in the Philippines pp. 339-348

Christine D. Lasco, Robert J. Myers and Richard Haines Bernsten

Perceived economic pressures and farmer ethics pp. 349-361

Harvey S. James and Mary K. Hendrickson

A model of optimal import phytosanitary inspection under capacity constraint pp. 363-373

Ilya V. Surkov, Alfons G. J. M. Oude Lansink, Olaf van Kooten and Wopke van der Werf 

Regional obesity determinants in the United States: a model of myopic addictive behavior in food consumption pp. 375-384

Dragan Miljkovic and William Nganje

Volume 38, issue 2, 2008

Mitigation potential and costs for global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions-super-1 pp. 109-115

Robert Henry Beach, Benjamin J. DeAngelo, Steven Rose, Changsheng Li, William Salas and Stephen J. DelGrosso

A general equilibrium analysis of conjunctive ground and surface water use with an application to Morocco pp. 117-135

Xinshen Diao, Ariel Dinar, Terry Roe and Yacov Tsur

Costs and benefits of controlling quarantine diseases: a bio-economic modeling approach pp. 137-149

Annemarie Breukers, Monique Mourits, Wopke van der Werf and Alfons Oude Lansink

Measuring impacts and adaptations to climate change: a structural Ricardian model of African livestock management-super-1 pp. 151-165

S. Niggol Seo and Robert Owen Mendelsohn

Potential impacts of Bt eggplant on economic surplus and farmers' health in India pp. 167-180

Vijesh Vijaya Krishna and Matin Qaim

An economic approach to soil fertility management for wheat production in north-eastern Australia pp. 181-192

Robert J. Farquharson, Oscar J. Cacho, John D. Mullen and Graeme D. Schwenke

Sheep as capital goods and farmers as portfolio managers: a bioeconomic model of Scandinavian sheep farming pp. 193-200

Anders Skonhoft

Does participation in the conservation reserve program impact the economic well-being of farm households? pp. 201-212

Hung-Hao Chang, Dayton M. Lambert and Ashok K. Mishra

Estimating returns to soil conservation adoption in the northern Ethiopian highlands pp. 213-232

Menale Kassie, John Pender, Mahmud Yesuf, Gunnar Kohlin, Randall Bluffstone and Elias Mulugeta

A spatial high-resolution model of the dynamics of agricultural land use pp. 233-245

Luis Ambrosio Flores, Luis Iglesias Martínez, Carmen Marín Ferrer, Valero Pascual Gallego and Arturo Serrano Bermejo

Volume 38, issue 1, 2008

Gender differences in marketing styles pp. 1-7

Lewis T. Cunningham, B Wade Brorsen, Kim B. Anderson and Emílio Tostão

Unpacked and packed fluid milk consumption patterns and preferences in Turkey pp. 9-20

Cuma Akbay and Gulgun Yildiz Tiryaki

Shadow wages, allocative inefficiency, and labor supply in smallholder agriculture pp. 21-34

Christopher B. Barrett, Shane M. Sherlund and Akinwumi A. Adesina

Consumer willingness to pay for genetically modified food in Kenya pp. 35-46

Simon Chege Kimenju and Hugo De Groote

Irrigation technology adoption and its implication for water conservation in the Texas High Plains: a real options approach pp. 47-55

Sangtaek Seo, Eduardo Segarra, Paul D. Mitchell and David J. Leatham

Yield quality and irrigation with saline water under environmental limitations: the case of processing tomatoes in California pp. 57-66

Iddo Kan

Technical efficiency and environmental-technological gaps in wheat production in Kerman province of Iran pp. 67-76

Hossein Mehrabi Boshrabadi, Renato Villano and Euan Fleming

Agrobiodiversity conservation under an imperfect seed system:the role of Community Seed Banking schemes pp. 77-87

Mintewab Bezabih

Valuing animal genetic resources: a choice modeling application to indigenous cattle in Kenya pp. 89-98

Eric Ruto, Guy Garrod and Riccardo Scarpa

Estimation of input-oriented technical efficiency using a nonhomogeneous stochastic production frontier model pp. 99-108

Subal C. Kumbhakar and Efthymios G. Tsionas

Volume 37, issue s1, 2007

Agricultural growth and economic development: a view through the globalization lens pp. 1-12

Prabhu Pingali

Empowering rural people for their own development pp. 13-27

Hans P. Binswanger

The economics of natural disasters: implications and challenges for food security pp. 31-45

Hartwig de Haen and Günter Hemrich

The impact of droughts and floods on food security and policy options to alleviate negative effects pp. 47-58

Stephen Devereux

The impact of natural and manmade disasters on household welfare pp. 59-73

Yasuyuki Sawada

The Doha agenda and agricultural trade reform: the role of economic analysis pp. 77-87

Will J Martin and Kym Anderson

Globalization, privatization, and vertical coordination in food value chains in developing and transition countries pp. 89-102

Johan Swinnen and Miet Maertens

Food regulation and trade under the WTO: ten years in perspective pp. 103-118

David Orden and Donna Roberts

Economics of biofortification pp. 119-133

Matin Qaim, Alexander J. Stein and J. V. Meenakshi

Food safety in a globalizing world: opportunities and challenges for India pp. 135-147

Dina Umali-Deininger and Mona Sur

Food safety as a global public good pp. 149-158

Laurian June Unnevehr

Technological progress for sustaining food-population balance: achievement and challenges pp. 161-172

Mahabub Hossain

Rural nonfarm employment in developing countries in an era of globalization pp. 173-183

Thomas Reardon, Kostas Stamoulis and Prabhu Pingali

Agricultural research and policy for better health and nutrition in developing countries: a food systems approach pp. 187-198

Per Pinstrup-Andersen

The nutrition transition in high- and low-income countries: what are the policy lessons? pp. 199-211

Barry Popkin and Shu Wen Ng

Coping with drought in rice farming in Asia: insights from a cross-country comparative study pp. 213-224

Sushil Pandey, Humnath Bhandari, Shijun Ding, Preeda Prapertchob, Ramesh Sharan, Dibakar Naik, Sudhir K. Taunk and Asras Sastri

Productivity in Malagasy rice systems: wealth-differentiated constraints and priorities pp. 225-237

Bart Minten, Jean-Claude Randrianarisoa and Christopher B. Barrett

Economic statistics and U.S. agricultural policy pp. 237-248

Bruce Gardner, Barry Goodwin and Mary Ahearn

Income distributional effects of using market-based instruments for managing common property resources pp. 249-259

Siwa Msangi and Richard E. Howitt

Designing frameworks to deliver unknown information to support market-based instruments pp. 261-269

Mark Eigenraam, Loris Strappazzon, Nicola Lansdell, Craig Beverly and Gary Stoneham

Tariff line analysis of U.S. and international dairy protection pp. 271-280

Jason H. Grant, Thomas Warren Hertel and Thomas F. Rutherford

Meta-analysis of general and partial equilibrium simulations of Doha Round outcomes pp. 281-286

Sebastian Hess and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

The Doha development round and Africa: partial and general equilibrium analyses of tariff preference erosion pp. 287-295

Mohamed Hedi Bchir, Stephen Njuguna Karingi, Andrew Mold, Patrick N. Osakwe and Mustapha Sadni Jallab

IAAE Synopsis: contributions of agricultural economics to critical policy issues pp. 297-300

John W. Longworth

IAAE Synopsis: contributions of agricultural economics to critical policy issues pp. 300-303

David Colman

IAAE Synopsis: contributions of agricultural economics to critical policy issues pp. 303-305

Yujiro Hayami

IAAE Synopsis: contributions of agricultural economics to critical policy issues pp. 305-306

Assalamu alaikum and Rashid Hassan

IAAE Synopsis: contributions of agricultural economics to critical policy issues pp. 306-309

Mark W. Rosegrant

Introduction: the 26th conference of the IAAE pp. v-xii

Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan

Volume 37, issue 2-3, 2007

Contributions of agricultural economics to critical policy issues: selected papers presented at the XXVI IAAE conference pp. 127-132

Ruerd Ruben and Kees Burger

Consistent poverty comparisons and inference pp. 133-139

Channing Arndt and Kenneth Simler

The long-term impacts of orphanhood on education attainment and land inheritance among adults in rural Kenya pp. 141-149

Takashi Yamano

Poverty targeting, resource degradation and heterogeneous endowments-a micro-simulation analysis of a less-favored Ethiopian village pp. 151-158

Marijke Kuiper and Ruerd Ruben

Land inequality and economic growth: a dynamic panel data approach pp. 159-165

Ricardo Fort

The dynamics of Chinese rural households' participation in labor markets pp. 167-178

Stephan Brosig, Thomas Glauben, Thomas Herzfeld, Scott Rozelle and Xiaobing Wang

Sharecropping efficiency in Ethiopia: threats of eviction and kinship pp. 179-188

Menale Kassie and Stein T. Holden

Rainfall or price variability: what determines rangeland management decisions? A simulation-optimization approach to South African savannas pp. 189-200

Jan Börner, Steven I. Higgins, Jochen Kantelhardt and Simon Scheiter

Taking a new look at empirical models of adoption: average treatment effect estimation of adoption rates and their determinants pp. 201-210

Aliou Diagne and Matty Demont

EU agri-environmental programs and the "restaurant table effect" pp. 211-218

Thilo Glebe and Klaus Salhofer

A look into the nature of complex systems and beyond "Stonehenge" economics: coping with complexity or ignoring it in applied economics? pp. 219-235

Chris Noell

Differentiating the consumer benefits from labeling of GM food products pp. 237-242

Sara Scatasta, Justus Wesseler and Jill Hobbs

Do farmers benefit from participating in specialty markets and cooperatives? The case of coffee marketing in Costa Rica-super-1 pp. 243-248

Meike Wollni and Manfred Zeller

Food consumption impacts of adherence to dietary norms in the United States: a quantitative assessment pp. 249-256

C. S. Srinivasan

Auction markets for specialty food products with geographical indications pp. 257-264

Günter Schamel

Spillovers from high-value agriculture for exports on land use in developing countries: evidence from Madagascar pp. 265-275

Bart Minten, Lalaina Randrianarison and Johan Swinnen

Economies of scale and market structure in international grain trade pp. 277-291

Margherita Scoppola

The impact of coffee price changes on rural households in Uganda pp. 293-303

Maurizio Bussolo, Olivier Godart, Jann Lay and Rainer Thiele

Modeling differentiated quality standards in the agri-food sector: the case of meat trade in the enlarged EU pp. 305-315

Marie-Luise Rau and Frank van Tongeren