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201501010800001616: The Behavioral and Neuroeconomics of Food and Brand Decisions: Executive Summary

Amanda Bruce, John Crespi and Jayson Lusk

201501010800001572: Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains

John Beghin, Miet Maertens and Johan Swinnen

201501010800001567: In medio stat virtus: coexistence policies for GM and non-GM production in spatial equilibrium

GianCarlo Moschini

201501010800001558: Understanding Behavioral Explanations of the WTP-WTA Divergence Through a Neoclassical Lens: Implications for Environmental Policy

Kim Younjun, Catherine Kling and Jinhua Zhao

201501010800001557: The Impact of the U.S. Sugar Program Redux

John Beghin and Amani Elobeid

201501010800001281: Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur? The impacts of skills developed before, during and after college on firm start-ups

Peter Orazem, Robert Jolly and Li Yu

201501010800001174: Promotion with and without Learning: Effects on Student Enrollment and Dropout Behavior

Elizabeth King, Peter Orazem and Elizabeth M. Paterno

201501010800001126: Children, dynastic altruism and the wealth of nations

Juan Cordoba

201501010800001116: Impacts of national forests in the West on county population and employment

Andrew Pugliese, Laura McCann and Georgeanne Artz

201501010800001097: The Design and Economics of Low Carbon Fuel Standards

Gabriel Lade and C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell

201501010800001084: Trade restrictiveness indices in the presence of externalities: An application to non-tariff measures

John Beghin, Anne-Célia Disdier and Stéphan Marette

201501010800001079: Forging a University Research Mission

Joshua Rosenbloom

201501010800001068: Investors’ Reaction to Environmental Performance: A Global Perspective of the Newsweek ’s “Green Rankings”

Juan M. Murguia and Sergio Lence

201501010800001065: Price Mean Reversion, Seasonality, and Options Markets

Chad Hart, Sergio Lence, Dermot Hayes and Na Jin

201501010800001064: Modeling the Market and Welfare Effects of Mexico's “Agriculture by Contract” Program

Sergio Lence

201501010800001061: Cap-and-trade Bycatch Management with Costly Avoidance and Stock Uncertainty

Rajesh Singh and Quinn Weninger

201501010800001055: The U.S. Gestation Stall Debate

Lee Schulz and Glynn Tonsor

201501010800001054: Piecemeal Reform of Trade and Environmental Policy When Consumption Also Pollutes

Mark R. Metcalfe and John Beghin

201501010800001053: Facilitating appropriate compensation of electric energy and reserve through standardized contracts with swing

Deung-Yong Ho and Leigh Tesfatsion

201501010800001052: Standardized contracts with swing for the market-supported procurement of energy and reserve

Leigh Tesfatsion and Deung-Yong Heo

201501010800001047: Systematic Testing and Comparison of Deterministic and Stochastic Unit Commitment on an 8-Zone Test Case Based on ISO New England Data

Wanning Li, Dheepak Krishnamurthy and Leigh Tesfatsion

201501010800001042: The impact of deposit insurance on depositor behavior during a crisis: A conjoint analysis approach

Glenn Boyle, Roger D. Stover, Amrit Tiwana and Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy

201501010800001041: The cooperative capital constraint revisited

Ziran Li, Keri L. Jacobs and Georgeanne Artz

201501010800001040: Sharing financial risk through flexible farm lease agreements

William M. Edwards and Chad Hart

201501010800001019: Uncertainty and Time-to-Build in Bioenergy Crop Production

Jerome Dumortier, Nathan Kauffman and Dermot Hayes

201501010800001008: Macroeconomies as constructively rational games

Ekaterina Sinitskaya and Leigh Tesfatsion

201501010800001006: Econometric Analysis of Motorists’ Preference for Ethanol in Motor Fuel

Kenneth Liao and Sebastien Pouliot

201501010800001005: The Economic Value of Iowa State University

David Swenson

201501010800001004: Combinatorial innovation and research strategies: theoretical framework and empirical evidence from two centuries of patent data

Matthew Clancy

201501010800001003: The Economic Value of The University of Iowa

David Swenson

201501010800001002: The Economic Value of The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

David Swenson

201501010800001001: Uncovering the "will of the people": measuring preference polarization among voters

Sunanda Roy, Kuan Chuen Wu and Abhijit Chandra

201501010800001000: The Economic Value of the University of Northern Iowa

David Swenson

201412210800001032: Why rapidly expanding the number of college-trained workers may not lower income inequality: the curious case of Taiwan, 1978-2011

Shao-Hsun Keng, Chun-Hung A. Lin and Peter Orazem

201412010800001014: Is Self-Sufficiency for Women’s Collegiate Athletics a Hoop Dream? Willingness to Pay for Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tickets

Juan Rosas and Peter Orazem

201411210800001010: Mandatory costs by firm size thresholds: firm location, growth and death in Sri Lanka

Babatunde O. Abidoye, Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

201411150800001030: The impact of an EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement on biofuel and feedstock markets

John Beghin, Jean-Christophe Bureau and Alexandre Gohin

201411010700001063: The Competitiveness of China’s Honey in Target International Markets Compared with Argentina

Haiying Song and Helen Jensen

201410220700001028: Contraception and the fertility transition

Joydeep Bhattacharya and Shankha Chakraborty

201410190700001020: A multi-factor model of heterogeneous traders in a dynamic stock market

Dong-Jin Pyo

201410190700001009: Endogenous borrowing constraints and wealth inequality

Joydeep Bhattacharya, Xue Qiao and Min Wang

201410020700001011: Do state business climate indicators explain relative economic growth at state borders?

Georgeanne Artz, Kevin Duncan, Arthur Hall and Peter Orazem

201410010700001012: Can trade be good for the environment?

Harvey Lapan and Shiva Sikdar

201410010700001007: The Economic Value of Iowa’s Public Universities

David Swenson

201410010700001002: Is Government Involvement Really Necessary: Implications for Systemic Risk and Crop Reinsurance Contracts

Xiaoguang Feng and Dermot Hayes

201409290700001026: Perfecting beauty under the knife: the determinants of global cosmetic surgery consumption

John Beghin and Yalem Teshome

201409220700001033: Opportunities for US-China investments in agricultural innovation and new technologies

Kevin Kimle

201409090700001027: The student entrepreneur -- going from broke to broke?: a free enterprise case study

Kevin Kimle and Georgeanne Artz

201409010700001031: Theory and practice of inference in regression discontinuity: a fixed-bandwidth asymptotics approach

Otavio Bartalotti

201408010700001083: A dynamic-efficiency rationale for public investment in the health of the young

Torben M. Andersen and Joydeep Bhattacharya

201408010700001055: BMI Changes in Russian Adults: The Role of Health Related Behaviors and Spousal Relationships

Sonya K. Huffman

201408010700001024: The political intergenerational welfare state

Monisankar Bishnu and Min Wang

201407290700001046: The political economy of food standard determination: international evidence from maximum residue limits

Yuan Li, Bo Xiong and John Beghin

201407010700001231: O-Ring production on U.S. hog farms: joint choices of farm size, technology, and compensation

Li Yu and Peter Orazem

201407010700001170: Strength of Protection for Geographical Indications: Promotion Incentives and Welfare Effects

Luisa Menapace and GianCarlo Moschini

201407010700001056: Are nonprofit entrepreneurs also Jacks-of-all-trades?

Insoo Cho and Peter Orazem

201407010700001003: Diversifying Systemic Risk in Agriculture: A Copula-based Approach

Xiaoguang Feng and Dermot Hayes

201406100700001545: LUMINATE: linking agricultural land use, local water quality and Gulf of Mexico hypoxia

Catherine Kling, Yiannis Panagopoulos, Sergey S. Rabotyagov, Adriana Valcu-Lisman, Philip Gassman, Todd D. Campbell, Michael J. White, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Raghavan Srinivasan, Manoj K. Jha, Jeffrey J. Richardson, L. Monika Moskal, R. Eugene Turner and Nancy N. Rabalais

201406050700001023: Intergenerational transfers and the fertility-income relationship: intergenerational transfers and fertility

Juan Cordoba and Marla Ripoll

201406010700001253: Information Sharing and Cooperative Search in Fisheries

Keith Evans and Quinn Weninger

201406010700001025: The elasticity of intergenerational substitution, parental altruism, and fertility choice

Juan Cordoba and Marla Ripoll

201406010700001008: Using IMPLAN to Evaluate Public Universities Regional Economic Inpacts

David Swenson

201405290700001082: Cap-and-trade bycatch management with costly avoidance and stock uncertainty

Rajesh Singh and Quinn Weninger

201404050700001022: Altruism, fertility and risk

Juan Cordoba and Xiying Liu

201404010700001488: Producing energy while sequestering carbon? The relationship between biochar and agricultural productivity

Nathan Kauffman, Jerome Dumortier, Dermot Hayes, Robert C. Brown and David Laird

201403300700001013: Out-of-sample comparisons of overfit models

Gray Calhoun

201403080800001035: Monetary policy and Tobin taxes: a welfare analysis

Jong Shin, Rajesh Singh and Chetan Subramanian

201403010800001145: The dynamics of food, alcohol and cigarette consumption in Russia during transition

Thomas Herzfeld, Sonya Huffman and Marian Rizov

201403010800001003: The relative capital structure of agricultural grain and supply cooperatives and investor owned firms [The cooperative capital constraint revisited]

Ziran Li, Keri Jacobs and Georgeanne Artz

201402250800001019: Uncovering the "will of the people": heterogeneity and polarization within electorates

Sunanda Roy, Kuan Chuen Wu and Abhijit Chandra

201402240800001084: Trade restrictiveness indices in presence of externalities: an application to non-tariff measures

John Beghin, Anne-Célia Disdier and Stéphan Marette

201402010800001345: Entrepreneurship over the business cycle

Li Yu, Peter Orazem and Robert W. Jolly

201401010800005034: The Effects of Skill Acquisition in Youth Jobs on Future Work and Earnings

Kyrstin Shadle

201401010800004865: Educational attainment, college major choice, the gender wage gap, and average starting salaries of college graduates in the United States, 1967-2011

Nicole Stefanie Caviris

201401010800001566: Time in eating and food preparation among single adults

Mark C. Senia, Helen Jensen and Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy

201401010800001565: Endogenous market structure and the cooperative firm

Brent Hueth and GianCarlo Moschini

201401010800001563: Disentangling Demand-Enhancing and Trade-Cost Effects of Maximum Residue Regulations

Bo Xiong and John Beghin

201401010800001553: The Economics of Dead Zones: Causes, Impacts, Policy Challenges, and a Model of the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone

Sergey Rabotyagov, Catherine Kling, Philip Gassman, Nancy Rabalais and R.E. Turner

201401010800001552: Reversing Property Rights: Practice-Based Approaches for Controlling Agricultural Nonpoint-source Water Pollution When Emissions Aggregate Nonlinearly

Sergey S. Rabotyagov, Adriana Valcu and Catherine Kling

201401010800001320: Mandatory costs by firm size thresholds: firm location, growth and death in Sri Lanka

Babatunde O Abidoye, Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

201401010800001221: Body weight and labour market outcomes in Post-Soviet Russia

Sonya Huffman and Marian Rizov

201401010800001219: Strategies to improve the dietary quality of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries: an assessment of stakeholder opinions

Susan J Blumenthal, Elena E Hoffnagle, Cindy W Leung, Hayley Lofink, Helen Jensen, Susan B Foerster, Lilian WY Cheung, Marion Nestle and Walter C Willett

201401010800001209: Price, Nutrition, Time, and Other Trade-Offs: A Web-Based Food Value Analysis Application to Compare Foods at Different Levels of Preparation and Processing

Mary K. Muth, Shawn A. Karns, Michal Zmuda, Michaela C. Coglaiti, Mark Koyanagi, Kiyah Duffey, Carolyn Dunn, Helen Jensen and Chrisian Gregory

201401010800001136: Welfare Effects of PLC, ARC, and SCO

Bruce Babcock

201401010800001110: China’s Profits and Losses from Currency Intervention, 1994-2011

Hailong Jin and E. Kwan Choi

201401010800001071: Risk Management Subsidies, Production System Switching Costs, and Native Grassland Conversion

Hongli Feng, David Hennessy and Ruiqing Miao

201401010800001069: How Related Are the Prices of Organic and Conventional Corn and Soybean?

Ariel Singerman, Sergio Lence and Amanda Kimble-Evans

201401010800001067: Farmland Prices: Is This Time Different?

Sergio Lence

201401010800001051: Voting for income-immiserizing redistribution in the Meltzer-Richard model

Richard Barnett, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Helle Bunzel

201401010800001041: The Effect of Conservation Priority Areas on Bidding Behavior in the Conservation Reserve Program

Keri Jacobs, Walter N. Thurman and Michelle C. Marra

201401010800001023: Intergenerational transfers and the fertility-income relationship

Juan Cordoba and Marla Ripoll

201401010800001017: A Protectionism Index for Non-Tariff Measures: An Application to Maximum Residue Levels

Yuan Li and John Beghin

201401010800001016: Does the Jack of all trades hold the winning hand?: comparing the role of specialized versus general skills in the returns to an agricultural degree

Georgeanne Artz, Kevin Kimle and Peter Orazem

201401010800001015: Cost-effective targeting of conservation investments to reduce the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone

Sergey S. Rabotyagov, Todd D. Campbell, Michael White, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Jay Atwood, M. Lee Norfleet, Catherine Kling, Philip Gassman, Adriana Valcu-Lisman, Jeffrey Richardson, R. Eugene Turner and Nancy N. Rabalais

201401010800001010: The Economic Impact of Iowa’s Major Industries in 2014

David Swenson

201312240800001017: Protectionism indices for non-tariff measures: an application to maximum residue levels

Yuan Li and John Beghin

201312180800001053: Reduced U.S. funding of public agricultural research and extension risks lowering future agricultural productivity growth prospects

Yu Jin and Wallace Huffman

201312080800001048: Endogenous rise and collapse of housing prices

Jiaqi Ge

201312010800001057: A nonstandard empirical likelihood for time series

Danial J. Nordman, Helle Bunzel and Soumendra N. Lahiri

201311010700001055: Accounting for Product Substitution in the Analysis of Food Taxes Targeting Obesity

Zhen Miao, John Beghin and Helen Jensen