American Journal of Agricultural Economics

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Volume 81, issue 5, 1999

The New Economics of Agriculture pp. 993-1010

John Antle

Private/Public Research: Knowledge Assets and Future Scenarios pp. 1011-1027

Gordon Rausser

Structural Changes in the Agricultural Industries: How Do We Measure, Analyze and Understand Them? pp. 1028-1041

Michael Boehlje

The State of Agribusiness Teaching, Research, and Extension at the Turn of the Millennium pp. 1042-1049

Frank J. Dooley and Joan R. Fulton

A Look at Agribusiness Education Since the National Agribusiness Education Commission's 1989 Report: The Lincoln Report Revisited pp. 1050-1055

Michael M. Woolverton and W. David Downey

A Revisit of Agribusiness Education by an Original Critic pp. 1056-1060

Arlo W. Biere

Where Next for Agribusiness Research and Education? An Organizational Economics Perspective pp. 1061-1065

Peter J. Barry

Ecocertification: Why It May Not Be a “Field of Dreams” pp. 1066-1071

Mario Teisl, Brian Roe and Alan S. Levy

Measuring Consumer Demand for Ecolabeled Apples pp. 1072-1077

Jeffrey R. Blend and Eileen O. van Ravenswaay

Ecolabels and International Trade in the Textile and Apparel Market pp. 1078-1083

Wesley Nimon and John Beghin

Assessing Consumer Preferences for Ecolabeled Seafood: The Influence of Species, Certifier, and Household Attributes pp. 1084-1089

Cathy R. Wessells, Robert Johnston and Holger Donath

Evaluating the Alternatives pp. 1090-1095

Garth John Holloway

Ensuring Food Safety and Quality in Farm-Level Production: Emerging Lessons from the Pork Industry pp. 1096-1101

Laurian Unnevehr, Jay Y. Miller and Miguel Gomez

Preserving and Communicating Food Safety Gains pp. 1102-1106

Neal Hooker, Rodolfo Nayga and John W. Siebert

Delivering Food Safety, Food Quality, and Sustainable Production Practices: The Label Rouge Poultry System in France pp. 1107-1111

Randall Westgren

The Role of Optimizing Behavior in Willingness-to-Pay Estimates for Air Quality pp. 1112-1117

Spencer Banzhaf and Randall Walsh

Estimating the Demand for Protecting Freshwater Lakes from Eutrophication pp. 1118-1122

Kevin Boyle, P. Joan Poor and Laura Taylor

Hierarchical Linear Models With Application to Air Pollution in the South Coast Air Basin pp. 1123-1127

Kurt J. Beron, James Murdoch and Mark A. Thayer

Valuing Air Quality With Hedonic and Discrete Choice Models pp. 1128-1133

Raymond B. Palmquist and Adis Israngkura

Key Issues and Challenges for the 1999 World Trade Organization Agriculture Round pp. 1134-1141

P. Lynn Kennedy, Won W. Koo and Mary Marchant

Global Trade Integration and Economic Convergence of Developing Countries pp. 1142-1148

William Amponsah, Dale Colyer and Curtis M. Jolly

Impact of Rice Tariffication on Japan and the World Rice Market pp. 1149-1156

Gail Cramer, James M. Hansen and Eric J. Wailes

Preparing for the 1999 WTO Agriculture Round: Implications for Agricultural Economics Research: Discussion pp. 1157-1159

Stanley M. Fletcher

Against Mechanism: Methodology for an Evolutionary Economics pp. 1160-1165

Allan Schmid and Paul Thompson

The Challenge of Postmodernism to Applied Economics pp. 1166-1172

Luther Tweeten and Carl Zulauf

Consequences, Rights, and Virtues: Ethical Foundations for Applied Economics pp. 1173-1180

E. Wesley Peterson and George Davis

Comments on the Philosophical Foundations of Economics pp. 1181-1184

Charles V. Blatz

Willingness to Pay for Food Safety: Costs and Benefits of Accurate Measures pp. 1185-1191

Elise Golan and Fred Kuchler

Observed Choices for Food Safety in Retail, Survey, and Auction Markets pp. 1192-1199

Jason Shogren, John Fox, Dermot Hayes and Jutta Roosen

Valuing the Benefits of Microbial Food Safety Risk Reduction: Discussion pp. 1200-1204

Nancy E. Bockstael

The Clean Water Action Plan: New Directions or Going in Circles? pp. 1205-1209

Marc Ribaudo and Peter Kuch

Green Payments for Nonpoint Pollution Control pp. 1210-1215

Richard Horan, James Shortle and David Abler

EPA's Approach to Controlling Pollution from Animal Feeding Operations: An Economic Analysis pp. 1216-1221

Renée Selinsky Johnson, William Wheeler and Lee A. Christensen

Emerging Policies on Externalities from Agriculture: An Analysis for the European Union pp. 1222-1227

Nick Hanley and David Oglethorpe

Opportunities for Improved Efficiency in Risk Sharing Using Capital Markets pp. 1228-1233

Jerry R. Skees

New Risk-Management Strategies for Agricultural Cooperatives pp. 1234-1239

Kimberly A. Zeuli

Cooperatives and Capital Markets: The Case of Minnesota-Dakota Sugar Cooperatives pp. 1240-1246

J. Roy Black, Barry Barnett and Yingyao Hu

Capital Market Innovations and Agricultural Cooperatives pp. 1247-1249

Thomas Sporleder

Endangered Species Recovery and River Basin Policy: Contribution of Economic Analysis pp. 1250-1251

Ari M. Michelsen and Garth Taylor

Modeling the Reallocation of Snake River Water for Endangered Salmon pp. 1252-1256

Gareth P. Green and David Holland

Evaluating Economic and Institutional Alternatives for Meeting Interstate ESA Instream Flow Requirements in the Platte River Basin pp. 1257-1261

W. Marshall Frasier, Ari M. Michelsen, Garth Taylor, James Booker and Ray G. Huffaker

Instream Flows and Endangered Species in an International River Basin: The Upper Rio Grande pp. 1262-1267

James Booker and Frank A. Ward

Measuring the Economic Impacts of Environmental Reallocations of Water in California pp. 1268-1272

Richard E. Howitt and Jay R. Lund

Income and Substitution Effects in the Travel Cost Model: An Application to Indiana State Parks pp. 1330-1337

Jeremy J. Emmert

Volume 81, issue 4, 1999

Swanson, T.M., ed. The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline: The Forces Driving Global Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xiii + 162 pp., $19.95 (paper) pp. -989

Arthur A. Small

What Causes Commodity Price Backwardation? pp. 761-771

Darren L. Frechette and Paul Fackler

A Dynamic Analysis of Land Prices pp. 772-784

Jean-Paul Chavas and Alban Thomas

Agricultural Graduate Earnings: The Impacts of College, Career, and Gender pp. 785-800

Andrew Barkley, Cynthia K. Sylvius and Wendy A. Stock

Are Eco-Labels Valuable? Evidence From the Apparel Industry pp. 801-811

Wesley Nimon and John Beghin

An Econometric Analysis of the Costs of Sequestering Carbon in Forests pp. 812-824

Douglas J. Miller

Environmental Externalities and the Optimal Level of Market Power pp. 825-833

Munisamy Gopinath and JunJie Wu

Adverse Selection in Crop Insurance: Actuarial and Asymmetric Information Incentives pp. 834-849

Richard Just, Linda Calvin and John Quiggin

Simple Nonparametric Tests of Technological Change: Theory and Application to U.S. Agriculture pp. 850-864

Ziv Bar-Shira and Israel Finkelshtain

Input Demands and Inefficiency in U.S. Agriculture pp. 865-880

Christopher O'Donnell, C. Shumway and V. Eldon Ball

A Soil-Quality Index and Its Relationship to Efficiency and Productivity Growth Measures: Two Decompositions pp. 881-893

Edward Jaenicke and Laura L. Lengnick

Using Cross-Section Data to Adjust Technical Efficiency Indexes Estimated With Panel Data pp. 894-901

Antonio Alvarez and Eduardo González

The Nonparametric Risk-Adjusted Efficiency Measurement: An Application to Taiwan's Major Rural Financial Intermediaries pp. 902-913

Ching-Cheng Chang

Economic Feasibility of Variable-Rate Technology for Nitrogen on Corn pp. 914-927

Gary Kachanoski

Evaluation of Price Policy in the Presence of Water Theft pp. 928-941

Isha Ray and Jeffrey Williams

Price Information and Bidding Behavior in Repeated Second-Price Auctions pp. 942-949

John List and Jason Shogren

On Interpreting Inverse Demand Systems: A Primal Comparison of Scale Flexibilities and Income Elasticities pp. 950-958

Hoanjae Park and Walter Thurman

The Effect of Income and Food Programs on Dietary Quality: A Seemingly Unrelated Regression Analysis with Error Components pp. 959-971

Parke Wilde, Paul McNamara and Christine K. Ranney

Two-Step Estimation of a Censored System of Equations pp. 972-982

J Shonkwiler and Steven T. Yen

Perloff, Jeffrey M. Microeconomics. Reading MA: Addison Wesley Longman, 1999, 848 pp., $88.00 pp. 983-984

Stephen Hamilton

Rothenberg, Daniel. With These Hands. The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998, 334 pp., $28.00 pp. 984-985

Phillip Martin

Shogren, Jason F., ed. Private Property and the Endangered Species Act. Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 1998, 153 pp., $14.95 (paper) pp. 985-987

Robert Innes

Simpson, J.R., Y. Kojima, R. Kada, A. Miyazaki, and T. Yosh, Japan's Beef Industry. New York NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, 207 pp., $45.00 pp. 987-987

Thomas Wahl

Volume 81, issue 3, 1999

Pleasures of Cockaigne: Quality Gaps, Market Structure, and the Amount of Grading pp. 501-511

Sylvette Monier-Dilhan and Hervé Ossard

Producer Price Risk and Quality Measurement pp. 512-524

Brent Hueth and Ethan Ligon

Asymmetry and Rigidity in Farm-Retail Price Transmission pp. 525-533

Azzeddine Azzam

The Taxpayer Relief Act, Estate Planning, and Resource Mobility in U.S. Agriculture pp. 534-543

David Hennessy

Income Taxes and Price Variability in Storable Commodity Markets pp. 544-552

Kevin McNew and Bruce Gardner

Risk Aversion and Yield Uncertainty in Duality Models of Production: A Mean-Variance Approach pp. 553-567

Barry T. Coyle

Product Aggregation, Market Integration, and Relationships between Prices: An Application to World Salmon Markets pp. 568-581

Frank Asche, Helge Bremnes and Cathy R. Wessells

Rural Wheat Consumption in China pp. 582-592

Colin Carter and Funing Zhong

Distribution of Gains from Research and Promotion in Multistage Production Systems: Comment pp. 593-597

Chanjin Chung and Harry Kaiser

Distribution of Gains from Research and Promotion in Multistage Production Systems: Reply pp. 598-600

Michael Wohlgenant

Hotelling's Theory, Enhancement, and the Taking of the Redwood National Park: An Addendum pp. 601-601

Peter Berck and William R. Bentley

Producer Organizations, Bargaining, and Asymmetric Information pp. 602-609

Jean-Marc Bourgeon and Robert Chambers

Agricultural Supply Response Under Contract pp. 610-615

Brent Hueth and Ethan Ligon

Input Control in Agricultural Production Contracts pp. 616-620

Rachael Goodhue

What is Farming? Information, Contracts, and the Organization of Agricultural Production: Discussion pp. 621-623

Howard Leathers

Aggregation and the Measurement of Technological and Market Structure: The Case of the U.S. Meatpacking Industry pp. 624-629

Catherine Morrison Paul

Price Transmission and Asymmetric Adjustment in the U.S. Beef Sector pp. 630-637

Barry Goodwin and Matthew Holt

A Test for Market Power Using Marginal Input and Output Prices With Application to the U.S. Beef Processing Industry pp. 638-643

Mary K. Muth and Michael Wohlgenant

Measurement of Technological and Market Structure—Alternative Methodological Perspectives: Discussion pp. 644-646

Azzeddine Azzam and Emilio Pagoulatos

Explicitly Spatial Rural-Urban Computable General Equilibrium pp. 647-652

Maureen Kilkenny

Agricultural Price Policy, Employment, and Migration in a Diversified Rural Economy: A Village-Town CGE Analysis from Mexico pp. 653-662

J. Edward Taylor, Antonio Yunez-Naude and George Dyer

Nonseparable Farm Household Decisions in a Computable General Equilibrium Model pp. 663-670

Hans Lofgren and Sherman Robinson

Transaction Costs: Discussion pp. 671-673

Peter Berck

Valuing Rural Health Care: Issues of Access and Quality pp. 674-679

Susan M. Capalbo and Christine N. Heggem

Flexible Discrete Choice Demand Models Consistent With Utility Maximization: An Application to Health Care Demand pp. 680-685

William Dow

Welfare Effects of Rural Hospitial Closures: A Nested Logit Analysis of the Demand for Rural Hospital Services pp. 686-691

Paul McNamara

The Use of Random Utility in Modeling Rural Health Care Demand: Discussion pp. 692-695

Nancy E. Bockstael

Conflicts between Theory and Practice in Production Economics pp. 696-702

H. Love

Globally Flexible Asymptotically Ideal Models pp. 703-710

Arthur Havenner and Atanu Saha

Implications of Heterogeneity for Theory and Practice in Production Economics pp. 711-718

Richard Just and Rulon D. Pope

Conflict between Theory and Practice in Production Economics: Discussion pp. 719-721

Bruce Babcock

An Application of Bayesian Option Pricing to the Soybean Market pp. 722-727

Frederick Foster and Charles Whiteman

Inferring the Nutrient Content of Food With Prior Information pp. 728-734

Jeffrey LaFrance

An Information-Based Sample-Selection Estimation Model of Agricultural Workers' Choice between Piece-Rate and Hourly Work pp. 735-741

Amos Golan, Enrico Moretti and Jeffrey Perloff

New Information-Based Econometric Methods in Agricultural Economics: Discussion pp. 742-746

Arnold Zellner

Eicher, Carl K., and John M. Staatz, eds. International Agricultural Development. Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 615 pp., $65.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) pp. 747-749

Steven Block

Hardeker, J. Brian, Ruud B.M. Huirne, and Jock R. Anderson. Coping With Risk in Agriculture. Oxon UK and New York: CAB International, 1997, price unknown pp. 749-751

James Roumasset

Josling, T.E., S. Tangermann, and T.K. Warley. Agriculture in the GATT. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, x + 298 pp., $69.95 pp. 751-753

Donald MacLaren

Kay, Ronald D., and William M. Edwards. Farm Management, 4th ed. New York: WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1999, price unknown pp. 753-754

Patricia A. Duffy

National Research Council. Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century: Geospatial and Information Technologies in Crop Management. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1997, 168 pp., $39.95 pp. 755-756

Marvin Batte

Sahn, David E., Paul A. Dorosh, and Stephen D. Younger. Structural Adjustment Reconsidered—Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xiv + 304 pp., price unknown pp. 756-758

Suresh Babu

Thu, Kendall M., and E. Paul Durrenberger, eds. Pigs, Profits and Rural Communities. Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1998, 208 pp., price unknown pp. 758-759

Andrew Seidl and Jennifer Grannis

Wolf, Steven A. Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization. Boca Raton NY: CRC Press, 1998, 325 pp., price unknown pp. 759-759

Thomas P. Zacharias

Volume 81, issue 2, 1999

Transaction Costs and the Present Value Model of Farmland: Iowa, 1900–1994 pp. 257-272

Sergio Lence and Douglas J. Miller

Jump Processes in Commodity Futures Prices and Options Pricing pp. 273-286

Jimmy E. Hilliard and Jorge A. Reis

Are Crop Yields Normally Distributed? pp. 287-304

Richard Just and Quinn Weninger

Crop Insurance, Acreage Decisions, and Nonpoint-Source Pollution pp. 305-320

JunJie Wu

Optimal Self-Protection from Nitrate-Contaminated Groundwater pp. 321-334

Richard Ready and Kimberly Henken

The Effects of Breeding Stock Productivity on the U.S. Beef Cattle Cycle pp. 335-346

John M. Marsh

Marketing Agreement Impacts in an Experimental Market for Fed Cattle pp. 347-358

Stephen R. Koontz

Cost-Effective Hazard Control in Food Handling pp. 359-372

John Fox and David Hennessy

Mother's Nutrition Knowledge and Children's Dietary Intakes pp. 373-384

Jayachandran N. Variyam, James Blaylock, Biing-Hwan Lin, Katherine Ralston and David Smallwood

Irreversibility in Advertising-Demand Response Functions: An Application to Milk pp. 385-396

Philip R. Vande Kamp and Harry Kaiser

Political and Economic Factors Affecting Agricultural PAC Contribution Strategies pp. 397-407

Dana Hoag and Thomas G. Field

Testing the Efficient Redistribution Hypothesis: An Application to Japanese Beef Policy pp. 408-423

David S. Bullock and Philip Garcia

Processing Industry Capacity and the Welfare Effects of Sugar Policies pp. 424-441

Jeffrey Williams and Brooke A. Isham

The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment and Trade with an Application to the U.S. Food Processing Industry pp. 442-452

Munisamy Gopinath, Daniel Pick and Utpal Vasavada

Economics of Antipoaching Enforcement and the Ivory Trade Ban pp. 453-466

Erwin Bulte and Gerrit van Kooten

A Dynamic Option Value for Institutional Change: Marketable Property Rights in the Sahel pp. 467-478

Frederic J. Zimmerman and Michael Carter

Fox, Glenn. Reason and Reality in the Methodologies of Economics. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 1997, xi + 142 pp., price unknown pp. 479-480

David Bessler

Haddad, Lawrence, John Hoddinott, and Harold Alderman, eds. Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries: Models, Methods, and Policy. Baltimore MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, 384 pp., $55.00 pp. 480-482

Peter Orazem

Knutson, Ronald D., J.B. Penn, and Barry L. Flinchbaugh. Agricultural and Food Policy, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998, 521 pp., $89.00 pp. 482-484

Jerry Skees

Kopp, Raymond J., Werner W. Pommerehne, and Norbert Schwarz. Determining the Value of Non-Marketed Goods: Economic, Psychological, and Policy Relevant Aspects of Contingent Valuation Methods. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, 333 pp., price unknown pp. 484-485

Catherine Kling

Upton, Martin. The Economics of Tropical Farming Systems. Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xiv + 374 pp., price unknown pp. 485-486

Rashid Hassan

Volume 81, issue 1, 1999

Forest Management, Conservation, and Global Timber Markets pp. 1-13

Brent Sohngen, Robert Mendelsohn and Roger Sedjo

Government Preferences and Public Forest Harvesting: A Second-Best Approach pp. 14-28

Gregory S. Amacher

Intrinsic Fish Characteristics and Intraseason Production Efficiency: A Management-Level Bioeconomic Analysis of a Commercial Fishery pp. 29-43

Sherry Larkin and Gilbert Sylvia

Econometric Estimation of Technical and Environmental Efficiency: An Application to Dutch Dairy Farms pp. 44-60

Stijn Reinhard, C. Lovell and Geert Thijssen

Integrator Contracts with Many Agents and Bankruptcy pp. 61-74

Theofanis Tsoulouhas and Tomislav Vukina

Optimum Area Yield Crop Insurance pp. 75-82

Olivier Mahul

The Importance of Learning in the Adoption of High-Yielding Variety Seeds pp. 83-94

Lisa Cameron

The Empirical Impact of Bovine Somatotropin on a Group of New York Dairy Farms pp. 95-102

Zdenko Stefanides and Loren W. Tauer

Farm Growth and Survival: Econometric Evidence for Individual Farms in Upper Austria pp. 103-116

Christoph Weiss

Determinants of Nonfarm Earnings of Farm-Based Husbands and Wives in Northern Ghana pp. 117-130

Awudu Abdulai and Christopher L. Delgado

Effects of the Internal Wage on Output Supply: A Structural Estimation for Japanese Rice Farmers pp. 131-143

Tadashi Sonoda and Yoshihiro Maruyama

The Structure of Wages and Benefits in the U.S. Pork Industry pp. 144-163

James Kliebenstein and Peter Orazem

Patterns of State Productivity Growth in the U.S. Farm Sector: Linking State and Aggregate Models pp. 164-179

V. Eldon Ball, Frank Gollop, Alison Kelly and Gregory Swinand

Modeling Land Use Decisions with Aggregate Data pp. 180-194

Douglas J. Miller and Andrew J. Plantinga

Dynamic Model of Fresh Fruit Promotion: A Household Production Approach pp. 195-211

Timothy J. Richards

Agricultural Policies in the Presence of Distorting Taxes pp. 212-230

Ian Parry

Measuring Goodness of Fit for the Double-Bounded Logit Model: Comment pp. 231-234

Joseph Herriges

Measuring Goodness of Fit for the Double-Bounded Logit Model: Comment pp. 235-237

David A. Harpman and Michael P. Welsh

Measuring Goodness of Fit for the Double-Bounded Logit Model: Reply pp. 238-240

Barbara Kanninen and M. Sami Khawaja

Joint Risk Preference-Technology Estimation with a Primal System: Comment pp. 241-244

Bhavani Shankar and Carl Nelson

Joint Risk Preference-Technology Estimation with a Primal System: Reply pp. 245-247

H. Love and Steven T. Buccola

Adger, W. Neil, Davide Pettenella, and Martin Whitby, eds. Climate-change Mitigation and European Land-use Policies. New York and Oxon, UK: CAB International (Oxford University Press), 1997, xvi + 350 pp., $90.00 cloth pp. 248-251

Keith Sargent

Casavant, Kenneth L., Craig L. Infanger, and Deborah E. Bridges. Agricultural Economics and Management. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999, 434 pp., price unknown pp. 251-252

James G. Beierlein

Connor, John M., and William A. Schiek. Food Processing: An Industrial Powerhouse in Transition, 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997, 666 pp., price unknown pp. 252-253

James MacDonald

Krimsky, Sheldon, and Roger P. Wrubel. Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy, and Social Issues. Urbana IL:University of Illinois Press, 1996, 283 pp., price unknown pp. 254-255

M.C. Hallberg

Tietenberg, Tom. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 4th ed. New York: Harper Collins, 1996, 614 pp., $74.06 hardcover and Tietenberg, Tom. Environmental Economics and Policy, 2nd ed. Reading MA: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998, 460 pp., $54.38 softcover pp. 255-256

Craig L. Infanger