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American Journal of Agricultural Economics
1996 - 2013
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Volume 91, issue 5 , 2009
Applied Economics—Without Apology pp. 1161-1174
Ron Mittelhammer
How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters pp. 1175-1175
George A. Akerlof
Consumption and Demand pp. 1176-1186
Rulon D. Pope
Distressed Rural Housing - Is Economic, Farm, or Biofuel Policy More Influential in Leading a Recovery? pp. 1187-1193
Cole R. Gustafson and Saleem Shaik
Interdependence of Macro and Agricultural Economics: How Sensitive is the Relationship? pp. 1194-1200
Dae-Heum Kwon and Won W. Koo
Trends and Volatility in School Finance pp. 1201-1208
Mary Clare Ahearn , Maureen Kilkenny and Sarah A. Low
Crisis in U.S. Financial Markets—Spillover and Recovery Prospects in Rural America: Discussion pp. 1209-1210
Jason Henderson
Risk Management in the Cooperative Contract pp. 1211-1217
Ethan Ligon
Incentive Pay for CEOs in Cooperative Firms pp. 1218-1223
Brent Hueth and Philippe Marcoul
Optimal Cooperative Pooling in a Quality-Differentiated Market pp. 1224-1232
Tina L. Saitone and Richard J. Sexton
Risk Sharing, CEO Incentives, and Quality Differentiation in Agricultural Cooperatives: Discussion pp. 1233-1234
Jacques Crémer
World Supply and Demand of Food Commodity Calories pp. 1235-1242
Michael James Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker
Between the Corporation and the Household: Commodity Prices, Risk Management, and Agricultural Production in the United States pp. 1243-1249
Shawn Cole and Barrett E. Kirwan
Recent Commodity Price Movements in Historical Perspective pp. 1250-1256
Daniel A. Sumner
The Causes and Consequences of Rising Food Prices: Discussion pp. 1257-1258
James D. Hamilton
Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? pp. 1259-1265
Steven D. Levitt and John List
Internal and External Validity in Economics Research: Tradeoffs between Experiments, Field Experiments, Natural Experiments, and Field Data pp. 1266-1271
Brian E. Roe and David R. Just
Fairness, Farmers Markets, and Local Production pp. 1272-1278
Stephen Toler , Brian C. Briggeman , Jayson L. Lusk and Damian C. Adams
Field Experiments in Food and Resource Economics Research: Discussion pp. 1279-1280
William Schulze
Efficiency of Income Transfers to Farmers through Public Agricultural Research: Theory and Evidence from the United States pp. 1281-1288
Julian M. Alston
Transfer Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of U.S. Farm Support: Evidence from a Macro-Micro Simulation pp. 1289-1295
Roman Keeney
Farm Household Income and Transfer Efficiency: An Evaluation of United States Farm Program Payments pp. 1296-1301
Wyatt Thompson , Ashok K. Mishra and Joe Dewbre
Where Does All the Money Go? Measuring Effects of Agricultural Policy Transfers on Farm Income: Discussion pp. 1302-1303
David Abler
Efficiency and Spatial Impacts of Development Taxes: The Critical Role of Alternative Revenue-Recycling Schemes pp. 1304-1311
Antonio M. Bento , Sofia F. Franco and Daniel T. Kaffine
Do Sorting and Heterogeneity Matter for Open Space Policy Analysis? An Empirical Comparison of Hedonic and Sorting Models pp. 1312-1318
Henry Allen Klaiber and Daniel J. Phaneuf
A Valuation of Subdivision Open Space by Type pp. 1319-1325
Charles A. Towe
Open Space Issues at the Rural-Urban Fringe: Discussion pp. 1326-1327
David J. Lewis
Necessary Conditions for Valid Benefit Transfers pp. 1328-1334
Kevin J. Boyle , Nicolai V. Kuminoff , Christopher F. Parmeter and Jaren C. Pope
Benefit Transfer from Multiple Contingent Experiments: A Flexible Two-Step Model Combining Individual Choice Data with Community Characteristics pp. 1335-1342
Klaus Moeltner , Robert J. Johnston , Randall S. Rosenberger and Joshua M. Duke
Valuing Welfare Impacts of Beach Erosion: An Application of the Structural Benefit Transfer Method pp. 1343-1350
George Van Houtven and Christine Poulos
Advances in Environmental Benefit Transfer: Discussion pp. 1351-1352
Richard Ready
Informing Preservation of Multifunctional Agriculture when Primary Research Is Unavailable: An Application of Meta-Analysis pp. 1353-1359
Robert J. Johnston and Joshua M. Duke
Surf and Turf: Tourists’ Values for Multifunctional Working Landscapes and Water Quality in Colorado pp. 1360-1367
Sarah Cline and Andrew Seidl
Land Preservation Programs Achieve High Levels of Efficiency pp. 1368-1374
Lori Lynch
Preserving Multifunctional Agriculture: Discussion pp. 1375-1376
John C. Bergstrom
When Perception is Reality: Subjective Expectations and Contracting pp. 1377-1381
Marc F. Bellemare
Experimental Economics and the Economics of Contracts pp. 1382-1388
David R. Just and Steven Y Wu
Food Safety Regulations under Ambiguity pp. 1389-1396
Tigran Melkonyan and Jens Schubert
New Research Directions in Agricultural Contracts: Discussion pp. 1397-1398
Brent Hueth
An Overview of the Linkages of the Global Financial Crisis to Production Agriculture pp. 1399-1405
Paul N. Ellinger and Vishwanath Tirupattur
The Financial Health of Agricultural Lenders pp. 1406-1413
Brian C. Briggeman , Michael A. Gunderson and Brent A. Gloy
Impacts of the Financial Crisis on Risk Capacity and Exposure in Agriculture pp. 1414-1421
Nicholas D. Paulson and Bruce J. Sherrick
The Global Financial Crisis and Agricultural Financial Markets Impacts and Responses: Discussion pp. 1422-1423
Neilson C. Conklin
Estimating Structural Change with Smooth Transition Regressions: An Application to Meat Demand pp. 1424-1431
Matthew T. Holt and Joseph V. Balagtas
Markov-Switching Estimation of Spatial Maize Price Transmission Processes between Tanzania and Kenya pp. 1432-1439
Rico Ihle , Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel and Sergiy Zorya
Estimating Long-Run Price Relationship with Structural Change of Unknown Timing: An Application to the Japanese Pork Market pp. 1440-1447
Kenji Adachi and Donald J. Liu
New Econometric Methods for Structural Change Analysis of Agricultural and Food Markets: Discussion pp. 1448-1449
William G. Tomek and Timothy D. Mount
Commodity Prices and Food Inflation pp. 1450-1455
Timothy J. Richards and Geoffrey M. Pofahl
Patterns of Pass-through of Commodity Price Shocks to Retail Prices pp. 1456-1461
Peter Berck , Ephraim Leibtag , Alex Solis and Sofia Villas-Boas
How Much and How Quick? Pass through of Commodity and Input Cost Changes to Retail Food Prices pp. 1462-1467
Ephraim Leibtag
High and Volatile Commodity Prices: What Do They Mean for Food Prices and Consumers: Discussion pp. 1468-1469
Abebayehu Tegene
Index of Consumer Confidence in the Safety of the United States Food System pp. 1470-1476
Jean Kinsey , R. Wes Harrison , Dennis Degeneffe , Gustavo F. C. Ferreira and Sakiko Shiratori
What Drives Import Refusals? pp. 1477-1483
Kathy Baylis , Andrea Martens and Lia Nogueira
Regulatory Policies in Meat Trade: Is There Evidence for Least Trade-distorting Sanitary Regulations? pp. 1484-1490
Simon W. Schlueter , Christine Wieck and Thomas Heckelei
International Food Safety Regulations in the United States and the European Union—Balancing Consumer Confidence and Trade: Discussion pp. 1491-1492
Alex Winter-Nelson
The Profitability of Transitioning to Organic Grain Crops in Indiana pp. 1497-1504
Samuel F. Clark
Volume 91, issue 4 , 2009
On the Collapse of Historical Civilizations pp. 863-879
David H. Good and Rafael Reuveny
Customs and Incentives in Contracts pp. 880-894
Douglas W. Allen and Dean Lueck
The Indirect Land Use Impacts of United States Biofuel Policies: The Importance of Acreage, Yield, and Bilateral Trade Responses pp. 895-909
Roman Keeney and Thomas Warren Hertel
Export Sectors and Rural Development pp. 910-929
Maureen Kilkenny and Mark D. Partridge
Tariff Equivalent and Forgone Trade Effects of Prohibitive Technical Barriers to Trade pp. 930-941
Chengyan Yue and John Christopher Beghin
Food Aid, Food Prices, and Producer Disincentives in Ethiopia pp. 942-955
Getaw Tadesse and Gerald E. Shively
Farmers’ Subjective Valuation of Subsistence Crops: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico pp. 956-972
Aslihan Arslan and J. Edward Taylor
Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya pp. 973-990
Nava Ashraf , Xavier Gine and Dean S. Karlan
State-conditional Fertilizer Yield Response on Western Kenyan Farms pp. 991-1006
Paswel P. Marenya and Christopher B. Barrett
The Impact of Agricultural Extension and Roads on Poverty and Consumption Growth in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages pp. 1007-1021
Stefan Dercon , Daniel O. Gilligan , John Hoddinott and Tassew Woldehanna
Poverty, Risk Aversion, and Path Dependence in Low-Income Countries: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 1022-1037
Mahmud Yesuf and Randall A. Bluffstone
Spatiotemporal Modeling of Asian Citrus Canker Risks: Implications for Insurance and Indemnification Fund Models pp. 1038-1055
Barry Kent Goodwin and Nicholas E. Piggott
A Cautionary Note on Designing Discrete Choice Experiments: A Comment on Lusk and Norwood’s “Effect of Experiment Design on Choice-Based Conjoint Valuation Estimates” pp. 1056-1063
Richard T. Carson , Jordan J. Louviere and Nada Wasi
A Cautionary Note on the Design of Discrete Choice Experiments: Reply pp. 1064-1066
Jayson L. Lusk and F. Bailey Norwood
Riparian Buffers and Hedonic Prices: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Residential Property Values in the Neuse River Basin pp. 1067-1079
Okmyung Bin , Craig Elliott Landry and Gregory F. Meyer
Targeting Incentives to Reduce Habitat Fragmentation pp. 1080-1096
David J. Lewis , Andrew J. Plantinga and JunJie Wu
Does Production Labeling Stigmatize Conventional Milk? pp. 1097-1109
Christopher Kanter , Kent D. Messer and Harry M. Kaiser
The Benefit Function Approach to Modeling Price-Dependent Demand Systems: An Application of Duality Theory pp. 1110-1123
Keith Robert McLaren and K. K. Gary Wong
Credit Market Imperfections and the Distribution of Policy Rents pp. 1124-1139
Pavel Ciaian and Johan Frans Maria Swinnen
Consumer and Market Responses to Mad Cow Disease pp. 1140-1152
Wolfram Schlenker and Sofia Villas-Boas
Galor, Oded. Discrete Dynamical Systems. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2007, 153 pp., $71.96 pp. 1153-1154
Joydeep Bhattacharya
Swinnen, J. F. M.Global Supply Chains, Standards and the Poor: How the Globalization of Food Systems and Standards Affects Rural Development and Poverty pp. 1154-1155
Valentina Hartarska
Worldwatch Institute Biofuels for Transport: Global Potential and Implications for Sustainable Energy and Agriculture pp. 1155-1157
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin
Collier, Paul The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It pp. 1157-1159
William Alan Masters
Anandajayasekeram, Ponniah, Mandivamba Rukuni, Suresh Chandra Babu, Frikkie Liebenberg, and C. L. KeswaniImpact of Science on African Agriculture and Food Security pp. 1159-1160
John G. McPeak
Volume 91, issue 3 , 2007
Competition Effects of Supermarket Services pp. 555-568
Alessandro Bonanno and Rigoberto Lopez
The Varying Impacts of Agricultural Support Programs on U.S. Farm Household Consumption pp. 569-580
James B. Whitaker
Joint Estimation of Risk Preferences and Technology: Flexible Utility or Futility? pp. 581-598
Sergio Horacio Lence
On Crop Biodiversity, Risk Exposure, and Food Security in the Highlands of Ethiopia pp. 599-611
Salvatore Di Falco and Jean-Paul Chavas
Risk Averters that Love Risk? Marginal Risk Aversion in Comparison to a Reference Gamble pp. 612-626
David R. Just and Travis J. Lybbert
Livestock Disease Indemnity Design When Moral Hazard Is Followed by Adverse Selection pp. 627-641
Benjamin M. Gramig , Richard D. Horan and Christopher Allen Wolf
On the Deadweight Cost of Production Requirements for Geographically Differentiated Agricultural Products pp. 642-655
Pierre R. Mérel
Who Pays the Costs of Non-GMO Segregation and Identity Preservation? pp. 656-672
Marion Desquilbet and David S. Bullock
Dairy Tariff-Quota Liberalization: Contrasting Bilateral and Most Favored Nation Reform Options pp. 673-684
Jason H. Grant , Thomas Warren Hertel and Thomas F. Rutherford
Shadow Wages and Shadow Income in Farmers’ Labor Supply Functions pp. 685-696
Kien T. Le
Weather Risk, Wages in Kind, and the Off-Farm Labor Supply of Agricultural Households in a Developing Country pp. 697-710
Takahiro Ito and Takashi Kurosaki
Evaluating Alternative Policy Responses to Higher World Food Prices: The Case of Increasing Rice Prices in Madagascar pp. 711-722
David Coady , Paul Dorosh and Bart Minten
Political Market Power Reflected in Milk Pricing Regulations pp. 723-737
Byeong-Il Ahn and Daniel A. Sumner
The Economics of a Blend Mandate for Biofuels pp. 738-750
Harry de Gorter and David R. Just
A Nonparametric Analysis of Production Models with Multidimensional Quality pp. 751-764
Angelo Zago
Measuring Excess Capital Capacity in Agricultural Production pp. 765-776
Zhengfei Guan , Subal C. Kumbhakar , Robert J. Myers and Alfons Oude Lansink
Scale Economies and Inefficiency of U.S. Dairy Farms pp. 777-794
Robert Mosheim and C. Knox Lovell
Effects of Label Information on Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Food Attributes pp. 795-809
Zhifeng Gao and Ted C. Schroeder
An Empirical Investigation into the Excessive-Choice Effect pp. 810-825
Bharath Arunachalam , Shida R. Henneberry , Jayson L. Lusk and F. Bailey Norwood
What Is It About Organic Milk? An Experimental Analysis pp. 826-836
John C. Bernard and Daria J. Bernard
Comparing Open-Ended Choice Experiments and Experimental Auctions: An Application to Golden Rice pp. 837-853
Jay R. Corrigan , Dinah Pura T. Depositario , Rodolfo M. Nayga , Ximing Wu and Tiffany P. Laude
Just, Richard E., Julian M. Alston, and David Zilberman, Editors. Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics and Policy. New York: Springer, 2006, 732 pp., $149.00 pp. 854-855
Leslie J. Butler
Gentry, B., Q. Newcomer, S. Anisfeld, and M. Fotos, Editors. Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Panama Canal Watershed. Binghamton, NY:Haworth Press, 2007, 387 pp., $148.00 pp. 855-857
Robert Hearne
Adger, W. Neil, Jouni Paavoli, Saleemul Huq, and M.J. Mace, Editors. Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006, xvi + 335 pp., $62.00 pp. 857-859
Robert Owen Mendelsohn
Perloff, Jeffrey M., Larry S. Karp, and Amos Golan, Editors. Estimating Market Power and Strategies. Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 352 pp., $88.99 pp. 859-860
Charles B Moss
Evenson, Robert E. and Terri Raney, Editors. The Political Economy of Genetically Modified Foods. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2007, 485 pp., £112.50 pp. 860-862
Suzanne Thornsbury
Volume 91, issue 2 , 2007
The Cotton Influence Index: An Examination of U.S. Cotton Subsidies pp. 299-309
Omer Gokcekus and Richard Fishler
Standards as Barriers Versus Standards as Catalysts: Assessing the Impact of HACCP Implementation on U.S. Seafood Imports pp. 310-321
Sven M Anders and Julie A. Caswell
Insuring Against Losses from Transgenic Contamination: The Case of Pharmaceutical Maize pp. 322-334
David G. Ripplinger , Dermot James Hayes , A. Susana Goggi and Kendall Lamkey
Highgrading in Quota-Regulated Fisheries: Evidence from the Icelandic Cod Fishery pp. 335-346
Dadi Kristofersson and Kyrre Rickertsen
Defining Access to Health Care: Evidence on the Importance of Quality and Distance in Rural Tanzania pp. 347-358
Heather Klemick , Kenneth L. Leonard and Melkiory C. Masatu
Impacts of Low-Cost Land Certification on Investment and Productivity pp. 359-373
Stein Terje Holden , Klaus Deininger and Hosaena Ghebru
Public Investment and Industry Incentives in Life-Science Research pp. 374-388
Chenggang Wang , Yin Xia and Steven Buccola
The Procompetitive Effect of Demand-Enhancing Check-Off Programs pp. 389-401
John M. Crespi and Stéphan Marette
Valuation of New Products in Attribute Space pp. 402-415
Geoffrey M. Pofahl and Timothy J. Richards
Food Stamps and Food Spending: An Engel Function Approach pp. 416-430
Parke Wilde , Lisa M. Troy and Beatrice L. Rogers
A Multivariate Evaluation of Ex ante Risks Associated with Fed Cattle Production pp. 431-443
Eric J. Belasco , Sujit K. Ghosh and Barry Kent Goodwin
Integrating Technology Traits and Producer Heterogeneity: A Mixed-Multinomial Model of Genetically Modified Corn Adoption pp. 444-461
Pilar Useche , Bradford L. Barham and Jeremy D. Foltz
Optimal Investment in Transportation Infrastructure When Middlemen Have Market Power: A Developing-Country Analysis pp. 462-476
Pierre R. Mérel , Richard J. Sexton and Aya Suzuki
The Welfare Economics of a Biofuel Tax Credit and the Interaction Effects with Price Contingent Farm Subsidies pp. 477-488
Harry de Gorter and David R. Just
On the Consumer Value of Complementarity: A Benefit Function Approach pp. 489-502
Michele Baggio and Jean-Paul Chavas
Inventories and Public Information in Private Negotiation: A Laboratory Market Study pp. 503-517
Dale J. Menkhaus , Owen R. Phillips and Alla V. Yakunina
How Closely Do Hypothetical Surveys and Laboratory Experiments Predict Field Behavior? pp. 518-534
Jae Bong Chang , Jayson L. Lusk and F. Bailey Norwood
A Comment on Weak Disposability in Nonparametric Production Analysis pp. 535-538
Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf
Weak Disposability in Nonparametric Production Analysis: Reply to Färe and Grosskopf pp. 539-545
Timo Kuosmanen and Victor Podinovski
Volume 91, issue 1 , 2009
Nonpecuniary Benefits to Farming: Implications for Supply Response to Decoupled Payments pp. 1-18
Nigel Key and Michael James Roberts
Payment Limitations and Acreage Decisions under Risk Aversion: A Simulation Approach pp. 19-41
Barry Kent Goodwin
A Model of Spatial Arbitrage with Transport Capacity Constraints and Endogenous Transport Prices pp. 42-56
Andrew Coleman
The Demand for Food Quality in Rural China pp. 57-69
Xiaohua Yu and David Abler
Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints, and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain-for-Green Program on Rural Households in China pp. 70-86
Emi Uchida , Scott Rozelle and Jintao Xu
The Commodity Terms of Trade, Unit Roots, and Nonlinear Alternatives: A Smooth Transition Approach pp. 87-105
Joseph V. Balagtas and Matthew T. Holt
Valuing Water Quality as a Function of Water Quality Measures pp. 106-123
John A. Downing
Does Animal Feeding Operation Pollution Hurt Public Health? A National Longitudinal Study of Health Externalities Identified by Geographic Shifts in Livestock Production pp. 124-137
Stacy Ellen Sneeringer
Pareto-Improving Water Management over Space and Time: The Honolulu Case pp. 138-153
B Pitafi and James A. Roumasset
Do Futures Benefit Farmers? pp. 154-167
Sergio Horacio Lence
Promotion and Fast Food Demand pp. 168-183
Timothy J. Richards and Luis Padilla
Food Values pp. 184-196
Jayson L. Lusk and Brian C. Briggeman
Crop Yield Skewness Under Law of the Minimum Technology pp. 197-208
David A. Hennessy
The Value of Variable Rate Technology: An Information-Theoretic Approach pp. 209-223
Matías L. Ruffo , Donald G. Bullock and Germán A. Bollero
Induced Innovation in U.S. Agriculture: Time-series, Direct Econometric, and Nonparametric Tests pp. 224-236
Yucan Liu and C. Richard Shumway
The Role of Risk and Transaction Costs in Contract Design: Evidence from Farmland Lease Contracts in U.S. Agriculture pp. 237-249
Keita Fukunaga and Wallace E. Huffman
Do Alternative Marketing Arrangements Increase Pork Packers' Market Power? pp. 250-263
Xiaoyong Zheng and Tomislav Vukina
Bundling and Licensing of Genes in Agricultural Biotechnology pp. 264-274
Guanming Shi
Credit Constraints: Their Existence, Determinants, and Implications for U.S. Farm and Nonfarm Sole Proprietorships pp. 275-289
Charles A. Towe and Mitchell J. Morehart
The Next Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Financial Systems to Get Rich by Mishkin, Frederic S pp. 290-291
Thomas Grennes
Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries (Vol. 2): Quantifying the Impact of Multilateral Trade Reform edited by McCalla, Alex F. and John Nash pp. 291-292
Ivan Kandilov
Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It by Jaffe, Adam B. and Josh Lerner pp. 293-294
GianCarlo Moschini
Beyond Food Production. The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction edited by Bresciani, Fabrizio and Alberto Valdés pp. 294-295
James C. O. Nyankori
Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: A Gender Perspective pp. 295-297
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers