ANNUAL REPORT OF COOPERATIVE REGIONAL PROJECTS

I. Project: NE-165 Private Strategies, Public Policies, and Food System Performance

 

II. Cooperating Agencies and Principal Leaders:

*Denotes Station Leader

III. Progress of the Work and Principal Accomplishments

In 1998, the second year of the new NE-165 Project, the members presented a major research conference in Washington, DC; did extensive planning for years 3-5 of the project, and continued to be very productive in completing research. The publication list for the year includes 2 regional publications, 55 journal articles, 1 edited book, 22 book chapters, 45 station and agency publications, and 11 theses and dissertations. Project members were very active in professional meetings and other fora across the United States and in Europe during the year.

The project's premier accomplishment during 1998 was the conference in June focused on the Economics of HACCP: New Studies of Costs and Benefits. This conference engaged 125 researchers from the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America, and Australia in discussing approaches to and results from economic analyses of HACCP implementation in the food industries. The Conference was chaired by Unnevehr (IL). The Project emphasized the production and distribution of information from the Conference to decision makers through the development of a web site-based set of executive summaries (http://www.umass.edu/ne165/impacts html) that were also placed on AgEcon Search (http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pubview.pl?pubid=24), the leading search engine for research in the agricultural, food, and resource economics fields. Dr. Unnevehr will publish a book based on the conference through Eagan Press in 1999. The conference was sponsored by Farm Foundation, the Food Marketing Policy Center, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Illinois.

The Technical Committee of the Project also met in October in Washington, DC. The meeting focused on in-depth discussion of research projects and collaborative work. Joint discussion and efforts focused on several areas. The first was background and discussion of research issues in preparation for the Transitions in Agbiotech: Economics of Strategy and Policy conference to be held in June 1999. Topics included intellectual property rights, market structure, and regulatory and labeling issues. The second area of focus was on pricing strategy studies in the food system. The discussion included a presentation by Perloff (CA) and work by project members. The third emphasis of the meeting was on methodologies for valuing health risk reductions and an update on risk assessment and other food safety activities by the U.S. government. A final emphasis was on research in the areas of standards, certification, and labeling of food quality attributes. The October meeting was effective in allowing NE-165 Project members to coordinate their research approaches and methodologies and in planning future conference activities (see Section V below).

The book The Industrialization of Agriculture, edited by Royer (NE) and Rogers (MA), based in part on the NE-165 conference held in June 1995, was delivered to Ashgate Publishing Ltd. and will appear in early 1999. NE-165 members were very active at the AAEA meeting in Salt Lake City in August 1998. These activities included: Free Session on the HACCP Conference: Future Directions for Research; Symposium on The Adequacy of Cost of Illness for Valuing Health Risk Reductions; Symposium on Private Incentives for Food Safety Assurance; Symposium on Foreign Direct Investment; Symposium on Retail Consolidation; and numerous other papers and posters. Several NE-165 members were also involved in the AAEA pre-conference on Economic and Policy Implications of Structural Realignments in Food and Ag Markets: A Case Study Approach.

During 1998, the Project continued to focus on improving communication among researchers and between researchers and decision makers. As noted above, our outputs are posted on the NE-165 web site and on AgEcon Search. This work is instantly available to researchers around the world. NE-165's core group at the Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, and University of Massachusetts, played a major role in supporting collaboration and communication. It organized the Project conference and meeting, continued development of the NE-165 web site (http://www.umass.edu/ne165/) and maintained a listserv for the group. The Center continued to purchase and maintain 12 major data sets that are used on a regular basis by NE-165 members. The effectiveness of NE-165 research has been significantly enhanced by the availability of these detailed data sets. The core group also provides support for the NE-165 Working Paper and Reprint Series, which are distributed to over 200 economists, research libraries, and others worldwide. The Food Marketing Policy Center is funded by a CSREES Special Research Grant.

 

IV. Usefulness of Findings

In 1998, NE-165 research was used by policy makers and private parties through their direct discussions and interactions with Project members, access to publications and working papers, and Congressional testimony. The scope of this impact has become increasingly international. Many of NE-165's impacts are discussed on the Project's web site at (http://www.umass.edu/ne165/impacts.html). Under the Project's first objective, strategy and policy analysis, Project researchers participated in major discussion on pricing, vertical coordination, supply chain relationships, and antitrust issues in the U.S. and the European Union. They also prepared analyses of, and in some cases participated in, major antitrust cases in the United States. Project members contributed a broad range of useful research on the operation of food markets in the United States and the world, focusing on pricing, competition, and policy issues.

Under the Project's second objective, providing economic analysis of private and public strategies in order to assess their impact on improvement in food safety and other quality attributes, members were at the forefront of analyzing the benefits and costs of the on-going mandatory requirement by FDA and USDA/FSIS of a Hazard Analysis at Critical Control Points (HACCP) approach to food safety assurance and in analyzing other public and private quality assurance systems. Economic methodology was also applied to analysis of the operation of markets for quality attributes such as nutrition, pesticide residues, use of inputs produced with biotechnology, and other process attributes such as environmental friendliness. This research is directly used by private companies in their market analysis and by federal and state agencies in their rule-making.

V. Work Planned for Next Year

During 1999, Project members will hold two major conferences (see the NE-165 web site at http://www.umass.edu/ne165/upcoming.html). First, in February is a conference on Consolidation in the Meat Sector. The conference is chaired by MacDonald (USDA/ ERS). Second will be the June conference on Transitions in Agbiotech: Economics of Strategy and Policy, chaired by Lesser (NY). A parallel but coordinated conference titled The Shape of the Coming Agricultural Biotechnology Transformation emphasizing agbiotech issues in Europe and developing countries is planned for June 17-19, 1999 at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata.

NE-165 is also planning several conferences for 2000. It will be the lead organizer for a conference on Pricing Strategy Studies in the Food System, co-chaired by Cotterill (CT), Connor (IN), MacDonald (USDA/ERS), and Peterson (VA). The conference will focus on quantitative approaches to analyzing pricing strategies in the food industry using micro-level data and discussion of policy implications. NE-165 will also be the lead organizer for a conference on Valuing the Health Benefits of Food Safety, co-chaired by Roberts (USDA/ERS), Golan (USDA/ERS), Williams (FDA), Kuchler (USDA/ERS), and Caswell (MA). This conference will focus on methodologies and build consensus on approaches to valuing reduction in foodborne health risk.

NE-165 will also participate as a co-organizer in two other conferences to be held in 2000. The first is Global Food Trade and Consumer Demand for Quality, co-organized with the International Agricultural Trade Research ConsortiumCIATRC, to be held June 26-27, in Montreal, Canada. This conference will focus on the confluence of consumer and trade economics, both from a methodological and empirical standpoint. The objective is to examine consumer demand for quality attributes (including food safety) in the context of a global economy and expanding international trade and the role of both private firm strategies and public policy in facilitating consumer choice and free trade. The second conference is Consumer Effects of Concentration and Consolidation in Food Markets, co-organized with the USDA Economic Research Service, to be held in the Spring in Washington, DC. The goal is to assess and enhance the current state of knowledge by industry and for sectors beyond the farm gate. The conference will provide a forum for the presentation of current research and for informed discussion of the data, methods, and findings. It will generate practical economic information for decision makers concerned with public policy or private economic activity.

 

VI. Publications Issued or Manuscripts Approved During the Year

CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY

Journal Articles

Hyde, C. E. and J. M. Perloff. 1998. Multimarket Market Power Estimation: The Australian Retail Meat Sector. Applied Economics 30:1169-1176.

Books, Chapters in Books

Perloff, J. M. 1999. Droit de Suite. New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law.

 

CALIFORNIA-DAVIS

Station and Agency Publications

Morrison, Catherine J. 1998. Cost Economies and Market Power in U.S. Meatpacking. Report to the USDA/GIPSA (Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration), September.

Journal Articles

Goodhue, Rachael. 1998. Sustaining Collusion via a Fuzzy Trigger. Review of Industrial Organization 13(3).

Holloway, G. J. 1998. Excise Taxes and Commodity Promotion: A Diagrammatic Motivation. Journal of Agribusiness 16.

Holloway, G. J. 1998. Trace-Back-Traceforward: Producing, Preserving and Marketing Food-Safety Attributes: Evaluating the Alternatives. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Morrison, Catherine J. and Donald Siegel. 1998. Knowledge Capital and Cost Structure in the U.S. Food and Fiber Industries. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80(1).

CONNECTICUT

Station and Agency Publications

Cotterill, R. 1998. Estimation of Cost Pass Through to Michigan Consumers in the ADM Price Fixing Case. Research Report No. 39, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, December.

Cotterill, R. and W. Putsis. 1998. Testing the Theory: Vertical Strategic Interaction and Demand Functional Form. Research Report No. 40, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, December.

Cotterill, R., L. Egan, and W. Buckhold. 1998. Beyond Illinois Brick: The Law and Economics of Cost Pass-Through in the ADM Price Fixing Case. Research Report No. 42, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, December.

Peterson, E. and R. Cotterill. 1998. Incorporating Flexible Demand Systems in Empirical Models of Market Power. Research Report No. 43, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, December.

Putsis, W. 1998. Empirical Analysis of Competitive Interaction in Food Products Categories. Research Report No. 41, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, December.

Journal Articles

Cotterill, R. 1999. Measuring Market Power in the Demsetz Quality Critique in the Retail Food Industry. Agribusiness: An International Journal, Issue No. 1.

Putsis, W. 1998. Are Brand Promotions Just a Zero-Sum Game-or Can They Increase the Size of the Pie? Business Strategy Review 9(3):21-32.

Putsis, W. and R. Dhar. 1998. The Many Faces of Competition. Marketing Letters 9(3):269-284.

Segerson, K. 1999. Mandatory vs. Voluntary Approaches to Food Safety Regulation. Agribusiness: An International Journal, Issue No. 1.

Books, Chapters in Books

Cotterill, R. 1999. Economics of Private Label Pricing. In Vertical Relationships and Coordination in the Food System, ed. Galizzi and Venturini, 39-60. Physica Verlag, Heidelberg.

Putsis, W. 1998. Exploring the Rules of Competition. Financial Times. Financial Times Mastering Marketing Series, September 28.

GEORGIA

Station and Agency Publications

Deodhar, S. Y. and S. M. Fletcher. 1998. Degree of Competition in the U.S. Peanut Butter Industry: A Dynamic Error Correction Approach. Faculty Series FS-98-03, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia.

Deodhar, S. Y. and S. M. Fletcher. 1998. Dynamic Effects of Peanut Butter Advertising on Peanut Butter Demand. Faculty Series FS-98-01, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia.

Fletcher, S. M. and S. Y. Deodhar. 1998. Analysis of U.S. Consumption Patterns, Attitudes and Nutritional Perceptions about Peanut Butter. 1997 Georgia Peanut Research-Extension Report, Cooperative Research-Extension Publication No. 98-2, pp. 11-12.

Fletcher, S. M. and S. Y. Deodhar. 1998. Degree of Competition in the U.S. Peanut Butter Industry. 1997 Georgia Peanut Research-Extension Report, Cooperative Research-Extension Publication No. 98-2, pp. 9-10.

Fletcher, S. M. and S. Y. Deodhar. 1998. Effect of Brand Advertising on U.S. Peanut Butter Demand. 1997 Georgia Peanut Research-Extension Report, Cooperative Research-Extension Publication No. 98-2, pp. 13-15.

Journal Articles

Deodhar, S. Y. and S. M. Fletcher. 1998. Nutritional Awareness and Exercise Habits Among U.S. Consumers: A Lorenz Curve Approach. Abstract, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 30(1):250.

Deodhar, S. Y. and S. M. Fletcher. 1998. Impact of Advertising on Peanut Butter Demand. Abstract, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 30(1):228.

Fletcher, S. M. and S. Deodhar. 1998. Magnitude and Effects of Peanut Butter Advertising: An Intra Industry and Inter Industry Comparison. Abstract, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80(5):1208.

Books, Chapters in Books

Deodhar, S. Y. and S. M. Fletcher. 1998. The Peanut Program and Pass-Through of Prices, Conjectural Variations and Consumers' Welfare Gain. In The Industrialization of Agriculture: Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Food System, ed. Jeffrey Royer and Richard Rogers. Ashgate Publishing Company.

ILLINOIS

Journal Articles

Unnevehr, L., M. Gomez, and P. Garcia. 1998. The Incidence of Producer Surplus Losses from Food Safety Regulation. Review of Agricultural Economics 20(1):168-181.

INDIANA

Station and Agency Publications

Aguiar, Danilo R. D. and John M. Connor. 1997. The Effects of Changes in Regulatory and Trade Policies on the Structure, Conduct, and Performance of the Brazilian Dairy Processing Industry. Staff Paper 97-15, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, October.

Connor, John M. 1998. Archer Daniels Midland: Price-Fixer to the World: Second Edition. Staff Paper SP 98-01, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, January.

Connor, John M. 1998. Lysine Production, Trade, and the Effects of International Price Fixing. Staff Paper 98-03, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, January.

Connor, John M. 1998. Archer Daniels Midland: Price-Fixer to the World: Third Edition. Staff Paper SP 98-10, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, May.

Connor, John M. 1998. What Can We Learn From the ADM Global Price Conspiracies? Staff Paper SP 98-14, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, August. [http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/detailview.pl?paperid=932].

Connor, John M. Connor. 1998. Lysine Production, Trade, and the Effects of International Price Fixing. Staff Paper SP 98-18, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, September.

Connor, John M. et al. 1997. Consumer Demand for Food. In Food System 21CGearing Up for the New Millennium, 113-148. EC-710, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service.

Connor, John M. et al. 1997. Food Distribution Industries. In Food System 21CGearing Up for the New Millennium, 149-184. EC-710, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service.

Journal Articles

Binkley, James K. and J. M. Connor. 1998. Market Competition and Metropolitan-Area Food Prices. Journal of Retailing 74:273-293.

Connor, John M. 1997. Economic Overview and Research Issues. Agribusiness: An International Journal 13(2):253-259.

Connor, John M. 1997. International Convergence of Antitrust Laws and Enforcement. International Law and Economics Review 28:17-30.

Connor, John M. 1997. International Convergence of Antitrust Laws and Enforcement (II). Antritrust Law and Economics Review 28:73-94.

Books, Chapters in Books

Connor, John M. 1997. International Convergence of Antitrust Laws and Enforcement. In Mercosul: Agronegócios e Desenvolvimento Econômico, ed. Wilson Vieira and Fátima Carvalho, 221-244. Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Federal University of Viçosa.

Connor, John M. 1997. The Global Lysine Price-Fixing Conspiracy of 1992-1995. In Mercosul: Agronegócios e Desenvolvimento Econômico, ed. Wilson Vieira and Fátima Carvalho, 271-295. Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Federal University of Viçosa.

Connor, John M. 1998. Food Industry Growth Effects of Consumer Expenditure Patterns. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Food Chain Management. Wageningen: Wageningen Agricultural University.

Connor, John M. 1998. What Can We Learn from the ADM Global Price Conspiracies? In Proceedings of Economic and Policy Implications of Structural Realignments in Food and Ag Markets. Park City, Utah: Food and Agricultural Marketing Consortium [http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/famc.html].

IOWA

Journal Articles

Jensen, H., L. Unnevehr, and M. Gomez. 1998. Costs of Improving Food Safety in the Meat Sector. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 30:83-94.

Roosen, J., D. A. Hennessy, J. A. Fox, and A. A. Schreiber. 1998. An Experimental Analysis of Willingness to Pay for Pesticide-Free and Cosmetically Impaired Apples. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 23:367B384.

Books, Chapters in Books

Nusser, S, A. Carriquiry, and H. Jensen. 1998. Usual Intake Distributions in Risk Assessment for Food Residues. 1997 Proceedings of the Section on Statistics and the Environment, American Statistical Association, 13-18.

KANSAS

Journal Articles

Fox, John A. and Dennis G. Olson. 1998. Market Trials of Irradiated Chicken. Radiation Physics and Chemistry 52:63-66

Fox, John A., Jason F. Shogren, Dermot J. Hayes, and James B. Kliebenstein. 1998. CVM-X: Calibrating Contingent Values with Experimental Auction Markets. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 3:455-465.

KENTUCKY

Journal Articles

Vickner, S. S. and S. P. Davies. 1998. Comment: On the Estimation of Simultaneous-Equations Error-Components Models with an Application to a Model of Developing Country Foreign Trade. Journal of Applied Econometrics 13:671.

Vickner, S. S. and S. P. Davies. 1999. Estimating Market Power and Pricing Conduct in a Product-Differentiated Oligopoly: The Case of the Domestic Spaghetti Sauce Industry. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 31:1-13.

MASSACHUSETTS

Regional Publications

Colatore, C. and J. A. Caswell. 1998. Survey Instruments for a Cost Study of HACCP in the Seafood Industry. NE-165 Working Paper No. 45, Northeast Regional Project 165, Storrs, Connecticut, May.

Station and Agency Publications

Raper, K. C. and H. A. Love. 1998. Testing for Monopsony Power in Multiple Input Markets: A Nonparametric Approach with Application to Cigarette Manufacturing. Faculty Paper 98-16, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Raper, K. C., H. A. Love, and C. R. Shumway. 1998. Distinguishing the Source of Market Power: An Application to Cigarette Manufacturing. Faculty Paper No. 98-18, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Journal Articles

Caswell, J. A. 1997. Rethinking the Role of Government in Agri-Food Markets. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79:651-656.

Raper, K. C. and H. A. Love. 1997. Testing for Monopsony Power in Multiple Input Markets: A Nonparametric Approach. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79:1717.

Willis, M. S. and R. T. Rogers. 1998. Market Share Dispersion Among Leading Firms as a Determinant of Advertising Intensity. Review of Industrial Organization 13:495-508.

Books, Chapters in Books

Caswell, J. A. 1998. Discussant's Comments on What Can We Learn from the ADM Global Price Conspiracies? Paper by John M. Connor. In Economic and Policy Implications of Structural Realignments in Food and Ag Markets: A Case Study Approach, ed. Sarahelen Thompson. Proceedings of AAEA Preconference organized by the Food and Agricultural Marketing Consortium, Park City, Utah, July.

Lewis, J., R. T. Rogers, and R. Sexton. 1998. A Comparison Between the Advertising Strategies of Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives and Investor-Owned Firms in Food Processing. Proceedings of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society's Annual Conference, January.

Rogers, R. T. 1998. Broilers, Differentiating a Commodity. In Industry Studies, ed. Larry Deutch. M. E. Sharp.

Rogers, R. T. 1998. Sunkist: A Discussion of a Case Study. In Economic and Policy Implications of Structural Realignments in Food and Ag Markets: A Case Study Approach, ed. Sarahelen Thompson. Proceedings of AAEA Preconference organized by the Food and Agricultural Marketing Consortium, Park City, Utah.

MICHIGAN

Station and Agency Publications

Fischer, L. J., P. M. Bolger, J. L. Jacobson, B. J. Premo, E. O. van Ravenswaay, and K. G. Harrison. 1998. Evaluation of Michigan's Proposed 1998 Fish Advisory Program. Michigan Environmental Science Board, Lansing.

van Ravenswaay, E.O. and J. Blend. 1998. Consumer Demand for Ecolabeled Apples: Survey Methods and Descriptive Results. Staff Paper 98-20, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University.

van Ravenswaay, E.O. and J. Blend. 1998. Ecolabeling and Environmental Management in Agriculture. In Business-Led Initiatives in Environmental Management: The Next Generation of Policy?, ed. S. Batie, D. Ervin, and M. Schulz, 73-108. Special Report 92, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

NEBRASKA

Station and Agency Publications

Azzam, A. 1998. Concentration in Beef Packing: What to do About It. Nebraska Farmer, March.

Journal Articles

Azzam, A. 1998. Captive Supplies, Market Conduct, and the Open Market Price. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80:76-83

Azzam, A. 1998. Testing for Vertical Economies: An Example from U.S. Pig Production. Journal of Agricultural Economics 49:427-433.

Azzam, A. 1998. Competition in the U.S. Meatpacking Industry: Is it History? Agricultural Economics 18:107-126.

Books, Chapters in Books

Royer, J. S. and R. T. Rogers, eds. 1998. The Industrialization of Agriculture: Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Food System. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing.

Royer, J. S. 1998. Market Structure, Vertical Integration, and Contract Coordination. In The Industrialization of Agriculture: Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Food System, ed. J. S. Royer and R. T. Rogers, 73-98. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing.

 

NEW JERSEY

Station and Agency Publications

Adelaja, A. 1998. The New Jersey Food Industry Summit: Forging Industry, Government and University Partnerships for Sustainable Economic Development. NJAES Publication No. SR-02532-12-98, Proceedings of the New Jersey Food Industry Summit, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University, July.

Adelaja., A. 1998. Activities of Nutraceutical Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Retailers. New Jersey Farmer (April 15):9, 10.

Adelaja, A. 1998. Nutraceuticals on the West Coast. New Jersey Farmer (June 15):10, 16.

Adelaja. A. 1998. Opportunity in Nutraceuticals. New Jersey Farmer (March 1):13, 24.

Bhuyan, S. and F. Olson. 1998. Potential Role of Non-Agricultural Cooperatives in Rural Development: A Report on Focus Group Studies Conducted in Rural North Dakota. Agricultural Economics Research Report #383, North Dakota State University, January.

Bhuyan, S., F. L. Leistritz, and D. W. Cobia. 1998. Non-Agricultural Cooperatives in the U.S.: Roles, Difficulties, and Prospects. Agricultural Economics Research Report #338, North Dakota State University, April.

Journal Articles

Bhuyan, S. and R. A. Lopez. 1998. Oligopoly Power and Allocative Efficiency in the U.S. Food and Tobacco Manufacturing. Journal of Agricultural Economics 49(3):434-442.

Bhuyan, S. and R. A. Lopez. 1998. What Determines Welfare Losses From Oligopoly Power in the Food and Tobacco Industries? Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (October):258-265.

Lopez, R. A. and S. Bhuyan 1998. Determinants of Allocative Efficiency Losses From Oligopoly Power. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 38(1):25-45.

Books, Chapters in Books

Adelaja, A. 1998. New Jersey's Food Industry: Importance, Current Challenges and Opportunities. In The New Jersey Food Industry Summit: Forging Industry, Government and University Partnerships for Sustainable Economic Development, ed. A. Adelaja. Proceedings of the New Jersey Food Industry Summit, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University, July.

Adelaja, A. 1998. Foreword: Partnering for Food Industry Development. In The New Jersey Food Industry Summit: Forging Industry, Government and University Partnerships for Sustainable Economic Development, ed. A. Adelaja. Proceedings of the New Jersey Food Industry Summit, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University, July.

NEW YORK

Journal Articles

Lesser, W. 1998. Intellectual Property Rights and Concentration in Agricultural Biotechnology.@ AgBio Forum 1 (Fall), www.agbioforum.missouri.edu.

Books, Chapters in Books

Lesser, W. 1998. Comments on Transaction Costs, Trust and Property Rights as Determinants of Organizational, Industrial and Technological Change: A Case Study in the Life Sciences Sector. In Proceedings of Economic and Policy Implications of Structural Realignments in Food and Ag Markets: A Case Study Approach. Available on line at www.ag.uiuc.edu/famc.

OHIO

Station and Agency Publications

Chern, W. S. and S. Persuad. 1998. Japan's Oil Seed Sector: American Soybeans vs. Canadian Rapeseed (Canola). Ohio's Challenge 10(1).

Journal Articles

Kim, S. R., W. S. Chern, and E. Jones. 1998. Impact of Health Information on Demand for Fats and Oils in Japan: Cointegration and a Complete Demand System Approach. Abstract, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80.

McCorriston, S. and I. M. Sheldon. 1998. Cross-Border Acquisitions and Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S. Food Industry. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80:1066-1072.

Persaud, S. C. and W. S. Chern. 1998. Japan's Import Demand for Soybeans, Rapeseed, and Their Respective Meals and Oils. Abstract, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80.

Books, Chapters in Books

McCorriston, S. and I. M. Sheldon. 1998. EU Agriculture and the Economics of Vertically-Related Markets. In Agriculture, Trade and the Environment. ed. J. M. Antle, J. N. Lekakis, and G. P. Zanias. Edward Elgar.

RHODE ISLAND

Journal Articles

Holland, Daniel and Cathy R. Wessells. 1998. Predicting Consumer Preferences for Fresh Salmon: The Influence of Safety Inspection and Production Method Attributes. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 27:1-14.

Johnson, Aaron, Catherine A. Durham, and Cathy R. Wessells. 1998. Seasonality in Japanese Household Meat and Seafood Demand. Agribusiness: An International Journal 14:337-351.

Lombardi, W. M. and J. L. Anderson. 1998. The Market Potential for Farmed Freshwater Finfish in Germany: A Focus on Catfish. Aquaculture Economics and Management 2(2).

Wessells, Cathy R. and Daniel Holland. 1998. Predicting Market Shares of Farmed versus Wild Salmon. Aquaculture Economics and Management 2:49-59.

Zucker, D. A. and J. L. Anderson. 1998. Implications of Choice Behavior and Preferences in Niche Markets. Aquaculture Economics and Management 2(2).

TEXAS

Journal Articles

Adelaja, A., R. M. Nayga, Jr., and T. Lauderbach. 1997. Income and Racial Differential in Selected Nutrient Intakes. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79:1452-1460.

Nayga Jr., R. M. 1998. A Sample Selection Model for Prepared Food Expenditures. Applied Economics 30:345-352.

Nayga Jr., R. M. 1998. Consumer Characteristics Associated with Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Foods. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 1(1):41-49.

Nayga, R. M., D. Lipinski, and N. Savur. 1998. Consumers' Use of Nutritional Labels While Food Shopping and At Home. The Journal of Consumer Affairs 32(1):106-120.

Tepper, B. J. and R. M. Nayga, Jr. 1998. Awareness of the Link Between Bone Disease and Calcium Intake is Associated with Higher Dietary Calcium Intake in Women Aged 50 Years and Older: Results of the 1991 CSFII-DHKS. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 98(2):196-198.

Tepper, B. J., Y. Choi, and R. M. Nayga, Jr. 1997. Understanding Food Choice in Adult Men: Influence of Nutrition Knowledge, Food Beliefs and Dietary Restraint. Food Quality and Preference 8(4):307-317.

RURAL BUSINESS-COOPERATIVE SERVICE-USDA

Station and Agency Publications

Agricultural Bargaining: In a Competitive World. RBS Service Report 55. Proceedings from the 1997 Pacific Coast and National Bargaining Conference Annual Meeting.

Gray, Thomas and Charles Kraenzle. 1998. Member Participation in Agricultural Cooperatives. RBS Research Report 165.

Measuring Dairy Cooperative Performance. In A New Approach to Measuring Dairy Cooperative Performance. Research Report #166.

Ransom, Elizabeth, Gerad Middendorf, and Lawrence Busch. 1998. Biotechnology and Agricultural Cooperatives: Choices and Challenges for Managers and Members. Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station Research Report 552, January.

Wadsworth, James J. 1998. Cooperative Restructuring, 1989-1998. RBS Research Report 169, September.

Journal Articles

Fulton, Joan R., Michael P. Popp, and Carolyn Gray. 1998. Evolving Business Arrangements in Local Grain Marketing Cooperatives. Review of Agricultural Economics 20(1).

Torgerson, Randall, Bruce Reynolds, and Thomas W. Gray. 1998. Evolution of Cooperative Thought, Theory, and Purpose. Journal of Cooperatives 13:1-20.

ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICECUSDA

Station and Agency Publications

Buzby, Jean C. and Stephen Crutchfield. 1998. FDA's Proposed HACCP Regulation for Juice and Warning Labels on Unpasteurized Juice, two sections in the Noncitrus Fruit Outlook in the Fruit and Tree Nuts: Situation and Outlook Report. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, FTS-283:10-11.

Buzby, Jean C. and Tanya Roberts. 1997. ERS Updates U.S. Foodborne Disease Costs with Costs of Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Food Review 20(3):36-42.

Buzby, Jean, Tanya Roberts, Jenny Roberts, and Pauline Upton. 1998. A Comparison of Human Illness Cost Estimates for E. coli O157:H7 Disease, United States and Scotland. Presented poster at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 1998 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia, March 8-12.

Foegeding, P. and T. Roberts, co-chairs, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology Task Force. 1998. Foodborne Pathogens: Review of Recommendations. October.

Frenzen, Paul D., Jean C. Buzby, Tanya Roberts, and Stephen Crutchfield. 1998. FoodNet Data Improve Estimates of Economic Costs of Foodborne Illness. Selected poster presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 3-5.

Kuchler, F. 1998. Food Safety and Fresh Fruits and Vegetables: Is There a Difference Between Imported and Domestically Produced Products? Special Article for Vegetables and Specialties S&O, pp. 23-28. (Reprinted in Mushroom News 46(9):18-30.)

Roberts, T. and J. Kuzma. 1998. The Contribution of Probabilistic Risk Assessment to Economic Analysis: E. coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef. AAEA annual meeting, Salt Lake City, August 2-5.

Journal Articles

Buzby, J. C., B. Mishu Allos, and T. Roberts. 1997. Economic Burden of C. jejuni-induced GBS. Journal of Infectious Diseases 176(Supplement 2):S192-197.

Buzby, Jean C., Ban Mishu Allos, and Tanya Roberts. 1998. Reply to the Editor. Journal of Infectious Diseases 178(4):1228.

Buzby, Jean C., John A. Fox, Richard C. Ready, and Stephen R. Crutchfield. 1998. Measuring Consumer Benefits of Food Safety Risk Reductions. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 30(1):69-82.

Golan, E. H., K. Ralston, and P. D. Frenzen. 1998. A Distributional Analysis of the Costs of Foodborne Illness: Who Ultimately Pays? Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 30(1):95-107.

Marks, H. M., M. E. Coleman, C.-T. J. Lin, and T. Roberts. 1998. Topics in Microbial Risk Assessment: Dynamic Flow Tree Process. Risk Analysis: An International Journal 18(3):309-328.

Ollinger, M. and J. Fernandez-Cornejo. 1998. Sunk Costs and Regulation in the U.S. Pesticide Industry. International Journal of Industrial Organization 16(2):139-68.

Books, Chapters in Books

Patton, S., J. Zimmerman, T. Roberts, C. Faulkner, V. Diderrich, A. Assadi-Rad, P. Davies, and J. Kliebenstein. 1997. Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Hogs in the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS). Workshops on Opportunistic Protists, 121S.

Roberts, T. 1998. E. coli O157:H7 Risk Assessment: Slaughter Plant Segment. In Food Safety and Inspection Service Preliminary Pathways and Data for a Risk Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 in Beef, 3-1 to 3-15.

Roberts, T. 1998. Economic Aspects of Risk Analysis and Health. Proceedings of Comparative Risk in Food Safety: The Future Direction for Risk Analysis, 12-13.

Roberts, T., J. Buzby, J. Lin, P. Nunnery, P. Mead, and P. Tarr. 1998. Economic Aspects of E. coli O157:H7: Disease Outcome Trees, Risk, Uncertainty, and Social Costs of Disease Estimates. In New and Resurgent Infections: Prediction, Detection and Management of Tomorrow's Epidemics, ed. B. Greenwood and K. De Cock. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley and Sons.

TURKEY

Regional Publications

Rehber, Erkan. 1998. Vertical Integration in Agriculture and Contract Farming. NE-165 Working Paper No. 46, May.

Station and Agency Publications

Rehber, Erkan. 1998. Vertical Integration in the Turkish Food Industry and Contract Farming: The Case of Bursa Region. Scientific Research and Studies No. 17, Uludag University, Faculty of Agriculture (in Turkish).

 

VII. Attachments: Theses, Manuscripts, Works in Press, Presentations

CALIFORNIA-DAVIS

Holloway, G. J. In Press. Measuring Research Benefits in an Imperfect Market: Second Comment. Agricultural Economics.

IOWA

Fox, John A. and David Hennessy. In Press. Control Point Interventions in Ensuring Product Quality. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Hennessy, David A. and John D. Lawrence. In Press. Contractual Relations, Control, and Quality in the Hog Sector. Review of Agricultural Economics.

Jensen, Helen H. and Laurian J. Unnevehr. In Press. HACCP in Pork Processing: Costs and Benefits. In New Studies of Costs and Benefits, ed. L. Unnevehr. Eagan Press.

Unnevehr, L. and H. Jensen. In Press. Economic Implications of Using HACCP as a Food Safety Regulatory Standard. Food Policy.

KANSAS

Fox, John A. and David A. Hennessy. In Press. On Regulatory Interventions in Food Processing. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

MASSACHUSETTS

Caswell, J. A. 1998. Public Versus Private Incentives for Food Safety. Invited Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society of the United Kingdom, The University of Reading, March.

Colatore, C. 1998. Economic Analysis of HACCP in the Seafood Industry. M.S. Thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 207 pp.

Noelke, C. M. 1998. Parametric and Nonparametric Market Power Tests: An Empirical Investigation. M.S. Thesis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 232 pp.

Noelke, C. M. and K. C. Raper. 1998. Parametric and Nonparametric Market Power Tests: An Empirical Investigation. Selected Paper at American Agricultural Economics Association annual meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah, August. Abstract forthcoming in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, December.

Raper, K. C. and H. A. Love. 1998. Distinguishing the Source of Market Power: An Application to Cigarette Manufacturing. Selected Paper presented at American Agricultural Economics Association annual meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah, August. Abstract forthcoming in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, December.

MICHIGAN

Blend, J. R. 1998. Consumer Demand for Ecolabeled Apples. Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University.

Owens, N., S. M. Swinton, and E. O. van Ravenswaay. 1998. Farmer Willingness to Pay for Herbicide Safety Characteristics. Selected Paper presented at American Agricultural Economics Association annual meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah.

.MONTANA

Antle, J. M. In Press. Benefits and Costs of Food Safety Regulation. Food Policy.

Antle, J. M. In Press. Economic Analysis of Food Safety. In Handbook of Agricultural Economics, ed. B. Gardner and G. Rausser. North Holland Publishing Company.

Antle, J. M. In Press. The Cost of Quality in the Meat Industry: Implications for HACCP Regulation. In Economics of HACCP: New Studies of Costs and Benefits, ed. L. Unnevehr. Egan Press.

Antle, J. M. 1998. Food Safety, Production Structure, and the Industrial Organization of the Food Industry. Invited Paper presented, 62nd EAAE Seminar and 3rd INRA-IDEI Conference on Industrial Organization and the Food Processing Industry, Toulouse, November 12-13.

NEBRASKA

Dong, A. 1998. Testing Efficiency vs. Collusion in an Oligopoly/Oligopsony Model. M.S. Thesis.

Hoffman, S. H. 1997. Evaluating the Procompetitive Effects of Farmer Cooperatives and Public Firms in Imperfectly Competitive Markets: A Simulation Analysis. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

NEW JERSEY

Adelaja, A. R. Nayga, and Z. Farooq. 1998. Mergers and Acquisition in the Food Industry. Selected paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meetings of the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, Ithaca, New York, June 21-23.

Bhuyan, S. 1998. Lobbying and Other Rent Seeking Activities in the U.S. Food and Tobacco Industries: A Simple Welfare Cost Analysis. Selected paper, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 3-8.

NEW YORK

Lesser, W., J. Bernard, and K. Billah. In Press. Methodologies for Ex Ante Projections of Adoption Rates for Agbiotech Products: Lessons Learned from rBST. Agribusiness.

OHIO

Hartmann, D. A. 1998. Equilibrium Location of Vertically Linked Industries Under Free Trade: Case Studies of Orange Juice and Tomato Paste in the Western Hemisphere. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University.

Kim, S. R. 1998. Consumer Health Information and Changing Preferences for Fats and Oils in Japan: Cointegration and a Complete Demand System Approach. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University.

Persaud, S. 1998. Japan's Import Demand for Soybeans, Rapeseed, and Their Respective Meals and Oils. Master's Thesis, The Ohio State University.

RHODE ISLAND

Carroll, M. 1998. An Assessment of the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Market: The Economic Implications for Management Plans. Master's Thesis, University of Rhode Island.

Idrissi, M'Hamed, M. S. 1998. Towards Sustainable Fisheries: Economic Analysis of Seafood Eco-Labeling. Master's Thesis, University of Rhode Island.

Zucker, D. 1998. Economic Analysis of Summer Flounder Aquaculture. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Rhode Island.

TEXAS

Adelaja, A., R. Nayga, and Z. Farooq. In Press. Predicting Mergers and Acquisition in the Food Industry. Agribusiness 15(1).

Nayga Jr., R. M. In Press. A Note on Schooling and Smoking: The Issue Revisited. Education Economics 6.

Nayga, R. M. In Press. Factors Affecting Consumers' Confidence in Food Labels. Consumer Interests Annual 44.

Nayga Jr., R. M. In Press. Retail Health Marketing: Evaluating Consumers' Choice for Healthier Foods. Health Marketing Quarterly 17(2)

Nayga Jr., R. M. and J. Siebert. In Press. Analysis of At-Home Consumption of Dairy Products in the United States. Journal of Food Products Marketing 6.

Nayga Jr., R. M., B. J. Tepper, and L. Rosenzweig. In Press. Assessing the Importance of Health and Nutrition Related Factors on Food Demand: A Variable Preference Investigation. Applied Economics 30.

Nayga Jr., R. M. and Z. Weinberg. In Press. Supermarket Access in the Inner Cities. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services.

WISCONSIN

Grobe, D., R. A. Douthitt, and L. Zepeda. In Press. A Model of Consumers' Risk Perceptions Toward Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone. Journal of Risk Analysis.

ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICECUSDA

Buzby, Jean C. and Paul Frenzen. In Press. Product Liability and Food Safety. Food Policy.

Crutchfield, S. and J. Allshouse. 1998. The Economics of Improving Food Safety. Farm Foundation 1998 Public Policy Education Conference, Portland Oregon, September 10.

Golan, E. H., K. L. Ralston, P. D. Frenzen, and S. J. Vogel. 1998. The Costs, Benefits and Distributional Consequences of Improvements in Food Safety: The Case of HACCP. Presented at conference on New Studies in Costs and Benefits of Food Safety Improvements, Northeast Regional Research Group 165, Washington, D.C., June.

Roberts, T. 1998. Benefit Cost Analysis-Microbial Food Safety. Presented at conference on Benefit-Cost Analysis for Environmental, Health and Safety Regulation, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, March 31-April 3.

Stark, Y., K. Ralston, and C. Lin. 1998. Effects of Demographics, Information, and Attitudes on Hamburger Preparation Behavior. Presented at conference of Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 1-4.

TURKEY

Rehber, Erkan. 1998. HACCP System and Its Feasibility in Developing Countries: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Approach. Paper presented at the 61st EAAE Seminar, Warsaw, October 22-24.

APPROVED:

Julie A. Caswell May 10, 1999
Chairperson, Technical Committee Date

Daniel Rossi May 12, 1999
Administrative Advisor Date

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