Supported by Allotments of the Regional Research Fund,
Hatch Act, as Amended August 11, 1955
January 1 to December 31, 1999
*Denotes Station Leader
| Station | Scientist |
| Arkansas | *William Bailey |
| California-Berkeley | *Jeffrey Perloff |
| California-Davis | Rachael Goodhue Catherine Morrison *Richard Sexton |
| Connecticut (Storrs) | *Ronald Cotterill Kathleen Segerson |
| Georgia | *Stanley Fletcher |
| Illinois | Michael Mazzocco Steven Sonka Sarahelen Thompson *Laurian Unnevehr Michael Ward Randall Westgren |
| Indiana | *John Connor |
| Iowa | Frances Antonovitz David Hennessy *Helen Jensen |
| Kansas | *John Fox |
| Kentucky | *Steven Vickner |
| Maryland | Rimjhim Aggarwal *Erik Lichtenberg |
| Massachusetts | *Julie Caswell Richard Rogers |
| Michigan | Kellie Raper *Eileen van Ravenswaay |
| Minnesota | Terry Roe *Rodney Smith |
| Montana | *John Antle |
| Nebraska | *Azzeddine Azzam Jeffrey Royer |
| New Hampshire | *Alberto Manalo |
| New Jersey | Adesoji Adelaja *Sanjib Bhuyan |
| New York (Cornell) | Ralph Christy *Willian Lesser Edward McLaughlin William Tomek |
| Ohio | Wen Chern *Ian Sheldon |
| Oregon | Deana Grobe |
| Rhode Island | James Anderson *Cathy Wessells |
| Tennessee | *R. Wesley Harrison |
| Texas | *H. Alan Love Rodolfo Nayga |
| Virginia | *Everett Peterson |
| Washington | *Jill McCluskey |
| Wisconsin | *Robin Douthitt Brian Gould Lydia Zepeda |
| USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) | Phillip Brent Jean Buzby Stephen Crutchfield Mark Denbaly Paul Freznan Anthony Gallo Charles Handy Phillip Kaufman Carol Kramer-LeBlanc Fred Kuchler James MacDonald Michael Ollinger *Tanya Roberts |
| USDA, Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) | Donald Frederick Thomas Gray Carolyn Betts Liebrand K. Charles Ling Thomas Stafford *Randall Torgerson James Wadsworth Roger Wissman |
| Other Cooperators | |
| USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service | *Kevin Kesecker Larry Summers |
| USDA, Packers and Stockyards Administration | Gerald Grinnell Larry Haller *Warren Preston |
| USDA, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis | Ronald Meekhof |
| U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Anne Haddix Mark Messonnier |
| U.S. Food and Drug Administration | Richard Williams, Jr. |
| U.S. General Accounting Office | Mary Kenney |
| Agriculture Canada | James Wheelhouse John Bamford Brian Cozzarin |
| Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil | Danilo Aguiar |
| State University of Campinas, Brazil | Elisabete Salay |
| Farm Foundation | Walter Armbruster |
| Institute Supérieur Agricole de Beauvais, France | Loic Sauvée |
| Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy | Giovanni Galizzi Luciano Venturini |
| Chiba University, Japan | Tomoyoshi Matsuda |
| Iwate University, Japan | Tamotsu Kawamura |
| Kyota University, Japan | Masuru Kagatsume |
| Shiga Prefecture, Japan | Takuji Sakurai |
| Research Triangle Institute | Donald Anderson Shelia Martin Mary Muth Roberta Morales Gary Zarkin |
| Uludag University, Turkey | Erkan Rehber |
| London Business School, United Kingdom | William Putsis |
| University of London, United Kingdom | Nigel Poole |
| University of Reading, United Kingdom | James Burns Spencer Henson Alan Swinbank Bruce Traill |
| University of Saskatchewan, Canada | Gary Storey |
In 1999, the third year of this NE-165 Project, the members presented two major research conferences in Washington, DC, did extensive work on conferences to be held in year 4 of the Project, and continued to be very productive in completing research. The publication list for the year includes 59 journal articles, 14 book chapters, 20 station and agency publications, and 5 theses and dissertations. A book from the June 1998 conference, titled The Economics of HACCP: Costs and Benefits, will be published early in 2000 by Eagan Press. Project members were very active in professional meetings and other fora across the United States and in Europe during the year, including at the summer meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association in Nashville.
The Project's premier accomplishments during 1999 were two major conferences. The first was a conference on Consolidation in the Meat Sector held in February in Washington, DC (for details see the NE-165 web site at http://www.umass.edu/ne165/conferences99/cms_program.html). The conference was chaired by MacDonald (USDA/ERS). The conference addressed the sharp structural changes in the sector that have raised concerns about market power, pollution control, and the reliability of traditional price reporting sources. This research conference was designed to encourage evaluation and discussion of research methods, data sources, and results. The 18 papers presented covered: the existence, extent, and effects of market power in livestock and meat industries; causal factors in consolidation, such as scale and scope economies, mergers, changes in product mix, innovation, and changes in contractual relations; vertical coordination, as compared to spot markets for transferring livestock, including summaries of recent developments and implications for the location, for product characteristics, and for price discovery; externalities associated with consolidation, including the effects of larger animal production facilities on pollution; and the effects of local control regulations on consolidation.
The second conference, titled Transitions in Agbiotech: Economics of Strategy and Policy was held in June in Washington, DC (for details see http://www.umass.edu/ne165/conferences99/ta_program.html). It was chaired by Lesser (NY). The conference was organized to provide current information on the economics of agricultural biotechnology, and to foster communication among universities, public agencies and industry. The conference papers were organized around six broad issues: farm-level effects of agbiotech, public sector role in agbiotech, private sector strategies and public acceptance, supply channels and regulation, institutional analysis and intellectual property rights, and trade and development. The conference was sponsored by Farm Foundation and the Food Marketing Policy Center.
A parallel, coordinated conference titled The Shape of the Coming Agricultural Biotechnology Transformation, emphasizing agbiotech issues in Europe and developing countries, was held on June 17-19, 1999 at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. An internet-based proceedings with 39 chapters covering both biotechnology conferences is being published 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.
Because of the two conferences held in 1999, the Technical Committee did not meet again during the year. The planning committees for the three conferences to be held in 2000 (see below) met regularly during 1999 in person and through conference calls and email. During 1999, 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 by subcontract at the University of Massachusetts, played a major role in supporting collaboration and communication. It organized the Project conferences, 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.
In 1999, 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 discussions 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. The February 1999 conference on Consolidation in the Meat Sector provided timely information for the policy debate on increasing concentration in this sector.
Under the Project's first objective and its second, providing economic analysis of private and public strategies in order to assess their impact on improvement in food safety and other quality attributes, the Project's conference on Transitions in Agbiotech: Economics of Strategy and Policy was a focal point for policy relevant research. The conference was the first to bring together the quickly growing strands of research related to the many market impacts of agbiotech. The timely posting of this research on the internet has contributed to policy discussion worldwide.
Project members continued to be at the forefront of analyzing the benefits and costs of changes in regulatory policy regarding food quality, particularly food safety. Areas of work included analysis of mandatory requirements by FDA and USDA/FSIS that companies use a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) approach to food safety assurance and of the impact of mandatory nutrition labeling. Work also continued on analysis of other public and private quality assurance systems. Economic methodology was applied to analyze 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.
NE-165 is far along in the planning of three conferences for 2000 (for details see http://www.umass.edu/ne165/upcoming.html). It will be a lead organizer for a conference on The American Consumer in the Changing Food System, co-chaired by Denbaly (USDA/ERS) and MacDonald (USDA/ERS) to be held in May in Washington, DC. The overall objective of the conference is to take stock and improve our understanding of causes and effects of increasing concentration and coordination, particularly stressing the role of final consumer demand in driving these changes in industry organization.
NE-165 will also co-organize two additional 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 Consortium--IATRC, to be held June 26-27, in Montreal, Canada. The conference is co-chaired by Krissoff (USDA/ERS) and Bohman (USDA/ERS). 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.
NE-165 will also co-organize a conference on Valuing the Health Benefits of Food Safety to be held in September in Washington, DC. The conference is co-sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The conference committee is chaired by Nardinelli (U.S. FDA). The conference will discuss economic issues related to valuing food safety risk reduction. It is intended to be a first step in developing a common approach to valuing risk reduction that will facilitate comparing programs across agencies.
CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY
Books, Chapters in Books
Perloff, J. M. and X. Sun. 1999. Industrial Organization Explanations for Inefficiency in the Food Sector in Central and Eastern European Countries. In Food Processing and Distribution in Transition Countries: Problems and Perspectives, Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 3, ed. Monika Hartmann and Jurgen Wandel. Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Wissenscaftsverlag Vauk Kiel KG.
CALIFORNIA-DAVIS
Journal Articles
Chalfant, J. A., J. S. James, N. Lavoie, and R. J. Sexton. 1999. Asymmetric Grading Error and Adverse Selection: Lemons in the California Prune Industry. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 24(1):57-79.
CONNECTICUT
Station and Agency Publications
Cotterill, Ronald W. 1999. An Antitrust Economic Analysis of the Proposed Acquisition of Supermarkets General Holdings Corporation by Ahold Acquisition Inc. Research Report No. 46, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, November.
Cotterill, Ronald W. 1999. How Will the Royal Ahold Purchase of Pathmark Supermarkets Affect Prices? Issue Paper No. 19, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, August.
Cotterill, Ronald W., Andrew W. Franklin, and Tirtha P. Dhar. 1999. Post Merger Price Conduct: A Case Study of Pricing in Connecticut Markets after the 1996 Royal Ahold Stop & Shop Merger. Research Report No. 47, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, November.
Dhar, Tirtha and Ronald W. Cotterill. 1999. Cost Pass Through in the Case of Sequential Oligopoly: An Empirical Study of the Fluid Milk Market. Research Report No. 52, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, December.
Journal Articles
Cotterill, Ronald W. 1999. High Cereal Prices and the Prospects for Relief by Expansion of Private Label and Antitrust Enforcement. Agribusiness: An International Journal 15(2):229-245.
Cotterill, Ronald W. 1999. Jawboning Cereal: The Campaign to Lower Cereal Prices. Agribusiness: An International Journal 15(2):197-205.
Cotterill, Ronald W. and Andrew Franklin. 1999. An Estimation of Consumer Benefits from the Public Campaign to Lower Cereal Prices. Agribusiness: An International Journal 15(2):273-287.
Putsis, William P. 1999. Empirical Analysis of Competitive Interaction in Food Product Categories. Agribusiness: An International Journal 15(3):295-311.
Putsis, William P. and Ravi Dhar. 1999. An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Category Expenditure. Journal of Business Research.
Putsis, William P. and B. Bayus. 1999. Product Proliferation: An Empirical Analysis of Product Line Determinants and Market Outcomes. Marketing Science 18(2).
Putsis, William P. and Ronald W. Cotterill. 1999. Share, Price and Category Expenditure-Geographic Market Effects and Private Labels. Managerial and Decision Economics 20:175-187.
Books, Chapters in Books
Cotterill, Ronald W. 1999. Continuing Concentration in Food Industries Globally: Strategic Challenges to an Unstable Status Quo. In (Des) Equilibrio Economico & Agronegocio, ed. Gomes and da Costa. University of Vicosa, Brazil.
Cotterill, Ronald W. 1999. Continuing Concentration in the U.S.: Strategic Challenges to an Unstable Status Quo. In Challenges for International Food Manufacturers and Retailers-Competing in a Global Market, ed. W. Ramsay. Financial Times Monograph Series, London, November.
FLORIDA
Station and Agency Publications
Stevens, T. J. and R. L. Kilmer. 1999. Empirical Relationships Between Pesticide Residues, Producer Attributes, and Production Practices for Florida Grown Tomatoes and Strawberries. Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin #329, 50 pages.
Journal Articles
Stevens, T. J. and R. L. Kilmer. 1999. Pesticide Residues on Fresh Tomatoes and Strawberries. Choices 14:44-45.
GEORGIA
Journal Articles
Rimal, A., S. M. Fletcher, and K. H. McWatters. In Press. Contingent Valuation of Health Risk Reductions Through Beef Irradiation. Abstract, Journal of Food Distribution Research 31(1).
Rimal, A., S. M. Fletcher, and K. H. McWatters. 1999. Do Handling and Cooking Practices Determine Choice of Irradiated Beef? Journal of Food Distribution Research 30(3):1-9.
Rimal, A., S. M. Fletcher, and K. H. McWatters. 1999. Point of Purchase Information: Is It Enough to Enhance Consumer Acceptance of Irradiated Beef? Abstract, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81(5).
ILLINOIS
Journal Articles
Prow, T. M. 1999. Diversifying with Corn, Soybeans: Special Traits Deliver Extra Value. Agro-Ecology: Science and Education for a Sustainable Agriculture 8(2).
Unnevehr, L. J., G. Y. Miller, and M. I. Gomez. 1999. Ensuring Quality and Safety in Farm-level Production: Emerging Lessons from the Pork Industry. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81.
Unnevehr, L. J. and H. H. Jensen. 1999. HACCP as a Food Safety Standard. Food Policy 24:625-635.
Book, Chapter in Books
Cloutier, M. L., S. T. Sonka, and R. E. Westgren. 1999. The Economics of Learning-based Strategies and Structural Changes in the U.S. Pork Sector. In Vertical Relationships and Coordination in the Food Sector, ed. G. Galizzi and L. Venturni, 211-224.
INDIANA
Station and Agency Publications
Connor, John M. 1999. Concentration and Mergers in the U.S. Grocery Wholesaling Industry. Research Bulletin No. 994. West Lafayette, IN: Agricultural Research Station, Purdue University
Journal Articles
Connor, John M. Connor. 1999. Breakfast Cereals: The Xtreme Industry. Agribusiness: An International Journal 15:247-260.
Connor, John M. 1999. Evolving Research on Price Competition in the Grocery Retailing Industry: An Appraisal. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 28:119-127.
Books, Chapters in Books
Connor, John M. 1999. Couponing as a Horizontal and Vertical Strategy: Theory and Effects. In Vertical Relationships and Coordination in the Food System, ed. G. Gallizzi and L. Venturini. Heidelberg, Germany: Physica-Verlag.
IOWA
Journal Articles
Hennessy D. A. 1999. Input Decisions and Price-Quality Schedules. Southern Economics Journal 66:168-77.
Hennessy D. A. and J. D. Lawrence. 1999. Contractual Relations, Control, and Quality in the Hog Sector. Review of Agricultural Economics 21:52-67.
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 23:367-84.
Books, Chapters in Books
Jensen, H. H. 1999. Regulatory and Other Challenges to Pork Production. In Swine System Options for Iowa 1999. Proceedings of a conference held February 17 at Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Jensen, H. H. and L. J. Unnevehr. In Press. HACCP in Pork Processing: Costs and Benefits. In Economics of HACCP: New Studies of Costs and Benefits. Eagan Press.
KANSAS
Journal Articles
Fox, John A. and David A. Hennessy. 1999. Cost Effective Hazard Control in Food Handling. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81:359-372.
Lusk, Jayson L., John A. Fox, and Christy L. McIlvain. 1999. Consumer Acceptance of Irradiated Meat. Food Technology 53:56-59.
Shogren, Jason F., John A. Fox, Dermot J. Hayes, and Jutta Roosen. 1999. Observed Choices for Food Safety in Retail, Survey and Auction Markets. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (December).
KENTUCKY
Station and Agency Publications
Marchant, M., S. Saghaian, and S. S. Vickner. 1999. Assessment of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Management Strategies on Competitiveness of U.S. Agro-Food Firms in China. Staff Paper No. 397, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky, July.
Journal Articles
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
Station and Agency Publications
Rogers, R., P. G. Allen, B. Colucci, and S. Lavelle. 1999. A Market Feasibility Study and Preliminary Business Plan for the Proposed Organic Cranberry Cooperative. Cooperative Development Institute, Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Journal Articles
Caswell, J. A. 1998. Valuing the Benefits and Costs of Improved Food Safety and Nutrition. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 42(4):409-424.
Rogers, R. T. and R. J. Tokle. 1999. The Effects of Television Advertising on Concentration: An Update. New York Economic Review XXX(25):31.
Salay, E. and J. A. Caswell. 1998. Developments in Brazilian Food Safety Policy. The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 1(2):167-177.
Wang, Y. and J. A. Caswell. 1998. Comparative Levels of Food Safety Regulations in Three U.S.-Asian Trading Groups. Journal of Agribusiness 16(2):115-128.
Books, Chapters in Books
Royer, J. S. and R. T. Rogers, eds. 1998. The Industrialization of Agriculture: Vertical Coordination in the Food System. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
MICHIGAN
Station and Agency Publications
van Ravenswaay, E. O. and J. R. Blend. 1999. Consumer Demand for Ecolabeled Apples: Results from Econometric Estimation. Staff Paper 99-17, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
Journal Articles
Owens, N. N., S. M. Swinton, and E. O. van Ravenswaay. 1999. Farmer Willingness to Pay for Herbicide Safety Characteristics. Abstract, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80:1198.
Book, Chapters in Books
Swinton, S. M., N. N. Owens, and E. O. van Ravenswaay. 1999. Health Risk Information to Reduce Water Pollution. In Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture, ed. F. Casey, A. Schmitz, S. Swinton, and D. Zilberman, 263-272. Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
van Ravenswaay, E. O. and J. R. Blend. 1999. Using Ecolabeling to Encourage the Adoption of Innovative Environmental Technologies in Agriculture. In Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture, ed. F. Casey, A. Schmitz, S. Swinton, and D. Zilberman, 119-138. Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
NEBRASKA
Station and Agency Publications
Azzam, A. 1999. Meat Packing Industry History: Part I. Nebraska Cattlemen, February.
Journal Articles
Azzam, A. 1999. Asymmetry and Rigidity in Farm-Retail Price Transmission. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81:525-533.
Azzam, A. M. and E. Pagoulatos. 1999. Measurement of Technological and Market Structure-Alternative Methodological Perspectives: Discussion. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81:644-646
Ziari, H. and A. Azzam. 1999. Parameterizing Nonparametric Translog Models: A Goal Programming/Constrained Regression of U.S. Manufacturing. Empirical Economics 24:331-340.
Books, Chapters in Books
Azzam, A. and E. Pagoulatos. 1999. Vertical Relationships: Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence. In Vertical Relationships and Coordination in the Food System, ed. G. Galizzi and L. Venturini, 7-20. Physica: Verlag Heidelberg.
NEW JERSEY
Station and Agency Publications
Bhuyan, S. 1999. Factors Determining Corporate Political Activities in the U.S. Food and Tobacco Industries. Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 2.
Journal Articles
Bhuyan, S. and R. A. Lopez. 1999. What Determines Welfare Losses from Oligopoly Power in the Food and Tobacco Industries? Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics Abstracts 3(7).
NEW YORK
Station and Agency Publications
Lele, U., W. Lesser, and G. Horstkotte-Wesseler (eds.). 1999. Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture: The World Bank's Role in Assisting Borrower and Member Countries. Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development - Rural Development Series. Washington: The World Bank, September.
Journal Articles
Lesser, W., J. Bernard, and K. Billah. 1999. Methodologies for Ex Ante Projections of Adoption Rates for Agbiotech Products: Lessons Learned from rBST. Agribusiness: An International Journal 15(2):149-162.
Books, Chapters in Books
Lesser, W. 1999. Plant Breeding, Plant Patents and Yield: Benefits of Patenting U.S. Style. Abstract, Proceedings -- World Soybean Research Conference VI, Chicago, August 1-7.
Lesser, W., G. Horstkotte-Wesseler, U. Lele, and D. Byerlee. 1999. Intellectual Property Rights, Agriculture, and the World Bank. In Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture: The World Bank's Role in Assisting Borrower and Member Countries, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development -- Rural Development Series, ed. U. Lele, W. Lesser, and G. Horstkotte-Wesseler, 1-21. Washington: The World Bank, September.
OHIO
Journal Articles
Sam-Ryang, K. and W. S. Chern. 1999. Alternative Measures of Health Information and Demand for Fats and Oils in Japan. Journal of Consumer Affairs 33.
RHODE ISLAND
Journal Articles
Asche, Frank, Helge Bremnes, and Cathy R. Wessells. 1999. Product Aggregation, Market Integration and Relationships between Prices: An Application to World Salmon Markets. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81(3):568-581.
Eales, James and Cathy R. Wessells. 1999. Testing Separability of Japanese Demand for Meat and Fish within a Generalized Demand System. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 24:114-126.
Fong, Q. S. W. and J. L. Anderson. 2000. Assessment of the Hong Kong Shark Fin Trade. Infofish International 1:28-32.
Martínez-Garmendia, J. and J. L. Anderson. 1999. Hedging Performance of Shrimp Futures Contracts with Multiple Deliverable Grades. Journal of Futures Markets 19(8):957-990.
Wessells, Cathy R. 1999. Seafood Safety Regulations and Ecolabeling as Barriers to Trade: Implications for Korea. Korea Observer XXX:113-133.
Wessells, Cathy R. and Petter Wallström. 1999. Modeling Demand Structure Using Scanner Data: Implications for Salmon Enhancement Policies. Agribusiness: An International Journal 15(4):449.
Zucker, D. A. and J. L. Anderson. 1999. A Dynamic, Stochastic Model of a Land-based Summer Flounder Aquaculture Firm. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 30(2):219-235.
TEXAS
Journal Articles
Adelaja, A., R. Nayga, Jr., B. Schilling, and K. Tank. 1999. A Note on Challenges Facing Food Retail Stores: The Case of New Jersey. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management 27(8):302-310.
Adelaja, A., R. Nayga, Jr., K. Tank, and B. Schilling. 1999. Challenges Facing the Food Service Industry. Journal of Restaurant and Foodservice Marketing, 3(4):123-138.
Adelaja, A., R. Nayga, and Z. Farooq. 1999. Predicting Mergers and Acquisition in the Food Industry. Agribusiness: An International Journal 15(1):1-23.
Hiser, J., R. M. Nayga, and O. Capps, Jr. 1999. An Exploratory Analysis of Familiarity and Willingness to Use Online Food Shopping Services in a Local Area of Texas. Journal of Food Distribution Research 30:78-90.
Nayga Jr., R. M. 1999. A Note on Schooling and Smoking: The Issue Revisited. Education Economics 7(3):253-258.
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 Jr., R. M. 1999. Retail Health Marketing: Evaluating Consumers' Choice for Healthier Foods. Health Marketing Quarterly 16(4):53-65.
Nayga Jr., R. M. 1999. Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Obesity in the USA. Journal of Consumer Studies and Home Economics 23(3):161-164.
Nayga Jr., R. M. and J. Siebert. 1999. Analysis of At-Home Consumption of Dairy Products in the United States. Journal of Food Products Marketing 5(3):65-78.
Nayga Jr., R. M., B. J. Tepper, and L. Rosenzweig. 1999. Assessing the Importance of Health and Nutrition Related Factors on Food Demand: A Variable Preference Investigation. Applied Economics 31:1541-1549.
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.
Nayga Jr., R. M. and D. Reed. 1999. Factors Associated with the Intake of Dietary Supplements. Family Economics and Nutrition Review 12(1): 43-48.
Nayga Jr., R. M. and Z. Weinberg. 1999. Supermarket Access in the Inner Cities. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 6(3):141-145.
Nayga Jr., R. M. and O. Capps, Jr. 1999. U.S. Consumers' Perceptions of the Importance of Following the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. Food Policy 24:553-564.
VIRGINIA
Station and Agency Publications
Peterson, Everett B. and Ronald W. Cotterill. 1998. Incorporating Flexible Demand Systems in Empirical Models of Market Power. Research Report No. 43, Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, December.
WISCONSIN
Journal Articles
Grobe, D., R. Douthitt, and L. Zepeda. 1999. A Model of Consumers' Risk Perceptions Toward Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rbGH): The Impact of Risk Characteristics. Risk Analysis 19(4):661-673.
Grobe, D., R. Douthitt, and L. Zepeda. 1999. Consumer Risk Perception Profiles for the Food-related Biotechnology, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rbGH). The Journal of Consumer Affairs 33(2):254-275.
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE--USDA
Station and Agency Publications
Buzby, J. C. and R. M. Morrison. 1999. Food Irradiation - An Update. Food Review 22(2):23-26.
Buzby, J. C. and S. R. Crutchfield. 1999. New Juice Regulations Underway. Food Review 22(2):21-22.
Crutchfield, Stephen. 1998. Food Safety at a Glance. Food Review 21(3):35-36.
Crutchfield, Stephen. 1999. New Federal Policies and Programs for Food Safety. Food Review 22(2):2-5.
Crutchfield, Stephen R., Jean C. Buzby, Tanya Roberts, and Michael Ollinger. 1999. Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Pathogen Reduction. Food Review 22(2):6-9.
Frenzen, Paul D., T. Lynn Riggs, Jean C. Buzby, Thomas Breuer, Tanya Roberts, Drew Voetsch, Sudha Reddy, and the FoodNet Working Group. 1999. Salmonella Cost Estimates Updated Using FoodNet Data. Food Review 22(2):10-15.
MacDonald, James, Fred Kuchler, Jean Buzby, Fitzroy Lee, and Lorna Aldrich. 1999. User-Fee Financing of USDA's Meat and Poultry Inspection System. Agricultural Economic Report No. 755 (AER-755). Washington, DC: Food and Rural Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, March.
Book, Chapters in Books
Frenzen, P., J. C. Buzby, and T. Roberts. 1999. An Updated Estimate of the Economic Costs of Human Illness Due to Foodborne Salmonella Infections in the United States. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on the Epidemiology and Control of Salmonella in Pork, ed. P. Bahnson, 215-218. Urbana-Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois.
Roberts, T., S. Malcolm, and C. Narrod. 1999. Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Slaughterhouse Practices: Generic E. Coli Contamination in Beef Destined for Hamburger. In Probabilistic Safety Assessment: 1999 Conference Proceedings, 809-815. La Grange Park, Illinois: American Nuclear Society, Inc., August.
CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY
Golan, A., L. S. Karp, and J. M. Perloff. In Press. Estimating Coke and Pepsi's Price and Advertising Strategies. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
CALIFORNIA-DAVIS
Zhang, M. and R. J. Sexton. In Press. Captive Supplies and the Cash Market Price: A Spatial Markets Approach. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 25(1).
CONNECTICUT
Nevo, Aviv and Catherine Wolfram. 1999. Prices and Coupons for Breakfast Cereals. NBER Working Paper 6932, February.
GEORGIA
McWatters, K. H., S. M. Fletcher, and I. B. Hashim. 1999. Effectiveness of Grocery Store-level Information about Irradiation on Consumer Beef Purchase Behavior. 1999 IFT Abstracts: 187.
Rimal, A., S. M. Fletcher, and K. H. McWatters. In Press. Intended vs. Actual Purchase: Do Consumers Buy What They Say? Abstract, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81(5).
ILLINOIS
Kurtenbach, T. 1999. Information Technology Adoption and Use in Agricultural Organizations. M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois.
Kurtenbach, T. and S. Thompson. 1999. Information Technology Adoption: Implications for Agriculture. Paper presented at the World Food and Agribusiness Forum, Florence, Italy, June 13.
Sofranko, A., R. Frerichs, J. Samy, and B. Swanson. 1999. Will Farmers Organize: Structural Change and Loss of Control Over Production. Refereed paper presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Chicago, Illinois, August 4-8.
Swanson, B. E., M. Samy, A. Sofranko, J. Harper, and R. Frerichs. 1999. Assessing Farmers' Interests and Needs for Specialty Corn and Soybean Information in the Lower Illinois River Basin. Refereed paper presented at the 26th National Agricultural Education Research Conference in Orlando, Florida, December 11.
INDIANA
Connor, John M. In Press. 'Our Customers Are Our Enemies:' The Lysine Cartel of 1992-1995. Review of Industrial Organization.
Connor, John M. In Press. The Lysine Cartel: Guest Editor's Introduction. Review of Industrial Organization 16).
Herrmann, Roland, Claudia Röder, and John M. Connor. In Press. Determinants of New Product Introductions in the U.S. Food Industry. Applied Economics Letters.
Herrnman, Roland, Claudia Roder, and John M. Connor. 1999. How Market Structure Affects Food Product Proliferation: Theoretical Hypotheses and New Empirical Evidence for the U.S. and the German Food Industries. Working Paper No. 51, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany, 60 pp.
KENTUCKY
Davies, S. P. and S. S. Vickner. In Press. A Computational Note on Estimating Simultaneous-Equations Error-Components Models Using Generalized Least-Squares. Abstract, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81.
Davies, S. P. and S. S. Vickner. 1999. A Computational Note on Estimating Simultaneous-Equations Error-Components Models Using Generalized Least-Squares. AAEA Annual Meeting Selected Paper, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11.
Vickner, S. S. and S. P. Davies. In Press. A Multivariate Time Series Approach to Estimating Strategic Price Response in a Product-Differentiated Oligopoly. Abstract, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81.
Vickner, S. S. and S. P. Davies. In Press. Estimating Strategic Price Response in a Product-Differentiated Oligopoly: The Case of a Domestic Canned Fruit Industry. Agribusiness: An International Journal 16.
Vickner, S. S. and S. P. Davies. 1999. A Multivariate Time Series Approach to Estimating Strategic Price Response in a Product-Differentiated Oligopoly. AAEA Annual Meeting Selected Paper, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11.
Vickner, S. S. and S. P. Davies. 1999. Forecasting Strategic Price Response in the Food Manufacturing Industries: The Case of Canned Pineapple. IAMA World Food and Agribusiness Congress and Forum, Florence, Italy, June 13-16.
Vickner, S. S. and S. P. Davies. 1999. Simultaneous-Equations Panel Data Econometric Methods. AAEA Annual Meeting Frontier Session, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11.
MASSACHUSETTS
Caswell, J. A., ed. In Press. Introduction to the Economics of Food Safety and Nutrition. Compilation in Japanese of chapters from earlier books. Lead Translators: T. Sakurai, M. Kagatsume, and T. Matsuda. Tokyo: Noh-rin Toh-kei Kyoh-kai (The Agricultural and Forestry Statistics Association).
Colatore, C. and J. A. Caswell. In Press. The Cost of HACCP Implementation in the Seafood Industry: A Case Study of Breaded Fish. In The Economics of HACCP: New Studies of Costs and Benefits, ed. L. Unnevehr. St. Paul, Minnesota: Eagan Press.
Henson, S. J. and J. A. Caswell. In Press. Food Safety Regulation: An Overview of Contemporary Issues. Food Policy.
Holm, D., D. Lass., and R. Rogers. In Press. The Changing Landscape of Massachusetts Agriculture: Restructuring for the 21st Century. In Massachusetts Benchmarks, University of Massachusetts.
Mojduszka, E. M. and J. A. Caswell. In Press. A Test of Nutritional Quality Signaling in Food Markets Prior to Implementation of Mandatory Labeling. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Mojduszka, E. M., J. A. Caswell, D. B. West, and J. M. Harris. 1999. Nutritional Quality Change in Manufacturers' Food Product Offerings and Products Purchased, 1994-1997. Selected paper presented at the AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August.
Noelke, C. M. and K. C. Raper. 1999. Statistical Nonparametric Market Power Tests: An Empirical Investigation. Working Paper, October.
Rogers, R. T. In Press. The U.S. Food Marketing System. In The Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science & Technology, 2nd Edition, ed. Francis.
Swinand, G. P. and R. T. Rogers. In Press. Aggregate Power and Market Power: Market Structure and Participation in Food and Tobacco Markets by the Sector's Largest Firms. Agribusiness: An International Journal.
West, D. 1999. Nutritional Quality Change in Selected Food Product Categories. M.S. Thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 47 pp.
NEBRASKA
Azzam, A. 1999. Identifying the Equilibrium Concept in Bilateral Oligopoly. 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Turin, Italy, September 4-7.
Zhongzhan, Chi. 1999. Farm Retail Price Spread and Power Structure in the Food Marketing Channel. M.S. Thesis, University of Nebraska.
NEW JERSEY
Bhuyan, S. 1999. An Examination of PAC and Lobbying Activities in the U.S. Food and Tobacco Industries. Selected paper, annual meetings, Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, Morgantown, West Virginia, June 26-28.
Bhuyan, S. In Press. Corporate Political Activities and Oligopoly Welfare Loss. Review of Industrial Organization.
Bhuyan, S. and F. Larry Leistritz. 1999. A Statistical Model of Cooperatives' Success in the Non-ag Sectors. Selected paper, annual meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11.
Bhuyan, S. and R. A. Lopez. 1999. What Determines Welfare Losses from Oligopoly Power in the Food and Tobacco Industries? Antitrust and Regulated Industries Abstract, accepted paper series, 2(8).
NEW YORK
Lesser, W. 1999. An Economic Approach to Identifying an "Effective Sui Generis System" for Plant Variety Protection under TRIPS. Paper presented at the conference "The Shape of the Coming Agricultural Biotechnology Transformation: Strategic Investment and Policy Approaches from an Economic Perspective," Rome, Italy, June 17-19.
Lesser, W. 1999. "Holding Up" the Public Agbiotech Research Sector over Component Technologies. Paper presented at the conference "Transitions in Agbiotech: Economics of Strategy and Policy," Washington, DC, June.
Lesser, W., T. M. Schmit, and L. M. Ruiz. 1999. National Breeding Programs as Technology Sellers: Marketing Elite Germplasm for GMOs by Developing Countries. Paper presented at the AAEA pre-conference session, "Industrialization, Globalization and International Development," Nashville, Tennessee, August 6-7.
RHODE ISLAND
Anderson, J. L. 1999. Fish in a Competitive Environment. Invited presentation, The Groundfish Forum VII, London, UK, October 19-21.
Anderson, J. L. 1999. Market Information and Fisheries Management: North Atlantic Bluefin Tuna. Seminar, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia, March 26.
Fong, Q. S. W. 1999. Assessment of Asian Shark Fin Trade and Implications for Shark Management. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island.
Wessells, Cathy R. 1999. Preferences of U.S. Seafood Consumers: Implications for Seafood Markets. Icelandic Fisheries Symposium, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 1-2.
Wessells, Cathy R., Robert J. Johnston, and Holger Donath. 1999. Assessing Consumer Preferences for Eco-Labeled Seafood: The Influence of Species, Certifier and Household Attributes. Presented at the annual conference of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Nashville, Tennessee, August 1999.
Wessells, Cathy R. , Robert J. Johnston, and Holger Donath. In Press. Assessing Consumer Preferences for Eco-Labeled Seafood: The Influence of Species, Certifier and Household Attributes. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
TEXAS
Hooker, N., R. M. Nayga, Jr., and J. Siebert. In Press. Preserving and Communicating Food Safety Gains. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81(5).
Nayga, Jr., R., S. Kim, O. Capps, and B. Tepper. In Press. The Effect of Consumer Label Use on Diet Quality. Consumer Interests Annual 45 (Applied Consumer Economics Paper Award).
WISCONSIN
You, S. 1999. Measuring Consumer Knowledge and Demand Response to Food-related Biotechnology, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rbGH). Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Zepeda, L., R. Douthitt, and S. Y. You. In Press. Consumer Acceptance of Agricultural Biotechnology: The Role of Labeling and Risk Perception on Food Demand. In Strategic Investment and Policy Approaches from an Economic Perspective, ed. R. E. Evenson, W. Lesser, V. Santaniello, and D. Zilberman.
ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE--USDA
Buzby, J., P. Frenzen, T. Roberts, and F. Kuchler. 1999. Estimated Foodborne Disease Cases and Costs. Paper presented to the meetings of the American Society for Industrial Microbiology, August 9.
Crutchfield, Stephen, Jane Allshouse, Jean Buzby, and Donna Roberts. 1999. Food Safety Economics and International Trade. Presented at the final meeting of the EC-sponsored research project "Harmonization of Standards for Minimally Processed Foods," Brussels, Belgium, October 25.
Frenzen, P. and J. Buzby. 1999. Food Poisoning Litigation in the United States. Presentation at Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, July 25.
Frenzen, P., J. Buzby, and T. Roberts. 1999. An Updated Estimate of the Economic Costs of Human Illness Due To Foodborne Salmonella in the United States. Presented at the Third International Symposium on Epidemiology and Control of Salmonella in Pork, Washington, DC, August 6.
Narrod, C, S. Malcolm, M. Ollinger, and T. Roberts. 1999. Pathogen Reduction Options in Slaughterhouses and Methods for Evaluating Their Economic Effectiveness. Selected paper at AAEA Meeting, August 8-11.
Roberts, T., S. Malcolm, and C. Narrod. 1999. Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Slaughterhouse Practices: Generic E. coli Contamination in Beef Destined for Hamburger. Probabilistic Safety Assessment, Washington, DC, August 22-26.
Roberts, T., C. Narrod, S. Malcom, J. Kuzma, R. Brewer, and P. Cowen. 1999. Slaughter Plant Segment of the E. coli O157:H7 Risk Assessment Model. Presented at a symposium, "USDA Risk Assessment of E. coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef," annual meeting of the International Association of Milk, Food and Environmental Sanitarians, Dearborn, Michigan, August.
JAPAN
Tamotsu Kawamura. 1999. Hedonic Price Analysis and Its Application to Package Design: Packaged Cooked Rice in Japan. Presented at the 1999 IAMA Agribusiness Forum, Florence, Italy.
APPROVED:
Julie A. Caswell, Chairperson, Technical Committee
May 24, 2000
Daniel Rossi, Administrative Advisor
May 31, 2000
