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Working Papers

2015

1. Rating Area-yield Crop Insurance Contracts Using Bayesian Model Averaging and Mixture Models
   2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2013

2. An Assessment of the Canadian Federal-Provincial Crop Production Insurance Program under Future Climate Change Scenarios in Ontario
   2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
3. On Technological Change in Crop Yields
   2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article On Technological Change in Crop Yields, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2015) View citations (23) (2015)
4. Unconditional Quantile Estimation: An Application to the Gravity Framework
   2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)

2011

5. Trade Agreements, Political Economy and Endogenously Incomplete Contracts
   Working Papers, Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network

2007

6. Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (25)
   Also in ICER Working Papers, ICER - International Centre for Economic Research (2007) View citations (20)

2004

7. NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION UNDER ALTERNATIVE DATA ENVIRONMENTS
   2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
   See also Journal Article Nonparametric regression under alternative data environments, Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier (2006) View citations (3) (2006)

2003

8. ON THE REVELATION OF ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION OF THE PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN THE US CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM
   2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Journal Articles

2017

1. Bayesian model averaging of possibly similar nonparametric densities
   Computational Statistics, 2017, 32, (1), 349-365 View citations (3)
2. Canadian Business Risk Management: Private Firms, Crown Corporations, and Public Institutions
   Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2017, 65, (4), 591-612 View citations (9)
3. Evaluating Agricultural Economists within Colleges and Faculties of Agriculture
   Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2017, 65, (1), 5-17 View citations (1)
4. Modeling regime-dependent agricultural commodity price volatilities
   Agricultural Economics, 2017, 48, (6), 683-691 View citations (15)
5. The Economic Impact of a Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak for Ontario's Beef Sector
   Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2017, 65, (1), 159-183

2016

6. Bayesian Estimation of Possibly Similar Yield Densities: Implications for Rating Crop Insurance Contracts
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016, 98, (2), 360-382 View citations (20)
7. Nonparametric estimation of possibly similar densities
   Statistics & Probability Letters, 2016, 117, (C), 23-30 View citations (3)

2015

8. On Technological Change in Crop Yields
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2015, 97, (1), 137-158 View citations (23)
   See also Working Paper On Technological Change in Crop Yields, 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. (2013) View citations (2) (2013)
9. The role of gender in fertiliser adoption in Uganda
   African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2015, 10, (2), 14 View citations (9)

2013

10. Transfer Efficiency Analysis of Margin-Based Programs
    Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2013, 61, (4), 509-529 View citations (7)

2011

11. Relaxing Heteroscedasticity Assumptions in Area-Yield Crop Insurance Rating
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2011, 93, (3), 703-713 View citations (42)

2008

12. 2006 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS WATER MARKETS IN THE WEST: PRICES, TRADING, AND CONTRACTUAL FORMS
    Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46, (2), 91-112 View citations (34)

2007

13. On the Revelation of Private Information in the U.S. Crop Insurance Program
    Journal of Risk & Insurance, 2007, 74, (4), 761-776 View citations (3)

2006

14. Nonparametric regression under alternative data environments
    Statistics & Probability Letters, 2006, 76, (10), 1037-1046 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION UNDER ALTERNATIVE DATA ENVIRONMENTS, 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO (2004) (2004)
15. Rating Crop Insurance Policies with Efficient Nonparametric Estimators that Admit Mixed Data Types
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2006, 31, (01), 13 View citations (8)

2005

16. Empirical Bayes nonparametric kernel density estimation
    Statistics & Probability Letters, 2005, 75, (4), 315-324 View citations (2)

2003

17. Modeling Conditional Yield Densities
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85, (2), 291-304 View citations (68)

2001

18. Private Insurance Company Involvement in the U.S. Crop Insurance Program
    Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2001, 49, (4), 557-566 View citations (6)

2000

19. MODELING TECHNICAL TRADE BARRIERS UNDER UNCERTAINTY
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2000, 25, (01), 23 View citations (3)
20. Nonparametric Estimation of Crop Insurance Rates Revisited
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2000, 82, (2), 463-478 View citations (65)
21. WEATHER-BASED ADVERSE SELECTION AND THE U.S. CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM: THE PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANY PERSPECTIVE
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2000, 25, (2), 25 View citations (25)

1999

22. Private Insurance Companies and the U.S. Crop Insurance Program
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 1999, 14, (3), 2 View citations (2)

1998

23. Nonparametric Estimation of Crop Yield Distributions: Implications for Rating Group-Risk Crop Insurance Contracts
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998, 80, (1), 139-153 View citations (125)
24. ON CHOOSING A BASE COVERAGE LEVEL FOR MULTIPLE PERIL CROP INSURANCE CONTRACTS
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1998, 23, (2), 18 View citations (1)
25. Revenue Insurance: A New Dimension in Risk Management
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 1998, 13, (4), 4 View citations (12)

1997

26. Tariffication and the Canadian Chicken Industry in the Uruguay Round Agreement
    Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 1997, 45, (2), 111-122

1993

27. World Price Variability versus Protectionism in Agriculture: A Causality Analysis
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1993, 75, (2), 342-46 View citations (8)

1991

28. The demand for wine in ontario and the phasing-out of discriminatory mark-ups
    Agribusiness, 1991, 7, (5), 475-488 View citations (2)