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Volume 78, issue 5, 1996

Markets or Government? Balancing Imperfect and Complementary Alternatives pp. 1145-1156

Ralph D. Christy

The Peasant in Economic Modernization pp. 1157-1167

Yujiro Hayami

Modeling Economics and Ecology: The Importance of a Spatial Perspective pp. 1168-1180

Nancy E. Bockstael

Reengineering the Food Supply Chain: The ECR Initiative in the Grocery Industry pp. 1181-1186

Robert King and Paul F. Phumpiu

Consumer Trends and Changing Food Retailing Formats pp. 1187-1191

Jean Kinsey and Benjamin Senauer

Did the Competitive Regime Switch in the 1980s? pp. 1192-1197

John Connor

A New Era of Environmental Management in Agriculture? pp. 1198-1206

David E. Ervin and Andrew Schmitz

The 1995 Farm Bill and Natural Resource Conservation: Major New Opportunities pp. 1207-1214

Peter J. Kuch and Clayton W. Ogg

The Environment and the 1995 Farm Bill: Discussion pp. 1215-1216

John A. Miranowski

The Environment and the 1995 Farm Bill: Discussion pp. 1217-1218

Luther Tweeten

The Environment and the 1995 Farm Bill: Discussion pp. 1219-1221

Tim Osborn

Teaching Management for Specialized Agricultural Industries pp. 1222-1227

Robert O. Burton, Bryan W. Schurle, Jeffery Williams and Gary W. Brester

Teaching Management for Diverse Agricultural Industries pp. 1228-1232

Alex White

Teaching Management Using Shared Resources and Emerging Technology pp. 1233-1237

Kerry K. Litzenberg and Alfred L. Parks

Undergraduate Teaching of Management in Agricultural Economics Department: Discussion pp. 1238-1241

J. Connor Larry

Efficient Food Safety Regulation in the Food Manufacturing Sector pp. 1242-1247

John Antle

Using Informational Labeling to Influence the Market for Quality in Food Products pp. 1248-1253

Julie Caswell and Eliza M. Mojduszka

Safety and Quality Regulation and Stage of Distribution pp. 1254-1260

Garth Holloway

Regulating Safety and Quality Standards in Food Marketing, Processing, and Distribution: Discussion pp. 1261-1262

John K. Horowitz

Cyberfarm: What Does It Look Like? What Does It Mean? pp. 1263-1268

Steven T. Sonka and Karen F. Coaldrake

The Political Economy of Precision Farming pp. 1269-1274

Steven A. Wolf and Frederick H. Buttel

Precision Farming and Spatial Economic Analysis: Research Challenges and Opportunities pp. 1275-1280

Michael D. Weiss

Precision Farming and the New Information Technology: Implications for Farm Management, Policy, and Research: Discussion pp. 1281-1284

Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer

Modeling the Costs of Food Safety Regulation pp. 1285-1290

James MacDonald and Stephen Crutchfield

The Theoretical Benefits of Food Safety Policies: A Total Economic Value Framework pp. 1291-1296

Eileen O. van Ravenswaay and John Hoehn

Using Benefit and Cost Information to Evaluate a Food Safety Regulation: HACCP for Meat and Poultry pp. 1297-1301

Tanya Roberts, Jean Buzby and Michael Ollinger

The Benefits and Costs of Food Safety Policies: Discussion pp. 1302-1304

Laurian Unnevehr

Explaining U.S. Farm Policy in 1996 and Beyond: Changes in Party Control and Changing Market Conditions pp. 1305-1313

Robert Paarlberg and David Orden

The Political Economy of Reforming the 1992 CAP Reform pp. 1314-1323

L.P. Mahé and Terry Roe

The Political Economy of Post-Uruguay Round Agricultural Policies in the United States and the European Union: Discussion pp. 1324-1326

David Blandford

Explaining U.S. Farm Policy in 1996 and Beyond: Changes in Party Control and Changing Market Conditions: Discussion pp. 1327-1328

D. Johnson

Diversification as a Risk Management Strategy in an Andean Agropastoral Community pp. 1329-1334

Christian Jette

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in an Uncertain Environment pp. 1335-1339

Cheryl Doss

Factors Influencing the Payments to Women in Malian Agriculture pp. 1340-1345

Hugo De Groote and Issiaka Dembélé

Modeling Household Behavior in Developing Countries: Discussion pp. 1346-1348

Agnes Quisumbing

Productivity Measurement in the Presence of Quality Change pp. 1349-1354

Barbara J. Craig and Philip Pardey

Productivity Measurement in the Presence of “Poorly Priced” Goods pp. 1355-1359

Richard Perrin and Lilyan Fulginiti

Aggregate Productivity Measures pp. 1360-1365

Robert Chambers and Rulon D. Pope

Productivity Measurement in the Agricultural Marketing Sector pp. 1366-1371

Steven Buccola and Jayashree Sil

A Cost Analysis of Alternatives for Methyl Bromide for Postharvest and Quarantine Treatment of Apples and Cherries pp. 1424-1433

Holly C. Nelson

Volume 78, issue 4, 1996

Haddad, Lawrence, M. Daniel Westbrook, Daniel Driscoll, Ellen Payongayong, Joshua Rozen, and Melvyn Weeks. Strengthening Policy Analysis: Econometric Tests Using Microcomputer Software. Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 1995, viii + 157 pp., price unavailable pp. -1138

James L. Novak

International Comparisons of Cattle Cycles pp. 855-868

Yair Mundlak and He Huang

The Former Soviet Union and the World Wheat Economy pp. 869-878

James R. Jones, Shuang L. Li, Stephen Devadoss and Charlotte (Jensen) Fedane

Wheat Storage and Trade in an Efficient Global Market pp. 879-890

Shiva S. Makki, Luther G. Tweeten and Mario Miranda

Rice Trade Liberalization and Implications for U.S. Policy pp. 891-905

JooHo Song and Colin Carter

Methodology for Agricultural Economists: An Instrumentalist Perspective pp. 906-915

Eldon D. Smith

Consumer Preferences for Fresh Food Items with Multiple Quality Attributes: Evidence from an Experimental Auction of Pork Chops pp. 916-923

Jason Shogren and John Fox

A Model of Price Determination for Fresh Produce with Application to California Iceberg Lettuce pp. 924-934

Richard J. Sexton and Mingxia Zhang

Contract Design for the Purchase of Environmental Goods from Agriculture pp. 935-945

JunJie Wu and Bruce Babcock

FLC Usage Among California Growers under IRCA: An Empirical Analysis of Farm Labor Market Risk Management pp. 946-960

Dawn Thilmany

The Economics of a Public Fund for Environmental Amenities: A Study of CRP Contracts pp. 961-971

David Zilberman

Changing Time Attitudes in Intertemporal Analysis pp. 972-981

Peter J. Barry, Lindon Robison and Gilbert Nartea

Commodity Price Dynamics and Anticipated Shocks pp. 982-990

Shih Wen Hu and Vey Wang

Estimating Dynamic Dual Models under Nonstatic Expectations pp. 991-1003

Yir-Hueih Luh and Spiro Stefanou

Dynamic Resource Management: Intertemporal Substitution and Risk Aversion pp. 1004-1014

Keith Knapp and Lars Olson

Hedging with Crop Yield Futures: A Mean-Variance Analysis pp. 1015-1025

Tomislav Vukina, Dong-feng Li and Duncan M. Holthausen

Measuring Welfare Impacts from Equilibrium Supply and Demand Curves: An Antidumping Case Study pp. 1026-1033

Patrick N. Canning and Harry Vroomen

Information Asymmetry as a Reason for Food Industry Vertical Integration pp. 1034-1043

David Hennessy

Competitiveness of U.S. Food Processing: Benefits from Primary Agriculture pp. 1044-1055

Munisamy Gopinath, Terry Roe and Mathew Shane

Adoption of a Politicized Technology: bST and Wisconsin Dairy Farmers pp. 1056-1063

Bradford L. Barham

Explaining Irrigation Technology Choices: A Microparameter Approach pp. 1064-1072

David Zilberman and Doug Parker

Information and the Speed of Innovation Adoption pp. 1073-1081

A.J. Fischer, A.J. Arnold and M. Gibbs

The Effect of Agricultural Policies on Land Use and Environmental Quality pp. 1082-1091

Andrew J. Plantinga

The Timing of Land Development: An Invariance Result pp. 1092-1097

Amitrajeet Batabyal

Measuring the Marginal Cost of Nonuniform Environmental Regulations pp. 1098-1107

David Sunding

Second-Best Tax Policies to Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution pp. 1108-1117

Douglas M. Larson, Gloria E. Helfand and Brett W. House

On Nonparametric Supply Response Analysis: Comment pp. 1118-1121

David Lambert

On Nonparametric Supply Response Analysis: Reply pp. 1122-1124

Jean-Paul Chavas and Thomas L. Cox

A Further Look at Flexibilities and Elasticities: Comment pp. 1125-1129

James Eales

A Further Look at Flexibilities and Elasticities: Reply pp. 1130-1131

Kuo Huang

Antle, J., and D. Sumner, eds. The Economics of Agriculture: Papers in Honor of D. Gale Johnson, vols. 1 and 2. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996, xxviii + 789 pp., $49.95 paper, $59.95 hardcover pp. 1132-1133

Rulon D. Pope

Åslund, Anders. How Russia Became a Market Economy. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995, 378 pp., $18.95 paper and Wunderlich, Gene, ed. Agricultural Landownership in Transitional Economies. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 147 pp., $42.50 cloth, $24.50 paper pp. 1133-1136

Verne W. House

Davis, Graham A. South American Managed Trade Policy: The Wasting of a Mineral Endowment. New York: Praeger, 1994, 168 pp., $55.00 pp. 1136-1137

Philip Maxwell

Francis, David G. Family Agriculture: Tradition and Transformation. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 1995, 228 pp., £12.95 pp. 1137-1137

Jill L. Findeis

Mellor, John W. Agriculture on the Road to Industrialization. Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 358 pp., price unavailable pp. 1138-1141

Earl D. Kellogg

Robison, Lindon J., and Peter J. Barry. Present Value Models and Investment Analysis. Northport AL: The Academic Page, 1996, xiv + 661 pp., $49.00 cloth pp. 1141-1143

Garnett Bradford

Volume 78, issue 3, 1996

Krugman, Paul. Development, Geography, and Economic Theory. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1995, ix + 117 pp., $20.00 pp. -836

Maureen Kilkenny

Evaluation of Factors Influencing Student Class Attendance and Performance pp. 499-507

Stephen Devadoss and John Foltz

The Inefficiency of Interest-Rate Subsidies in Commodity Price Stabilization pp. 508-516

Bruce Gardner and Ramon Lopez

Rural Population Decline in the 1980s: Impacts of Farm Structure and Federal Farm Programs pp. 517-529

Stephan Goetz and David Debertin

The Dynamic Responses of Crop and Livestock Prices to Money-Supply Shocks: A Bayesian Analysis Using Long-Run Identifying Restrictions pp. 530-541

Jeffrey Dorfman and William Lastrapes

Generalization of Nonparametric Tests for Homothetic Production pp. 542-546

Elvira Silva and Spiro Stefanou

Modeling Multiple Adoption Decisions in a Joint Framework pp. 547-557

Jeffrey Dorfman

Measuring Returns to an Innovation in an Imperfectly Competitive Market: Application to Mechanical Harvesting of Processing Tomatoes in Taiwan pp. 558-571

Shu-Yu Huang and Richard J. Sexton

Nonlinear Pricing Schemes for Agricultural Cooperatives pp. 572-584

James Vercammen, Murray Fulton and Charles Hyde

Testing the Monopsony-Inefficiency Incentive for Backward Integration pp. 585-590

Azzeddine Azzam

The Effects of Decision Making on Futures Price Volatility pp. 591-603

David Hennessy and Thomas Wahl

A Two-Stage Rural Household Demand Analysis: Microdata Evidence from Jiangsu Province, China pp. 604-613

X.M. Gao, Eric J. Wailes and Gail Cramer

Analysis of Food-Away-from-Home Expenditure Patterns for U.S. Households, 1982–89 pp. 614-627

Patrick J. Byrne, Oral Capps and Atanu Saha

A Probit Latent Variable Model of Nutrition Information and Dietary Fiber Intake pp. 628-639

Jayachandran N. Variyam, James Blaylock and David Smallwood

Closely Related Good Prices in the Travel Cost Model pp. 640-646

John R. McKean, Richard G. Walsh and Donn M. Johnson

Supply and Demand Factors for Organic Produce pp. 647-655

Timothy Park and Luanne Lohr

Farmers' Welfare and Changing Food Prices: Nonparametric Evidence from Rice in Madagascar pp. 656-669

Christopher Barrett and Paul Dorosh

In-Kind Export Subsidies for Processed and Bulk Goods pp. 670-676

Philip L. Paarlberg

Government Rail Car Regulation and the Price of Canola pp. 677-686

Colin Carter

Off-Farm Work Decisions of Farm Couples: Estimating Structural Simultaneous Equations with Ordered Categorical Dependent Variables pp. 687-698

Ayal Kimhi and Myoung-jae Lee

Improving Shadow Price Information: Obtaining Relevant Shadow Prices from Problems with Decomposable Objectives pp. 699-705

Bruce McCarl, M. Edward Rister, Houshmand Ziari and Jeffrey Stokes

A Comparison of Oligopoly Welfare Loss Estimates for U.S. Food Manufacturing: Comment pp. 706-709

Rigoberto Lopez and Sanjib Bhuyan

A Comparison of Oligopoly Welfare Loss Estimates for U.S. Food Manufacturing: Reply pp. 710-711

John Connor and Everett Peterson

The Hot Air in R-super-2: Comment pp. 712-714

Pascal Lavergne

The Hot Air in R-super-2: Reply pp. 715-717

Anya M. McGuirk and Paul Driscoll

The Consolidation of Commercial Banks in Rural Markets pp. 718-720

Eddy LaDue and Marvin Duncan

Participants in Rural Bank Consolidations pp. 721-727

David L. Neff and Paul N. Ellinger

Post-Acquisition Performance of Rural Banks pp. 728-733

Allen Featherstone

Transitions in Rural Financial Markets: Visions of Future Bank Structure: Discussion pp. 734-735

Mark E. Lovonian

Implications for Future Research on Bank Consolidations in Rural Markets: Discussion pp. 736-737

Peter S. Rose

Implications of Game Theory for International Agricultural Trade pp. 738-744

Philip Abbott and Panu K. S. Kallio

Cooperative Game Theory and the Measurement of Political Power pp. 745-752

David S. Bullock

Potential Benefits and Limitations of Game Theory in Agricultural Economics pp. 753-760

John K. Horowitz, Richard Just and Sinaia Netanyahu

Applications of Game Theory in Agricultural Economics: Discussion pp. 761-763

Terry Roe

HACCP as a Regulatory Innovation to Improve Food Safety in the Meat Industry pp. 764-769

Laurian Unnevehr and Helen Jensen

HACCP as a Business Management Tool pp. 770-774

Michael A. Mazzocco

HACCP as an International Trade Standard pp. 775-779

Julie Caswell and Neal Hooker

Structural Change in Meat Industries: Implications for Food Safety Regulation pp. 780-785

James MacDonald, Michael Ollinger, Kenneth E. Nelson and Charles R. Handy

Implications of Alternative Options for Future Levels of Support for Agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe pp. 786-791

Stefan Tangermann

Producer Subsidy Equivalents for Russian Agriculture: Estimation and Interpretation pp. 792-798

William Liefert, David J. Sedik, Robert Koopman, Eugenia Serova and Olga Melyukhina

Use of the Producer Subsidy Equivalent as a Measure of Support to Agriculture in Transition Economies pp. 799-804

Matthew Harley

Use of the Producer Subsidy Equivalent Measure in Transition Economies: Discussion pp. 805-807

William H. Meyers

Agricultural Support in Eastern Europe: Discussion pp. 808-809

Bruce Gardner

Creating Markets: Food Policy and Agricultural Reform in the Transition pp. 810-814

Stephen Jones

Agricultural Market Reforms in South Asia pp. 815-819

Raisuddin Ahmed

Estimating Consumer Response to Food Market Reform Using Stated Preference Data: Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa pp. 820-824

Thomas Jayne, Lawrence Rubey, Frank Lupi, David Tschirley and Michael Weber

Market Analysis Methods: Are Our Enriched Toolkits Well Suited to Enlivened Markets? pp. 825-829

Christopher Barrett

Liberalized Agricultural Markets in Low-Income Economies: Discussion pp. 830-832

Charles Timmer and Thomas D. Cabot

Bjornstad, David J., and James R. Kahn, eds. The Contingent Valuation of Environmental Resources: Methodical Issues and Research Needs. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 1996, x + 305 pp., $79.95 cloth pp. 833-834

Richard Carson

Kagel, John H., and Alvin E. Roth, eds. The Handbook of Experimental Economics. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995, vi + 328 pp,. $55.00 pp. 834-834

John Bergstrom

Leff, Enrique. Green Production: Toward an Environmental Rationality. New York: Guilford Press, 1995, xix + 168 pp., $16.95 paper, $36.95 hardcover pp. 836-839

Clyde Kiker

Penson, J.B., Jr., Oral Capps, Jr., and C. Parr Rosson III. Introduction to Agricultural Economics. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996, xviii + 525 pp., $72.20 pp. 839-841

Robert L. Johnstone

Rowley, Thomas D., David W. Sears, Glenn L. Nelson, J. Norman Reed, and Mervin J. Yetley, eds. Rural Development Research: A Foundation for Policy. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, 261 pp., price unknown pp. 841-842

Frank M. Goode

Ruttan, Vernon W. United States Development Assistance Policy: The Domestic Politics of Foreign Economic Aid. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 657 pp., $65.00 pp. 842-844

Jeffrey Alwang

Salant, Priscilla, and Anita J. Walker. Guide to Rural Data, revised edition. Washington DC: Island Press, 1995, xv + 140 pp., $22.95 paper pp. 844-845

Tom Ilvento

Schmitz, Andrew, Garth Coffin, and Kenneth A. Rosaasen, eds. Regulation and Protectionism under GATT: Case Studies in North American Agriculture. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996, 341 pp., $64.00 pp. 845-847

C. Rosson

Sheldon, Ian M., and Philip C. Abbott, eds. Industrial Organization and Trade in the Food Industries. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996, 328 pp., $64.00 pp. 847-850

Frank H. Fuller

Weibull, Jorgen W. Evolutionary Game Theory. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1995, 265 pp., $30.00 pp. 850-853

John M. Gates

Volume 78, issue 2, 1996

Goldin, Ian, and L. Alan Winters, eds. The Economics of Sustainable Development. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994, xx + 306 pp., price unknown pp. -484

Brent Swallow

Nelson, Robert H. Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, xxiii + 373 pp., paper $24.95, cloth $61.50 pp. -487

Craig Infanger

A Public Choice Perspective on Agricultural Policy Reform: Implications of the New Zealand Experience pp. 257-267

Francis Scrimgeour and E.C. Pasour

Demand Response to Advertising in the Australian Meat Industry pp. 268-279

Nicholas Piggott, James Chalfant, Julian Alston and Garry R. Griffith

Taste Changes in the Demand for Food by Demographic Groups in the United States: A Nonparametric Empirical Analysis pp. 280-289

Rafael Cortez and Benjamin Senauer

A Demand Systems Analysis of Food Commodities by U.S. Households Segmented by Income pp. 290-300

John Park, Rodney Holcomb, Kellie Raper and Oral Capps

Model Selection and Forecasting Ability of Theory-Constrained Food Demand Systems pp. 301-312

Terry L. Kastens and Gary W. Brester

Multiple Policy Goals in a Trade Model with Explicit Factor Markets pp. 313-330

Lewell F. Gunter, Ki Hong Jeong and Fred C. White

A Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Agricultural Growth before and after Reforms pp. 331-338

Kaliappa Kalirajan, M.B. Obwona and S. Zhao

The Role of Transportation Costs in the Economics of Commodity Markets pp. 339-353

Bertrand M. Roehner

Quotas without Supply Control: Effects of Dairy Quota Policy in California pp. 354-366

Daniel Sumner and Christopher Wolf

Import Quota Licenses and Market Power pp. 367-372

Steve McCorriston

A Nonparametric Approach to the von Liebig-Paris Technology pp. 373-386

Robert Chambers and Erik Lichtenberg

Monte Carlo Analysis of Mean Reversion in Commodity Futures Prices pp. 387-399

Scott Irwin, Carl R. Zulauf and Thomas E. Jackson

Feedforward Backpropagation Neural Networks in Prediction of Farmer Risk Preferences pp. 400-415

Terry L. Kastens and Allen Featherstone

Input Demand under Yield and Revenue Insurance pp. 416-427

Bruce Babcock and David Hennessy

Crop Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Agricultural Chemical Use pp. 428-438

Vincent H. Smith and Barry Goodwin

Modeling Farm-Level Crop Insurance Demand with Panel Data pp. 439-447

Keith Coble, Thomas O. Knight, Rulon D. Pope and Jeffery Williams

Optimum Management of a Hierarchically Exploited Open Access Resource: A Multilevel Optimization Approach pp. 448-459

Hayri Onal

Land Tenure and Allocative Efficiency in Niger pp. 460-471

Sarah Gavian and Marcel Fafchamps

Bailey, Ronald, ed. The True State of the Planet. New York: The Free Press, 1995, viii + 472 pp., paper $15.00 pp. 472-473

Mursaleena Islam and John Braden

Dietz, Frank J., Herman R.J. Vollebergh, and Jan L. de Vries, eds. Environment, Incentives and the Common Market. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, 186 pp., cloth NLG 160.00 pp. 474-475

Gerrit van Kooten

Doeringer, Peter B., and David G. Terkla. Troubled Waters: Economic Structure, Regulatory Reform and Fisheries Trade. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996, 206 pp., paper $39.95 pp. 475-476

Emmanuel I.S. Ajuzie

Edwards, Victoria. Dealing in Diversity: America's Market for Nature Conservation. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 182 pp., cloth $44.95 pp. 477-478

Elizabeth T. Kennedy

Fisher, Anthony C. Environmental and Resource Economics. Brookfield VT: Edward Elgar, 1995. 392 pp., $74.95 pp. 478-479

Kenneth McConnell

Foldvary, Fred. Public Goods and Private Communities: The Market Provision of Social Services. Brookfield VT: Ashgate Publishing, 1994, 288 pp., $59.95 pp. 480-480

Holley H. Ulbrich

Helmberger, Peter G., and Jean-Paul Chavas. The Economics of Agricultural Prices. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996, 356 pp., $74.00 pp. 484-486

Patricia J. Lindsey

Kneese Allan V. Natural Resource Economics: Selected Papers of Allen V. Kneese. Aldershot UK: Edward Elger, 1995, 478 pp., $74.95 pp. 486-486

John M. Antle

Yandle, Bruce, ed. Land Rights: The 1990's Property Rights Rebellion. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995, xviii+ 333 pp., paper $22.95, cloth $57.50 pp. 487-490

Lawrence W. Libby

Volume 78, issue 1, 1996

Barnett, Vic, Roger Payne, and Roy Steiner, eds. Agricultural Sustainability: Economic, Environmental and Statistical Considerations. Chichester, England: John Wiley and Sons, 1995, xii + 266 pp., $79.95 pp. -249

Bruce Babcock

Extension Commercialization: How Much to Charge for Extension Services pp. 1-12

Ariel Dinar

Optimal Dynamic Hedging in Unbiased Futures Markets pp. 13-20

Robert Myers and Steven D. Hanson

Nutrient Elasticities in a Complete Food Demand System pp. 21-29

Kuo Huang

Nitrogen-Land Substitution in Corn Production: A Reconciliation of Aggregate and Firm-Level Evidence pp. 30-40

Thomas Hertel, Kyle Stiegert and Harry Vroomen

Modeling Regional Agricultural Production and Salinity Control Alternatives for Water Quality Policy Analysis pp. 41-53

Donna J. Lee and Richard E. Howitt

Incentive Payments to Encourage Farmer Adoption of Water Quality Protection Practices pp. 54-64

Joseph Cooper and Russ W. Keim

Uncoordinated Agricultural and Environmental Policy Making: An Application to Irrigated Agriculture in the West pp. 65-78

Marca Weinberg and Catherine Kling

A Multilevel, Multiobjective Policy Model: The Case of Marine Aquaculture Development pp. 79-88

Gilbert Sylvia, James Anderson and Deqin Cai

Count Data Models and the Problem of Zeros in Recreation Demand Analysis pp. 89-102

Tim Haab and Kenneth McConnell

The Implications of Model Specification for Welfare Estimation in Nested Logit Models pp. 103-114

Catherine Kling and Cynthia J. Thomson

Spatial Competition, Uniform Pricing, and Transportation Efficiency in the California Processing Tomato Industry pp. 115-125

Catherine Durham, Richard J. Sexton and Joo Ho Song

Food Price Variability and Economic Reform: An ARCH Approach for Ghana pp. 126-136

Gerald Shively

Social Supply and the Evaluation of Food Policies pp. 137-145

Pasquale Scandizzo and Odin Knudsen

A Shadow-Price Frontier Measurement of Profit Efficiency in Chinese Agriculture pp. 146-156

Jirong Wang, Eric J. Wailes and Gail Cramer

Welfare Measurement in Single and Multimarket Models: Theory and Application pp. 157-165

Runar Brännlund and Bengt Kriström

Farmers' Investment Behavior: An Empirical Assessment of Two Specifications of Expectations pp. 166-174

Geert Thijssen

Government Institutional Effects on the Value of Seasonal Climate Forecasts pp. 175-188

James W. Mjelde, Troy N. Thompson and Clair J. Nixon

The Demand for Multiple Peril Crop Insurance: Evidence from Montana Wheat Farms pp. 189-201

Vincent H. Smith and Alan E. Baquet

The Determinants of Wheat Variety Selection in Kansas, 1974 to 1993 pp. 202-211

Andrew Barkley and Lori L. Porter

An Examination of the Effects of Price Supports and Federal Crop Insurance Upon the Economic Growth, Capital Structure, and Financial Survival of Wheat Growers in the Northern High Plains pp. 212-224

Joseph A. Atwood, Myles J. Watts and Alan E. Baquet

Safety-First Criteria and Their Measures of Risk pp. 225-235

David Bigman

Agrarian Structure and Agricultural Practice: Typology and Application to Western Sudan pp. 236-245

Michael Kevane

Alexandratos, Nikos, ed. World Agriculture: Towards 2010: An FAO Study. Chichester, England: FAO and Wiley, 1995, xxvi + 488 pp., $115 pp. 246-247

Jock Anderson

Banyai, Istvan. Zoom. New York: Viking, 1995, 62 pp., $13.99 pp. 247-247

Larry S. Lev

Browne, William P. Cultivating Congress: Constituents, Issues, and Interests in Agricultural Policymaking. Lawrence KS: University of Kansas Press, 1995, 295 pp., price unknown pp. 249-250

Carlisle Runge

Nelson, Robert H. Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1995, xxiii + 373 pp., $24.95 (paper), $61.50 (cloth) pp. 250-251

Craig Infanger

Sadoulet, Elisabeth, and Alain de Janvry. Quantitative Development Policy Analysis. Baltimore MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, xii + 397 pp., $35.00 pp. 251-253

James C.O. Nyankori

Scott, Gregory J., ed. Prices, Products and People: Analyzing Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries. Boulder CO and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers in cooperation with the International Potato Center, 1995, xxii + 495 pp., $19.95 pp. 253-254

Christopher Barrett

Swanson, T.M., ed. The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline: The Forces Driving Global Change. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 162 pp., price unknown pp. 254-255

Amitrajeet Batabyal

Vanclay, Frank, and Geoffrey Lawrence. The Environmental Imperative: Eco-Social Concerns for Australian Agriculture. Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia: Central Queenland University Press, 1995, xxvi + 204 pp., $19.95 + $4.00 postage (Australian) pp. 255-255

F. Leistritz