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Volume 77, issue 5, 1995

The Continuing Search for Relevance in Agricultural Economics pp. 1083-1095

Vernon Eidman

The United States Food Policy pp. 1096-1109

Sylvia Lane

Boom/Bust Cycles and Ricardian Rent pp. 1110-1125

Andrew Schmitz

Demosclerosis: Implications for Environmental and Agricultural Policy Analysis pp. 1126-1127

Sandra S. Batie and David Schweikhardt

Demosclerosis: Implications for Agricultural Policy pp. 1128-1134

William P. Browne and David Schweikhardt

Demosclerosis: Assessing the Argument pp. 1135-1140

Leonard Shabman

Demosclerosis: Implications for Environmental and Agricultural Policy Analysis: Discussion pp. 1141-1143

Lynn M. Daft

The Future of Canadian Agricultural Cooperatives: A Property Rights Approach pp. 1144-1152

Murray Fulton

The Future of U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives: A Neo-Institutional Approach pp. 1153-1159

Michael L. Cook

The Future of Agricultural Cooperatives in North America: Discussion pp. 1160-1161

Robert King

The Future of Agricultural Cooperatives in Canada and the United States: Discussion pp. 1162-1165

Mahlon G. Lang

Regulations: Evidence from the Florida Dairy Industry pp. 1166-1171

Andrew Schmitz, Tefertiller Ken and William G. Boggess

Measuring the Impact of Environmental Regulations pp. 1172-1176

Chris Dumas and Schmitz Troy

Government Regulation and Compensation for Takings: Implications for Agriculture pp. 1177-1182

Thomas J. Miceli and Kathleen Segerson

Impact of Government Regulation on Agricultural Competitiveness: Discussion pp. 1183-1185

John K. Horowitz and Darrell L. Hueth

Bargaining Over Agricultural Property Rights pp. 1186-1191

Bonnie Colby

Malleable Property Rights and Smooth-Pasting Conditions pp. 1192-1198

Richard E. Howitt

Water Policy Issues for the Twenty-first Century pp. 1199-1203

Norman K. Whittlesey and Ray G. Huffaker

Changing Agricultural Property Rights for the Twenty-first Century: Discussion pp. 1204-1206

John Braden

Québec Hog/Pork Industry: Making New Moves or Simply Marking Time? pp. 1207-1212

Kostas Karantininis, Rémy Lambert and Robert Saint-Louis

Contracting and Vertical Coordination in the United States Pork Industry pp. 1213-1218

James B. Kliebenstein and John D. Lawrence

Emerging Business Organizations in a Rapidly Changing Pork Industry pp. 1219-1224

Joan Fulton and Jeffrey Gillespie

Vertical Coordination and Structural Change in the Pork Industry: Discussion pp. 1225-1228

Michael Boehlje

What We Know About Historical Trends in Firm Location Decisions and Regional Shifts: Policy Issues for an Industrializing Animal Sector pp. 1229-1236

Charles W. Abdalla, Les E. Lanyon and Milton C. Hallberg

What We Know About Technological Innovation to Achieve Environmental Compliance: Policy Issues for an Industrializing Animal Agriculture Sector pp. 1237-1243

Amy Purvis and Joe Outlaw

What We Know About Opportunities for Intergovernmental Institutional Innovation: Policy Issues for an Industrializing Animal Agriculture Sector pp. 1244-1249

Katherine R. Smith and Kuch Peter J.

Policy Issues for an Industrializing Animal Agriculture Sector: Discussion pp. 1250-1251

Marvin L. Hayenga

The Economics of Change in Rural America pp. 1252-1258

David L. Barkley

Sustaining Rural Economic Opportunity pp. 1259-1264

Deborah M. Markley and Kevin T. McNamara

Institutional Change and Economic Development in Rural America pp. 1265-1270

David S. Kraybill and Bruce A. Weber

Rural Development: Implications of Structural Change for Policies and Institutions: Discussion pp. 1271-1273

Mark Drabenstott

Western Hemisphere Economic Integration: Implications and Prospects for Agricultural Trade pp. 1274-1282

David R. Lee

NAFTA's Impact on Mexico: Rural Household-Level Effects pp. 1283-1291

Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Benjamin Davis

Joining an Existing Regional Trade Agreement from the Perspective of a Small Open Economy: Chile's Accession to NAFTA and MERCOSUR pp. 1292-1297

Alberto Valdés

Regional Trade Reforms and Western Hemisphere Economic Integration: Implications for Agriculture and Economic Growth: Discussion pp. 1298-1300

Timothy E. Josling

Determinants of Seafood Purchase Behavior: Consumers, Restaurants, and Grocery Stores pp. 1301-1305

Gregory D. Hanson, Robert O. Herrmann and James W. Dunn

Consumer Perceptions of Aquaculture Products pp. 1306-1312

Conrado M. Gempesaw, Richard Bacon, Cathy R. Wessells and Alberto Manalo

Marketing Problems and Opportunities in Mid-Atlantic Seafood Retailing pp. 1313-1318

Catherine Halbrendt, Qingbin Wang, Cristina Fraiz and Linda O'Dierno

Purchase Behavior, Food Safety, and Quality Control in Seafood and Aquaculture Marketing: Discussion pp. 1319-1321

James Anderson

The Agricultural Economics Profession at the Crossroads: Survey Results of Faculty Salary, Employment, and Hiring Prospects pp. 1322-1328

Mary Marchant and Lydia Zepeda

The National Research Council Study of the Colleges of Agriculture at Land Grant Universities: Status and Thoughts for Agricultural Economists pp. 1329-1336

Nicole Ballenger and Kouadio Diby

Issues and Trends in Agricultural and Agricultural Economics Research Funding pp. 1337-1346

Virgil Norton, Dale Colyer, Larry Davis-Swing and Nancy Anders Norton

The Agricultural Economics Profession at the Crossroads: Discussion pp. 1347-1348

Robert L. Thompson

The Problem of the Persistent Hog Price Cycle: A Chaotic Solution pp. 1397-1403

Marcus A. Streips

Volume 77, issue 4, 1995

The Tradeoff between Oligopsony Power and Cost Efficiency in Horizontal Consolidation: An Example from Beef Packing pp. 825-836

Azzeddine Azzam and John Schroeter

Asymmetry and Nonstationarity in the Farm Size Distribution of Wisconsin Milk Producers: An Aggregate Analysis pp. 837-852

Lydia Zepeda

Environmental Stress and Grain Yields in China pp. 853-864

Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle

An Allais Measure of Production Sector Waste Due to Quotas pp. 865-874

Lilyan Fulginiti and Richard Perrin

An Empirical Investigation of the Consistency of Nested Logit Models with Utility Maximization pp. 875-884

Catherine Kling and Joseph Herriges

Measuring Goodness of Fit for the Double-Bounded Logit Model pp. 885-890

Barbara J. Kanninen and M. Sami Khawaja

Economic and Environmental Implications of Soil Nitrogen Testing: A Switching-Regression Analysis pp. 891-900

Keith Fuglie and Darrell Bosch

Plant Succession as a Natural Range Restoration Factor in Private Livestock Enterprises pp. 901-913

Ray Huffaker and Kevin Cooper

An Econometric Decomposition of Dairy Output Growth pp. 914-921

Munir Ahmad and Boris Bravo-Ureta

The Behavior of Forward-Looking Firms in the Very Short Run pp. 922-934

Sergio Lence, Dermot Hayes and William H. Meyers

Hedging with Commodity Options When Price Distributions are Skewed pp. 935-945

James Vercammen

Cigarette Taxes and Smoking Restrictions: Impacts and Policy Implications pp. 946-951

A. Blake Brown

Farm Consumption Behavior in the Presence of Uncertainty and Restrictions on Credit pp. 952-959

Euan Phimister

A Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation of the Functional Forms Used to Estimate the Food Expenditure Equation of Food Stamp Recipients pp. 960-968

J. William Levedahl

The Impacts of Brand and Generic Advertising on Meat Demand pp. 969-979

Gary W. Brester and Ted Schroeder

Microeconomics of Agricultural Grading: Impacts on the Marketing Channel pp. 980-989

David Hennessy

Investment Demand When Economic Depreciation is Stochastic pp. 990-1000

Panos Fousekis and James Shortle

Efficiency of the Multiplant, Multiproduct Firm pp. 1001-1011

Jayashree Sil and Steven Buccola

System Theoretic Time-Series Forecasts of Weekly Live Cattle Prices pp. 1012-1023

Kenneth Foster, Arthur M. Havenner and Allan M. Walburger

Regulating Nonpoint Source Pollution Under Heterogeneous Conditions pp. 1024-1032

Gloria E. Helfand and Brett W. House

The Impact of Policies and Land Characteristics on Potential Groundwater Pollution in Wisconsin pp. 1033-1047

JunJie Wu and Kathleen Segerson

Is the United States Really Underinvesting in Agricultural Research?: Comment pp. 1048-1050

Jet Yee

Is the United States Really Underinvesting in Agricultural Research?: Reply pp. 1051-1053

Glenn Fox

Imputing Input Characteristic Values from Optimal Commercial Breed or Variety Choice Decisions: Comment pp. 1054-1058

Peter Amer and Glenn Fox

Imputing Input Characteristic Values from Optimal Commercial Breed or Variety Choice Decisions: Reply pp. 1059-1063

Bryan E. Melton, W. Arden Colette and Richard L. Willham

Alston, Julian M., George W. Norton, and Philip G. Pardey. Science Under Scarcity: Principles and Practice for Agricultural Research Evaluation and Priority Setting. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1995, xxxiii + 585 pp., cloth, price unknown pp. 1064-1065

Bruce R. Beattie

Christman, John. The Myth of Property. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, ix + 119 pp., $35.00 pp. 1065-1066

Daniel Bromley

Common, Michael. Sustainability and Policy: Limits to Economics. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995, xii + 348 pp., $59.95 pp. 1066-1069

Gerald F. Vaughn

Ethridge, Don. Research Methodology in Applied Economics. Ames IA: Iowa State University Press, 1995, 271 pp., cloth $42.95 pp. 1069-1072

Josef M. Broder

Galston, William A., and Karen J. Baehler. Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities. Washington DC: Island Press, 1995, xiv + 353 pp., $32.00 paper pp. 1072-1074

Mark S. Henry

Gardner, B. Delworth. Plowing Ground in Washington: The Political Economy of U.S. Agriculture. San Francisco CA: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1995, 385 pp., $29.95 pp. 1074-1075

Sandra S. Batie

Lasley, Paul F., Larry Leistritz, Linda M. Labao, and Katherine Meyers, eds. Beyond the Amber Waves of Grain: An Examination of Social and Economic Restructuring in the Heartland. Boulder, San Francisco, and Oxford: Westview Press, 1995, xviii + 256 pp., $39.95 pp. 1075-1078

David Hughes

McNally, Mary M. International Wheat Subsidies: Who Really Profits? New York: Garland Publishing, 1995, xi + 157 pp., $51.00 pp. 1078-1080

Everett Peterson

Milon, J. Walter, and Jason F. Shogren. Integrating Economic and Ecologic Indicators: Practical Methods for Environmental Policy Analysis. Westport CT: Praeger Press, 1995, 261 pp., price unknown pp. 1080-1081

Charles W. Abdalla

Volume 77, issue 3, 1995

Public Grazing in the West and "Rangeland Reform '94" pp. 447-461

Jeffrey LaFrance and Myles J. Watts

Economies Education in a Workshop Setting: Agricultural Business Plan Training in an Emerging Democracy and Market Economy pp. 462-470

Bill Miller, H.M. Bahn, M. Drygas and C.H. Rust

Beef and Pork Packing Costs and Input Demands: Effects of Unionization and Technology pp. 471-485

Bryan E. Melton and Wallace Huffman

"Don't Count Your Chickens...": Risk and Risk Shifting in the Broiler Industry pp. 486-496

Charles R. Knoeber and Walter Thurman

Approximating Farm-Level Returns to Incremental Advertising Expenditure: Methods and an Application to the Australian Meat Industry pp. 497-511

Roley R. Piggott, Nicholas Piggott and Vic E. Wright

Optimal Storage and Marketing Over Space and Time pp. 512-524

Martin Benirschka and James K. Binkley

Aggregation, Flexible Forms, and Estimation of Food Consumption Parameters pp. 525-532

Cyrus A. Ramezani, Donald Rose and Suzanne Murphy

Production Uncertainty and Factor Price Disparity in the Slaughter Cattle Market: Theory and Evidence pp. 533-540

Scott Fausti and Dillon M. Feuz

Technology Adoption Decisions under Irreversibility and Uncertainty: An Ex Ante Appproach pp. 541-551

Amy Purvis, William G. Boggess, Charles Moss and John Holt

Estimation of Australian Wool and Lamb Production Technologies under Uncertainty: An Error-Components Approach pp. 552-565

Christopher O'Donnell and Alan Woodland

The Impacts of Business Cycles on Returns to Farmland Investments pp. 566-577

Bruce Bjornson

Factor Bias under Stochastic Technical Change pp. 578-590

David Lambert and J Shonkwiler

Endogenous Product Differentiation and Trade Policy: Implications for the U.S. Food Industry pp. 591-601

D. Kent Lanclos and Thomas Hertel

Market Effects of Cotton Integrated Pest Management pp. 602-612

Fred C. White and Michael E. Wetzstein

Test-Retest Reliability of Contingent Valuation with Independent Sample Pretest and Posttest Control Groups pp. 613-619

Mario Teisl, Kevin Boyle, Daniel W. McCollum and Stephen D. Reiling

Welfare Estimation Using Aggregate and Individual-Observation Models: A Comparison Using Monte Carlo Techniques pp. 620-630

Daniel Hellerstein

Trade and Tax Policy Reform and the Environment: The Economics of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries pp. 631-644

Ian Coxhead and Sisira Jayasuriya

Quality-Adjusted Price and Quantity Indices for Pesticides pp. 645-659

Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo and Sharon Jans

Efficiency Measurement in Swedish Dairy Farms: An Application of Rotating Panel Data, 1976–88 pp. 660-674

Subal Kumbhakar and Almas Heshmati

Measurement of Economic Efficiency in Pakistani Agriculture pp. 675-685

Ashok Parikh, Farman Ali and Mir Kalan Shah

Assessing Technical Efficiency in Commercial Fisheries: The Mid-Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery pp. 686-697

James E. Kirkley, Dale Squires and Ivar E. Strand

Informational Content of Government Hogs and Pigs Reports: Comment pp. 698-702

Phil L. Colling and Scott Irwin

Informational Content of Government Hogs and Pigs Reports: Reply pp. 703-705

Colin Carter and Carl A. Galopin

Agricultural Growth, the Status of Women, and Fertility pp. 706-711

Leslie A. Whittington and David C. Stapleton

Impacts of Mexico's Trade Openness on Mexican Rural Women pp. 712-718

Christina H. Gladwin and Carrie M. Thompson

Differential Human Capital Investments and the Choice of Successor in Family Farms pp. 719-724

Ayal Kimhi

Economic Development, Agricultural Change, and Economic Demography: Discussion pp. 725-726

Helen Jensen

Climate Change and Global Agriculture: Recent Findings and Issues pp. 727-733

John Reilly

Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Agriculture pp. 734-740

Harry Kaiser and Pierre Crosson

Climate Change and Agriculture in Developing Countries pp. 741-746

John Antle

Agricultural Impacts of Global Warming: Discussion pp. 747-750

Robert Innes and Sally Kane

Weighing Regulatory Costs in Rural Lending pp. 751-756

Bruce Ahrendsen, Alan D. Barkema and Cole Gustafson

Deregulation or Reregulation of Agricultural Banks pp. 757-761

R. Alton Gilbert and Kevin Kliesen

Reregulating Rural Banks: Discussion pp. 762-764

Edward Kane

Trade and the Environment: A Partial Synthesis pp. 765-771

Brian Copeland and M. Scott Taylor

Measuring the Environmental Consequences of Trade Policy: A Nonmarket CGE Analysis pp. 772-777

J. Andrès Espinosa and V. Smith

Trade Liberalization and the Environment in the Pacific Basin: Coordinated Approaches to Mexican Trade and Environment Policy pp. 778-785

John Beghin, David Roland-Holts and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

Environment and Trade in General Equilibrium: Theory, Methodology, and Evidence: Discussion pp. 786-788

Shantayanan Devarajan

Employment Structure and Poverty: Theoretical Perspectives and Conceptual Frameworks pp. 789-795

Alton Thompson and Benjamin G. Gray

Poverty Among Southern Workers: Metro and Nonmetro Differentials pp. 796-802

Donald R. McDowell and Joyce E. Allen-Smith

Employment Structure and Poverty: Theoretical Perspectives and Conceptual Frameworks: Discussion pp. 803-805

Mack C. Nelson and Yvonne B. Oliver

Poverty Among Southern Workers: Discussion pp. 806-808

Glenn L. Nelson

Adams, Jane. The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890-1990. Chapel Hill NC: University of Northern Carolina, 1994, xxx + 321 pp., $49.95, $19.95 paper pp. 809-811

Wayne H. Oberle

Carter, Harold O., Henry J. Vaux, Jr., and Ann F. Scheuring, eds. Sharing Scarcity: Gainers and Losers in Water Marketing. Davis CA: University of California, Agricultural Issues Center, 1994, xi + 239 pp., $17.00 paper pp. 811-812

Chennat Gopalakrishnan

Day, Richard. Complex Economic Dynamics. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1994, xxiv + 309 pp., $39.95 pp. 812-813

Charles Moss

Gaffney, M., and F. Harrison. The Corruption of Economics. London: Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd. in association with the Centre for Incentive Taxation Ltd., 1994, 271 pp., price unknown pp. 813-814

William W. Hall

Hoff, Karla, Avishay Braverman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds. The Economics of Rural Organization: Theory, Practice and Policy. New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1993, 590 pp., price unknown pp. 814-816

William Ward

Martin, Philip L., Wallace Huffman, Robert Emerson, J. Edward Taylor, and Refugio I. Rochin, eds. Immigration Reform and U.S. Agriculture. Davis CA: University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Publication 3358, 1995, xii + 580 pp., $40.00 pp. 816-818

Dawn Thilmany

Miller, Preston J., ed. The Rational Expectations Revolution: Readings from the Front Line. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press, 1994, xvii + 512 pp., $19.95 pp. 818-819

David Orden and Joachim Schleich

Papandreou, Andreas A. Externality and Institutions. New York and Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, 304 pp., $55.00 pp. 819-821

E.C. Pasour

Rae, Allan N. Agricultural Management Analysis: Activity Analysis and Decisionmaking. Wallingford Oxon UK: CAB International, 1994, 358 pp., price unknown pp. 821-823

David Debertin

Volume 77, issue 2, 1995

Endowments, Technology, and Factor Markets: A Natural Experiment of Induced Institutional Innovation from China's Rural Reform pp. 231-242

Justin Lin

Measuring the Comparative Advantage of Agricultural Activities: Domestic Resource Costs and the Social Cost-Benefit Ratio pp. 243-250

William Masters and Alex Winter-Nelson

Reversal of Fortune: Immiserizing Technical Change in Agriculture pp. 251-259

Julian Alston and Will Martin

Declining U.S. Tobacco Exports to Australia: A Derived Demand Approach to Competitiveness pp. 260-267

John Beghin and Fan Hu

National and International Wheat Improvement Research in the Post-Green Revolution Period: Evolution and Impacts pp. 268-278

Derek Byerlee and Greg Traxler

Measuring Effective Protection as a Superlative Index Number: An Application to European Agriculture pp. 279-290

Jean-Christophe Bureau and Nicholas G. Kalaitzandonakes

Technology Adoption in the Presence of an Exhaustible Resource: The Case of Groundwater Extraction pp. 291-299

Farhed Shah, David Zilberman and Ujjayant Chakravorty

A Comparison of Oligopoly Welfare Loss Estimates for U.S. Food Manufacturing pp. 300-308

Everett Peterson and John Connor

Identifying Buyer Market Areas and the Impact of Buyer Concentration in Feeder Cattle Markets Using Mapping and Spatial Statistics pp. 309-318

DeeVon Bailey, B Brorsen and Michael R. Thomsen

The Hot Air in R2 and Consistent Measures of Explained Variation pp. 319-328

Anya M. McGuirk and Paul Driscoll

Positive Mathematical Programming pp. 329-342

Richard E. Howitt

How Much Can Informational Outreach Programs Increase Food Stamp Program Participation? pp. 343-352

J. William Levedahl

The Economic Value of Minimum-Variance Hedges pp. 353-364

Sergio Lence

Effect of Carbon Taxes and Subsidies on Optimal Forest Rotation Age and Supply of Carbon Services pp. 365-374

Gerrit van Kooten, Clark S. Binkley and Gregg Delcourt

Legal Status and Earnings of Agricultural Workers pp. 375-386

Sabrina Isé and Jeffrey Perloff

Quantifying Economic Benefits of Sow-Herd Management Information Systems Using Panel Data pp. 387-396

Jos A.A.M. Verstegen, Ruud B.M. Huirne, Aalt A. Dijkhuizen and Robert King

Capital Market Segmentation and U.S. Farm Real Estate Pricing pp. 397-407

Amr N. Shiha and Jean-Paul Chavas

Multiattribute Assessment of Alternative Cropping Systems pp. 408-420

John C. Foltz, John G. Lee, Marshall A. Martin and Paul Preckel

Do New York Dairy Farmers Maximize Profits or Minimize Costs? pp. 421-429

Loren W. Tauer

Dietrich, Michael. Transaction Cost Economics and Beyond: Towards a New Economics of the Firm. London: Routeledge, 1994, xii + 214 pp., cloth $59.95; paper $18.95 pp. 430-431

Andrew Barkley

Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission. EC Agricultural Policy for the 21st Century: Study No. 4 of European Economy. Brussels, Luxembourg: ECSC-EC-EAEC, 1994, xviii + 152 pp., $30 ECU pp. 431-432

Jimmye S. Hillman

Gebremedhin, Tesfa G., and Luther G. Tweeten. Research Methods and Communication in the Social Sciences. Westport CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994, x + 167 pp., $45.00 pp. 432-434

Dennis C. Cory

Glasmeier, Amy K., and Marie Howland. From Combines to Computers: Rural Services and Development in the Age of Information Technology. Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 1995, 291 pp., $? pp. 434-435

F. Leistritz

Norgaard, Richard B. Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Coevolutionary Revisioning of the Future. London: Routledge, 1994, xiii + 280 pp., cloth $59.95; paper $18.95 pp. 435-436

Allan Schmid

Vail, David J., Knut Per Hasund, and Lars Drake. The Greening of Agricultural Policy in Industrial Societies: Swedish Reforms in Comparative Perspective. Ithaca NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1994, xiii + 300 pp., $45.00 pp. 435-438

Larry Beran

Volume 77, issue 1, 1995

Production Risk and the Evolution of Varietal Technology pp. 1-7

Greg Traxler, Jose Falck-Zepeda, J.I. Ortiz-Monasterio R. and Ken Sayre

Farm-Level Economic Analysis Incorporating Stochastic Environmental Risk Assessment pp. 8-19

Mark L. Teague, Daniel J. Bernardo and Harry P. Mapp

Technology as an Agricultural Pollution Control Policy pp. 20-32

David Abler and James Shortle

Damage Control and Increasing Returns pp. 33-39

Glenn Fox and Alfons Weersink

Valuing Food Safety in Experimental Auction Markets pp. 40-53

Dermot Hayes, Jason Shogren, Seung Youll Shin and James B. Kliebenstein

Household Demand in Rural China: A Two-Stage LES-AIDS Model pp. 54-62

Shenggen Fan, Eric J. Wailes and Gail Cramer

Units of Measurement and the Stone Index in Demand System Estimation pp. 63-68

GianCarlo Moschini

Structural Change in Factor Demand Relationships in the U.S. Food and Kindred Products Industry pp. 69-79

Barry Goodwin and Gary W. Brester

On Nonparametric Supply Response Analysis pp. 80-92

Jean-Paul Chavas and Thomas L. Cox

The Conservation Reserve Program as a Least-Cost Land Retirement Mechanism pp. 93-105

Rodney B.W. Smith

Valuing Target Price Support Programs with Average Option Pricing pp. 106-118

Taehoon Kang and B Brorsen

Agricultural Export Subsidies and Intermediate Goods Trade pp. 119-128

Philip L. Paarlberg

Searching for a Model of Multiple-Site Recreation Demand that Admits Interior and Boundary Solutions pp. 129-140

Edward Morey, Donald Waldman, Djeto Assane and Douglass Shaw

Using Random Utility Models to Estimate the Recreational Value of Estuarine Resources pp. 141-151

Yoshiaki Kaoru, V. Smith and Jin Long Liu

Subjective versus Objective Yield Distributions as Measures of Production Risk pp. 152-161

Joyotee Smith and Abraham M. Mandac

Measuring Welfare Benefits from Improvements in Storage Technology with an Application to Tunisian Potatoes pp. 162-173

Keith Fuglie

Optimal Hedge Ratios with Risk-Neutral Producers and Nonlinear Borrowing Costs pp. 174-181

B Brorsen

The Effect of Futures Markets and Corners on Storage and Spot Price Variability pp. 182-193

Janet S. Netz

Depreciation Patterns for Agricultural Machinery pp. 194-204

Timothy L. Cross and Gregory Perry

Rationalizing Agricultural Export Subsidies: Comment pp. 205-208

Bruce Gardner

Rationalizing Agricultural Export Subsidies: Reply pp. 209-213

Julian Alston, Colin Carter and Vincent H. Smith

Barkley, David L., ed. Economic Adaption: Alternatives for Nonmetropolitan Areas. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993,298 pp., cloth $42.50 pp. 214-216

Paul B. Siegel

Carlson, Gerald A., David Zilberman, and John A. Miranowski, eds. Agricultural and Environmental Resource Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, ix + 528 pp., cloth $45.00 pp. 216-217

John Bergstrom

Cramer, Gail L., and Clarence W. Jensen. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994, xiii + 534 pp., $62.95 pp. 217-220

Wayne H. Oberle

Esty, Daniel C. Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the Future. Washington DC: Institute for International Economics, 1994, 319 pp., paper $19.95 pp. 220-222

John Sullivan

Hallberg, Milton C., Robert G.E. Spitze, and Daryll E. Ray, eds. Food, Agriculture, and Rural Policy into the Twenty-first Century: Issues and Trade-off. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, xviii + 406 pp., $69.65 pp. 222-224

Daniel Sumner

Jansson, AnnMari, Monica Hammer, Carl Folke, and Robert Costanza, eds. Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics Approach to Sustainability. International Society for Ecological Economics. Washington DC and Covelo CA: Island Press, 1994, xvi + 504 pp., $35.00 pp. 224-226

Ray Huffaker

Schertz, Lyle P., and Lynn M. Daft, eds. Food and Agricultural Markets: The Quiet Revolution. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, and the National Planning Association, 1994, xiii + 326 pp., $17.50 pp. 226-227

Hal Harris

Taylor, Henry C. A Farm Economist in Washington, 1919–1925. Evanston IL: 1926 [c. University of Wisconsin, 1992], x + 263 pp., paper $24.95 pp. 227-228

Douglas E. Bowers and David H. Harrington

Thompson, Paul B., Robert J. Mathews, and Eileen O. van Ravenswaay. Ethics, Public Policy, and Agriculture. New York: Macmillan, 1994 [sales now through Prentice-Hall], xviii + 268 pp., cloth $53.00 pp. 228-230

Gene Wunderlich