Introduction to Sessions

Introduction to Sessionsregarding the This page outlines general information Organization of Sessions organization and content of the Concurrent Sessions and the Poster Sessions. If you have any further questions, AAEA staff members are available on-site and ready to help All sessions are first organized by date and time. Within each time block, sessions are sorted by their affiliation with each association (AAEA, WAEA, or CAES). For AAEA sessions, Principal Papers are listed first, followed by the Track sessions. After the Tracks, the Organized Symposia and Selected Papers are listed together, and sorted by Subject Code. Subject Code headings are noted after the paper’s title in the description. paper and answer any questions from the audience. One moderator is assigned to each Selected Paper session to help keep the presentations on time and facilitate any discussion about the research presented. AAEA Posters Subject Codes Upon submission, each session is classified within one of the 24 subject codes. The subject codes are intended to represent the different areas of focus covered by sessions at the Annual Meeting. They also allow the sessions to be sorted by topic. A topical index using these subject codes can be found on page 87. Posters are a visual display of research conducted. They are submitted and peer reviewed following the same process as the Selected Papers. Posters are on display and follow the “Exhibitor” schedule in the Oregon Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A. Poster authors are required to attend one of two designated time slots for Poster interaction, either on Monday or Tuesday, from noon to 1:30 pm. The board number of the poster indicates which session it will be a part of, with an “M” designating participation in the Monday session and a “T” designating participation in the Tuesday session. The Posters are judged while on display and the top three Posters win a cash prize. WAEA Session Types WAEA Organized Symposia Organized Symposia are sessions that focus on a particular topic of interest. These sessions are usually discussion based, often having panelists or discussants. Sessions are organized completely by the President of the WAEA. AAEA Session Types AAEA Principal Papers Principal Papers are the most selective submission type at the AAEA Annual Meetings, as a maximum of seven are accepted each year. The proposals for Principal Paper sessions are approved by the AAEA Executive Board and are the foundation around which the rest of the Annual Meeting is based. Principal Paper sessions have between two and four formal presentations and up to two discussants. Papers and discussions in Principal Paper sessions are published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. WAEA Selected Papers Selected Papers are completed academic papers that are submitted for peer review individually. After being accepted, a paper is grouped with three other papers, which share a similar topic or theme. Each paper presenter is given about 20 minutes to present the findings in their paper and answer any questions from the audience. CAES Session Types CAES Principal Paper Sessions Principal Papers are proposed and arranged by groups of researchers on topics of interest to our membership and colleagues. These sessions usually consist of three or four presentations or panelists, plus discussants. Only one Principal Paper is scheduled per time block. The proposals for Principal Paper sessions are approved by the CAES President and Program Committee. AAEA Track Sessions Track Sessions are groups of sessions (ranging between three and seven sessions) that appeal to a common audience. Tracks are proposed and sponsored by official AAEA Sections. Each Section is allotted a certain number of sessions at the Annual Meeting based on the size of that Section’s membership. The sessions within a Track are designed for the members of the sponsoring AAEA Section, however anyone may attend any Track session. The format of a Track session may be either Organized Symposium or Selected Paper. Certain Track sessions may be sponsored by more than one Section if the content appeals to both groups. Track sessions are denoted by the sponsoring AAEA Section. Selected Papers AAEA Organized Symposia Organized Symposia are sessions that focus on a particular topic of interest. These sessions are usually discussion based, often having panelists or discussants. Symposia may also contain presentations that are meant to highlight works in progress or new data, as opposed to the completed form of a Selected Paper. Sessions are organized completely by individuals, and then reviewed by the AAEA President. The Selected Paper Sessions are moderated sessions of up to four presentations on a common theme of interest to our membership and colleagues. Each paper presenter is given about 20 minutes to present the findings in their paper and answer any questions from the audience. Selected papers were competitively chosen for inclusion in the sessions by a team of both CAES and external reviewers. CAES Posters AAEA Selected Papers This year the CAES is also offering poster viewing sessions, in coordination with AAEA. Posters are a visual display of research conducted. They are submitted and peer reviewed following the same process as the Selected Papers. Posters are on display and follow the “Exhibitor” schedule in the Oregon Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A. Selected Papers are completed academic papers that are submitted for peer review individually. After being accepted, a paper is grouped with three other papers, which share a similar topic or theme. Each paper presenter is given about 20 minutes to present the findings in their 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 22 Monday, July 30, 2007, noon – 1:30 pm • Designated time for author-attended posters labeled “M”; Posters remain on display during open Exhibit Hall hours Posters Selected Posters will be grouped by subject area and displayed in Exhibit Hall A at the Oregon Convention Center. Author-attended Poster Sessions will take place on both Monday, July 30, and Tuesday, July 31, from noon-1:30 pm. Posters designated with an “M” code will be attended on Monday and those designated with at “T” code will be attended on Tuesday. Posters will be on display when the Exhibit Hall is open. The Poster schedule is: Oregon Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A Sunday, July 29; 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Monday, July 30; 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Monday, July 30; noon – 1:30 pm (Posters designated with “M” will be author-attended) Tuesday, July 31; 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tuesday, July 31; noon – 1:30 pm (Posters designated with “T” will be author-attended) POSTERS FOOD AnD FibEr MArkETS, TrADE, AnD COnSuMPTiOn M1 – Survival and Growth of Family Farms in Israel - Yuval Dolev and Ayal Kimhi, Hebrew University M2 – Effect of Changes in Income on Changes in Consumption: An Empirical Investigation for Illinois Farm HouseholdsSena Durguner, Paul Ellinger, and Mary Arends-Kuenning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M3 – Agricultural Land Value and Its Components - Jason Morris and Steven L. Klose, Texas A&M University M4 – How to Survive the Organic Transition Period: Results from Cropping System Trials in the Dryland Wheat Producing Region of Eastern Washington - Kathleen Painter and Herbert Hinman, Washington State University; Robert Gallagher, Pennsylvania State University; Eugene Fuerst, Richard Koenig, Ian Burke, Dennis Pittmann, and Amanda Snyder, Washington State University M5 – Production and Marketing Strategies of New Entrants into Farming - Mary Ahearn and Doris Newton, USDA-Economic Research Service M6 – Does Off–farm Income Influence On-farm Investment in Family Farms? - Valentina Hartarska and Mai Chi, Auburn University M7 – The Role of Farm Edge Management in Increasing On-farm Biodiversity - Karen Klonsky, Sonja Brodt, Stephen Brush, Louise Jackson, and Sean Smuckler, University of California, Davis M8 – State Economic and National Policy Effects on the Dairy Farm Size Distribution - Nicole Olynk and Christopher Wolf, Michigan State University M9 – Importance and Determinants of Perceived Farm Risks: Evidence from the Rural Western United States - Tauhidur Rahman and Trent Teegerstrom, University of Arizona M10 – Microstructure Changes in the Canadian Canola Futures and Options Markets: An Empirical Identification Using Wavelet Analysis - Gabriel Power and Calum Turvey, Cornell University M11 – ‘Extension Field Specialists´: Believable Label or Oxymoron? - George Morse and Adeel Ahmed, University of Minnesota M12 – Assessing Farmers´ Research, Education, and Outreach Needs to Promote Non-traditional Alternative Enterprises Safdar Muhammad, Fisseha Tegegne, Enefiok Ekanem, and Surendra Singh, Tennessee State University M13 – Reducing the Costs of Doing Benefit-Cost Analysis for Extension Programs - George Morse, Neil Anderson, and Haochi Zheng, University of Minnesota M14 – Alternative Approaches for Sharing Machinery, Labor, and Other Resources among Small- and Medium-sized Producers - Georgeanne Artz, Greg Colson, and Roger Ginder, Iowa State University M15 – The Attitudes of Hawaii Consumers toward Genetically Modified Fruit - Sabry Shehata, University of Hawaii at Hilo M16 – An Economic Analysis of Composting Breeder and Pullet Litter with Eggshell Waste - Nathan Kemper and H.L. Goodwin, University of Arkansas M17 – Subsidizing Organic Transition and Certification Costs through a Tax on Consumer Retail Price - Richard Volpe, University of California, Davis M18 – Differentiated Product Agriculture and the Product Development Treadmill - William Knudson and H. Christopher Peterson, Michigan State University M19 – Internal Information and Decision Making: Venezuelan Pig Farmers’ Case - Francisca Viloria, Central University of Venezuela; Garth Holloway and Bhavani Shankar, University of Reading M20 – Model of Retailers’ Variety Offering - Rui Huang, University of California, Berkeley M21 – The Emerging Exporter´s Dilemma: A Model and Case Study of Strategic Product Innovation for Beef Exports from Ethiopia - Karl Rich and Simeon Kaitibie, International Livestock Research Institute 23 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007, noon – 1:30 pm • Designated time for author-attended posters labeled “M”; Posters remain on display during open Exhibit Hall hours M22 – Measuring Legitimacy of Startups: The Development of Constructs and Their Parameters - Aaron Johnson and Clay Dibrell, Oregon State University; Rodney Holcomb, Oklahoma State University; Justin Craig, Oregon State University M23 – Do Supermarkets Collude? - Erika Knight, Lisa House, Steven Shugan, and Jonq-Ying Lee, University of Florida; Mark Brown, Florida Department of Citrus M25 – Limited Resource Families and Child Health Status: A Case Study in Montero, Bolivia - Lesley Taulman and Marshall Martin, Purdue University M26 – Market Forces, Plant Technology, and the Use of Food Safety Processing Innovations - Michael Ollinger, USDA Economc Research Service; Danna Moore, Washington State University M27 – The Thrifty Food Plan, 2006: New versus Previous Market Baskets - Andrea Carlson, Mark Lino, Wenyen Juan, Kenneth Hanson, and Peter Basiotis, USDA-Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion M28 – Is Food Safety a Club Good? - Ji Li and Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University M29 – UK Food Standards Agency—Current Policy Issues and Economic and Social Science Input - Derrick Jones, Food Standards Agency M30 – Food Safety Incidents in the Fresh Produce Markets and Consumer Response: A Theory of Planned Behavior Approach - Jonathan Shephard and Sayed Saghaian, University of Kentucky M31 – Integrating Agriculture and Nutrition Extension to Combat Vitamin A Deficiency through Cost-effective Dissemination of Beta-carotene-rich Sweet Potato in Rural Central Mozambique - Ricardo Labarta and Jan Low, International Potato Center M32 – Estimating the Welfare Loss from Inferior Labels Using Experimental Auctions: An Application to Fair Trade Labeling - Matthew Rousu, Susquehanna University; Jay Corrigan, Kenyon College M33 – Complicated Compliance: Toward Optimal Risk Reduction - Meebok Kim, The Ohio State University; Bo-Hyun Cho, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University M34 – Is It Lack of Capacity or Lack of Incentive?—Exploring the Reasons and Implications of De-certification from Food Safety Systems among the Philippine Seafood Processors - Catherine Ragasa and Suzanne Thornsbury, Michigan State University M35 – The Impact of Wal-Mart on Market Conduct: A Case Study of the Dallas/Fort Worth Milk Market - Rebecca Cleary and Rigoberto A. Lopez, University of Connecticut M36 – Market Value Maximization through Strategic Delegation - Shinn-Shyr Wang and Kyle Stiegert, University of Wisconsin at Madison M37 – Do Farmers Benefit from Search? Evidence from the Spot Market For Live Hogs - Xiaoyong Zheng and Tomislav Vukina, North Carolina State University M38 – Spatial Competition and Location of U.S. Ethanol Industry - Tun-Hsiang Yu and Frank Fuller, Iowa State University M39 – Seed Product Line, Market Power, and the Economic Impact of GMOs - Etienne Campens and Stephane Lemarie, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Greg Traxler and Norbert Wilson, Auburn University M40 – Meat Plants´ Traceability Levels: Evidence from Iowa - Harun Bulut and John Lawrence, Iowa State University M41 – Price Transmission and Asymmetry: An Empirical Analysis of the New England Fluid Milk Market - Chunxiang Li and Daniel Lass, University of Massachusetts Amherst M42 – Privacy Concerns and Attitudes toward RFID Applications with Consumer Benefits - Ronald Larson and Kathryn Flood, Western Michigan University M43 – Toward a Single Market for Coffee? - Atanu Ghoshray, University of Bath M44 – Developing a Framework for Evaluating the Role of Extension Education in Perceived Farm Risks: An Application of the Multivariate Ordered Probit Model - Tauhidur Rahman and Trent Teegerstrom, University of Arizona M45 – New Developments in Panel Data Estimation: Full-factorial Panel Data Model - Ewa Kleczyk, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Patrick Howie, TargetRx; Christopher Parmeter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University M46 – Determining College Students´ Perceptions, Concerns, and Knowledge of Obesity and Health - Christiane Schroeter, Arkansas State University; Aslihan Spaulding, Illinois State University M47 – Identifying Market Preferences for High Selenium Beef - Cheryl Wachenheim, North Dakota State University; Scott Hovde, Wells Fargo; William Nganje, Arizona State University; Robert Hearne, North Dakota State University M48 – Estimating Effects of New Product Promotion of U.S. Beef in Guatemala - Amanda Leister and Parr Rosson, Texas A&M University M49 – Organic Agglomeration? Evidence from Correlations - Christopher Shanahan and Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University M50 – British Columbia Consumers´ Wine Purchasing Behavior: The Importance of Brands and Varietal for Different Consumer Segments - Richard Carew, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Wojciech Florkowski, University of Georgia 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 24 POSTERS M24 – Measuring the Impact of WIC on Intra-household Calcium Consumption - Ariun Ishdorj, Helen Jensen, and Justin Tobias, Iowa State University Monday, July 30, 2007, noon – 1:30 pm • Designated time for author-attended posters labeled “M”; Posters remain on display during open Exhibit Hall hours M51 – Valuing Attributes of Fluid Milk Using Choice-based Conjoint Experimental Design - Junfei Bai, Thomas Wahl, and Philip Wandschneider, Washington State University M52 – Brand Loyalty and Promotional Sales: Some Results for the German Food Retail Sector - Jens-Peter Loy, University of Kiel; Thomas Glauben, Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe M53 – What Affects Consumption Patterns of Organic and Conventional Products? - Carola Grebitus, University of Kiel; Chengyan Yue, Iowa State University; Maike Bruhn, University of Kiel; Helen Jensen, Iowa State University M54 – Valuing Animal Identification and Other Information in Feeder Cattle - David Anderson, Crystal Mathews, Oral Capps, and Jason Sawyer, Texas A&M University M55 – Behavioral Biases in Grain Marketing: Evidence from Market Advisory Service Recommendations - Silvina Cabrini, Scott Irwin, and Darrel Good, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M56 – Spatial Price Transmission and Asymmetry in China’s Pork Market - Shuang Xu, Sayed Saghaian, Leigh Maynard, and Baohui Song, University of Kentucky M57 – The Value of the “Produced in USA” Label on Agricultural Products in Japan - Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, Kansas State University; John Bernard, University of Delaware; John Fox, Kansas State University M58 – Spatial Analysis of Price Relationship within China´s Main Cut Flower Markets - Zheng Liu, Baohui Song, and Angelos Pagoulatos, University of Kentucky M59 – Measuring Willingness to Pay When Consumer Knowledge of Choice Attributes Is Incomplete: A Case Study Analyzing Indian Consumer´s Demand for GM Food - Sanjoy Bhattacharjee, Mississippi State University; Philip Wandschneider, Washington State University M60 – Origin As a Quality Cue in Pork Purchase Decisions—A Binomial Logit - Carola Grebitus, University of Kiel; Luisa Menapace, Iowa State University; Maike Bruhn, University of Kiel M61 – The Impact of Rising Diesel Price on Fresh Produce Market - Ram Acharya and Albert Kagan, Arizona State University M62 – Measuring the Welfare Effects of Technology in a Multi-market Framework - Dimitrios Dadakas and Stelios D. Katranidis, University of Macedonia; David S. Bullock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M63 – Imports in the Washington State Economy: Importance and Regional Effects of Import Liberalization Christine Wieck and Thomas Wahl, Washington State University M64 – White Maize, Trade, and Poverty in Mexico: Applying Tests for Market Integration on New Data - Mesbah Motamed, Wallace Tyner, and Kenneth Foster, Purdue University M65 – Labor Responses to Trade Liberalization in a Rural Economy - Ganesh Seshan, Georgetown School of Foreign Service in Qatar M66 – Are Free Trade Agreements a Threat to Colombian Beef Producers and Beef Distributors? - Miguel Gomez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Tatiana Parra, Banco de la Republica M67 – An Assessment of the Global Soybean Industry: An Application of Stochastic Equilibrium Displacement Model Rafael Costa, Yan Xia, and Parr Rosson, Texas A&M University M68 – Struggle for Leadership: The Competitiveness of the EU and U.S. Food Industry - Krijn Poppe, Jo Wijnands, and Bernd van der Meulen, Wageningen University M69 – How Much Do Non-tariff Measures Explain the Border Effect at Entry to the EU Market? The CEEC’s Agri-food Exports to EU in the Pre-accession Period - Karine Latouche and Emmanuelle Chevassus-Lozza, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Darja Majkovic, University of Maribor M70 – What Makes Countries Initiate WTO Disputes on Food-related Measures? - Bettina Rudloff, University of Bonn; Christian Götz, Institute for Food and Resource Economics M71 – Short- and Long-run Relationships between the U.S. Agricultural Trade Balance and the Macroeconomy - Jungho Baek and Won W. Koo, North Dakota State University M72 – Time Series Modeling of International Agricultural Trade Policy - Elizabeth Dufour, Hector O. Zapata, and P. Kennedy, Louisiana State University M73 – Analysis of U.S. Grain Export Flows along the Mississippi Gulf Region - Elizabeth Dufour and P. Kennedy, Louisiana State University M74 – Economic Impacts of Free Trade Agreements between the United States and South Korea on the Fishery Industry of South Korea: Using the Standard General Equilibrium Model - Yong-Suhk Wui, University of Arkansas; Hung Dong Lee and Young T. Shin, Korea Maritime Institute M75 – Impact of Avian Influenza on World Poultry Meat Production, Consumption, Domestic Prices, Export Prices, and Trade - Fawzi Taha, USDA-Economic Research Service M76 – Food Stamp Participation, Food Insecurity, and Health: An Exploratory Analysis - Christine Ranney, Cornell University; Miguel Gomez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M77 – Does the Food Stamp Program Cause Obesity? - Maoyong Fan, University of California, Berkeley M78 – The Impacts of Tax-foreclosed Properties and Land Bank Programs on Residential Housing Values in Flint, Michigan - Nigel Griswold, Patricia Norris, and Frank Lupi, Michigan State University POSTERS 25 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007, noon – 1:30 pm • Designated time for author-attended posters labeled “M”; Posters remain on display during open Exhibit Hall hours M79 – Swimming in Sewage: Are People Knowledgeable about What They Claim Is Important to Them - James Hilger, Federal Trade Commision; Greg Rafert, University of California, Berkeley M80 – Hedonic Price Analysis of Thoroughbred Broodmares in Foal - Leigh Maynard and Kelly Stoeppel, University of Kentucky M82 – The Role of Nonlinearity and Transactions Costs in Price Relationships among Regional Forest Products Markets - Matthew Holt, Purdue University; Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State University; Jeffrey Prestemon, USDA-Forest Service M83 – An Empirical Investigation of Farm Tractor Auctions on eBay - Florian Diekmann, Brian Roe, and Marvin Batte, The Ohio State University M84 – Trade and Integration of the U.S. and China´s Cotton Markets - Yuanlong Ge and Holly Wang, Washington State University M85 – Estimating the Substitution Effect between Healthy and Unhealthy Food and Its Relation to Obesity Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University; Chen Zhen, RTI International M86 – Effects of Anti-dumping Duties with Bertrand Competition: Some Evidence for Frozen Catfish Fillets Minh-Duc Nguyen and Henry Kinnucan, Auburn University M87 – Price Relationships in the U.S. Tree Nut Market - Mohammed Ibrahim, Fort Valley State University; Wojciech Florkowski, University of Georgia M89 – Are Chinese Health-oriented Food Consumers? A Panel Study of Household Food Demand in China from 1989 to 2004 - Meng Zhao, University of Minnesota M90 – The Effect of HIV/AIDS Driven Labor Organization on Agrobiodiversity: A Farm Household Analysis - Kidist Gebremariam, Justus Wesseler, and Ekko Van Ierland, Wageningen University M91 – Consumer Heterogeneity in Food Labeling Policy: The Case of Genetically Modified Foods - Sonja Radas, Economics Institute of Zagreb; Mario Teisl, University of Maine M92 – European Union Import Demand for In-shell Peanuts: The Source Differentiated AIDS Model - Tullaya Boonsaeng and Stanley M. Fletcher, University of Georgia 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 26 POSTERS M81 – Neighbourhood Characteristics and Adjacent Ravines on House Prices - Shahidul Islam, Grant MacEwan Community College Tuesday, July 31, 2007, noon – 1:30 pm • Designated time for author-attended posters labeled “T”; Posters remain on display during open Exhibit Hall hours AgriCulTurE, nATurAl rESOurCES, AnD THE EnvirOnMEnT T1 – Adoption of Transgenic Crops by Smallholder Farmers in Entre Rios, Argentina - Marshall Martin, Purdue University; Cecilia Paredes, Interoc S.A. T2 – Quality-oriented Technical Change in Japanese Wheat Breeding - Yoko Fujii, Takumi Kondo, and Fumio Osanami, Hokkaido University T4 – Market Power in Vertically Separated Market with Limited Data: An Empirical Application to the New England Dairy Market - Chunxiang Li and Daniel Lass, University of Massachusetts Amherst T5 – A Welfare Measurement of the Influences of El Niño, La Niña, and Neutral Forecasts on the Florida Avocado and Mango Industries - Sikavas NaLampang, Edward Evans, and Wirusana Tantiwongampai, University of Florida T6 – Are Conventional and Organic Produce Markets Integrated? - Richard Volpe, University of California, Davis T7 – Economic Impacts of Soybean Aphid and Management Responses - Feng Song and Scott Swinton, Michigan State University T8 – Forecasting Water Demand and Value for Crop Production - Swagata Banerjee and Steven W. Martin, Mississippi State University T9 – An Analysis of Factors Affecting the Profitability of Ethanol Made from Wheat in Western Canada - Danny Le Roy, Kurt Klein, and Lawrence Arbenser, University of Lethbridge T10 – Continuous Calving: Are Economic Incentives Large Enough to Eliminate the Traditional Practice? - Damona Doye, Oklahoma State University; Mike Popp, University of Arkansas T11 – An Examination of U.S. Milk Producers´ Participation in a Johne´s Disease Control Program - Stan Daberkow, William Mcbride, and Kenneth Mathews, USDA-Economic Research Service T12 – Critical Components of Preparedness and Response for Avian Flu Mitigation within the Poultry Sector Levan Elbakidze, Texas A&M University T13 – Region vs. Single Field: What Is the Value of Increasingly Spatially Precise Nitrogen Needs Information? - David Roberts, Wade Brorsen, and William Raun, Oklahoma State University T15 – Analyzing Pest Management in Indonesian Cocoa Production - Jessica Grace Perdew, Devendra Canchi, Ian Van Lieu, Jayson Beckman, and Gerald Shively, Purdue University T16 – I Know What You Did Last Planting Season: Estimates of Peer Effects in Amazonian Land Use Shubhayu Saha and Erin Sills, North Carolina State University; Subhrendu Pattanayak, RTI International; Jill Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury University T17 – Do Water Managers Cooperate? Using Experiments to Look Inside a Cooperative - David Zetland, University of California, Davis T18 – Hierarchical Linear Models in the Estimation of Crop Yield Trends and Normality Testing - Sanjoy Bhattacharjee and Saleem Shaik, Mississippi State University; Joseph Atwood, Montana State University T19 – Effects of Government Payments and Crop Insurance Programs on Optimal Downside Risk Hedge Ratios Rui Zhang, Jack Houston, Dmitry Vedenov, and Barry Barnett, University of Georgia T20 – Estimating the Moral Hazard Effect of the Federal Disaster Payment Assistance Hua Di, University of Maryland at College Park T21 – Impact of a New Price Support Policy on Turkish Hazelnut Industry - Aslihan Spaulding, Illinois State University; Oner Tulum, University of Massachusetts at Lowell; Sayed Saghaian, University of Kentucky; Gokhan Ozertan, Bogazici University T22 – Assessing the Response of Farm Households to Dairy Policy Reform in Israel - Ofir Rubin, Iowa State University; Ayal Kimhi, Hebrew University T23 – The Application of System Dynamics Models to High-value Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Countries - Karl Rich, International Livestock Research Institute; R. Ross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign T24 – Allocation of Public Funds to R&D: A Portfolio Choice-styled Decision Model and a Biotechnology Case Study Dmitriy Volinskiy, Michele Veeman, Wiktor Adamowicz, and Shiyi Tao, University of Alberta T25 – Assessment of Economic and Social Impacts of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy Reform - Amílcar Serrão, Universidade de Évora T26 – Changes in Agricultural Policy and Crop Allocation: An Informational Approach - Andrew Schmitz and Charles Moss, University of Florida T27 – Corruption and Public Provision of R&D in Agriculture - Monika Cule, University of Regina; Murray Fulton, University of Saskatchewan T28 – Regulating Ground Water: Lessons from a National Qualitative Survey of Riparian States for Michigan Mariah Branch, Sandra Batie, and Michael Kaplowitz, Michigan State University T29 – Farmland Preservation and Conversion: Policy Implications for the Northeastern United States - Blondel Brinkman and Marisa Zansler, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Alexandria Huerta, Purdue University T30 – An Empirically-grounded Comparison of the Johnson System versus the Beta As Crop Yield Distribution Models Octavio Ramirez and Tatyana Mcdonald, New Mexico State University POSTERS 27 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007, noon – 1:30 pm • Designated time for author-attended posters labeled “T”; Posters remain on display during open Exhibit Hall hours T31 – The Impact of Space—A Computational Approach to Spatial Competition - Marten Graubner and Alfons Balmann, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe T32 – Multivariate Bernoulli Regression Models: An Alternative to Specifying Discrete Choice Models with Multiple Simultaneous Choices - Jason Bergtold, USDA-Agricultural Research Service; Ebere Akobundu, University of Maryland at Baltimore; Manik Anand, Auburn University T33 – Spatial Decomposition and Model Specification: Dynamics among Cropland Acres, Conservation Reserve Program Acres, Farmland Value, and Housing Value - Seong-Hoon Cho and Dayton Lambert, University of Tennessee; Ken Erickson, USDA-Economic Research Service; Ashok Mishra, Louisiana State University; Penni Korb, USDA-Economic Research Service T34 – The Importance of Agriculture to the Arkansas Economy - Jennie Popp, Nathan Kemper, and Wayne Miller, University of Arkansas T35 – Testing a Quality of Life Index at the County Level - Ingrid Arinez, Jennie Popp, and Wayne Miller, University of Arkansas T36 – Characteristics and Perceptions of Arkansas Women in Agriculture over Time - Carmen Albright and Jennie Popp, University of Arkansas T37 – The Growth and Economic Impact of Deer Farming in the United States - Joe Outlaw, David Anderson, and Brian Frosch, Texas A&M University T38 – Can Web-based Surveys Be Employed on Empirical Studies? - Nirmala Devkota, Krishna Paudel, J. Matthew Fannin, and Larry Hall, Louisiana State University T39 – Competitive Regions within OECD Countries: Is Competitive a Fleeting or Enduring Status? What Are the Associated Factors? - Ray Bollman, Statistics Canada; Ida Terluin, Jaap Post, and Frans Godeschalk, Wageningen University T40 – Regional Analysis of Job Access and Wages in Rural and Urban Canada - Mengisteab Chokie, University of Saskatchewan; Mark Partridge, The Ohio State University T41 – When Do Students Work? - Cole Gustafson, North Dakota State University T42 – Comparisons of Agricultural Economics and Business Undergraduate Programs: Land Grant vs. Non-land Grant Universities - Annette Levi, Todd Lone, and Patrick Berends, California State University at Chico T43 – Implementing NFAMEC Recommendations for a Non-land Grant Agricultural Business Program - Annette Levi and Todd Lone, California State University at Chico; Phillip Hamilton, Sam Houston University; Patrick Berends, California State University at Chico T44 – Student Evaluation of Faculty in Colleges of Agriculture - Jon Phillips, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona; Wojciech Florkowski, University of Georgia; Flint Freeman, Jillian Bada, Cristin Hicks, L. Pilar Rodriguez, and Fanny Escamilla, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona T46 – A Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Technology Adoption Determinants - Daniel Mooney and Scott Swinton, Michigan State University; Ricardo Labarta, International Potato Center T47 – Malaria Risk, Crop Choice, and Agricultural Income in Northern Tanzania - Monica Fisher and Saurabh Datta, Oregon State University T48 – Is the Horticulture Industry Really Pro-poor?: The Case of the Export Pineapple Supply Chain in Ghana - Aya Suzuki, Richard Sexton, and Lovell Jarvis, University of California, Davis T49 – Does Food Aid Foster Dependency? Evidence from Malawi - Vivian Hoffmann, Cornell University; Kathleen Beegle, World Bank T50 – Ex-ante Welfare Effects of Genetically Modified Cassava Application in Uganda - Hiroyuki Takeshima, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign T51 – Geographic and Institutional Determinants of Real Income: A Spatio-temporal Simultaneous Equation Approach Guyslain Ngeleza, Raymond Florax, and William Masters, Purdue University T52 – Quantifying Agricultural Sustainability: Evidence from Direct Attribute Ranking and Conjoint Choice Experiments Olha Sydorovych, North Carolina State University; Ada Wossink, University of Manchester T53 – Volatility Transmission in the Ethanol, Gasoline, and Corn Markets - Zibin Zhang, Michael E. Wetzstein, and Dmitry V. Vedenov, University of Georgia T54 – Cost-efficacy of Coastal Restoration in Louisiana - Rex Caffey, Christiane Aust, and Hamady Diop, Louisiana State University T55 – A Bioeconomic Model for Investigating the Public Health Impacts of Fish Contamination - Tina Willson and Richard Kazmierczak, Louisiana State University T56 – Optimal Forest Rotations with Environmental Values and Endogenous Fire Risk - Adam Daigneault, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Brent Sohngen and Mario Miranda, The Ohio State University T57 – When Conservation Is Not Sustainable: The Effects of Increasing Agricultural Irrigation Efficiency on Economic Growth - Aaron Benson and Ray Huffaker, Washington State University T58 – Research and Invasive Species Management - Shefali Mehta, University of Minnesota; Robert Haight, USDA-Forest Service; Frances Homans, University of Minnesota 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 28 POSTERS Tuesday, July 31, 2007, noon – 1:30 pm • Designated time for author-attended posters labeled “T”; Posters remain on display during open Exhibit Hall hours T59 – A Spatial-dynamic Model of a Pest and Game Species Managed by Interacting Landowners - Rebecca Niell, University of California, Davis T60 – Measuring Value of Air Quality: Application of Spatial-hedonic Model - Seung Gyu Kim, Seong-Hoon Cho, and Dayton Lambert, University of Tennessee T61 – Linking Conservation and Development in Tanzania: Estimating Consumers´ Willingness-to-Pay for Eco-conscious Hunting and Tourism in the Savannas - Shefali Mehta, Stephen Polasky, Dennis Rentsch, and Jennifer Schmitt, University of Minnesota T62 – Spatially Optimal Habitat Management for Natural Pest Control Services - Wei Zhang, Michigan State University; Wopke van der Werf, Wageningen University; Scott M. Swinton, Michigan State University T63 – Agriculture and Water Quality Trading: Exploring the Possibilities - Marc Ribaudo and Cynthia Nickerson, USDA Economic Research Service T64 – Modeling Conservation Program Enrollment under Different Reforestation Policy Scenarios at Wolong Nature Reserve, China - Xiaodong Chen, Frank Lupi, and Jianguo Liu, Michigan State University T65 – Optimal Policy for Managing Invasive Plants in Florida - C. S. Kim, USDA-Economic Research Service; Donna Lee, University of Florida; Glenn Schaible and Utpal Vasavada, USDA-Economic Research Service T66 – The Efficiency of Intensity Based Rates versus Absolute GHG Emission Caps - Simona Lubieniechi and Richard Gray, University of Saskatchewan T67 – Is Economically Marginal Land Also Environmentally Sensitive? - Ruben Lubowski, Shawn Bucholtz, Roger Claassen, and Michael Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service T68 – Slippage from the Conservation Reserve Program: A Regression-discontinuity Analysis - Michael Roberts, USDA Economic Research Service; Peter Kelly, University of California, Berkeley T69 – Trading German Agricultural Payment Entitlements: An Experimental Investigation - Enno Bahrs, Universitaet Fuer Bodenkultur, Wien; Stephan Kroll, California State University at Sacramento; Matthias Sutter, University of Innsbruck T70 – Willingness to Pay for Farm and Forest Amenities at the Rural-Urban Fringe: Are Preferences Convex and Does It Matter? - Abigail Anthony and Stephen Swallow, University of Rhode Island; Robert Johnston, University of Connecticut T71 – The Effect of Minimum-lot-size Zoning on Land Value - Jiayin Lai, Oregon State University T72 – Estimation and Analysis of EEP-administered Design-Bid-Build Projects for Stream Mitigation in North Carolina - Scott Templeton, Clemson University; Christopher Dumas, University of North Carolina at Wilmington; William Sessions, Clemson University T73 – Measuring the Impact of Livestock Operations Using a Hedonic Model: What Kind of Distance Matters? - Tao Ran, Louisiana State University; Jinhua Zhao, Iowa State University; Huizhen Nui, Louisiana State University T74 – Costs and Benefits of Carbon Sequestration in Climate Stabilization Policy - Massimo Tavoni, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Brent Sohngen, The Ohio State University; Valentina Bosetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei T75 – The Impact of Climate Change on Canadian Agriculture: Inclusion of Global Price Change Effects in the Ricardian Model - Afshin Amiraslany, University of Saskatchewan T76 – Land Competition, Deforestation, and Carbon Sequestration in Forestry - Suk-Won Choi and Brent Sohngen, The Ohio State University; Alla Golub and Thomas Hertel, Purdue University; Steven Rose, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency T77 – The Effect of Environmental Regulation on FDI - Helen Naughton, University of Oregon T78 – The Impacts of an Eco-marketing Program for Environmentally Preferred Vehicles - Mario Teisl, Caroline Noblet, and Jonathan Rubin, University of Maine T79 – Estimating the Demand for Drop-off Recycling Sites: A Random Utility Travel Cost Approach - Shaufique Sidique, Frank Lupi, and Satish Joshi, Michigan State University T80 – Payment for Environmental Services: Estimating Demand within a Tropical Watershed - Daniel Ortega-Pacheco, Frank Lupi, Michael Kaplowitz, and Oscar Arreola, Michigan State University T81 – An Alternative to Environmental Indexes Using Data Envelopment Analysis - Moriah Bellenger, Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf, and Alan Herlihy, Oregon State University T82 – Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Forage Based Manure Management - Derek Brewin, University of Manitoba; Suren Kulshreshtha, University of Saskatchewan; Kim Ominski, University of Manitoba T83 – Analyzing the Effectiveness of Municipal Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling Promotion Policies - Shaufique Sidique, Satish Joshi, and Frank Lupi, Michigan State University T84 – Two Measures of Compensations: A Field Study of the Factors Causing Differences between Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept among Broiler Producers - Suniti Bhattarai, Krishna Paudel, and Nirmala Devkota, Louisiana State University T85 – Efficacy of Alternative Incentive Schemes for Soil Carbon Sequestration - Basanta Dhungana and Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign T86 – Calculating Potential Profit and Carbon Sequestration from Reforestation of U.S. Mine Lands Using Dynamic Optimization - Chris Bouquot and Mark Sperow, West Virginia University POSTERS 29 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions Moderator: Jeffrey Vitale, Oklahoma State University Discussant: Vernon Eidman, University of Minnesota Presentations: 60 billion gallons by 2030: Economic and Agricultural impacts of Ethanol and biodiesel Expansion - Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, Burton English, and Kim Jensen, University of Tennessee Challenges to the Development of a Dedicated Energy Crop - Francis Epplin, Oklahoma State University; Christopher Clark and Roland Roberts, University of Tennessee The u.S. Ethanol Market: Where We Are and Policy Alternatives for the Future - Wallace Tyner, Purdue University AAEA Principal Paper 1001 nEW ESTiMATES OF THE DEMAnD FOr FOOD SAFETY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C123 Subject: Food Safety and nutrition One in four U.S. consumers suffers a foodborne illness and 5,000 die each year. Choosing risk reduction strategies to maximize societal net benefits requires information on the monetary value people assign safer food. This session presents valuation estimates from two new consumer surveys. The stated preference survey for morbidity risks found adult values ranging from about $8,000 to $19,000 per case with higher values for a child. Mortality risks are valued in a GMM model designed to include multidimensional individual heterogeneity. ERS estimates are based on these new values and data from FoodNet on the age distribution of disease severity. Organizer: Tanya Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: John Hoehn, Michigan State University Discussant: Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University Presentations: Willingness to Pay for Food Safety: Sensitivity to Duration and Severity of illness - James Hammitt and Kevin Haninger, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis vSl & gMM – The uW Food Diary Project - Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming; Tommy Stamland, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration new ErS Estimates of the Societal Costs of Foodborne Disease - Tanya Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service 1003 ECOnOMiC THEOrY OF EnTrEPrEnEurSHiP Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B112 Track: AEM/ibES AAEA Organized Symposium This session will offer the chance to explore the economic foundations for the study of entrepreneurship. Joseph Mahoney and Peter Klein will engage in a “Point – Counterpoint” discussion on the theory of entrepreneurial behavior using the lenses of classical, neoclassical, Austrian, institutional, and Carnegie School economics. The discussion will explicitly evoke audience participation in an open and informal design. The various lenses will be used to highlight where the (usually) amorphous study of entrepreneurship can benefit from theoretical foundations. Organizer: Randall Westgren, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Moderator: Randall Westgren, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Presenters: Joseph Mahoney, University of Illinois; Peter Klein, University of Missouri at Columbia AAEA Principal Paper 1002 THE PrOMiSE AnD CHAllEngE OF biOEnErgY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B116 Subject: Emerging Technologies President Bush has proposed setting a mandatory standard to require 35 billion gallons of renewable and alternative fuels in 2017. The following issues are considered: the current ethanol program and policy alternatives; the potential for producing 60 billion gallons of ethanol from renewable sources by 2030; potential challenges, logistics, and policy issues associated with the production, harvest, and transportation to biorefineries of massive quantities of cellulosic material from dedicated feedstocks. Organizer: Francis Epplin, Oklahoma State University 1004 unDErSTAnDing THE burEAu OF ECOnOMiC AnAlYSiS rEgiOnAl ECOnOMiC DATA FOr uSE in rESEArCH AnD rurAl DEvElOPMEnT ACTiviTiES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A105 Track: CEnET Economics, Statistics, and information resources Committee Session AAEA Organized Symposium BEA staff will discuss the major regional data products produced by the agency including state and local area personal income, gross domestic product by state, and the regional input-output modeling system (RIMS II). Special 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 30 10:30 a.m. - noon MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions attention will be paid to recent changes and improvements to the data as well as future enhancements and initiatives. Organizer: Carrie Litkowski, Bureau of Economic Analysis Moderator: Maureen Kilkenny, University of Nevada at Reno Presentations: bEA´s regional Economic Accounts: Overview and recent Activities - James Zavrel, Bureau of Economic Analysis using bEA´s Personal income Statistics - Carrie Litkowski, Bureau of Economic Analysis using bEA´s gross Domestic Product by State Estimates Timothy McInerney, Bureau of Economic Analysis regional input-Output Modeling System (riMS ii) - Rebecca Bess, Bureau of Economic Analysis 1007 EXTEnSiOn AgriCulTurAl POliCY SYMPOSiuM: COngrESSiOnAl ECOnOMiSTS bring ATTEnTiOn TO THE inSiDE WOrkingS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B113 Sponsored by Farm Foundation Track: EXT AAEA Organized Symposium This symposium features the economists for the House and Senate Agriculture Committees who will discuss the 2007 Farm Bill and other policy issues currently pending in the Congress. Join us to gain—and share—insights on national food and agriculture policy with economists who, on a dayto-day basis, help craft the Farm Bill. Organizers: Craig Jagger, House Committee on Agriculture, Majority Staff; Joy Harwood, USDA-Farm Service Agency; Samuel Funk, AgServe.com Moderators: Joy Harwood, USDA-Farm Service Agency; Samuel Funk, AgServe.com Discussants: Craig Jagger, House Committee on Agriculture, Majority Staff; Stephanie Mercier, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Majority Staff MOndAy 10:30 a.m. - noon 1005 Sub-SAHArAn AFriCA ECOnOMiC DEvElOPMEnT AnD AgriCulTurAl TrADE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C124 Track: COSbAE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University Discussants: Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University; William Amponsah, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Presenters: Dave Weatherspoon, Michigan State University; Rodney Smith, University of Minnesota; Kudzai Mukumbi, Michigan State University; Terry Roe, University of Minnesota 1008 WHAT DOES THE FuTurE HOlD FOr OrgAniC DAirY PrODuCTiOn? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B115 Track: FAMPS AAEA Organized Symposium Organic milk consumption is growing rapidly, and producers can receive substantial price premiums. They also incur substantially higher costs than conventional producers, and structural change may be placing strong downward pressure on conventional production costs. This symposium will bring together researchers working on the topic and using several new datasets. They will circulate research prior to the session, compare findings, and discuss the implications for future structure, production, and consumption patterns in the organic dairy sector. Organizer: C.W. Herndon, Mississippi State University Presentations: A Fresh look at the Economics of Organic Dairy Farms: What Can new uSDA Survey Data Tell us? - Jeffrey Gillespie, Louisiana State University; Richard Nehring and Carmen Sandretto, USDA-Economic Research Service value-added Milk Production and the Demand for Organic Milk and Dairy Products in the u.S. and northeast - Mark Stephenson, Cornell University Technical Efficiency of Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the u.S. - Corinne Alexander, Joe Balagtas, and Carlos Mayen, Purdue University 1006 TrACking THE STATuS AnD COnCErnS OF AgriCulTurAl ECOnOMiSTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A108 Track: CWAE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Jennie Popp, University of Arkansas Presentations: Overview of 1998 and 2001 Surveys - Cheryl Devuyst, North Dakota State University Selected results of government Survey - Doris Newton, USDA-Economic Research Service Selected results of the Academic Survey - Jennie Popp, University of Arkansas 31 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions What Do We know about the Financial Feasibility of Organic Milk Production?: A review of the Evidence - Geoff Benson, North Carolina State University; C.W. Herndon, Mississippi State University 1011 iS THErE A COnvErgEnCE OF AgriCulTurAl POliCiES in DEvElOPED COunTriES? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A109 Track: inT AAEA Organized Symposium This session aims to analyze to what extent the recent agricultural policy changes have converged in developed countries, to what extent these changes have actually decoupled agricultural support away from agricultural production and to what extent the level and variability of farm incomes in these countries are still a problem and, hence, a potential justification for the continuation of agricultural support. These updated assessments and comparisons should bring a valuable contribution to the current policy debate, particularly in the United States as the 2007 Farm Bill is drafted and in the EU as the 2008 assessment of the Common Agricultural Policy is conducted. Organizers: Bruno Henry De Frahan, Université Catholique de Louvain; Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis Discussant: Bruce Gardner, University of Maryland at College Park Presentations: Some international Comparisons of recent Changes in Agricultural Policy - Julian Alston and Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis is OECD Farm Support less Coupled Than it used to be? - Joe Dewbre, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Wyatt Thompson, University of Missouri at Columbia; Roger Martini, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is Farm income Still a Problem in Developed Countries? - Bruno Henry De Frahan, Université Catholique de Louvain; Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis Track: FSn AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: William Nganje, Arizona State University; Julie Caswell, University of Massachusetts Amherst Presentations: The impact of Testing on the incidence of Food Safety Failures - S. Andrew Starbird, Santa Clara University; Tanya Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service is There Any Evidence of Dominant Offsetting behavior in Food Safety? - William Nganje, Arizona State University; Dragan Miljkovic and Benjamin Oyango, North Dakota State University 1010 CrEATing An OuTSTAnDing JOb APPliCATiOn PACkAgE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B110 Track: gSS AAEA Organized Symposium Graduate students must create a strong application package to be successful and competitive in the academic job market. It is imperative that individuals determine which job postings fit their skill set best and then tailor the application package for each job posting. A typical application package includes a well written cover letter, a high-quality resume or Curriculum Vita (CV), and in recent years, an academic portfolio. Organizers: Michelle Mullins, University of Missouri at Columbia; Alee Lynch, Purdue University Moderator: Michelle Mullins, University of Missouri at Columbia Presentations: landing Your First Academic Job: Application Process and Tips - Yin Xia, University of Missouri at Columbia Federal Career Opportunities: Are They for You? - Kenneth Clayton, USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service best Practices for Creating and Customizing Your Application Package - Frank Dooley, Purdue University 1012 TrAnSiTiOn inTO rETirEMEnT: STrATEgiES TO COnSiDEr Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A107 Track: SEn AAEA Organized Symposium Baby boomers in our profession are nearing or contemplating retirement in increasing numbers. There are many dimensions to successful retirement planning— personal, financial, professional, and institutional. This panel of retirees, drawing on personal experience and observation, will discuss transition strategies that have been innovative and successful and those that have failed to achieve their objectives for agricultural economists. Dr. Hayenga will lead off with a brief overview of the topic, setting the stage for brief remarks by the panelists based on their experience and administrative perspectives in academia and government agencies. 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 32 10:30 a.m. - noon MOndAy 1009 PubliC AnD COnSuMEr rESPOnSE TO FOOD SAFETY POliCiES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B111 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions Organizer: Marvin Hayenga, Iowa State University Moderator: Kenneth Farrell, University of California Discussant: Marvin Hayenga, Iowa State University Panelists: William Dobson, University of Wisconsin at Madison; John E. Lee, Jr., Mississippi State University 1015 CrOP inSurAnCE, CrOP AbAnDOnMEnT, AnD POrTFOliO SElECTiOn bY u.S. FArMErS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E141 Subject: Agricultural Finance and Farm Management AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session discuss the optimal crop insurance choices for farmers and insurers, impact of insurance on crop abandonment, and growth optimization with downside protection as a portfolio selection technique. Moderator: Sergio Lence, Iowa State University Presentations: Portfolio Selection with growth Optimization and Downside Protection - Carl Lagerkvist, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Kent Olson, University of Minnesota A Hyperbolic Tangent Yield Function of Florida Citrus - Lan Cheng and Charles Moss, University of Florida Effects of insurance on Farmer Crop Abandonment - ShuLing Chen and Mario Miranda, The Ohio State University Optimal Crop-insurance Strategies under Climate variability: Contrasting insurer and Farmer interests - Victor Cabrera, New Mexico State University; Daniel Solis and David Letson, University of Miami 1013 TEACHing AnD COMMuniCATing ECOnOMiC PrinCiPlES in WASHingTOn, D.C. Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B114 Track: TlC MOndAy 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Paul Wilson, University of Arizona Discussant: Paul Wilson, University of Arizona Panelists: Joseph Glauber, USDA-Office of Chief Economist; T.J. Wyatt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; George Frisvold, University of Arizona; Katherine Smith, USDAEconomic Research Service; Patrick Westhoff, University of Missouri at Columbia; Randy Schnepf, Congressional Research Service 1014 SPATiAl iSSuES in lAnD uSE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C126 Track: AErE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future Moderator: Amy Ando, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Discussants: David Lewis, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Patricia Champ, Rocky Mountain Research Station; W. Bowman Cutter, University of California, Riverside; Amy Ando, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Presentations: How Effective Are regulations in Changing land use Patterns? An Econometric Analysis of Protected Areas - Paul Ferraro, Georgia State University; Anda Kwaw; Alex Pfaff, Columbia University; Juan Robalino; Arturo Sanchez Agricultural land values in the rural-urban Fringe - David Newburn and Peter Berck, University of California, Berkeley Do Zoning Policies increase Short-run Development? A Structural Econometric Model of lakefront land Conversion - David Lewis and Bill Provencher, University of Wisconsin at Madison Do Parking requirements Significantly increase the Area Dedicated to Parking? A Test of the Effect of Parking requirements on land values in los Angeles County - W. Bowman Cutter, University of California, Riverside; Autumn Miller 1016 MEAT DEMAnD Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D138 Subject: Demand and Price Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session Meat demand in the new century. Moderator: Kuo Huang, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Competitiveness of u.S. Meats in Japan and South korea: A Source Differentiated Market Study - Shida Henneberry and Joao Mutondo, Oklahoma State University The impact of Pork Advertising on u.S. Meat Demand in the Presence of Competing beef Advertising and Food Safety Events - Nicholas Piggott, North Carolina State University; Chen Zhen and Robert Beach, RTI International; Michael Wohlgenant, North Carolina State University Dynamics of Price-cost Margins in the u.S. Meat industry - Benaissa Chidmi and Mohamadou Fadiga, Texas Tech University The impacts of Food Safety information on Meat Demand: A Cross-commodity Approach using u.S. Household Data - Nicholas Piggott and Mykel Taylor, North Carolina State University; Fred Kuchler, USDA-Economic Research Service 33 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions 1019 lAnD MArkETS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E143 Subject: international Development AAEA Selected Paper Session The session examines efficiency and equity concerns in both land rental and land sales markets in developing countries. 1017 nOn-MArkET vAluATiOn TECHniQuES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D137 Subject: Environmental Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers offer use of contingent valuation techniques in a variety of subjects such as valuing open space, finding the economic benefit of biodiesel fuel, restoring oyster reefs, and assessing passive value from damage caused by oil spills. Moderator: Craig Landry, East Carolina University Presentations: Estimating non-market Economic benefits of using biodiesel Fuel: A Stochastic Double bounded Contingent valuation Survey - P. Wilner Jeanty, Fred Hitzhusen, and Tim Haab, The Ohio State University Dealing with uncertainty and Hypothetical bias: A Mixturemodel Approach - Maria Loureiro, IDEGA-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; John Loomis, Colorado State University Distributive and Productivity impacts of land Sales Markets: Evidence from india - Klaus Deininger, World Bank; Hari Nagarajan, National Council for Applied Economic Research; Songqing Jin, World Bank land rental in Ethiopia: How important is Marshallian inefficiency? - Klaus Deininger and Daniel Ali, World Bank; Tekie Alemu, Addis Ababa University 1018 MAnAgEMEnT PrACTiCES AnD MEASurES AnD THEir link TO THE MArkET Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D139 Subject: Food and Agricultural Marketing AAEA Selected Paper Session The session provides perspectives on how management decisions can directly lead to various outcomes in the marketplace. The papers specifically examine measuring product financial performance, production yields, IPM, and labor productivity relative to their respective markets Moderator: Christiane Schroeter, Purdue University Presentations: Weather Cycles, Production Yields, and georgia’s Muscadine Market - Uthra Raghunathan, Jonathan Wong, and Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia Should grain Elevator Managers Adopt integrated Pest Management? - Mounir Siaplay and Brian Adam, Oklahoma State University Evaluating labor Productivity in Food retailing - Timothy Park, University of Georgia Financial Performance of value-added Dairy Operations in nY, Wi, and vT - Charles Nicholson and Mark Stephenson, Cornell University 1020 ECOnOMiC EFFECTS OF THE u.S. ETHAnOl MArkET On TrADE AnD DECOuPlED PAYMEnTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E142 Subject: international Trade AAEA Selected Paper Session This session primarily focuses on the U.S. ethanol market, its distortions, and the tradeoffs between bioenergy, feed, and food. Also, this session deals with the impact of decoupled payments on the production of corn and soybeans in the United States. Moderator: Saleem Shaik, North Dakota State University Presentations: The impact of the removal of u.S. Ethanol Domestic and Trade Distortions on World Ethanol Markets - Amani Elobeid, Iowa State University long-term and global Tradeoffs between bio-Energy, Feed, and Food - Bruce Babcock, John Beghin, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Jacinto Fabiosa, Chad Hart, Dermot Hayes, Simla Tokgoz, and Tun-Hsiang Yu, Iowa State University Do Decoupled Payments Affect the level of Production of recipient Farmers? A Dynamic Stochastic Model for a Credit-constrained Farmer - Francisco Monge-Arino and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, The Ohio State University Estimating the Effects of u.S. Distortions in the Ethanol Market using a Partial Equilibrium Trade Model - Ariadna Martinez, Ian Sheldon, and Stanley Thompson, The Ohio State University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 34 10:30 a.m. - noon Presentations: land rental Markets in the Process of rural Structural Transformation: Productivity and Equity impacts from China - Songqing Jin and Klaus Deininger, World Bank MOndAy Moderator: T.J. Wyatt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Monday, July 30, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions 1021 vAluATiOn AnD lAnD uSE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E144 Subject: natural resource Modeling and valuation AAEA Selected Paper Session This session addresses public preferences and values for land use and preservation, emphasizing methods that account for spatial variation in land use and associated values. Moderator: Kathleen Bell, University of Maine Presentations: valuing Private and Public green Space using remotely Sensed vegetation indices - Rosalind Bark, University of Arizona; Daniel Osgood, Columbia University; Bonnie Colby, University of Arizona Public Preferences and values for rural land Preservation in Florida - Brian Condon, Jagannadha R. Matta, and Alan W. Hodges, University of Florida Public Preferences for natural resource lands: Evidence from Maine ballot initiatives - Kathleen Bell, University of Maine is Willingness to Pay for Farmland Preservation Transferable across States? Evidence from a Choice Experiment - Robert Johnston, University of Connecticut; Joshua Duke, University of Delaware 1024 AgriCulTurE AnD EnvirOnMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F150 Subject: resource and Environmental Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session This session explores the relationships among conservation, agriculture, and environments. Moderator: Glenn Schaible, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: The impact of Weather Extremes on Agricultural Production Methods: Does Drought increase the Adoption of no-Till? - Ya Ding and Karina Schoengold, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Structural Conservation Practices in u.S. Corn Production: Evidence on Environmental Stewardship by Program Participants and non-participants - Glenn Schaible and C. S. Kim, USDA-Economic Research Service; Dayton Lambert, University of Tennessee Do Agricultural Preservation Programs Affect Farmland Conversion? Evidence from a Propensity Score Matching Estimator - Xiangping Liu and Loretta Lynch, University of Maryland at College Park Estimating Potential Economic net Carbon Flux from u.S. Agriculture using a High resolution integrated Socioeconomic-biogeophysical Model - Chad Hellwinckel, Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, and James Larson, University of Tennessee; Tristram West, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Bradley Wilson, University of Tennessee; Craig Brandt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; John Travis, University of Tennessee; Richard Nelson, Kansas State University MOndAy 10:30 a.m. - noon 1022 rETurnS TO PubliC r&D AnD EFFECTS OF DEFiCiEnCY PrOgrAMS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F149 Subject: Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session include issues such as returns to public research and extension. Other areas of discussion regarding farm programs include cost of revenue and loan deficiency programs. Moderator: Sanjoy Bhattacharjee, Mississippi State University Presentations: returns to Public Agricultural research and Extension on u.S. Agriculture: A State-level Analysis - Alejandro Plastina and Lilyan Fulginiti, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Prediction of loan Deficiency Payments - Joseph Cooper and Gerald Plato, USDA-Economic Research Service Public basic research and Diffusion of research benefits - Stavroula Malla, University of Lethbridge; Richard Gray, University of Saskatchewan Estimating the Costs of revenue Deficiency Programs Joseph Cooper, USDA-Economic Research Service 1025 WEATHEr AnD SPATiAl riSk Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F151 Subject: risk and uncertainty AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session analyze several applications with respect to weather, environmental risks, and spatial analysis. Moderator: Keith Coble, Mississippi State University Presentations: Probabilistic Modeling of Catastrophic Weather risks: implications for indemnification Plans for Animal Waste Spills - Ligia Vado and Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State University identifying EnSO Phase impacts on Area Yield insurance rates: An Application of non-Parametric Analysis - Denis Nadolnyak and James Novak, Auburn University; Joel Paz, University of Georgia; Clyde Fraisse, University of Florida Spatial Aggregation and Weather risk Management Joshua Woodard and Philip Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 35 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions AAEA Organized Symposium 1026 TECHnOlOgY AnD HuMAn CAPiTAl Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F152 Subject: rural/Community Development AAEA Selected Paper Session This session explores the changes in rural human capital and technological changes influencing the rural economy. Moderator: Dayton Lambert, Purdue University Presentations: is Degree of rurality More Crucial to Small Firm births than Access to incubators? An Analysis of States´ relative Efficiencies in Promoting the birth of Small Firms - Whitney Peake and Maria Marshall, Purdue University brain Drain in rural America - Brigitte Waldorf, Purdue University Small broadband Providers: Where and Why? - Phumsith Mahasuweerachai and Brian Whitacre, Oklahoma State University NIH, NSF, and CSREES are the largest federal agencies providing support for research in social sciences at academic institutions. The primary purpose of this symposium is to explore funding opportunities for applied economic research at NSF and NIH. To help enhance opportunities, both successful and unsuccessful applicants will share lessons learned. Another purpose of this symposium is for the program managers at these agencies to work with stakeholders in identifying new opportunities. Feedback from the symposium participants is valuable input into the planning process for program managers at funding agencies. Organizers: Siva Sureshwaran and Henry Bahn, USDACooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Moderators: Siva Sureshwaran and Henry Bahn, USDACooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Presenters: Ronald Abeles, National Institutes of Health; Scott Swinton, Michigan State University; Parke Wilde, Tufts University; Vincy Fon, George Washington University 1027 A DiSCuSSiOn OF THE THE nATiOnAl ACADEMiES´ lEADErSHiP SuMMiT On unDErgrADuATE TEACHing AnD lEArning Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B119 Subject: Teaching, Communication, and Extension AAEA Organized Symposium The National Academies convened a two day summit of 300 educators and employers to explore how universities can attract, retain, and prepare a diverse student population for careers at the intersections of agriculture, environmental, and life sciences.This session will provide a forum to advance these concerns. Organizer: Gail Cramer, Louisiana State University Presenters: Michael Martin, New Mexico State University; Spiro Stefanou, Pennsylvania State University; Lisa House, University of Florida; Gene Nelson, Texas A&M University 1029 WHAT iS THE FuTurE FOr DEPArTMEnTS OF AgriCulTurAl ECOnOMiCS? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B117 Subject: Teaching, Communication, and Extension AAEA Organized Symposium This symposium focuses on the future of agricultural economics departments at land grant universities. Given the declining number of farm operations and students from rural communities pursuing educations in the agriculture field, is it inevitable that agricultural economics programs will eventually merge back into larger programs in economics or business? Or, alternatively, can agricultural economics programs broaden themselves sufficiently to remain viable in the coming decades? Discussants: Robert King, University of Minnesota; John Siegfried, Vanderbilt University Presentations: The relationship between Economics and Agricultural Economics: A Historical Perspective - Paul Barkley, Oregon State University What Does the Future Hold for Departments of Agricultural Economics? - Gregory Perry, Oregon State University 1028 OvErviEW OF THE bEHAviOrAl AnD SOCiAl SCiEnCE PrOgrAMS AT niH AnD nSF AnD OPPOrTuniTiES FOr APPliED ECOnOMiSTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B118 Subject: Teaching, Communication, and Extension 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 36 10:30 a.m. - noon MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon CAES Principal Paper 1030 MAnAging WATEr SCArCiTY—THE rOlE OF ECOnOMiC inSTruMEnTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C120 Moderator: Henning Bjornlund, University of South Australia Presentations: Water Trading in an Era of increasing Energy Prices - David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley buy, Sell, or lease: Agricultural Water Marketing in northern Chile - Ereney Hadjigeorgalis, New Mexico State University CAES Sessions 1032 MEASuring SOCiO-ECOnOMiC iMPACTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C122 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: M. Olfert, University of Saskatchewan Presentations: Measuring and Mapping the impact of Social Economy Enterprises: A Case of Co-operatives in Canada - Chipo Kangayi and M. Olfert, University of Saskatchewan; Mark Partridge, The Ohio State University Exploring the Effects of Mortality and Morbidity from Hiv/ AiDS on Household Agricultural Productivity in Southeastern uganda using a Multi-agent Systems Modeling Approach - Dawn Parker and Maction Komwa, George Mason University; Pepjin Schreinemachers and Thomas Berger, University of Hohenheim; Kathryn Jacobsen, George Mason University intergenerational Transfer and retiring Farmers - John Caldwell and David Culver, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada MOndAy 10:30 a.m. - noon improving irrigation Water Efficiency and Productivity in Southern Alberta—The role of Economic instruments - Kurt Klein, University of Lethbridge; Henning Bjornlund, University of South Australia; Lorraine Nicol, University of Lethbridge Demand and Supply Elasticity in Australian Water Markets: The impact of Water Scarcity - Henning Bjornlund, Sarah Wheeler, and Martin Shanahan, University of South Australia 1031 COnSuMEr bEHAviOr AnD FOOD Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C121 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Sven Anders, University of Alberta Presentations: Determinants of Consumers´ Stated Preferences for Functional Foods or nutraceuticals rich in Either Omega-3 or lycopene - Driss Lkassbi, Gale West, and Clément Yélou, Universite Laval Precision and Distributional Differences of Elasticity Estimates in AiDS Demand System - Getu Hailu, University of Guelph; Ellen Goddard, University of Alberta; John Cranfield, University of Guelph What Does it Take to Switch Away from beef toward bison?: insights on Canadian Consumers’ Perceptions toward bison Meat from a Choice Experiment - Bodo Steiner, James Unterschultz, and Fei Gao, University of Alberta Proposing a Test Procedure for Externally Segmented laddering Data: An Application to Consumer Acceptance of genetically Modified Foods - Andreas Boecker, University of Guelph; Jochen Hartl, Produkt + Markt 1033 iMPErFECT COMPETiTiOn in AgriCulTurAl MArkETS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C125 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Kathy Baylis, University of British Columbia Presentations: Empirical investigation of Wholesalers’ Market Power with Organic Fresh Produce ii: A Compartment Model - Tatiana Gubanova, University of Alberta; Timothy Park and Luanne Lohr, University of Georgia Pricing games in the Frozen Chicken industry in Canada Umesh Chand, Ellen Goddard, and Tomas Nilsson, University of Alberta Product line Pricing games in the Fluid Milk Market of Western Canada - Wenzhao Huang and Ellen Goddard, University of Alberta A linear-quadratic inventory Model for the Canadian Chicken industry - Abdessalem Abbassi and Jean-Philippe Gervais, Laval University 37 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • noon - 1:30 p.m. CAES Sessions 1036 COnSuMPTiOn OF nOvEl FOODS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C122 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Bodo Steiner, University of Alberta Presentations: On relative Contributions of individual- and Choicespecific Effects in Discrete Consumer Choice Panels: An Experimental Canola Oil Auction Study - Dmitriy Volinskiy, Wiktor Adamowicz, Michele Veeman, and Lori Srivastava, University of Alberta valuing the Potential Health benefits of High ClA Milk - Stavroula Malla, University of Lethbridge; Jill Hobbs, University of Saskatchewan; Tomasz Cybruk, University of Lethbridge Are Canadian Consumers ready for brand name beef? in-store Experimental Auctions investigate Canadian Consumers´ Willingness-to-Pay for branded beef - Eve Froehlich and Jared Carlberg, University of Manitoba Willingness to Pay for Functional Foods: An Experimental Approach - Maurice Doyon, Laval University; JoAnne Labrecque, HEC Montreal; Céline Jullien, Pierre-MendèsFrance University CAES Principal Paper 1034 THE ECOnOMiC iMPACT OF ETHAnOl DEvElOPMEnT in nOrTH AMEriCA Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C120 Moderator: Kurt Klein, University of Lethbridge Presentations: Current Status and the Economics of the Ethanol and biodiesel industries in the u.S. - Vernon Eidman, University of Minnesota Status and Competitive impacts of Ethanol Development on Canadian livestock industries - Al Mussell, Kate Stiefelmeyer, and Anatoliy Oginskyy, The George Morris Centre Analyzing the Profitability of Ethanol Made from Wheat in Western Canada - Kurt Klein and Danny Le Roy, University of Lethbridge u.S. Ethanol’s impact on Crop and livestock Markets - Bruce Babcock, Iowa State University 1035 urbAn-rurAl Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C121 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Verna Mitura, Statistics Canada Presentations: Employment growth in the American urban Hierarchy: long live Distance - Mark D. Partridge, The Ohio State University; Dan S. Rickman, Oklahoma State University; Kamar Ali and M. Olfert, University of Saskatchewan Sprawl and rural-urban land use: Evidence from a Stochastic urban growth - Belal Fallah, University of Saskatchewan; Mark D. Partridge, The Ohio State University A Multi-agent Simulation Approach to Farm Structural Change and land use in Saskatchewan - Peter Stolniuk, Richard Schoney, and James Nolan, University of Saskatchewan Farmland Conservation near urban Areas: is b.C.´s Agricultural land reserve Able to Protect Farmland from Development? - Tracy Stobbe, University of Victoria; Geerte Cotteleer, Wageningen University; G. Cornelis van Kooten, University of Victoria 1037 PubliC POliCY AnD SAFETY nETS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C125 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Derek Brewin, University of Manitoba Presentations: An Examination of the CAiS Program and the Prospect of Catastrophic risk for Albertan Cow-calf Producers - Brandon Schaufele and James Unterschultz, University of Alberta Decomposing Farmer Participation in Crop insurance into Entry and Exit - Juan Cabas, Universidad del Bío-Bío; Akssell Leiva and Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph rent-seeking in british Agriculture 1815-2004: The Political Economy of Success - Stephen Peplow and Kathy Baylis, University of British Columbia The impact of Additional Safety net Programming on the value of Crop insurance - Joseph Janzen, Jared Carlberg, and James Rude, University of Manitoba 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 38 noon - 1:30 p.m. MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Principal Paper 1038 CAuSES OF AnD COnSTrAinTS TO AgriCulTurAl AnD ECOnOMiC DEvElOPMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B116 international Development Organizer: Wyatt Thompson, University of Missouri Discussant: Laurian Unnevehr, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Presentations: Agriculture and industry in Economic growth: Engines of growth or Chicken and Egg? - Bruce Gardner and Isabelle Tsakok, University of Maryland at College Park Food Aid and Poverty: Evidence from a Cross-section of Countries - Barrett Kirwan, University of Maryland; Margaret McMillan, Tufts University AAEA Sessions 1040 EnTrEPrEnEurSHiP, PSYCHOlOgY, CulTurE, AnD nETWOrkS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B117 Track: AEM AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers explore contemporary issues at the forefront of agribusiness research. Diverse case studies are given to illustrate methods and concepts. Moderator: Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri at Columbia Presentations: The influence of Culture on the impact of recommendations on Product Adoption: A Cross-cultural Social network Study - Lisa House and Joy Mullady, University of Florida; Alexandra Lobb, University of Reading; Mark House, University of Florida Clusters and Entrepreneurship in the u.S. biotech industry - Christos Kolympiris, Peter Klein, and Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri at Columbia Pricing Principles from Psychology for Agricultural Organizations with Market Power - Ronald Larson, Western Michigan University Sensemaking, Entrepreneurship, and Agricultural valueadded businesses - Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kansas State University MOndAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Consistency or Conflict in OECD Agricultural Trade and Aid Policies - Joe Dewbre, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Wyatt Thompson, University of Missouri; Joshua Dewbre, _ 1039 uSDA MArkETing PrOgrAMS in rETrOSPECT—iMPliCATiOnS FOr THE FuTurE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B112 Track: AEM/SEn AAEA Organized Symposium This symposium has as its objective to evaluate/grade how well USDA marketing programs, many of which have their origin in the 1930s, have adjusted to the many changes that have occurred in agricultural markets, their current impacts, and on the development of well performing, competitive supply chains. Implications will be drawn for: • Changes needed in legislation • Changes needed in how programs are implemented/ managed • Research needed to evaluate and improve their performance The discussion leaders will set the stage for panelists´ comments and discussion from the floor. Organizer: Ronald Knutson, Texas A&M University Moderator: Kenneth Farrell, University of California Discussants: Jerry Siebert, University of California; Kenneth Clayton, USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service Co-author: Thomas Sporleder, The Ohio State University 1041 innOvATivE APPliCATiOn OF rurAl DATA THrOugH EXTEnSiOn EDuCATiOnAl PrOgrAMS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A107 Track: CEnET AAEA Organized Symposium This session will invite a panel of Extension specialists to share experiences on applications of rural data and will address three questions: 1) How are Extension programs utilizing BEA data, BLS data, and other sources?; 2) What are the current issues and concerns with current data sets?; and 3) What opportunities exist to enhance BEA data sets and other data sources? Organizer: Mike Woods, Oklahoma State University Moderator: Mike Woods, Oklahoma State University Panelists: Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Thomas Harris, University of Nevada at Reno; Brian Whitacre, Oklahoma State University; Mark Henry, Clemson University 39 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Presentations: Developing Enterprise budgets and Cost of Production Studies for values-based Supply Chains - Kathleen Painter, Washington State University; David Conner, Michigan State University increasing value-added Profits for Small and MediumScale growers through Farm to university Sales - Shermain Hardesty, University of California, Davis Practical research Methods for Farmers´ Markets - Larry Lev, Garry Stephenson, and Linda Brewer, Oregon State University 1042 DirECT MArkETing STrATEgiES FOr SMAll FArMS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C124 Track: COSbAE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: Stephan Tubene, University of Maryland at College Park; Doris Newton, USDA-Economic Research Service; Dovi Alipoe, Alcorn State University; Ntam Baharanyi, Tuskegee University Moderator: Doris Newton, USDA-Economic Research Service Discussant: Stephan Tubene, University of Maryland at College Park Presenters: Charlotte Ham and Miriam Boateng, Tuskegee University 1045 WHAT FACTOrS DrivE vAriETY OFFEringS AT THE rETAil lEvEl? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B115 Track: FAMPS AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University 1043 EXPlOring ADvAnCEMEnT TO ADMiniSTrATiOn AnD MAnAgEMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A108 Track: CWAE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Cheryl Devuyst, North Dakota State University Moderator: Cheryl Devuyst, North Dakota State University Panelists: Mary Marchant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Julie Caswell, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Sarahelen Thompson, Purdue University; Janet Perry, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: variety in the Fresh beef Case and its relationship with Store and Consumer Characteristics - Clement Ward, Oklahoma State University Consumer Demand for Food Product Diversity - Rimma Shiptsova, Utah State University; Michael Harris, USDAEconomic Research Service Do Consumers Seek variety When Purchasing Cheese Products? - Carlos Arnade, USDA-Economic Research Service; Munisamy Gopinath, Oregon State University; Daniel Pick, USDA-Economic Research Service variety and Consumer Choice: Consumer Preference for Choice Set Size - Bailey Norwood, Oklahoma State University 1044 OuTrEACH EFFOrTS FOCuSED On SuSTAining SMAll AnD MiDSiZED FArMS AnD lOCAl FOOD SYSTEMS in A glObAliZing EnvirOnMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B113 Track: EXT AAEA Organized Symposium The globalization of agricultural markets presents serious competitive challenges to many U.S. farmers and local food systems. This workshop considers diverse extension responses including the reorientation of traditional extension outputs (enterprise budgets) to new applications, the investigation of new markets (farm to university), and the development of new research methods. Organizer: Larry Lev, Oregon State University Moderator: Larry Lev, Oregon State University 1046 ECOnOMiC inCEnTivES FOr FOOD SAFETY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B111 Track: FSn AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: Tanya Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service; S. Andrew Starbird, Santa Clara University Moderator: Elise Golan, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Economic incentives for Food Safety Farm Practices in Hog Production - Helen Jensen, Iowa State University Economic incentives for Food Safety based on FSiS Testing - S. Andrew Starbird, Santa Clara University; Tanya Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service industry reputation as a Common good - Jill McCluskey, Washington State University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 40 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions 1047 guiDElinES FOr inTErviEWing AnD bECOMing A SuCCESSFul PrOFESSiOnAl Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B110 Track: gSS AAEA Organized Symposium An important component to being successful in the job market is being able to maneuver through the interview process successfully. The purpose of this organized symposium is to provide individuals considering an agricultural economics position with information and guidelines on how to prepare to interview for academic, government, and industry positions. The speakers will provide graduate students with ideas on what they can do to prepare themselves for the job market and professional careers. It will also be a refresher session for individuals who may be considering changing professional positions. Organizers: Michelle Mullins, University of Missouri at Columbia; Alee Lynch, Purdue University Moderator: Alee Lynch, Purdue University 1049 glObAliZATiOn, TrADE, AnD nuTriTiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A109 Track: inT AAEA Organized Symposium In summary this session will: 1) bring together leading researchers working on the global economic impacts of technology and international trade to attempt to draw out meaningful findings related to the nutritional consequences of various aspects of globalization; 2) in so doing, it will draw on both partial and general equilibrium modeling insights; and 3) it will also stimulate more general debate about methodologies for bridging the gap between results generated by global trade models and likely nutritional outcomes for the poor in developing countries, thereby giving members of the AAEA a chance to discuss this important topic and evaluate future directions for their own research programs. Organizers: Thomas Hertel, Purdue University; Mark Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute Moderator: Antoine Bouet, International Food Policy Research Institute Discussant: David Lee, Cornell University Presentations: A Closer look at the iMPACT of Climate Change on Country-level Food Security and nutrition - Siwa Msangi, University of California, Davis; Mark Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute global nutrition impacts of rapid Economic growth in China and india - Antoine Bouet, International Food Policy Research Institute; Thomas Hertel, Purdue University The impact of Trade liberalization on national and Subnational Food Security in Selected Developing Countries - Cheng Fang, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Piero Conforti; Alexander Sarris MOndAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Presentations: Minimizing risk in the Job Market: Tips for Preparing for an On-campus interview - Michael Gunderson, University of Florida What kind of Package Are We looking for in a new Faculty Member? - Dan McLemore, University of Tennessee understanding Who Will be looking for What in the interview Process - James Trapp, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service 1048 rOunDTAblE On SHArED AnD FOCuSED rESEArCH iniTiATivES FOr inSTiTuTiOnAl AnD bEHAviOrAl ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C123 Track: ibES AAEA Organized Symposium All scholars present at the session will be invited to propose and discuss opportunities for collaborative research and for research foci. The intent is to develop an agenda for research that is not meant to define the boundaries of IBES research for its membership. Rather, the intent is to replicate some of the processes that occur in regional committees and other structured multi-university groups; such groups are not organized within the agricultural economics profession. The Section may benefit from research cohesion within the most significant professional society for agricultural economists. Moderator: Sam Cordes, Purdue University 1050 TEACHing TiPS FrOM TOP TEACHErS: 2006 AAEA AWArD rECiPiEnTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B114 Track: TlC AAEA Organized Symposium This session offers the opportunity for AAEA Teaching Award recipients to share teaching tips and have a dialogue with AAEA members. The emphasis is on winning strategies that have worked for them and the approaches, techniques, and/or teaching styles they consider to be instrumental to their success in the classroom. While they may utilize specific subject-matter examples to illustrate their points, the emphasis will be on pedagogical approaches to improving education in our profession. 41 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Organizers: Gary Fairchild, University of Florida; Allen Wysocki, University of Florida Moderator: Gary Fairchild, University of Florida Panelists: Christine Wilson, Purdue University; Donald Liu, University of Minnesota; Richard Boisvert, Cornell University for demonstration purposes. The three topics covered in this session are: 10:30 – 11:00 am: uSDA´s Agricultural resource Management Survey - ARMS is an integrated data collection system that enables the development of farm business and household accounts for the same unit of observation. Learn more about the scope, coverage, reliability, and access to these data. Presented by Bob Dubman, USDA-Economic Research Service 11:00 – 11:30 am: uSDA´s Census of Agriculture - After more than 150 years, the Census of Agriculture continues to be the leading source of statistics on U.S. agricultural production. Since it is a census, and not a sample survey, it is especially useful to those interested in a particular state or county area. Presented by Brad Summa, USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service 11:30 am – noon: laws and Policies regarding Access to uSDA´s Farm-level Data - Access to farm-level data for research purposes is allowable. However, there are very precise policies on gaining access so as to protect the confidentiality of the respondent which is codified in law. Learn how USDA will assist you in gaining access for your research purposes. Presented by Bob Dubman, USDAEconomic Research Service 1051 MAnAging ECOlOgiCAl THrEATS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C126 Track: AErE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future Moderator: Andrew Plantinga, Oregon State University Discussants: Andrew Plantinga, Oregon State University; Marc Conte, University of California, Santa Barbara; Kent Kovacs, Northern Economics, Inc.; Andrew Leach, University of Alberta Presentations: Economic incentives and Ecological Outcomes of Conservation banking - Marc Conte, University of California, Santa Barbara Spatial Management of invasive Alien Species - James Sanchirico and Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future; Heidi Albers, Oregon State University; Conrad Coleman, Resources for the Future Wildfire risk and the Housing Market in Colorado Springs, CO - Patricia Champ, USDA-Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Geoffrey Donovan, USDA-Forest Service Shepherds´ Dilemma: Climate Prediction Models and livestock Disease Disclosure - Glenn Sheriff and Daniel Osgood, Columbia University Subject: Agricultural Finance and Farm Management AAEA Selected Paper Session Economic efficiency and decision making are examined. The papers cover issues such as economic efficiency analysis, how operational and managerial capacity impacts profitability, and what factors explain difference in economic efficiency at the farm household level. Moderator: Ken Erickson, USDA-Economic Research Service 1052 uSDA´S FArM DATA Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A105 Economics, Statistics, and information resources Committee Session AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: Kevin Barnes, USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service This session, sponsored by the Economics, Statistics, and Information Resources Committee, features three presentations. Each presentation will last 30 minutes and attendees are invited to attend each presentation independently and should arrive at the beginning of the presentation. A limited number of laptops will be provided Presentations: What is the Effect of Operational Managerial Practices on Dairy Farm Efficiency? Some results from Sweden - Helena Johansson and Bo Ohlmer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Efficiency of Dairy Farms: Exploring the role of Managerial Ability - Justin Byma, The Raymond Corporation; Loren Tauer, Cornell University Decision to Adopt and Exit best Management Practices by Dairy Farmers - Larry Hall, Krishna Paudel, Wayne Gauthier, and John Westra, Louisiana State University How Can Farmer Managerial Capacity Contribute to improved Farm Performance? A Study of Dairy Farms in Sweden - Helena Johansson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 42 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 1053 MAnAgEriAl CAPACiTY, MAnAgEMEnT PrACTiCES, AnD ECOnOMiC EFFiCiEnCY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E141 MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions 1054 inCEnTivE MECHAniSMS FOr OrPHAn r&D PrODuCTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B119 Subject: Emerging Technologies AAEA Organized Symposium Several recent proposals aim to provide incentives for R&D on “orphan” crops, “orphan” diseases, etc.—R&D with high social value but low private profitability. Such proposals include: a) Prizes, advance purchase commitments, patent buyouts, b) Modifications to intellectual property rights, c) Public-private partnerships; partnering mediation initiatives. Questions addressed in this symposium include: (i) To what extent are these proposals complements or substitutes? (ii) Do they address relevant incentive problems? (iii) How does their relative performance depend on technology/market characteristics? Organizer: Eran Binenbaum, Adelaide University Moderator: Philip Pardey, University of Minnesota Discussants: Derek Byerlee, World Bank; Brian Wright and David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley; Eran Binenbaum, Adelaide University Presenters: Gregory Graff, University of California, Davis; William Masters, Purdue University; Peter Phillips, University of Saskatchewan 1056 POlluTiOn COnTrOl Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D137 Subject: Environmental Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers offer innovative ideas on controlling pollution and dealing with externalities when there are significant private nonmarket rents. Moderator: Laura McCann, University of Missouri at Columbia Presentations: Motivations for Proactive Environmental Management and innovative Pollution Control - Madhu Khanna and Cameron Speir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign internalizing Externalities When There Are Significant Private non-market rents - Catherine Keske and Dana Hoag, Colorado State University; Chris Bastian, University of Wyoming Application of giS in valuing a Spatially Diverse resource: The benefits of reduced non-point Source Pollution in green bay, Wi - Rebecca Moore, University of Georgia; Richard Bishop, Stratus Consulting and University of Wisconsin at Madison; Bill Provencher, University of Wisconsin at Madison When Should uncertain nonpoint Emissions be Penalized in a Trading Program? - David Hennessy and Hongli Feng, Iowa State University MOndAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 1055 WElFArE EFFECTS OF PrODuCT AnD PrOCESS innOvATiOnS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D138 Subject: Emerging Technologies AAEA Selected Paper Session Session focuses on modeling and estimating welfare effects of process and product innovations. Moderator: Amalia Yiannaka, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Presentations: global Welfare Effect of Transgenic Sugar beet - Koen Dillen, Matty Demont, and Eric Tollens, Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven The Effect of Marketing Cooperatives on Cost-reducing Process innovation Activity - Kyriakos Drivas and Konstantinos Giannakas, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Technology Adoption in Poorly Specified Environments - Pilar Useche, University of Florida An Empirical investigation of the Production Effects of Adopting gM Seed Technology: The Case of Argentina - Andres Gallo, University of North Florida; Jay Kesan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1057 THE nEW WOrlD OF WinE ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F151 Subject: Food and Agricultural Marketing AAEA Organized Symposium The wine industries in the United States and Australia have grown relative to European wine production. The traditionbound world of wine has evolved rapidly led by innovative farms and aggressive multinational firms. This session features analyses of important issues that affect the relative success of Australian wine in competition with that of the United States and Europe. We emphasize pricing, taxes, and regulatory issues. To stimulate discussion, presentations from several research teams begins the session. Then we turn to broader research ideas from the audience lead by leading wine economics researchers in attendance. The focus will be on an exchange of ideas from researchers exploring wine pricing and policy issues. Organizer: Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis Presentations: returns to Aging: The Effect of Taxes on Quality and Quantity When Quality is a Function of Time - Rachael Goodhue, University of California, Davis; Jeffrey LaFrance and Leo Simon, University of California, Berkeley 43 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Competitive impacts of regulations in “Old World” and “new World” Wine industries - Henrich Brunke and Rolf A.E. Mueller, Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany Collective versus Firm reputations in Wine - Marco Costanigro and Jill McCluskey, Washington State University Terroir in the new World - Hyunok Lee, University of California, Davis; OhSang Kwon, Seoul National University Agricultural Production Contracts in Developing Countries and the Possibility of buyer Default: A Two-stage Modeling Framework - Karen Thome and Richard Sexton, University of California, Davis Credit Constraints and the Efficiency of Small Farmers in Peru - Steve Boucher and Catherine Guirkinger, University of California, Davis; Diana Fletschner, University of Washington 1058 MAJOr COMMODiTY MArkETing AnAlYSES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D139 Subject: Food and Agricultural Marketing AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session use various approaches to examine attributes that impact commodity markets. The session examines the importance of factors such as local and regional grain market conditions, futures contract activities, and trends in the beef marketing margin Moderator: Carola Grebitus, University of Kiel Presentations: The Performance of the Chicago board of Trade Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Futures Contracts after 2005 Changes in Speculative limits - Darrel Good, Scott Irwin, and Philip Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign An Empirical Analysis of recent Trends in u.S. beef Marketing Margins - Stephen Armah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign grain Marketing Tools: A Survey of illinois grain Elevators Rick Whitacre and Aslihan Spaulding, Illinois State University integration and Equilibrium in the Maize Markets in Southern Africa - Emelly Mutambatsere, Ralph D. Christy, and Edward Mabaya, Cornell University 1060 iS A TrQ AgrEEMEnT ESSEnTiAl FOr SECuring A DOHA AgrEEMEnT On AgriCulTurAl MArkET ACCESS? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B118 Subject: international Trade AAEA Organized Symposium The issues surrounding TRQs, special products, and sensitive products, that are an obstacle in reaching an agreement on Doha agricultural market access reforms, are discussed. The discussion will also cover how analytic frameworks can be designed to better incorporate TRQ information. Specifically, the issues to be discussed include: the theoretical rationale for TRQs, the link between TRQ theory and Doha negotiation proposals, the link between TRQ theory/Doha proposals and empirical analysis, and finally the question of whether there is anything that the research community can do to facilitate trade negotiations. Organizers: Anita Regmi and Ralph Seeley, USDA-Economic Research Service Presenters: Harry De Gorter, Cornell University; Ramesh Sharma, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Will Martin, World Bank Presentations: What is the Economic rationale for implementing Tariff-rate Quotas? - Harry De Gorter, Cornell University Do the TrQ Proposals Tabled in geneva Make Economic Sense? - Ramesh Sharma, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations How Can Trade Models incorporate TrQ Details to Conduct Meaningful Analysis? - Will Martin, World Bank 1059 CrEDiT, riSk, AnD PrODuCTiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E143 Subject: international Development AAEA Selected Paper Session The session looks at issues related to access to credit for small producers in developing countries. Topics examined include credit constraints, micro credit, default issues, and credit rationing. Moderator: George Frisvold, University of Arizona Presentations: An Economic Framework for understanding Micro-credit in Developing Countries - Calum Turvey, Cornell University; Rong Kong, Northwest University of Agriculture and Forestry Discussion lead: What are the Political and Academic realities of Trade negotiation? - Jason Hafemeister, United States Trade Representative; Robert L. Thompson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1061 TrADE AgrEEMEnTS AnD libErAliZATiOn: iMPliCATiOnS FOr AgriCulTurAl TrADE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E142 Subject: international Trade AAEA Selected Paper Session 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 44 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions The papers in this section present several approaches for measuring the effects of regional and bi-lateral trade agreements on selected agricultural products. One paper examines the main factors affecting trade between CAFTADR countries and the United States. Moderator: Albert Allen, Mississippi State University Presentations: Trade Policies and bilateral Food Trade: A gravity Model Approach - Thomas Vollrath, Mark Gehlhar, and Charles Hallahan, USDA-Economic Research Service Does Agricultural Trade liberalization under FTA reduce Pollution from Agriculture? The Case of the Japan-korea FTA - Yasutaka Yamamoto, Daisuke Sawauchi, and Kiyotaka Masuda, Hokkaido University impact of Agricultural Trade liberalization on Poverty in West Asia and north Africa - Nicholas Minot, International Food Policy Research Institute; Mohamed Chemingui, UN Economic Commission for Africa; Marcelle Thomas, Reno Dewina, and David Orden, International Food Policy Research Institute Trade Effects of the Central American Free Trade Agreement - Osei-Agyeman Yeboah, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Saleem Shaik, North Dakota State University; Albert Allen, Mississippi State University; Victor Ofori-Boadu, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1063 FArM lEvEl iMPACTS OF FArM PrOgrAMS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F149 Subject: Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session The session provides perspectives on the policy implications of U.S. farm programs. The papers specifically examine farm level impacts of revenue based programs, distributions by household types, conservation, and planted acreage decisions. Moderator: Edwin Young, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Farm level impacts of a revenue based Policy in the 2007 Farm bill - Lindsey Higgins, James Richardson, Joe Outlaw, and James Raulston, Texas A&M University Distributional impacts of u.S. Farm Commodity Programs: Accounting for Alternative Farm Household Typologies Agapi Somwaru, James Whitaker, Stephen Vogel, Mitchell Morehart, William Edmondson, and Edwin Young, USDAEconomic Research Service Policy interactions at the Farm level: An Evaluation of Conservation Adoption and related Policy Decisions Ashok Mishra, Louisiana State University; Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State University MOndAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 1062 STATED PrEFErEnCE METHODOlOgY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E144 Subject: natural resource Modeling and valuation AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session present advances in methodology for stated preference estimation of non-market values. Moderator: Robert Johnston, University of Connecticut Presentations: if You Provide it, Will They read it? The Effect of information on Choices - Arvin Vista and Randall Rosenberger, Oregon State University incentive Compatible Mechanism Design for Discrete Choice Surveys: A Multiple Alternative Choice Case Chhandita Das and Christopher Anderson, University of Rhode Island Measuring WTP boundaries - Kimberly Rollins and Lucrecia Rodriguez, University of Nevada at Reno Actual and Hypothetical Willingness to Pay of Adults to Protect Their and Others infants from nitrates in Drinking Water: validity Testing and Altruism - John Loomis, Colorado State University 1064 ECOSYSTEM MAnAgEMEnT AnD rEnEWAblE EnErgY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F150 Subject: resource and Environmental Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session This session explores strategies and tools for ecosystem management and renewable energy sources. Moderator: Ruben Lubowski, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Effects of Market Power on the Size and Distribution of Subsidy benefits: The Case of Ethanol Promotion - Steven Sexton, University of California, Berkeley; Tina Saitone and Richard Sexton, University of California, Davis Carbon Sequestration in Forest Ecosystems as a Strategy for Mitigating Climate Change - G. Cornelis van Kooten and Yichuan Wang, University of Victoria; Susanna LaaksonenCraig, University of Toronto; The Effects of renewable Portfolio Standards on renewable Energy Sources - Adrienne Ohler, Washington State University 45 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Co-management Strategy for the Sustainable use of Coral reef resources in the national natural Park “Corales Del rosario Y San bernardo” in Colombia - Jorge Maldonado and Rocio Del Pilar Moreno-Sanchez, Universidad de Los Andes Spatial Patterns of rural Poverty in the São Francisco river basin, brazil - Stephen Vosti, Marco Maneta, Marcelo Torres, Richard Howitt, and Wesley Wallender, University of California, Davis growth and Technological leadership in u.S. industries: A Spatial Econometric Analysis at the State level, 1963-2005 Valerien Pede and Raymond Florax, Purdue University; Henri L. F. De Groot, Vrije Universiteit Site-selection Determinants of Food Manufacturing Firms: Are rural Areas Competitive? - Dayton Lambert, University of Tennessee; Kevin McNamara, Purdue University 1065 SPATiAl AnAlYSiS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F152 Subject: rural/Community Development AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session utilize spatial analysis to explore poverty, firm site selection, migration, and growth Moderator: Paul McNamara, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Presentations: A Spatial Panel Simultaneous-equations Model of business growth, Migration behavior, local Public Services, and Household income in Appalachia - Gebremeskel Gebremariam, Tesfa Gebremedhin, Peter Schaeffer, Tim Phipps, and Randall Jackson, West Virginia University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 46 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CAES Principal Paper 1066 MiTigATing riSk THrOugH bEnEFiCiAl MAnAgEMEnT PrACTiCES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C120 Moderator: Al Mussell, The George Morris Centre Presentations: An Economic Evaluation of Crop nutrient beneficial Management Practices in Canadian Agriculture - Cher Brethour and Beth Sparling, The George Morris Centre influence of risk and Dynamics in the Adoption of beneficial Management Practices - Manso Frimpong, Alfons Weersink, and Wanhong Yang, University of Guelph A Conceptual Framework for integrated Economichydrologic Modeling for the Watershed Evaluation of beneficial Management Practices (WEbs) - Peter Boxall, University of Alberta; Alain Rousseau, Université du Québec; Wanhong Yang, University of Guleph understanding the Distinction between Ecological goods and Services and beneficial Management Practices - Beth Sparling, The George Morris Centre CAES Sessions 1068 bSE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C122 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Jean-Philippe Gervais, Laval University Presentations: ripple Effects of bSE on the Canadian Dairy industry - Steven Koeckhoven and Ellen Goddard, University of Alberta Canadian Household Meat Consumption, Confidence in the Safety of Food and bSE - Ellen Goddard and Wiktor Adamowicz, University of Alberta; Janneke De Jonge and Lynn Frewer, Wageningen University bSE impact on Canadian Meat Demand—An Application of Social Amplification of risk Framework in Demand Analysis - Jun Yang and Ellen Goddard, University of Alberta impact of bSE on beef Purchases in Alberta and Ontario Quick-serve restaurants - Leigh Maynard, University of Kentucky; Ellen Goddard, University of Alberta MOndAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 1067 unrEST WiTH THE TrEES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C121 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Donna Harrington, University of Guelph Presentations: implications of Carbon Modeling Practices for Analyzing Carbon Management incentives in Canada’s boreal Forest - Geoff McCarney, Wiktor Adamowicz, and Glen Armstrong, University of Alberta Compromise and Fuzzy Programming for Analyzing Tradeoffs and uncertainties: Optimal Forest Strategies for Economic Development in northern Canada - Emina Krcmar, University of British Columbia; Alison J. Eagle and G. Cornelis van Kooten, University of Victoria An Assessment of geographic information Technologies in Forest Fire Suppression—An Empirical Analysis - Javed Iqbal and Hayley Hesseln, University of Saskatchewan Determinants of Forest Preservation - Jay Anderson, Marty Luckert, and Wiktor Adamowicz, University of Alberta 1069 MArkET STruCTurE AnD AgriFOOD inDuSTriES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C125 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Bruno Larue, Laval University Presentations: r&D Cooperation and Output Competition by Producer Associations - Zoe Campbel and James Vercammen, University of British Columbia Traceability, recalls, and industry reputation - Sébastien Pouliot and Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis Modeling the Performance of Canadian Agribusiness Cooperatives: A DEA Windows Analysis - Getu Hailu, University of Guelph Cognitive Dissonance and Customer Allegiance in a Mixed Oligopoly - Lampros Lamprinakis and Murray Fulton, University of Saskatchewan 47 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Presentations: Supply Channel Stage-games and Horizontal Merger Simulation in the refrigerated Orange Juice industry Geoffrey Pofahl, Michigan State University Market Segmentation and Price Signals to growers of Specialty Coffee: An Entropy Analysis of E-auctions - Laura Donnet and Dave Weatherspoon, Michigan State University The Dynamics of Price Competition in Dallas—Fort Worth Supermarket industry: The Case of Fluid Milk - Benaissa Chidmi, Texas Tech University Promotional Food retail Sales: Frequency versus Depth Jens-Peter Loy and Kristin Hansen, University of Kiel AAEA Principal Paper 1070 lAnD-uSE POliCY EXPEriMEnTS AT THE rurAl-urbAn inTErFACE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B116 Policy Analysis Land use change, specifically low density, fragmented residential development at the rural-urban interface, has led to concerns about congestion, quality of life, increased cost of public services, and negative environmental consequences. Governments cannot control land use patterns directly and the measures used to alter the time path and spatial pattern of land use change may impact land-use in unintended ways. These papers use innovative datasets and methodologies to examine both regulatory and incentive based policies’ impact on the pace and pattern of development. Organizer: Lori Lynch, University of Maryland Moderator: John Horowitz, University of Maryland at College Park Presentations: The Trade-off between lot Size and Open Space at the urban-rural Fringe - Elizabeth Kopits, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Virginia McConnell and Margaret Walls, Resources for the Future Open Space and urban Sprawl: The Case of the Maryland Forest Conservation Act - Erik Lichtenberg and Ian Hardie, University of Maryland at College Park Outcomes of a land Preservation Experiment: Evidence from a Propensity Score Matching Estimator - Lori Lynch, University of Maryland; Xiangping Liu, University of Maryland at College Park The Effects of Moratorium on residential Development: Evidence from a Matching Approach - Antonio Bento, University of Maryland at College Park; Jacqueline Geoghegan, Clark University; Charles Towe, University of Maryland at College Park 1072 EXPlOring THE EFFiCACY OF inFrASTruCTurE invESTMEnTS AnD PArTnErSHiPS FOr rurAl DEvElOPMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A107 Track: CEnET AAEA Organized Symposium One important aspect of economic development is creating an infrastructure that is conducive to supporting business growth and retaining households. In rural areas, there has been a shift in the types of infrastructure, and how public-private partnerships are used to support investment decisions. This symposium shares applied research exploring the economics of different rural development models, as well as how the role of Land Grants, USDA Rural Development, and other relevant partners may evolve as new economic development strategies emerge. Organizer: Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University Moderator: Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University Presentations: Assessing Current and Potential linkages between uSDA rural Development and Cooperative Extension - Alan Barefield, Mississippi State University infrastructure investment and rural Development - Mitch Renkow, North Carolina State University Connectkentucky - David Shideler, Murray State University 1071 iSSuES in FOOD rETAiling Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B117 Track: AEM AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers address relevant issues in pricing goods in both bricks-n-mortar and virtual retail distribution channels. Moderator: Geoffrey Pofahl, Michigan State University 1073 iSSuES in CAribbEAn AgriCulTurE AnD THEir iMPliCATiOnS FOr CAribbEAn/u.S. TrADE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C124 Track: COSbAE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: Carlisle Pemberton and Sharon Hutchinson, University of the West Indies Moderator: Curtis Jolly, Auburn University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 48 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Discussant: Keithly Jones, USDA-Economic Research Service Co-author: Doolarie Singh-Knights, University of the West Indies 1076 grADuATE STuDEnT EXTEnSiOn COMPETiTiOn SYMPOSiuM Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C123 Track: EXT/gSS AAEA Organized Symposium The purpose of this organized symposium is to allow the three winners of the Graduate Student Competition in Extension/Outreach Economics to present their program as part of the Annual Meeting. The winners of the competition will be determined on-site, prior to the symposium. Organizers: Larry Sanders, Oklahoma State University; Margot Rudstrom, University of Minnesota; Donald Ricks, Michigan State University; Kamina Johnson 1074 CHAllEngES AnD SuCCESSFul TACTiCS FOr FOrEign bOrn AgriCulTurAl ECOnOMiSTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A108 Track: CWAE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Holly Wang, Washington State University Panelists: Holly Wang and Richard Shumway, Washington State University; Sayed Mehdi Saghaian, University of Kentucky; Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign; Annette Levi, California State University at Chico 1075 EXTEnSiOn livESTOCk OuTlOOk Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B113 Track: EXT AAEA Organized Symposium This organized symposium will focus on the current livestock situation and outlook. The Extension Outlook symposia have been an integral part of the AAEA meetings for more than two decades. Presenters will explore the current trends in livestock production, international trade issues, domestic supplies, demand factors, and price and profitability prospects for the coming year. Outlook situation updates on beef cattle, hogs, poultry, and dairy will be presented. Additionally, the Premiere Forecaster Award will be presented. Organizer: Kenneth Bailey, Pennsylvania State University Moderator: Kenneth Bailey, Pennsylvania State University Presentations: Dairy and international Trade - Robert Yonkers, International Dairy Foods Association Hogs - Ronald Plain, University of Missouri beef and Poultry - James Robb, Livestock Marketing Information Center Premiere Forecaster Award Presentation - Ronald Plain, University of Missouri 1077 COMPETiTivEnESS OF u.S. AgriCulTurAl PrODuCTS in nAFTA COunTriES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B115 Track: FAMPS AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Shida Henneberry, Oklahoma State University Moderator: James MacDonald, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: nAFTA impacts on the u.S. Competitiveness and Trade: beef, Pork, and Poultry - Shida Henneberry and Joao Mutondo, Oklahoma State University nAFTA impacts on the u.S. Competitiveness and Trade: Cheese and Dairy Products - Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University; Hualu Zheng, Mississippi State University nAFTA impacts on the u.S. Competitiveness and Trade: Fruits and vegetables - James Seale, University of Florida MOndAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 1078 COMPlEX FOOD riSk/bEnEFiT COMMuniCATiOnS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B111 Jointly Sponsored by The American Council of Consumer Interests (ACCI) Track: FSn AAEA Organized Symposium Food Safety and Nutrition policy relies heavily on information-based solutions to perceived market failures through risk/benefit communications which often need to 49 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions describe complex, multiple product attributes. This session will review recent food communication strategies in the United States and EU. Organizers: Jutta Roosen, University of Kiel; Julie Caswell, University of Massachusetts Amherst Moderator: Laurian Unnevehr, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Presentations: Does Health information Matter for Modifying Consumption? A Field Experiment Measuring the impact of risk information on Fish Consumption - Jutta Roosen, University of Kiel; Stephan Marette, Sandrine Blanchemanche, and Philippe Verger, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Complex Food labels—The Move from binary to Scale Messages - Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University lessons learnt from “Seafood Choices: balancing benefits and risks” - Julie Caswell, University of Massachusetts Amherst This session will address the current economic setting in which the 2007 Farm Bill debate is occurring, emerging factors and their implications that are likely to drive final decisions, and challenges to trade distorting domestic policy provisions. This panel of experts will make brief opening comments followed by ample opportunity for audience interaction on the current state of play in the dialogue. Organizer: Walter Armbruster, Farm Foundation Moderator: Walter Armbruster, Farm Foundation Presentations: The Economic Setting - Joseph Glauber, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist The need for Major Change - Robert L. Thompson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Emerging Factors and Their implications - J.B. Penn, Deere & Company Track: ibES AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: Steve Boucher and J. Edward Taylor, University of California, Davis; Scott Rozelle, Stanford University Moderator: Michael Carter, University of Wisconsin at Madison Presentations: Moving to Opportunity, leaving behind What? - John Gibson, University of Waikato; David McKenzie, World Bank; Steven Stillman, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research A gain with a Drain? Evidence from rural Mexico on the new Economics of the brain Drain - Steve Boucher and J. Edward Taylor, University of California, Davis; Oded Stark, University of Bonn The Evolution of China´s rural labor Markets during the reforms - Scott Rozelle, Stanford University; Alan De Brauw, International Food Policy Research Institute; Linxiu Zhang, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy Organizer: Matthew Stockton, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Moderator: Matthew Stockton, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Presentations: Teaching Small Extension groups intensively - Mark Waller, Texas A&M University Teaching As Part of Consulting: Teaching Econometrics to Other business Professionals - Oral Capps, Texas A&M University Teaching and Presenting to Policy Makers - James Richardson, Texas A&M University Mass Media As a Tool for Teaching: The Case of the Market Journal - Doug Jose, University of Nebraska at Lincoln 1083 COrPOrATE EnvirOnMEnTAl bEHAviOr Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C126 Track: AErE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future Moderator: Paul Ferraro, Georgia State University 1081 PrOPOSAlS AnD PrOSPECTS FOr THE 2007 FArM bill Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B110 Track: SEn AAEA Organized Symposium 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 50 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. MOndAy 1080 unDErSTAnDing THE CAuSES AnD COnSEQuEnCES OF rurAl TO urbAn MigrATiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A109 1082 THE POWEr OF TEACHing SOMEWHErE OTHEr THAn THE ClASSrOOM Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B114 Track: TlC AAEA Organized Symposium Monday, July 30, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Discussants: Yoshifumi Konishi, University of Minnesota; Paul Ferraro, Georgia State University; Farzin Hossein, University of California, Davis; David McEvoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst Presentations: Environmental Quality in a Differentiated Duopoly - Farzin Hossein, University of California, Davis; Ken-Ichi Akao, Waseda University is a voluntary Approach an Effective Environmental Policy instrument? A Case for Environmental Management Systems - Toshi Arimura, Resources for the Future; Akira Hibiki, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Hajime Katayama, University of Sydney Costly Enforcement of voluntary Emissions Control Agreements with industries - David McEvoy and John Stranlund, University of Massachusetts Amherst Environmental labeling and Technology Adoption in the Presence of Strategic interactions - Yoshifumi Konishi, University of Minnesota 1085 CrEDiT SCOring, MArkET POWEr, AnD CrEDiT riSk in AgriCulTurAl lEnDing Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E141 Subject: Agricultural Finance and Farm Management AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session discuss the issues related to the need for credit scoring differentiation by farm type, how credit risk is evaluated under new laws, and if there is evidence of spatial market power in banking industry Moderator: Christine Wilson, Purdue University Presentations: Credit Scoring Models in illinois by Farm Type: Hog, Dairy, beef, and grain - Seda Durguner and Ani Katchova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Measuring the Credit risk of Agribank loans under the new basel Capital Accord: A logit regression Approach - Enrique Hennings and Bruce Sherrick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A Panel Data Analysis of the repayment Capacity of Farmers - Sena Durguner, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign 1084 CurrEnT rESEArCH SuPPOrT TOOlS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A105 Economics, Statistics, and information resources Committee Session AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: Barbara Hegenbart, University of California, Davis This session, sponsored by the Economics, Statistics, and Information Resources Committee, features three presentations. Each presentation will last 30 minutes and attendees are invited to attend each presentation independently and should arrive at the beginning of the presentation. A limited number of laptops will be provided for demonstration purposes. The three topics covered in this session are: 3:30 – 4:00 pm: Efficient literature Searches - Learn the strengths and weaknesses of EconLit, AgEcon Search, Agricola, Google Scholar, and other indexes, and tips to focus and speed up your searches. Presented by Louise Letnes and Julia Kelly, University of Minnesota. 4:00 – 4:30 pm: Who is Citing Whom? impact Factors and Sources for Citation Data - Find out how impact factors are calculated, how they are used, and where to find data on the number of times your paper has been cited. Presented by Louise Letnes and Julia Kelly, University of Minnesota. 4:30 – 5:00 pm: Poster Design with PowerPoint - Use basic PowerPoint skills to create a professional-looking poster, using a free template or starting from scratch. Presented by Julia Kelly, University of Minnesota. MOndAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 1086 THE vAluE OF inFOrMATiOn: THEOrY AnD PrACTiCE WiTH AgriCulTurAl COMMODiTY MArkETS, SOYbEAn ruST, AnD SATElliTE DATA Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B119 Subject: Emerging Technologies AAEA Organized Symposium This session draws together research on the issues involved with converting data into information and assessing its value. The first paper describes a Bayesian framework that can be related to each of the other cases discussed in this symposium. The remaining three papers report on efforts to value information on agricultural commodity markets, soybean rust occurrence, and remotely sensed data from satellites. Moderator: Robbin Shoemaker, USDA-Economic Research Service Presenters: Dave Schimmelpfennig, USDA-Economic Research Service; Gerald Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis; Michael Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service 51 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Elena Besedin, ABT Associates; Edwin Grosholz, University of California, Davis 1087 HEAlTH, biOSAFETY rEgulATiOnS, DrOugHT rESiSTAnCE, AnD SubJECT: EMErging TECHnOlOgiES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D138 Subject: Emerging Technologies AAEA Selected Paper Session Studies measuring impact of health, biosafety regulation, and other Emerging Technologies traits. Moderator: Karina Schoengold, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Presentations: Potential impacts of bt Eggplant on Economic Surplus and Farmers´ Health in india - Vijesh Krishna and Matin Qaim, University of Hohenheim Ex-ante Analysis of the benefits of Transgenic Drought Tolerance research on Cereal Crops in low-income Countries - Genti Kostandini and Bradford Mills, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Steven Were Omamo, United Nations World Food Programme; Stanley Wood, International Food Policy Research Institute The Cost of Compliance with biosafety regulations in indonesia and the Philippines - Jose Falck-Zepeda and Patricia Zambrano, International Food Policy Research Institute; Jose Yorobe Jr., University of the Philippines; Abraham Manalo and Godfrey Ramon, Biotechnology Coallition of the Philippines; Bahagiawati Amirsuhin, Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development; Erna Lokollo, Pusat Analisis Sosial Ekonomi dan Kebijakan Pertanian; Sutrisno Sutrisno and Supiyati Supiyati, Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development Measuring the impact of PvP on Crop Productivity: The Case of Wheat in the u.S. - William Lesser and Deepthi Kolady, Cornell University Choice Experiments to Assess Farmers’ Willingness to Participate in a Water Quality Trading Market - Jeffrey Peterson, John Fox, John Leatherman, and Craig Smith, Kansas State University Managing Saline groundwater impacts from irrigation— Designing and Testing Emissions Trading in Coleambally irrigation Area - Stuart Whitten, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems; Shahbaz Khan and John Ward, CSIRO Land Water; Drew Collins, BDA Group; David Robinson, CSIRO Land and Water Environmental Mechanism Designs in a new Order of regulatory Capitalism - Michael Wetzstein, Jeffrey Mullen, and Terence Centner, University of Georgia 1089 FOOD lAbEling iMPACTS On COnSuMEr bEHAviOr Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D139 Subject: Food and Agricultural Marketing AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session use several approaches to examine whether food labels are effective in increasing demand. The following will be discussed: How valuable are labels? Are consumers willing to pay for more information appearing on labels? What will happen if the information on the label is slightly imperfect? What are the effects of a mandatory COOL scheme? Moderator: Todd Lone, California State University at Chico Presentations: What to Choose? The value of label Claims to Produce Consumers - Craig Bond, Dawn Thilmany, and Jennifer Keeling Bond, Colorado State University Market and Welfare Effects of Mandatory COOl in the u.S.: Specialty Crops - Alejandro Plastina and Konstantinos Giannakas, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Effect of Additional Quality Attributes on Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Food labels - Zhifeng Gao and Ted Schroeder, Kansas State University imperfect Food Certification, Opportunistic behaviors, and Detection - Jing Liang and Helen Jensen, Iowa State University; Stephen Marette, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique 1088 MECHAniSM DESign AnD MODEling iSSuES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D137 Subject: Environmental Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session Mechanism design for pollution trading was developed and bioeconomic modeling of loss caused by invasive species is presented. Moderator: Diane Hite, Auburn University Presentations: Modeling Economic impacts of the European green Crab - Sabrina Lovell, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 1090 gMOS, COnSErvATiOn PAYMEnTS AnD FArMEr WElFArE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E143 Subject: international Development AAEA Selected Paper Session 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 52 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Papers in this session examine the impacts of genetically modified organisms in developing countries as well as the success of new approaches to environmental conservation. Moderator: Bryan Lohmar, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Conservation Payments, liquidity Constraints, and Off-farm labor: impact of the grain for green Program on rural Households in China - Emi Uchida, University of Rhode Island; Scott Rozelle, Stanford University; Jintao Xu, Beijing University Ex-ante Economic impact of genetically Modified (gM) Cowpea in benin - Sika Gbegbelegbe Dofonsou and James Lowenberg-Deboer, Purdue University; Razack Adeoti and Ousmane Coulibaly, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture; Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University implications of Transgenic rice for Farm Households´ nutritional vulnerability: Projections for bangladesh - Yan Liang, Mississippi State University; Dixie Reaves and George Norton, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The impact of the CiMMYT Wheat breeding Program on Wheat Yields in low-income nations, 1962-2005 - Lawton Lanier Nalley and Andrew Barkley, Kansas State University 1092 ESTiMATing rECrEATiOnAl vAluES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E144 Subject: natural resource Modeling and valuation AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session present new methods and empirical findings related to the valuation of recreation and related public goods. Moderator: Randall Rosenberger, Oregon State University Presentations: The impact of invasive Plants on the recreational value of Florida’s Coastal, Freshwater, and upland natural Areas - Damian Adams, Donna Lee, Santiago Bucaram, and Anafrida Bwenge, University of Florida Measuring the impact of Wolves on the “Market” for Elk Hunting: Hunter Adjustment and game Agency response - David Buschena, Montana State University valuing Our natural Heritage: A unique Public good Pricing Experiment - David Aadland, University of Wyoming; Bistra Anatchokova and Burke Grandjean, Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center; Jason Shogren and Patricia Taylor, University of Wyoming; Ben Simon, United States Department of the Interior Publication Effects in the recreation use value literature Randall Rosenberger, Oregon State University 1091 COMPETiTivEnESS, PrODuCTiviTY, AnD DETErMinAnTS OF inTErnATiOnAl TrADE COSTS in THE FOOD inDuSTrY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E142 Subject: international Trade AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session utilize a variety of approaches to examine competition, productivity distribution, and patterns and determinants of international trade costs in the food industry. One paper uses a gravity equation for its analysis. Moderator: Osei-Agyeman Yeboah, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Presentations: Driving Forces of China´s Surge in Trade: Competitiveness or Policies - Agapi Somwaru, Francis Tuan, and Mark Gehlhar, USDA-Economic Research Service; Xinshen Diao, International Food Policy Research Institute; Suchada Langley, USDA-Economic Research Service global Productivity Distribution and Trade in Processed Food industries - Jun Ruan and Munisamy Gopinath, Oregon State University Patterns and Determinants of international Trade Costs in the Food industry - Alessandro Olper and Valentina Raimondi, Universita di Milano The Dynamics of Competition between China and the united States in korean Food Markets - Hanho Kim, Seoul National University; Munisamy Gopinath, Oregon State University MOndAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 1093 DAirY SECTOr, FEEDing PrOgrAM, AnD WiC COnTrACTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F149 Subject: Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session use various approaches to examine attributes that impact the dairy sector. The session also examines the importance of feeding program and WIC contracts. Moderator: Joseph Cooper, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: An Analysis of the Tradeoffs between Policy instruments to induce Dairy Producers in California to Participate in a Centralized Digester - Sean Hurley, California Polytechnic State University; James Ahern, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo Commodity Policies and Product Differentiation: The California Milk Marketing Order and the Organic Dairy Sector - Joe Balagtas and Kristina Kreutzer, Purdue University 53 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Monday, July 30, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Does Heterogeneity in Program Exposure Matter? Supplementary Feeding Program Evaluation in indonesia Elan Satriawan, Michigan State University WiC Contract Spillover Effects - Rui Huang and Jeffrey Perloff, University of California, Berkeley Presentations: The CnStat Agricultural resource Management Survey Evaluation - Bruce Gardner, University of Maryland at College Park The C-FArE Census of Agriculture Evaluation - John E. Lee Jr., C-FARE; Gene Nelson, Texas A&M University 1094 FArM MAnAgEMEnT AnAlYSES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D140 Subject: Production Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session Moderator: David Lambert, North Dakota State University Presentations: Farm level impacts of bt Corn Adoption in a Developing Country: Evidence from the Philippines - Maria Erlinda Mutuc, Suwen Pan, and Roderick Rejesus, Texas Tech University; Jose Yorobe, University of the Philippines at Los Banos Participation, incentives, and Social norms in Partnership Arrangements among Farms in Sweden - Karin Larsen, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Economically Optimal Distillers grains use in Feedlot rations: recognition of Omitted Factors - Crystal Jones and Glynn Tonsor, Michigan State University Spatial Analysis of On-farm Experiments and Subsequent Farm Management Decision Making: A Case Study - Terry Griffin, University of Arkansas; Craig Dobbins and James Lowenberg-Deboer, Purdue University 1096 WATEr MAnAgEMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F150 Subject: resource and Environmental Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session This session explores water quality and quantity management of different kinds. Moderator: Katsuya Tanaka, Hiroshima University Presentations: valuing Options in California Water Markets: A laboratory investigation - Kristiana Hansen and Richard Howitt, University of California, Davis; Jonathan Kaplan and Stephan Kroll, California State University at Sacramento How Attitudes of important Stakeholder groups Can influence Effective Water Quality Management - Jennie Popp and German Rodriguez, University of Arkansas; John Pennington and Edward Gbur, University of Arkansas “Private” Provision of Publicly useful information: An Empirical Analysis of Public notification rules for Safe Drinking Water Act - Kenji Adachi and Yoshifumi Konishi, University of Minnesota Spatial Considerations in Air- and Water-Quality Tradeoffs for Animal Agriculture - Noel Gollehon and Marcel Aillery, USDA-Economic Research Service 1095 ADEQuACY OF FArM-lEvEl DATA: rECEnT EvAluATiOnS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B112 Subject: research Methods/ Econometrics/Stats AAEA Organized Symposium Two independent evaluations of farm-level data are nearing completion. The data are the Census of Agriculture and the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). The USDA is responsible for the development of these data sets that are critically important to our profession. The organized symposium will feature presentations by the leaders of those external evaluations, followed by open discussion. The evaluation of the ARMS was conducted by the Committee on National Statistics and the evaluation of the Census of Agriculture was conducted by the Council on Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics. Organizer: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 54 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. MOndAy Monday, July 30, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CAES Principal Paper 1097 THE FArM lEvEl FrAMEWOrk FOr APF ii: THE nEXT gEnErATiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C120 Sponsored by the Farm Level Policy APRN, which is funded by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Moderator: James Unterschultz, University of Alberta Moderator: Dave Culver, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Presentations: reflections on the APF—Objectives, Context and results David Sparling, Institute of Agri-Food Policy Innovation business risk Management in the next generation APF: A CAiS Study - Scott Jeffrey and James Unterschultz, University of Alberta An Evaluation of Environmental Policies in the Current and upcoming Agricultural Policy Framework - Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph CAES Sessions 1099 HEAlTH, FOOD, AnD FAT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C122 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Maurice Doyon, Laval University Presentations: Potential Economic impacts of Proposed Trans Fats ban in Canada - Richard Gray, University of Saskatchewan; Stavroula Malla and Ken Perlich, University of Lethbridge Fast Food Outlet Density and the incidence of Overweight and Obesity across Canadian Metropolitan Areas - Sean Cash, Ellen Goddard, and Ryan Lacanilao, University of Alberta Evaluating the Changing Demands for Fats and Oils in Canada - Curtis Boyd and Ellen Goddard, University of Alberta Consumer interest in Conjugated linoleic Acid (ClA) Enhanced beef Products: An in-situ Choice Experiment Approach - Joann Kingston-Riechers, Riechers Consulting Inc; Yulian Ding and Sean Cash, University of Alberta; Yanning Peng, Alberta Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development 1098 nEW DirECTiOnS in WATEr ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C121 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Kurt Klein, University of Lethbridge Presentations: An Empirical Study on the role of Altruism in the valuation of Community Drinking Water risk reductions - Jing Zhang and Wiktor Adamowicz, University of Alberta; Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future; Diane Dupont, Brock University The Effect of Trade Surplus and Market Architecture on Trading behaviour in Australian Water Markets: A Comparison of Experimental Observations and Optimization Model Predictions - John Tisdell, Griffith University; John Ward, CSIRO Land and Water; Peter Boxall, University of Alberta The Economics of rural-urban Water Allocation Strategies in the bow river basin of Alberta - Collins Ayoo, University of Calgary; Lixia He, University of Tennessee; Theodore Horbulyk, University of Calgary Willingness to Pay for Water Supply improvements: A Comparison of regular neighborhoods and informal Settlements in Queretaro, Mexico - Gustavo Mendoza, Sean Cash, and Wiktor Adamowicz, University of Alberta MOndAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 1100 innOvATiOn AnD biOTECHnOlOgY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C125 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Danny Le Roy, University of Lethbridge Presentations: Plant Molecular Farming in an Anti-gMO Context: Who among Quebec grain Farmers Are Willing to Sow the Seeds? - Gale E. West, Clément Yélou, and Bruno Larue, Universite Laval breeders’ rights and Open Source Crop germplasm - Daniel Holman and Richard Gray, University of Saskatchewan; Stavroula Malla, University of Lethbridge The Profitability of Seeding the F2 generation of Hybrid Canola - Elwin Smith, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; M. Lucila Favret, Private Contractor; George Clayton, Stu Brandt, Neil Harker, Robert Blackshaw, and John O’Donovan, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Protection of biotechnological intellectual Property rights in Developing Countries: Terminator gene redux - Ryan Cardwell and Lixia Zhang, University of Manitoba 55 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions Cellulosic Ethanol, Supply Chains, and innovation Ecosystems - Chris Schroeder, Centrec Consulting; Steven Sonka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign AAEA Principal Paper 2001 ECOnOMiC inCEnTivES FOr MAnAging inFECTiOuS AniMAl DiSEASE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B116 institutional and behavioral Economics Organizers: Christopher Wolf and Richard Horan, Michigan State University Moderator: Mary Bohman, USDA-Economic Research Service Discussant: James Shortle, Pennsylvania State University Presentations: Estimating Within-herd Preventive Spillovers in livestock Disease Management - Ben Gramig and Christopher Wolf, Michigan State University biosecurity and the Propagation of an infectious Animal Disease - David Hennessy, Iowa State University Economics and Ecology of Managing Emerging infectious Animal Diseases - Richard Horan and Eli Fenichel, Michigan State University 2003 nEW DiMEnSiOnS TO rurAl DEvElOPMEnT in THE 21ST CEnTurY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A107 Track: CEnET AAEA Organized Symposium At the risk of over simplification, there are three rural Americas. First are remote rural communities still dependent on natural resource based industries. These communities face ongoing challenges of trying to utilize their resources in generating higher valued-added production within their locality. Second are exurban rural communities that are increasingly linked to their urban neighbors for their livelihood. Third are amenity rich communities that attract recreation-oriented and retirement households. This symposium will address some the prospects and challenges facing each of them for future sustainability ranging from stagnation and decline to managing rapid growth while retaining a high quality of life. Organizer: Mark Partridge, The Ohio State University Moderator: Douglas Southgate, The Ohio State University Discussant: Willi Meyers, University of Missouri at Columbia Presentations: Annual uSDA rural Development Policy - Maureen Kilkenny, University of Nevada at Reno bioenergy As rural Development: Promises and Perils Matthew Roberts, The Ohio State University rural Development on Exurban Fringe: Making the Most of rural-urban interdependence - Mark Partridge, The Ohio State University Amenities, recreation, and retirement Destination - Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin at Madison Track: AEM AAEA Organized Symposium This symposium will consist of three short presentations followed by discussion with the audience. First, what are the near-term supply and demand conditions in the grain (and adjacent oilseed) markets? The second presentation will look at the corn-based ethanol industry and its current and evolving structure: how is it capitalized and governed? The third presentation is a long-term view: what happens if and when cellulosic ethanol technology becomes available as a direct competitor to corn-based extraction technology? Organizer: Mark Krause, Deere & Company Moderator: Mark Krause, Deere & Company Discussant: Steven Pueppke, Michigan State University Presentations: Outlook for Demand, Supply, and Prices in the Corn (and related) Markets - J.B. Penn, Deere & Company industry restructuring, Capitalization, and Strategy - Michael Boehlje, Purdue University 2004 SHOWCASing STuDEnT rESEArCH On FArMErS AnD COnSuMErS in THE SOuTHErn uniTED STATES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C124 Track: COSbAE/CWAE AAEA Organized Symposium The organized symposium will showcase the research of students from 1890 institutions with the aim of building the pipeline of minorities in the profession. This exposure could create avenues for continuing education. • Teddric Hargrane will assess the factors affecting minority landloss/ownership in Mississippi. • Robert Monroe will look at rural entrepreneurship development in southeastern North Carolina. 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 56 10:30 a.m. - noon TuESdAy 2002 THE FuTurE OF THE ETHAnOl inDuSTrY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C123 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions • • Jannety M. Mosley will give an assessment of southeastern North Carolina producers around crop diversification. Marcus Coleman will present on the factors influencing Louisiana consumers´ awareness of diet and health-related issues Presentations: A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine go Down: The relationship between Diet, Obesity, and Medical Expenditures on Diabetes - Chad Meyerhoefer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Ephraim Leibtag, USDAEconomic Research Service Do Healthy Diets Cost More? The relationship of Dietary Energy Density to nutrient Density and nutrient Cost - Adam Drewnowski, University of Washington The Cost of a Healthy Diet: Considering the Thrifty Food Plan Approach from an Economic Perspective - Parke Wilde, Tufts University insidious Consumption: Subtle Factors That influence What We Eat and How Much - David Just and Brian Wansink, Cornell University; Lisa Mancino, USDA-Economic Research Service Organizers: Christopher Davis, Keithly Jones, and Doris Newton, USDA-Economic Research Service; Cheryl Devuyst, North Dakota State University Presenters: Teddric Hargrane, Alcorn State University; Robert Monroe and Jannety Mosley, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Marcus Coleman, Michigan State University 2005 MEASuring THE iMPACT OF EXTEnSiOn ECOnOMiCS PrOgrAMMing Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B113 Track: EXT AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Ronald Plain, University of Missouri Moderator: Ronald Plain, University of Missouri Presentations: Measuring the impact of Ag Marketing Programs - Deevon Bailey, Utah State University Measuring the impact of Farm Management Programs Dean McCorkle, Texas A&M University Measuring the impact of Ag Policy Programs - Larry Sanders, Oklahoma State University Measuring the impact of rural Development Programs Judith Stallmann, University of Missouri at Columbia 2007 Agri-FOOD TErrOriSM: rESEArCH AnD POliCY rESPOnSES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A108 Track: FAMPS/FSn AAEA Organized Symposium Three coordinated presentations will document recent economic research activities at the pre- and post-harvest Department of Homeland Security Centers and the March 2007 FAMPS conference on “Bio-terrorism and Natural Disasters: Market and Policy Responses” that was held March 22-23, 2007, in Washington, D.C. It is poignant that two of the first three funded DHS/University Centers of Excellence were focused on agri-food threats. Perhaps this is not surprising given the infamous quote of the exiting Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson (December, 2004) “I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not, you know, attacked our food supply because it is so easy to do,” he said. “And we are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that.” Organizer: Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University; Darren Hudson, Mississippi State University Moderator: Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University Presentations: Applied Economics at the national Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease - Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University Applied Economics at the national Center for Food Protection and Defense - Jean Kinsey, University of Minnesota bio-terrorism and natural Disasters: Market and Policy responses - Darren Hudson, Mississippi State University TuESdAy 10:30 a.m. - noon 2006 PriCES, POliCiES, AnD PAYMEnTS: HOW THEY AFFECT nuTriTiOn AnD HEAlTH Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B115 Track: FAMPS/FSn AAEA Organized Symposium The economic incentives provided to consumers in the form of relative prices and food policies have a significant impact on their food consumption patterns. The papers in this symposium explore the implications of price signals for food choices and the prevalence of diet-related diseases, such as obesity and diabetes. They also investigate the consistency of current food assistance program design with observed behavior, and shed light on how these programs could be improved through the use of pecuniary and nonpecuniary incentives. Organizer: Chad Meyerhoefer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 57 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions 2010 EFFECTivElY COMMuniCATing rESEArCH rESulTS WiTH A POSTEr: OPPOrTuniTiES AnD CHAllEngES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B114 Track: TlC AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Paul Wilson, University of Arizona Moderator: Christine Wilson, Purdue University Panelists: Janet Perry, USDA-Economic Research Service; Jeffrey Gillespie, Louisiana State University; Frank Lupi, Michigan State University; Helen Jensen, Iowa State University; Russell Tronstad, University of Arizona 2008 APPliED inSTiTuTiOnAl AnD EXPEriMEnTAl ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F151 Track: ibES AAEA Selected Paper Session This session applies tools from both institutional and experimental economics. These applications include several emerging issues including both agricultural production and food consumption. Moderator: Mariah Tanner Ehmke, University of Wyoming Presentations: Economic Conditions and the Ethical Attitudes of Farmers - Harvey James and Mary Hendrickson, University of Missouri at Columbia incentive Systems under Ex-post Moral Hazard to Control Outbreaks of Classical Swine Fever in the netherlands Natalia Valeeva and Gé Backus, Wageningen University Measuring the Effects of Parental Food Control on Childhood Obesity: An Experimental Economics Approach - Mariah Tanner Ehmke, Kari Morgan, and Enette Larson-Meyer, University of Wyoming; Christiane Schroeter, Arkansas State University; Nicole Ballenger, University of Wyoming Producer Hedging across institutions: A Cross-country Comparison - Andrea Woolverton and Michael Sykuta, University of Missouri at Columbia 2011 rESOurCE MAnAgEMEnT in DEvElOPing COunTriES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C126 Track: AErE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future Moderator: Heidi Albers, Oregon State University Discussants: Steve Newbold, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Heidi Albers, Oregon State University; Jill CavigliaHarris, Salisbury University; Randall Bluffstone, Portland State University Presentations: Optimal Allocation of groundwater resource in the Hai river basin: Managing Quantity and Quality - Qiuqiong Huang, University of Minnesota; Jim Wilen and Richard Howitt, University of California, Davis; Scott Rozelle, Stanford University From Forests to Pasture: Evidence on the Co-evolution of Deforestation and Development from a Spatial Panel Survey of Farm Households in rondônia, brazil - Jill Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury University; Subhrendu Pattanayak, RTI International; Erin Sills, North Carolina State University Does better Common Property Forest Management Promote behavioral Change? On-farm Tree Planting in the bolivian Andes - Randall Bluffstone, Portland State University; Marco Boscolo, Harvard University; Ramiro Molina Public Expenditure and Quality of growth in rural latin America - Gregmar Galinato, Washington State University; Ramon Lopez, University of Maryland at College Park Track: inT AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Kym Anderson, World Bank Presentations: introduction and latin America - Kym Anderson, World Bank Africa - William Masters, Purdue University Asia - Will Martin, World Bank The Transition Countries of Europe and Central Asia - Johan Swinnen, University of Leuven 2012 uSDA´S FArM-lEvEl DATA Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A105 Economics, Statistics, and information resources Committee Session AAEA Organized Symposium 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 58 10:30 a.m. - noon 2009 POliTiCAl ECOnOMY OF AgriCulTurAl DiSTOrTiOnS in DEvElOPing AnD TrAnSiTiOn ECOnOMiES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A109 TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions Organizer: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: James Johnson, USDA-Economic Research Service This session, sponsored by the Economics, Statistics, and Information Resources Committee, features three presentations. Each presentation will last 30 minutes and attendees are invited to attend each presentation independently and should arrive at the beginning of the presentation. A limited number of laptops will be provided for demonstration purposes. The three topics covered in this session are: 10:30 – 11:00 am: uSDA´s Farm Payment Data - Learn more about the newly-released, much-anticipated administrative record data on government payments, also known as the 1614 data. Accessibility of these data was authorized by the 2002 Farm Bill, section 1614. Presented by John Jinkins, USDA-Farm Service Agency 11:00 – 11:30 am: uSDA´s Agricultural resource Management Survey - ARMS is an integrated data collection system that enables the development of farm business and household accounts for the same unit of observation. Learn more about the scope, coverage, reliability, and access to these data. Presented by Bob Dubman, USDA-Economic Research Service 11:30 am – noon: uSDA´s Census of Agriculture - After more than 150 years, the Census of Agriculture continues to be the leading source of statistics on U.S. agricultural production. Since it is a census, and not a sample survey, it is especially useful to those interested in a particular state or county area. Presented by Brad Summa, USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service Credit Access: implications for Sole-Proprietor Household Production - Brian Briggeman, Oklahoma State University; Charles Towe, University of Maryland at College Park; Mitchell Morehart, USDA-Economic Research Service investment reluctance: irreversibility or imperfect Capital Markets? Evidence from german Farm Panel Data - Silke Huettel, Oliver Musshoff, and Martin Odening, HumboldtUniversitat zu Berlin 2014 POulTrY AnD POrk inDuSTrY STuDiES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D135 Subject: Agribusiness Economics and Management AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers cover a wide variety of issues that arise in two important meat industries. Moderator: Ernest Bazen, University of Tennessee Presentations: incentive Systems for Food Quality Control with repeated Deliveries: Salmonella Control in the Pork Supply Chain - Gé Backus, Agricultural Economics Research Institute; Robert King, University of Minnesota Feasibility of Solar Technology (Photovoltaic) Adoption: A Case Study on Tennessee´s Poultry industry - Ernest Bazen and Matthew Brown, University of Tennessee 2013 lAnD, CAPiTAl AnD OTHEr iSSuES rElATED TO YOung AnD bEginning FArMErS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E141 Subject: Agricultural Finance and Farm Management AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers offer a variety of perspectives on several issues related to young and beginning farmers. Issues include credit constraints, land values, and factors affecting profitability of farming business of young and beginning farmers Moderator: Jeffrey Gillespie, Louisiana State Univeristy Presentations: impact of Capital gains and urban Pressure on Farmland values: A Spatial Correlation Analysis - Charles Moss, University of Florida; Ashok Mishra, Louisiana State University; Grigorios Livanis, University of Florida Technology Adoption, Management Practices, and Profitability of Young and beginning Farmers: Evidence from a national Survey - Ashok Mishra, Louisiana State University; Christine Wilson, Purdue University; Robert Williams, USDAEconomic Research Service The broiler-corn ratio: is it an indicator of Fattened broiler Profits? - H.L. Goodwin, Sandra Hamm, and Andrew McKenzie, University of Arkansas Pork Managers´ Perception of labor Management Practices and Their risks - Vera Bitsch and Nicole Olynk, Michigan State University TuESdAy 10:30 a.m. - noon 2015 DEMAnD ESTiMATiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D136 Subject: Demand and Price Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session In pursuit of better demand estimates. Moderator: Henry Kinnucan, Auburn University Presentations: Changing Consumer buying Habits in Developing Countries: A Disaggregate Demand Analysis for Fruits and vegetables in vietnam - Marcus Mergenthaler and Matin Qaim, University of Hohenheim; Katinka Weinberger, AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center 59 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions Data Aggregation and information loss - Gregory McKee and Dragan Miljkovic, North Dakota State University The role of Theoretical restrictions in Price Forecasting with inverse Demand Models - H. Allen Klaiber, North Carolina State University; Matthew Holt, Purdue University Measuring and Testing Advertising-induced rotation in the Demand Curve - Yuqing Zheng, Cornell University; Henry Kinnucan, Auburn University; Harry Kaiser, Cornell University Presentations: Consolidation As a regulatory Compliance Strategy for Small Drinking Water Systems - Min-Yang Lee and John Braden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign On Social and Market Sanctions in Deterring noncompliance in Pollution Standards - Philippe Bontems, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Gilles Rotillon, University of Paris impact of Off-farm income on Adoption of Conservation Practices - Haluk Gedikoglu, University of Missouri; Laura McCann, University of Missouri at Columbia Factors Affecting the Decision to Adopt and Continue best Management Practices by broiler Producers - Krishna Paudel and Nirmala Devkota, Louisiana State University 2016 lAnD vAluE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D137 Subject: Environmental Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers discuss land value related issues affected by restoration of wetland and lake sedimentation. Papers also cover marketing ecosystem series and issues related to supply and demand of land in a long run. Moderator: Upton Hatch, North Carolina State University Presentations: Projecting Supply and Demand for land in the long run - Alla Golub and Thomas Hertel, Purdue University; Brent Sohngen, The Ohio State University use of the Hedonic Method to Estimate lake Sedimentation impacts on Property values in Mountain Park and roswell, gA - Elizabeth Hill, Samuel Pugh, and Jeffrey Mullen, University of Georgia Marketing Ecosystem Services from Agricultural land: Stated Preferences over Payment Mechanisms and Actual Sales of bird Habitat on Hayfields - Emi Uchida, Stephen Swallow, and Christopher Anderson, University of Rhode Island restoration of Wetland Services: Economic gains to the Farmland Owner - Leroy Hansen, USDA-Economic Research Service 2018 PrODuCTS’ ATTribuTES AnD CHOiCE: HOW MuCH DO THEY DrivE THE MArkET? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D139 Subject: Food and Agricultural Marketing AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session include issues such as consumer risk perception regarding avian flu, BSE and the use of GM organisms in beef production. Other areas of discussion regarding consumer product choice include quality and country-of-origin of beef and organic dairy products. Moderator: Donald Liu, University of Minnesota Presentations: A Comparative Analysis of u.S. and Canadian Consumers’ Perceptions toward bSE Testing and the use of gM Organisms in beef Production: Evidence from a Choice Experiment - Bodo Steiner and Jun Yang, University of Alberta valuing Quality Attributes and Country Equity in the korean beef Market - Chanjin Chung, Oklahoma State University; Seongil Han, Konkuk University; Tracy Boyer, Oklahoma State University Marketing Organic Milk - Carlos Mayen, Joe Balagtas, and Corinne Alexander, Purdue University; Cathy Greene, USDAEconomic Research Service Consumer Awareness of the Avian influenza Threat in Taiwan - Kang Liu, National Chung Cheng University; MinHsin Huang, National University of Kaohsiung; Jane Hsu, National Chung Hsing University 2017 iSSuES On COnSErvATiOn PrACTiCES ADOPTiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D134 Subject: Environmental Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session deal with issues related to voluntary adoption of conservation practices to deter nonpoint source pollution. Also addressed is the issue of consolidation in small drinking water system. Moderator: Laura McCann, University of Missouri at Columbia 2019 MigrATiOn AnD HEAlTH Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D140 Subject: Human Capital and labor AAEA Selected Paper Session 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 60 10:30 a.m. - noon TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions This section explores the various issues influencing migration decisions in East Asian countries. Papers in this session discuss the relationship between health, social capital, and poverty. Moderator: Wendy Stock, Montana State University Presentations: globalization and urban-to-rural Migration in Taiwan Fung-Mey Huang, National Taiwan University The Effect of Parents’ Migration on the Children’s Educational Achievements in rural China - Xinxin Chen, Zhejiang Gongshang University; Scott Rozelle, Stanford University; Linxiu Zhang, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy Moving beyond Poverty: neighborhood Structure, Household behaviors, and Children´s Health in the united States - Satheesh Aradhyula, University of Arizona; Tauhidur Rahman, University of Arizona The role of Social Capital on Health in Elderly People with the Advent of the baby-boom generation´s Aging - Bosu Seo and Ben Senauer, University of Minnesota 2021 ECOnOMiC EFFECTS OF SHOCkS, TrADE DEFiCiTS, AnD EXPOrT SubSiDiES On COunTrY OF Origin DEMAnD Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E142 Subject: international Trade AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers identify the determinants for U.S. trade of consumeroriented products, assess the competitiveness of the world´s largest exporters of fruit juice into Japan, and measure the welfare impacts of selected changes on producers and marketer of U.S. meats. Moderator: Shida Henneberry, Oklahoma State University Presentations: global Competition for the Japanese Fruit Juice Market: A uniform Substitute Demand Analysis - Shiferaw Feleke and Richard Kilmer, University of Florida Consumer Financed Export Subsidies and the Agreement on Agriculture - Harry De Gorter, David Just, and Jaclyn Kropp, Cornell University 2020 inTErnATiOnAl MigrATiOn AnD MArkET PArTiCiPATiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E143 Subject: international Development AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session examine international migration issues as well as issues related to market participation. The papers on migration issues focus on remittances and production decisions while the others look at the determinants and barriers to market participation. Moderator: Erika Meng, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Presentations: An Empirical Examination of the Factors Affecting remittance by Mexican Migrants in the united States - Adam McCoy, Mudzuiri Nziramasanga, and Jonathan Yoder, Washington State University Poverty, language, and Participation in non-farm labor Markets in rural Paraguay - Daniel Correa, Inter-American Development Bank; Greg Traxler and Diane Hite, Auburn University international Migration and Household Agricultural Production Decisions: The Case of El Salvador - Amy Damon, University of Minnesota Determinants of Dairy Market Participation for Agricultural Households in Cote d´ivoire - Jeanne Coulibaly and Joe Balagtas, Purdue University; Jabbar Mohammad and Asfaw Negassa, International Livestock Research Institute Welfare implications of Selected Supply and Demand Shocks on Producers and Marketers of u.S. Meats - Shida Henneberry, Joao Mutondo, and Wade Brorsen, Oklahoma State University The growing u.S. Trade Deficit in Consumer-oriented Agricultural and Food Products - Renan Zhuang, Won Koo, and Jeremy Mattson, North Dakota State University 2022 iMPACT OF TbT, TrADE FACiliTATiOn, AnD gEnETiCAllY MODiFiED PrODuCTS On inTErnATiOnAl TrADE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E147 Subject: international Trade AAEA Selected Paper Session One paper evaluates SPS regulations imposed by Australia on NZ apples. Two papers measure the effects of genetically modified products on several countries including China. Another paper measures the effects of customs and administrative procedures on trade. Moderator: Norbert Wilson, Auburn University Presentations: What a Difference a Day Makes: An Estimate of Potential gains from Trade Facilitation - Norbert Wilson, Auburn University genetically Modified Food and international Trade: The Case of india, bangladesh, indonesia, and the Philippines - Antoine Bouet, Guillaume Gruere, and Simon Mevel, International Food Policy Research Institute TuESdAy 10:30 a.m. - noon 61 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions Commercialization of genetically Modified Soybeans in China: Perverse Domestic and international Trade Effects - Jim Hansen, William Lin, and Francis Tuan, USDA-Economic Research Service; Mary Marchant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, University of Missouri at Columbia; Funing Zhong, Nanjing Agricultural University; Baohui Song, University of Kentucky Tariff Equivalent of Technical barriers to Trade When There is no Trade - Chengyan Yue and John Beghin, Iowa State University of the wine, fruit and vegetable regimes, possible changes include: the full decoupling of all farm payments; their replacement by region-wide per hectare payments; the elimination of milk quotas; increased budget transfers from market and income support to rural development policies; the financial implications of the recent eastward enlargements; and developments in regional trade agreements. Organizer: Eirik Romstad, Norwegian University for Life Sciences Discussants: Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis; Richard Barichello, University of British Columbia Presentations: The next Steps in the reform Process of Eu Market and Farm Support Policies - Bruno Henry De Frahan, Université Catholique de Louvain The Present and Future of Eu rural Development Policies Ken Thomson, University of Aberdeen The Changing CAP, Multilateral negotiations, and World Markets - Giovanni Anania, University of Calabria 2023 ECOnOMiCS OF FiSHEriES MAnAgEMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E144 Subject: natural resource Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session explore economic aspects of commercial fisheries, including sorting, life history, comanagement, and estimating economic damages. Moderator: David Lewis, University of Wisconsin at Madison Presentations: Sorting Models in Discrete Choice Fisheries Analysis - Martin Smith and Junjie Zhang, Duke University Estimating the Economic Damage of Hurricanes katrina and rita on Commercial and recreational Fishing industries - Rex Caffey, Richard Kazmierczak, Hamady Diop, and Walter Keithly, Louisiana State University generating Economic return from Fishery Co-management: The role of Fishing Effort Coordination and Pooling Arrangement - Hirotsugu Uchida, University of Rhode Island; Jim Wilen, University of California, Davis Endogenous Fishing Mortality in life History Models - Martin Smith, Duke University 2025 DiSEASE COnTrOl, WOrlD TrADE, AnD FOOD STAMP PrOgrAMS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F149 Subject: Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session include issues such as integrated disease control and current policy regarding fruit fly. Other areas of discussion regarding programs include food stamp program and poverty, and implications of marketing loans on world trade. Moderator: Karl Rich, International Livestock Research Institute Presentations: The Mediterranean Fruit Fly: Efficient Dynamic and Static Phytosanitary Measures, information values, and Current Policy - Michael Livingston, USDA-Economic Research Service new Methods for integrated Models of Animal Disease Control - Karl Rich, International Livestock Research Institute The impact of the Food Stamp Program on Transient and Chronic Poverty - Elton Mykerezi and Bradford Mills, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2024 THE nEXT STEPS in Eu AgriCulTurAl AnD rurAl DEvElOPMEnT POliCY rEFOrM: WHAT iS HAPPEning AnD iTS rElEvAnCE FOr WOrlD MArkETS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E148 Subject: Policy Analysis AAEA Organized Symposium The session will focus on further likely changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) - beyond those introduced by the 2003 decisions and, more recently, by the reforms of the olive oil, tobacco, cotton, sugar, and banana regimes—and their implications for world markets and multinational negotiations. In addition to the reforms 2026 AgriCulTurAl PrODuCTiOn AnAlYSES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E145 Subject: Production Economics 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 62 10:30 a.m. - noon TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions AAEA Selected Paper Session Moderator: Terrance Hurley, University of Minnesota Presentations: Testing for Complementarity and Substitutability among Multiple Technologies: The Case of u.S. Hog Farms - Terrance Hurley, University of Minnesota; Li Yu, Peter Orazem, and James Kliebenstein, Iowa State University Excess Capital in Agricultural Production - Zhengfei Guan, Michigan State University; Subal Kumbhakar, State University of New York at Binghamton; Alfons Oude Lansink, Wageningen University Differential uncertainties and risk Attitudes between Conventional and Organic Producers. The Case of Spanish COP Farmers - Teresa Serra, Centre de Recerca en Economia I Desenvolupament Agroalimentari; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley; José Gil, Centre de Recerca en Economia I Desenvolupament Agroalimentari Do the largest Firms grow the Fastest? Examples from u.S. Agriculture - Almuhanad Melhim, Washington State University; Erik O’Donoghue, USDA-Economic Research Service; Richard Shumway, Washington State University 2028 ECOnOMETriC APPliCATiOnS TO DEMAnD AnD HOuSEHOlD bEHAviOr Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E146 Subject: research Methods/ Econometrics/Stats AAEA Selected Paper Session New and innovative econometric methods are applied to problems associated with the modeling of demand relationships and household behavior. Moderator: Roger Von Haefen, University of Arizona Presentations: Semiparametric Estimation of Consumer Demand Systems with Micro Data - Abdoul Sam and Yi Zheng, The Ohio State University A Mixed binary-ordered Probit Approach to Cigarette Demand Modeling - Panagiotis Kasteridis, Murat Munkin, and Steven Yen, University of Tennessee identification and Estimation of Social interaction-based Models: A Changes-in-Changes Approach with an Application to Adolescent Substance use - Muzhe Yang, University of California, Berkeley 2027 AlTErnATivE APPrOACHES in ESTiMATiOn AnD SiMulATiOn OF TECHniCAl AnD EFFiCiEnCY CHAngE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D138 Subject: Productivity Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session TuESdAy 10:30 a.m. - noon Measures of productivity change and simulations of introduction of new technologies under different econometric techniques. Moderator: Julie Caswell, University of Massachusetts Amherst Presentations: biofuels Potential in latin America and the Caribbean: Quantitative Considerations and Policy implications for the Agricultural Sector - Carlos Ludena, Carlos Razo, Alberto Saucedo, Sofia Astete, Martine Dirven, Soledad Parada, Josefina Hepp, and Alejandra Vildosola, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Productive Efficiency of Specialty and Conventional Coffee Farmers in Costa rica: Accounting for the use of Different Technologies and Self-Selection - Meike Wollni, Cornell University Do Contracts raise Hog Farm Productivity? An instrumental variables Approach - Nigel Key and William McBride, USDAEconomic Research Service Modeling Technical Change in Midwest Corn Yields, 18952005: A Time-varying regression Approach - Alee Lynch, Matthew Holt, and Allan Gray, Purdue University 2029 APPliCATiOnS in ECOlOgiCAl ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F150 Subject: resource and Environmental Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session This session explores valuation and management of various species. Moderator: Mark Eiswerth, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater Presentations: invasive Species Management: importers, border Enforcement, and risk - Holly Ameden, University of California, Berkeley; Sean Cash, University of Alberta; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley The ghost of Extinction: Preservation values and Minimum viable Population in Wildlife Models - Mark Eiswerth, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater; G. Cornelis van Kooten, University of Victoria Which Swordfish gear is Cleanest? - Stephen Stohs, University of California, San Diego u.S. Conservation Policy reconsidered: is the ESA bad for Panda bears? - Amy Ando, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign 63 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon AAEA Sessions Organizer: Ayal Kimhi, Hebrew University 2030 DiFFErEnTiAl iMPliCATiOnS FOr rurAl AnD urbAn COMMuniTiES OF ECOnOMiC grOWTH AnD POliCY: An inTErnATiOnAl PErSPECTivE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D133 Subject: rural/Community Development AAEA Organized Symposium Rural areas in many developed economies are undergoing rapid and significant structural changes. This symposium will address the definition of rurality and its relevance for evaluating growth experiences and perspectives of rural and urban regions and communities, for rural-urban inequality, and for policy design and evaluation. Rurality will be treated as a multidimensional concept, involving geographic, demographic, social, and economic factors. We will use the perspectives from different countries to highlight these issues. Moderator: Michael Wohlgenant, North Carolina State University Discussant: Mitch Renkow, North Carolina State University Presentations: Economic growth, Policy, and rurality in the united States Roman Keeney and Brigitte Waldorf, Purdue University Differentiating Policy Approaches to rural and urban Communities in Canada: regional Context Matters - Ray Bollman, Statistics Canada Differential Changes in Economic Well-being in rural and urban Communities in israel - Ayal Kimhi, Hebrew University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 64 10:30 a.m. - noon TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon 2031 WHY CATTlE PrODuCErS AnD bEEF PACkErS uSE AlTErnATivE MArkETing ArrAngEMEnTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B110 WAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Mary Muth, RTI International Moderator: John Lawrence, Iowa State University Presentations: Types, Frequency of use, and reasons for use of Alternative Marketing Arrangements in the beef industry - Justin Taylor, Mary Muth, Sheryl Cates, and Shawn Karns, RTI International; John Lawrence, Iowa State University Price and Quality Differences across Marketing Arrangements in The beef industry - Yanyan Liu, World Bank; Mary Muth, RTI International; Stephen Koontz, Colorado State University; John Lawrence, Iowa State University Effects of Marketing Arrangement Choice on beef Packer Costs: Evidence from Plant-level Profit and loss Data Stephen Koontz, Colorado State University; Mary Muth, RTI International; John Lawrence, Iowa State University WAEA Sessions 2034 FOOD AnD AgriCulTurAl MArkETing Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B117 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: J.William Levedahl, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Determinants of bSE Export bans - Tamizheniyan Suyambulingam, Washington State University Economic Feasibility of Soybean Hull Supplementation in Winter rye Stocker Operations - Kristin Hales, Texas Tech University; Gerald Horn, Oklahoma State University; Evan Whitley, Dan Childs, and Jon Biermacher, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc. Feedlot and Packer Pricing behavior: implications for Competition research - Clement Ward, Oklahoma State University 2032 nATurAl rESOurCE ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B111 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Adrienne Ohler, Washington State University Presentations: The Contribution of Agritourism to Colorado´s Economy: initial results from a regional Survey - Dawn Thilmany, Josh Wilson, and Martha Sullins, Colorado State University Tourists´ value of ranch Open Space over Time: A Panel Data Estimation - Lindsey Ellingson and Andrew Seidl, Colorado State University 2035 POliCY AnAlYSiS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B118 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Sean Hurley, California Polytechnic State University Presentations: The Farm level impacts of Operating the Current Farm bill at reduced Federal budget Spending levels - J. Marc Raulston, James W. Richardson, Joe Outlaw, and Steven L. Klose, The Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M University Specialty Crop Producers’ Preferences toward international Trade Policies - Armenak Markosyan, Thomas Wahl, and Thomas Marsh, Kansas State University An industry Analysis of the regulatory impact on California Agricultural Producers - Sean Hurley and Jay Noel, California Polytechnic State University TuESdAy 10:30 a.m. - noon valuing urban green Space in Japan: A geographically Weighted Conjoint Approach - Katsuya Tanaka, Sonoko Watanabe, and Shunji Matsuoka, Hiroshima University Estimating Foregone Direct benefits from reductions in irrigation Water Deliveries versus Consumptive use Susanne M. Scheierling, Asian Development Bank; Robert A. Young, Colorado State University 2036 2033 nATurAl rESOurCE ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B112 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Sreedhar Upendram, Kansas State University Presentations: Determinants of the Adoption of best Management Practices by inland northwest Farmers - Naga Tosakana, J.D. Wulfhorst, Larry Van Tassell, Jan Boll, Robert Mahler, and Erin Brooks, University of Idaho A Panel Mixed logit Analysis of Farmers´ Preferences for Private-Public Production System Attributes - Gorm Kipperberg, Craig Bond, and Dana Hoag, Colorado State University What Are landowners and land Trusts Trying to Preserve with Conservation Easements? A Simultaneous Examination of buyers and Sellers - Catherine Keske and Dana Hoag, Colorado State University; Chris Bastian, Ashley Miller, and Donald McLeod, University of Wyoming PrODuCTiOn ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B119 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Joshua Berning, Washington State University Presentations: The impact of increased Ethanol Production on Corn basis in South Dakota - Andrea Olson, Gary Taylor, and Nicole Klein, South Dakota State University The Cattle Price Cycle: An Exploration in Autoregessive Simulation - Matthew Stockton, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Larry Van Tassell, University of Idaho The Term Structure of grain Futures Prices: Contrasting Multifactor Models based on Full-information gaussian and Wavelet Transform Approaches - Gabriel Power and Calum Turvey, Cornell University Environmental Considerations Associated with the Expansion of Ethanol Fuel Production from Corn And biomass Materials - Lindsey Higgins, Joe Outlaw, and James Richardson, Texas A&M University 65 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 10:30 a.m. - noon CAES Sessions 2039 biODivErSiTY AnD invASivE SPECiES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C122 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Sean Cash, University of Alberta Presentations: Optimal Management for invasive Species in the Presence of induced Technology with uncertainty - C. S. Kim, Glenn Schaible, Ruben Lubowski, Utpal Vasavada, and Jan Lewandrowski, USDA-Economic Research Service Developments in Plant breeders rights, Potato Productivity, and Quality improvements - Richard Carew, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Anwar Naseem, McGill University An Agent-based Model of border Enforcement for invasive Species Management - D. Angele Vickers and Sean Cash, University of Alberta; Holly Ameden and David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley valuation of Marine Mammal recovery Programs in the St. lawrence Estuary - Maria Olar, Universite Laval; Wiktor Adamowicz and Peter Boxall, University of Alberta; Gale West, Universite Laval CAES Principal Paper 2037 MEASuring FArM HOuSEHOlD WEll-bEing in CAnADA AnD THE uniTED STATES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C120 Moderator: Jan Dyer, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Discussant: Jill Findeis, Pennsylvania State University Presentations: bridging Farm Performance and Well-being Measures in Canada and the united States - David Freshwater, University of Kentucky Farm Household Well-being: A geographical Analysis Carol Jones, USDA-Economic Research Service variability of Farm business income and Farm Family income in Canada: A longitudinal Analysis - Robert Koroluk and Katrin Nagelschmitz, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 2038 FArMErS’ DECiSiOnS, MArkET iMPACTS, AnD THE STruCTurE OF AgriCulTurE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C121 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Elwin Smith, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Presentations: To Hedge or not to Hedge: The role of Price Expectations and risk - David Pannell, University of Western Australia; Getu Hailu and Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph An Analysis of Economic Efficiency of beef Cow-calf Operations in Alberta - Sudarma Samarajeewa, Getu Hailu, and Maury Bredahl, University of Guelph; Scott Jeffrey, University of Alberta Factors Affecting Farmland Prices in Ontario and Saskatchewan: A Comparative Analysis - Rakhal Sarker and Catherine Rothrock, University of Guelph The Changing Structure of Canadian Agriculture - Verna Mitura and Ross Vani, Statistics Canada 2040 TrADE libErAliZATiOn iSSuES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C125 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Ryan Cardwell, University of Manitoba Presentations: Trade issues in biofuel industry: Future Trade Disputes? - Crina Viju, William Kerr, and James Nolan, University of Saskatchewan Do State Trading Enterprises Affect Trade? – A gravity Model Approach to the World Wheat Trade - Arvin Pirness and Hartley Furtan, University of Saskatchewan; Mark Partridge, The Ohio State University; M. Olftert, University of Saskatchewan non-homothetic Preferences As Determinant of Differentiated Agrifood Products and beverages Trade across Development Spectrum - Zahoor Haq and Karl Meilke, University of Guelph Dairy Trade liberalization impacts in Canada - Abdesselem Abbassi, Universite Laval; Olivier Bonroy, Agro-Campus Rennes; Jean-Philippe Gervais, Laval University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 66 10:30 a.m. - noon TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Principal Paper 2041 innOvATiOnS in riSk TrAnSFEr FOr nATurAl DiSASTErS in lOWEr inCOME COunTriES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B116 Subject: risk and uncertainty Moderator: Jerry Skees, University of Kentucky Presentations: Weather index insurance for Agriculture and rural Areas in lower income Countries - Barry Barnett, University of Georgia; Olivier Mahul, World Bank Coping with Production risk using rainfall insurance in Semi-arid india - Xavier Giné and Donald Larson, World Bank; Robert Townsend, University of Chicago; James Vickery, Federal Reserve Bank of New York using index-based risk Transfer Products to Facilitate Micro lending in Peru and vietnam - Jerry Skees and Jason Hartell, University of Kentucky; Anne Goes, Globalagrisk, Inc. using Weather insurance to improve Emergency response to Slow-onset Disaster in northern kenya´s Arid lands Sommarat Chantarat, Christopher B. Barrett, and Calum Turvey, Cornell University; Andrew Mude, International Livestock Research Institute AAEA Sessions 2043 CHAnging DYnAMiCS in COOPErATivE EXTEnSiOn AnD THE rOlE OF EXTEnSiOn ECOnOMiSTS: CHAngE Or CHAngED AgEnTS? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C124 Track: COSbAE/EXT AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: Duncan Chembezi, Alabama A&M University; Doris Newton, USDA-Economic Research Service; James Novak, Auburn University; Ntam Baharanyi, Tuskegee University Moderators: Duncan Chembezi, Alabama A&M University; Doris Newton, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Historical Perspectives and role of CES in the land-grant System - Henry Bahn, USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service The Traditional role of Extension Economists at the 1890 land-grant System - Ntam Baharanyi, Tuskegee University Mega Trends Driving Change within CES and implications for Extension Economists - James Novak, Auburn University Cooperative Extension restructuring and Organizational Changes in the land-grant System: The impact on the role of Extension Professionals - M. Ray McKinnie, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Possibilities and Future of E-extension: Changing roles of CES and Extension Economists - Michael Boehlje, Purdue University 2042 COllAbOrATing in A MulTiDiSCiPlinArY EnvirOnMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C123 Track: AEM/FSn/ibES AAEA Organized Symposium TuESdAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Organizer: Sandra Hoffman, Resources for the Future Moderator: Sandra Hoffman, Resources for the Future Panelists: Darrell Bosch, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Paul McNamara, University of Illinois; James Sanchirico, Resources for the Future; Josh Zivin, Columbia University; John Antle, Montana State University; Randall Westgren, University of Illinois; George Davis, Texas A&M University; Michael Livingston, USDA-Economic Research Service 2044 CHArTing THE FuTurE OF CWAE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A107 Track: CWAE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: Janet Perry, Doris Newton, Katherine Smith, and Mary Ahearn USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: The Current Status of Women in Agricultural Economics Jennie Popp, University of Arkansas Perspective from a Founding Member - Katherine Smith, USDA-Economic Research Service Perspective from an Early Chairperson - Sandra Batie, Michigan State University Perspective from the Current Chairperson - Cheryl Devuyst, North Dakota State University 67 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions 2045 nEXT gEnErATiOn iSSuES in OrgAniC MArkETing Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B115 Track: FAMPS AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Luanne Lohr, University of Georgia Presentations: Which Demographic Factors influence the likelihood That Consumers Will Purchase Organic Products - Carolyn Dimitri, USDA-Economic Research Service location, location, location? Organic Fruit Demand in Conventional Supermarkets - Catherine Durham, Oregon State University The role of Marketing barriers in the Adoption of Organic Agriculture: The Case of Texas - Michael Lau, Roger Hanagriff, and Douglas Constance, Sam Houston State University; Mary York, Texas Department of Agriculture How a blueberry Farmer Opened Pandora´s box: Economic Effects of Harvey v. veneman - Luanne Lohr, University of Georgia 2047 bT COTTOn - SECOnD gEnErATiOn PrOblEMS AnD bEnEFiTS AnD POliCY rESPOnSES in CHinA Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A109 Track: inT AAEA Organized Symposium After almost ten years of Bt cotton production by small farmers, Chinese farmers still use high levels of pesticides. Various reasons have been suggested for these continued high levels—the growing importance of secondary pests, growing resistance of bollworms to Bt, Bt cotton which has low levels of the Bt toxin in the plants, and bad advice from extension agents who make money by selling pesticides. The four papers in this study try to test these hypotheses in order to provide policy makers and farmers with some guidance on how pesticide use could be reduced in the future. We have two discussants, Dr. David Zilberman and Dr. George Frisvold. Organizer: Carl Pray, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Discussants: David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley; George Frisvold, University of Arizona Presentations: battling the Two-edged Sword in China: Controlling Pests with bt Cotton and Managing resistance build-up with refuge Policies - Fangbin Qiao, University of California, Davis Multi-period Analysis of bt-cotton in China - using Farmlevel Panel Data - Diemuth Pemsl, Worldfish Center; Hermann Waibel, Marc Völker, and Lifeng Wu, University of Hannover Farmer knowledge and biotechnology in Cotton: Evidence of Farmer Training in bt-cotton Production in China Hermann Waibel and Lifeng Wu, University of Hannover; Diemuth Pemsl, Worldfish Center Secondary Pests in bt Cotton 1997 to 2006—How important Are They? - Ruifa Hu and Jikun Huang, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy; Carl Pray, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Scott Rozelle, Stanford University 2046 guiDElinES On WriTing AnD SubMiTTing JOurnAl ArTiClES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B113 Track: gSS AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: Michelle Mullins, University of Missouri at Columbia; Alee Lynch, Purdue University Moderator: Ross Pruitt, Oklahoma State University Presentations: Doing the Publishing Two-step: How (and How not) to respond to Journal Editors and referees - Matthew Holt, Purdue University Tips for Successfully Publishing Journal Articles - Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University Pay no Attention to That Man behind the Curtain. The Editor´s role in the Publishing Process. - Gerald Shively, Purdue University What i Wish i knew 20 Years Ago about Writing and Submitting Journal Articles - Scott Irwin, University of Illnois Track: TlC AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Ed Rister, Texas A&M University Moderator: Ed Rister, Texas A&M University Presentations: Advising Perspectives in the undergraduate Office - Lisa House, University of Florida 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 68 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 2048 A SHAring OF ADviSing APPrOACHES AnD EXPEriEnCES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B114 TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Advising Perspectives in the undergraduate Office Frederick Boadu, Texas A&M University Advising Perspectives As Faculty Working with Seniors - John Siebert, Texas A&M University Advising Perspectives in the Dean´s Office - Mary Marchant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1:30 – 2:00 pm: Foodborne illness Cost Calculator - The Foodborne Illness Cost Calculator provides policymakers and the general public with information on the assumptions behind foodborne illness cost estimates—and gives them a chance to make their own assumptions and calculate their own cost estimates. Presented by Elise Golan, USDAEconomic Research Service 2:00 – 2:30 pm: ErS Food Availability Data System - Learn how the ERS Food Availability (per capita) Data System uses three distinct but related data series that serve as popular proxies for actual food and nutrient consumption (food availability data, loss-adjusted food availability, and nutrient availability data). Presented by Jean Buzby and Hodan Farah Wells, USDA-Economic Research Service 2:30 – 3:00 pm: County-level Agricultural Conservation Tools: The nrCS Field Office Technical guide - The NRCS Field Office Technical Guide - Gain an understanding of how NRCS Field Office Staff use the e-FOTG which includes the new NRCS Cost of Conservation Data, Conservation Practice Information and the Web Soils Survey. Presented by David Buland, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service 2049 STATED PrEFErEnCES: ADvAnCES AnD APPliCATiOnS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C126 Track: AErE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future Moderator: Paul M. Jakus, Utah State University Discussants: Sandra Hoffmann, Resources for the Future; Paul M. Jakus, Utah State University; Trudy Cameron, University of Oregon Presentations: identifying individual Discount rates and valuing Public Open Space with Stated Preference Models - Kent Kovacs, Northern Economics, Inc.; Douglas Larson, University of California, Davis Scenario Adjustment in Stated Preference research - Erica Johnson and Trudy Ann Cameron, University of Oregon; J.R. Deshazo, University of California, Los Angeles Payment Card versus Dichotomous Choice bid Elicitation: An Application in Shanghai, People´s republic of China - Sandra Hoffmann and Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future; Michael McWilliams, Stanford University; Xizhe Peng, Fudan University; Bjorn Larson and Jostein Nygaard, World Bank 2051 CHAngE in AgriCulTurAl PrODuCTiOn AnD SErviCE SECTOrS inFluEnCES OvErAll inDuSTrY STruCTurE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E141 Subject: Agricultural Finance and Farm Management AAEA Selected Paper Session Presentations focus on: rapid growth in organic milk production; role of differences in economic efficiency on firm survival and growth, and structural change on farm households; analysis of allocation of tobacco buyout proceeds; and impact on agricultural lending of dramatic change in rural banking system. Moderator: Carmen Sandretto, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Economic Efficiency and Factors Explaining Differences between Minnesota Farm Households - Kent Olson and Linh Vu, University of Minnesota The Changing Structure of Commercial banks lending to Agriculture - Sangjeong Nam, Paul Ellinger and Ani Katchova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign How Did They Spend Their Tobacco buyout Check? An Analysis of Tobacco Farmers´ Expenditure Choices - Maria Marshall, Purdue University; Helen Pushkarskaya, The Ohio State University A Comparison of Conventional and Organic Milk Production Systems in the u.S. - William McBride and Cathy Greene, USDA-Economic Research Service TuESdAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 2050 FOOD AnD COnSErvATiOn TOOlS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A105 Economics, Statistics, and information resources Committee Session AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: Elise Golan, USDA-Economic Research Service This session, sponsored by the Economics, Statistics, and Information Resources Committee, features three presentations. Each presentation will last 30 minutes and attendees are invited to attend each presentation independently and should arrive at the beginning of the presentation. A limited number of laptops will be provided for demonstration purposes. The three topics covered in this session are: 69 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions 2054 ESTiMATing invErSE DEMAnD FunCTiOnS FOr AgriCulTurE AnD FiSHEriES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F151 Subject: Demand and Price Analysis AAEA Organized Symposium This symposium explores inverse demand curves for agriculture and fisheries. Theory holds that when supply is exogenous and the commodity perishable, demand price is determined by exogenous supply. Applications have assumed that it is feasible to estimate individual price dependent demand curves. Of the three ways of trading commodities in markets—posted price, negotiation and auction—none places exogenous supplies in the hands of individual demanders. The symposium will address this and other issues related to the estimation inverse demand curves. Organizer: Kenneth McConnell, University of Maryland at College Park Presenters: Kenneth McConnell, University of Maryland at College Park; Jean Paul Chavas, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Walter Thurman, North Carolina State University; James Kirkley, College of William and Mary 2052 POliCY AnD AgribuSinESS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D135 Subject: Agribusiness Economics and Management AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers cover a broad spectrum of policy issues and their impact on the agribusiness complex. Moderator: Hamish Gow, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Presentations: using APT to investigate impacts of Farm Policy on Agribusiness Stocks - Michael Gunderson and Charles Moss, University of Florida The Housing boom and its Effect on Farm Acreage - Anton Bekkerman, North Carolina State University Producers As investors in Agricultural research: Searching for Alternative Funding Strategies in land-grant universities Vincent Amanor-Boadu and Yacob Zereyesus, Kansas State University 2053 EXPlAining HOuSEHOlD bEHAviOr: iSSuES in FOOD DEMAnD AnD EXPEnDiTurES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D134 Subject: Consumer/Household Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session Household food choices depend on much more than prices and income. A series of papers examines the role of time allocation, food program participation, nutrition education, and other factors that affect consumption and demand. Moderator: Stephen Crutchfield, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Food Stamp benefits Adjust to Earnings with Cross-program Effects from TAnF Cash Assistance - Kenneth Hanson and Margaret Andrews, USDA-Economic Research Service Household Food Expenditures, Parental Time Allocation, and Childhood Obesity - Wen You, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; George Davis, Texas A&M University Where and How: low-income Consumer Food Shopping behavior - Ephraim Leibtag, USDA-Economic Research Service; Kara Lynch, USDA-Economic Research Service Childhood Obesity in the u.S.: How Effective Are School Prevention Programs? - Christiane Schroeter, Arkansas State University; Rita Carreira, University of Arkansas 2055 EnErgY AnD AgriCulTurE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D136 Subject: Demand and Price Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session Implications of changing energy markets for agriculture. Moderator: Carlos Carpio, Clemson University Presentations: Examining the Evolving Correspondence between Petroleum Prices and Agricultural Commodity Prices - Jody Campiche, James Richardson, Joe Outlaw, and Henry Bryant, Texas A&M University Measuring Competition between non Food and Food Demand on World grain Markets : is biofuel Production Compatible with Pressure for Food Production? - Magalie Houée-Bigot and Catherine Benjamin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique understanding the underlying Fundamentals and linkages between Ethanol, Energy, and Agriculture - Simla Tokgoz, Iowa State University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 70 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions 2056 DEFOrESTATiOn AnD MigrATiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D137 Subject: Environmental Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session Deforestation and social forestry issues are examined. The papers also cover migration and zoning issues. Moderator: John Pender, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Presentations: Effects of Environmental Zoning on Household Sorting: Empirical Evidence and Ecological implications - Bill Provencher, David Lewis, and Joseph Schoen, University of Wisconsin at Madison Property rights, Environmental Services, and Poverty reduction: impacts of a Social Forestry Program in indonesia - John Pender, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; S Suyanto, International Centre for Research in Agroforestry; John Kerr, Michigan State University; Edward Kato, Consultive Group on International Agricultural Research Amenity-driven Migration with Human-ecological interactions - Elena Irwin, Ciriyam Jayaprakash, and Yong Chen, The Ohio State University 2058 METHODS FOr MEASuring COnSuMEr ATTiTuDES TOWArD FOOD SAFETY Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D140 Subject: Food Safety and nutrition AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session take different approaches to measuring consumer attitudes toward and valuation of food safety risks. Moderator: Glynn Tonsor, Michigan State University Presentations: Food recalls and Food Safety Perceptions: The September 2006 Spinach recall Case - Benjamin Onyango, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Dragan Miljkovic, North Dakota State University; William Hallman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; William Nganje, Arizona State University; Sarah Condry and Cara Cuite, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Can Survey-based Scenarios Measure Consumer values for improved Food Safety? - Mario Teisl, University of Maine; Brian Roe, The Ohio State University Consumers’ valuations and Choice Processes of Food Safety Enhancement Attributes: An international Study of beef Consumers - Glynn Tonsor, Michigan State University; Ted Schroeder, Kansas State University; Joost Pennings, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; James Mintert, Kansas State University Comparison of grocery Purchase Patterns of Diet Soda buyers to Those of regular Soda buyers - James Binkley and Alla Golub, Purdue University 2057 HOW DO PrOMOTiOnS AnD FunCTiOnAl FOOD iMPACT COnSuMEr DEMAnD? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D139 Subject: Food and Agricultural Marketing AAEA Selected Paper Session The session presents several perspectives on how the relationship of various promotions and functional food changes the sales of product. Expert opinion displays, brand name advertising, promotional strategies, and functional food attributes are all ways to increase consumer demand. Which ones are most likely to be successful? Moderator: Annette Levi, California State University at Chico Presentations: Functional Foods in the Marketplace: Willingness to Pay for Apples Enriched with Antioxidants - Armenak Markosyan, Thomas Wahl, and Jill McCluskey, Washington State University returns, lags, and Complementarities in brand and generic Advertising: Demand for Peanut butter - Naoya Kaneko and Stanley Fletcher, University of Georgia The impact of Expert Opinion on the Demand for Experience goods: An Experimental Approach - James Hilger, Federal Trade Commision; Greg Rafert and Sofia Villasboas, University of California, Berkeley 2059 COnTribuTiOnS in APPliED THEOrETiCAl AnAlYSiS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E147 Subject: industrial Organization/Supply Chain Management AAEA Selected Paper Session Applied theoretical modeling of IO issues is often helpful in understanding empirical facts that cannot be explained by existing theory as well as providing theoretical guidance for empirical research. The papers in this session are illustrative examples of such type of modeling. Moderator: TBD Presentations: The implications of Marketing-order Quality regulations in a Free-trade Environment - Tina Saitone and Richard Sexton, University of California, Davis TuESdAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 71 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Strategic licensing of Product innovations - Amalia Yiannaka, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Murray Fulton, University of Saskatchewan Asymmetric Price Transmission and Food retailers´ Selling Strategies - Tian Xia, Kansas State University Comparative Statics Effects for Supermarket Oligopoly with Applications to Sales Taxes and Slotting Allowances - Stephen Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University; Timothy Richards, Arizona State University Presentations: The impact of Trade and investment liberalization on rural Manufacturing - Fabien Tondel and Michael Reed, University of Kentucky Cross-subsidization Due to infra-marginal Support in Agriculture: A general Theory and Empirical Evidence - Jaclyn Kropp, David Just, and Harry De Gorter, Cornell University impact of Trade on income and its Distribution - Satheesh Aradhyula, Tauhidur Rahman, and Seenivasan Kumaran, University of Arizona The 2006 reform of the Eu Domestic Policy regime for bananas: An Assessment of its impact on Trade - Giovanni Anania, University of Calabria 2060 FAO’S rOlE in glObAl PubliC gOODS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A108 Subject: international Development AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Uma Lele, University of Maryland Moderator: Alex McCalla, University of California, Davis Discussants: Laurian Unnevehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Alex McCalla, University of California, Davis Presentations: FAO´s role in international Agreements related to the Management of global Commons - Uma Lele, University of Maryland; Hans Gregersen, University of Minnesota; Trond Bjorndal, World Fish Center; Alex McCalla, University of California, Davis; Laurian Unnevehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign FAO´s role in Facilitating Trade Agreements and Their implementation - Cornelis Van Der Meer, World Bank; Bruce Gardner, University of Maryland at College Park; Alex McCalla, University of California, Davis; Laurian Unnevehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2062 riSkS TO FOrEST ECOSYSTEMS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E144 Subject: natural resource Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session This session explores economic aspects of risks to forest ecosystems, with a primary focus on wildfire and invasive species. Moderator: Claire A. Montgomery, Oregon State University Presentations: interaction of Private and Public Forest Fire risk Management Decisions - Gwenlyn M. Busby, Heidi Albers, and Claire A. Montgomery, Oregon State University Optimal Detection Strategies for an Established invasive Forest Pest - Frances Homans and Tetsuya Horie, University of Minnesota incorporating non-market values in Evaluation of Wildfire Suppression in the united States - Tyron Venn, University of Montana; David Calkin, Rocky Mountain Research Station Spatial Endogenous Fire risk and Efficient Fuel Management and Timber Harvest - Masashi Konoshima, Heidi Albers, Claire A. Montgomery, and Jeffrey Arthur, Oregon State University Subject: international Trade AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session use several approaches to evaluate how a variety of issues affect the trade of agricultural products in world markets. One paper provides a single commodity, spatial equilibrium model to assess the EU domestic policy for bananas. Moderator: Dragan Miljkovic, North Dakota State University 2063 ECOnOMiCS OF bEACH MAnAgEMEnT AnD COASTAl HAZArD MiTigATiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D133 Subject: natural resource Modeling and valuation AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: Martin Smith, Duke University; Craig Landry, East Carolina University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 72 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 2061 ECOnOMiC EFFECTS OF CrOSSSubSiDiZATiOn, WAgE inEQuAliTY, AnD Eu POliCY rEFOrM On TrADE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E142 TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Moderator: John Whitehead, Appalachian State University Discussants: Ju-Chin Huang, University of New Hampshire; George Parsons, University of Delaware Panelists: Craig Landry, East Carolina University; Sabina Shaikh, University of Chicago; Ju-Chin Huang, University of New Hampshire; George Parsons, University of Delaware Winners and losers Post Democracy in nigeria: A look at labor Market Outcomes - Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology 2064 CrOP inSurAnCE AnD POliCY iMPliCATiOnS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F149 Subject: Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session offer discussion on various crop insurance programs. The session examines the importance of GRIP, variability, asymmetric information, and planting restrictions on the crop insurance program. Moderator: James Whitaker, USDA- Economic Research Service Presentations: get a griP: Should Area revenue Coverage be Offered through the Farm bill or As a Crop insurance Program? Nick Paulson and Bruce Babcock, Iowa State University The Effects of Asymmetric information from the use of Transitional Yields in Crop insurance - Cory Walters, Richard Shumway, Hayley Chouinard, and Philip Wandschneider, Washington State University Policy implications of Crop Yield and revenue variability at Differing levels of Disaggregation - Keith Coble, Mississippi State University; Robert Dismukes, USDA-Economic Research Service 2066 AggrEgATE PrODuCTiviTY AnD POliCiES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D138 Subject: Productivity Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers investigate the impact of agricultural policies and alternative organizations of production on agricultural productivity. Moderator: Michele Marra, North Carolina State University Presentations: Productivity and Efficiency of Corporate and individual Farms in ukraine - Zvi Lerman, Hebrew University; David Sedik, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations net Farm income and Agricultural Productivity growth in the united States - Sean Cahill, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada An investigation of the Effects of Decoupling on Farms´ Technical inefficiencies - Teresa Serra, Centre de Recerca en Economia I Desenvolupament Agroalimentari; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley; José M. Gil, Centre de Recerca en Economia I Desenvolupament Agroalimentari 2065 POliTiCAl ECOnOMY iSSuES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E143 Subject: Political Economy AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session examine the political economy issues of farm program, labor markets, zoning, and Oregon´s measure 37. Moderator: TBD Presentations: The Spatial Distribution of the Conservation reserve Program: A Political Economy Approach - Keri Perez, North Carolina State University Efficient Compensation for regulatory Takings and Oregon’s Measure 37 - Jack Schieffer, The Ohio State University 2067 MEASurEMEnTS OF PrODuCTiOn PErFOrMAnCE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E148 Subject: Production Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session Moderator: Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Measuring the Efficiency Effects of banning Anti-microbial growth Promoters—The Case of Danish Pig Production Johannes Sauer, University of Copenhagen; Lartey Lawson, University of Copenhagen; Helen Jensen, Iowa State University; Peter Vig Jensen, University of Copenhagen Agricultural Production Functions and returns to Scale for Asian Countries in the SFA Framework - Zhen Xu and Wen Tu, Mississippi State University; Saleem Shaik, North Dakota State University Efficiency and returns to Scale Measurements with Shared inputs in Multi-activity Data Envelopment Analysis: An Application to Farmers´ Organizations in Taiwan - Shih- TuESdAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 73 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Hsun Hsu, National Taiwan University; Ching-Cheng Chang, Academia Sinica; Po-Chi Chen, Chung Hua University; Ming-Miin Yu, National Taiwan Ocean University Off-farm Work and Economic Performance: Comparing Crop and livestock Farms - Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, Richard Nehring, and Ken Erickson, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Potential Cost Savings from Discharge Permit Trading to Meet TMDls for Phosphorus in the Passaic river Watershed - Yukako Sado, Richard Boisvert, and Gregory Poe, Cornell University Water Quality Warnings and recreational Fishing: Effects over Time and across Space - Cameron Speir and Amy Ando, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Determination of least Cost Phosphorus Abatement Practices in a Watershed under Stochastic Conditions - Arthur Stoecker, Davis Marumo, Stella Machooka, Sierra Howry, Daniel Storm, and Michael White, Oklahoma State University The Optimal Combination and Placement of Conservation Practices: improving Water Quality under Climate Change in the upper Mississippi river basin - Sergey Rabotyagov, Manoj Jha, Catherine Kling, Eugene Takle, Hongli Feng, and Phil Gassman, Iowa State University 2068 ECOnOMETriC APPliCATiOnS TO THE ESTiMATiOn OF COST AnD PrODuCTiOn rElATiOnSHiPS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E146 Subject: research Methods/ Econometrics/Stats AAEA Selected Paper Session A variety of econometric methods are applied to models of firm behavior and production. Moderator: Kathy Baylis, University of British Columbia Presentations: Parametric regression or nonparametric locally Weighted regression Approaches to the Estimation of Marginal Cost Functions in Dairy Production? A Comparison of Estimation results - Christine Wieck, Washington State University; Thomas Heckelei, University of Bonn Testing for Threshold Effects in Parametric Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Models - Clément Yélou and Bruno Larue, Universite Laval; Kien Tran, University of Lethbridge Meta-regression Estimates for CgE Models: A Case Study for input Substitution Elasticities in Production Agriculture Raymond Florax and Kathryn Boys, Purdue University The Dynamics of Farm land Allocation—Short and long run reactions in a long Micro Panel - Soren Arnberg and Lars Gårn Hansen, Danish Institute of Governmental Research 2070 TCE SESSiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E145 Subject: Teaching, Communication, and Extension AAEA Selected Paper Session Moderator: Eluned Jones, Texas A&M University Presentations: Creating individualized Self-scoring Assessments for Agricultural Economics undergraduates - Mike Monson and Christian Boessen, University of Missouri at Columbia Factors Affecting increases in Economic literacy among High School Students - Claudia Parliament and Minh Wendt, University of Minnesota using Systems Thinking to Promote learning in Our Classrooms: reflections on an Experiment in land Economics - Leah Mathews, University of North Carolina at Asheville; Andrew Jones, Sustainability Institute Facilitating Classroom Economics Experiments with an Emerging Technology: The Case of Clickers - Donald Liu, J.D. Walker, Theresa Bauer, and Meng Zhao, University of Minnesota Subject: resource and Environmental Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session This session explores alternative practices to manage water quality. Moderator: TBD 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 74 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 2069 WATEr QuAliTY MAnAgEMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F150 TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. WAEA Sessions 2071 CurrEnT iSSuES in AniMAl AgriCulTurE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B110 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Jeanne Coulibaly, Purdue University Presentations: Effects of nutrient restrictions on Confined Animal Feeding Operations: insights from a Structural Model - Kenneth Baerenklau, Nermin Nergis, and Kurt Schwabe, University of California, Riverside Economic benefits of Animal Tracing in the Cattle Production Sector - Levan Elbakidze, Texas A&M University The Economic impacts of a Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak: A regional Analysis - Dustin Pendell, Colorado State University; Ted Schroeder and John Leatherman, Kansas State University Moderator: Tamizheniyan Suyambulingam, Washington State University Presentations: Yield Stability in kansas Wheat varieties, 1977-2006 - Andrew Barkley and Lawton Lanier Nalley, Kansas State University Determinants of Escaping Poverty and becoming Poor: Some Evidence from bangladesh - Tauhidur Rahman, University of Arizona; Dewan Arif Rashid, TANGO International implications of growth in China for the u.S. and Other Countries - Renan Zhuang and Won Koo, North Dakota State University 2075 PrODuCTiOn ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B118 2072 WESTErn PubliC lAnDS MAnAgEMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B111 WAEA Organized Symposium Natural Resource Economics Moderator: Myles Watts, Montana State University Presentations: Public land Management: lessons from the Past and implications for the Future - E. Bruce Godfrey, Utah State University Public land grazing Fees and Stewardship - Jeffrey LaFrance, University of California, Berkeley; Myles Watts, Montana State University WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Carlos Mayen, Purdue University Presentations: retirement and Adoption of More Technically Efficient irrigation Systems - Eric Schuck, Linfield College; Marshall Frasier, Richard Gratton, and Robert Ebel, Colorado State University groundwater Conservation and the impact of an irrigation Technology upgrade on the kansas High Plains Aquifer Sreedhar Upendram and Jeffrey Peterson, Kansas State University The impact of Whole-farm gross revenue insurance on Farm income variability - Jeffery Williams, Andrew Saffert, G. Art Barnaby, and Michael Langemeier, Kansas State University 2073 EMErging rESOurCE iSSuES in CHinA Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B112 Subject: resource and Environmental Policy Analysis WAEA Organized Symposium Moderator: David Buschena, Montana State University Presentations: groundwater Markets and groundwater Tables: The Case of northern China - Yang Liu and Qiuqiong Huang, University of Minnesota; Jinxia Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Scott Rozelle, Stanford University Offsetting reductions from kyoto and Then Some: Forecasts of China’s CO2 Emissions using Province level Data Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley; Richard Carson, University of California, San Diego 2076 AgriCulTurAl FinAnCE AnD FArM MAnAgEMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B119 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Yacob Zereyesus, Kansas State University Presentations: A Comprehensive Analysis of Farmland value Determination - Stephen Devadoss and Viswanadham Manchu, University of Idaho implications of Specialization, integration, and Size: Application of the Dupont Expansion at the Farm level - Ashok K. Mishra, Louisiana State University; Charles Moss, University of Florida; Ken Erickson, USDA-Economic Research Service The High Cost of regulation in California Agriculture: A Case Study for Produce - Lynn Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University Farm Household Wealth: A Farm-level Time-series and Cross-sectional Analysis - Ashok Mishra, Louisiana State University; Ken Erickson, USDA-Economic Research Service TuESdAy 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 2074 POliCY AnAlYSiS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B117 WAEA Selected Paper 75 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CAES Sessions 2079 DECiSiOn MAking On lAnD, SEA, AnD Air Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C122 CAES Selected Paper 2077 WHErE iS THE lEADing EDgE OF FArMing HEADing AnD WHAT DOES THiS MEAn FOr POliCY? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C120 Moderator: James Johnson, USDA-Economic Research Service Discussant: Douglas Hedley Presentations: A look at the Future: Million-dollar Farms in the united States - Robert Hoppe, USDA-Economic Research Service The Canadian Hog/Pork industry: Past Success and Future Challenges - Pierre Charlebois, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Drivers of Change in Farm business Structure: implications for Future Policy - Allan Gray and Michael Boehlje, Purdue University Moderator: Paul Thomassin, McGill University Presentations: Strategic Motives and the Canadian voluntary Climate registry (vCr) - Donna Ramirez Harrington, University of Guelph; Keith Brouhle, Grinnell College using a Multi-agent Simulation to Model bidder learning and Heterogeneous landscapes in a repeated Farmland Auction Markets - Adam Arsenault, James Nolan, and Richard Schoney, University of Saskatchewan Farm impact and Adaptation to Climatic Change in Quebec, Canada - Sebastien Rivest, Paul Thomassin, and Laurie Baker, McGill University A Cost benefit Analysis of a Fishing Safety Telecommunication System in Oman - Msafiri Mbaga, Sultan Qaboos University CAES Principal Paper 2078 COnSuMErS, EnErgY, AnD rESOurCES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C121 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Chantal Line Carpentier, NAFTA Council for Environmental Cooperation Presentations: Canadian Attitudes toward government intervention Policies in the biofuel Market - Gale West, Universite Laval; Danny Le Roy, University of Lethbridge; Bruno Larue, Universite Laval Economics of Establishing biorefineries in Western Canadian Prairies - Edmund Mupondwa, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Modeling Discrete Choices with Augmented Perception Hurdles - Wuyang Hu, University of Nevada at Reno 2080 THE EnvirOnMEnT On THE FArM Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C125 CAES Selected Paper Moderator: Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph Presentations: giS-based integrated Hydrologic and Economic Evaluation of the Tradeoffs between Wetland benefits and Agricultural returns - Aaron De Laporte, Alfons Weersink, and Wanhong Yang, University of Guelph Economic Assessment of Proposed Manure Phosphourus regulations for Manitoba’s Pig industry - Janelle Mann and Charles Grant, University of Manitoba The Economic impacts of Phosphorus regulations on Hog Producers - Anais Hacault and G.V. Johnson, University of Manitoba Functional Form, Site, and Year Effect on the Optimal nitrogen Application rate - Predrag Rajsic and Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 76 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Principal Paper 2081 EMPiriCAl rESEArCH in An inCrEASinglY COnCEnTrATED inDuSTriAl EnvirOnMEnT Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B116 research Methods/Econometrics/Stats Our profession is working in areas that are experiencing rapid concentration throughout the supply chain. As industries become more concentrated, access to data for empirical analysis becomes more restrictive. Besides the data requirements for the conduct of a traditional research agenda in the public interest, there are important new empirical questions—and hence additional data requirements—generated as a result of the increasing concentration. These include whether or not the increased concentration is leading to undue market power or cost reductions associated with economies of scale. The purpose of this session is to suggest new approaches for empirical research in a more concentrated agricultural system. Organizers: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service; Richard Just, University of Maryland at College Park; Jeffrey Perloff, University of California, Berkeley Moderator: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service Discussant: Sue Helper, Case Western Reserve University Presentations: researchability of Modern Agricultural input Markets with growing Concentration - Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, USDAEconomic Research Service; Richard Just, University of Maryland at College Park Agricultural Contracts: Data and research needs - Brent Hueth, University of Wisconsin; Ethan Ligon, University of California, Berkeley; Carolyn Dimitri, USDA-Economic Research Service Concentration and Studies of Consumer and retail Firm behavior - Jeffrey Perloff, University of California, Berkeley; Mark Denbaly, USDA-Economic Research Service AAEA Sessions for discussions and opinions of the audience on their own estimates of the supply/demand and price situation for these commodities. Organizer: Henry Bahn, USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Moderator: Henry Bahn, USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service Presentations: Corn Situation and Outlook - Robert Wisner, Iowa State University Soybean Situation and Outlook - Matthew Roberts, The Ohio State University Wheat Situation and Outlook - Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State University Premiere Forecaster Award Presentation - Ronald Plain, University of Missouri 2083 FOOD PrODuCT COMPOSiTiOn: HOW DOES iT rESPOnD TO POliCY? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B115 Track: FAMPS/FSn AAEA Organized Symposium This symposium considers how food product composition may be influenced by agricultural and food policies, with possible implications for dietary quality and public health. Agricultural and food policies shape product composition by making some ingredients cheaper than others, by regulating food markets, by providing information to consumers, or by generating new technologies. Changes in product content or formulation can alter diet quality, with possible consequences for public health. Organizers: Laurian Unnevehr, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign; Elise Golan, USDA-Economics Research Service Moderator: Elise Golan, USDA-Economics Research Service Presentations: Transfat in Processed Foods - Laurian Unnevehr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Milk Component Pricing and Milkfat in u.S. Diets - Brian Gould, University of Wisconsin at Madison increase in Added Sugars in Processed Foods - Helen Jensen, Iowa State University 2082 EXTEnSiOn CrOPS OuTlOOk Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B113 Track: EXT AAEA Organized Symposium The Extension Outlook symposia have been an integral part of the AAEA meetings for more than two decades. Presentations will highlight the price outlook for feed grains, soybeans, and wheat. The impact of high oil prices, soybean rust, and expansion of biofuels production should be of special interest to attendees. Time will be reserved TuESdAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 77 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions 2086 lEADing WEb SiTES AnD AnAlYSiS TOOlS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A105 Economics, Statistics, and information resources Committee Session AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: William Edwards, Iowa State University This session, sponsored by the Economics, Statistics, and Information Resources Committee, features three presentations. Each presentation will last 30 minutes and attendees are invited to attend each presentation independently and should arrive at the beginning of the presentation. A limited number of laptops will be provided for demonstration purposes. The three topics covered in this session are: 3:30 – 4:00 pm: Award-winning Extension Web sites - Enjoy an overview of selected extension web sites that have been judged best in their class. Presented by William Edwards, Iowa State University 4:00 – 4:30 pm: Fast: A Suite of Farm Financial Decision Tools - FAST tools are a suite of decision aids used to assist farm advisors, lenders, consultants, and producers in performing financial analysis, assessing investment decisions, and evaluating the impacts of various management decisions. Presented by Paul Ellinger, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign 4:30 – 5:00 pm: keeping Current with the literature and news Sources using Simple Technology Tools - Learn how your e-mail, RSS, and feed readers can help you to keep track of updates from your high-priority sources. Presented by Julia Kelly, University of Minnesota 2084 THE rOlE OF DECOuPlED PAYMEnTS in THE POliCiES OF OECD COunTriES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A109 Track: inT AAEA Organized Symposium Organizers: James Whitaker and Edwin Young, USDAEconomic Research Service Discussant: Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis Presentations: Decoupled Payments and Agricultural Policy reform in korea - Song Soo Lim, Korea Rural Economic Institute u.S. Agricultural Policy: Overview and recent Analyses Edwin Young, USDA-Economic Research Service The impact of Decoupling and Modulation in the Enlarged European union: A Sectoral and Farm level Assessment (iDEMA) - Ewa Rabinowicz, Swedish Institute for Food and Agricultural Economics 2085 TOPiCS in CliMATE CHAngE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C126 Track: AErE AAEA Organized Symposium Organizer: Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future Moderator: Gregmar Galinato, Washington State University Discussants: Gregmar Galinato, Washington State University; Chris Bouquot, West Virginia University; Andreas Lange, University of Maryland at College Park; Glen Sheriff, Columbia University Presentations: Potential Profit and Carbon Sequestration from Appalachian regional reforestation initiative - Chris Bouquot and Mark Sperow, West Virginia University Optimal resource Extraction with learning-by-Doing in a Substitute Technology - Andrew Leach, University of Alberta; Ujjayant Chakravorty, University of Hawaii; Michel Moreaux, Industrial Economic Institute Comparing Climate impacts across Countries in South America - Flavio Avila, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation On the Self-Serving use of Equity Principles in international Climate negotiations - Andreas Lange, University of Maryland; Andreas Loeschel, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies; Carsten Vogt, Centre for European Economic Research; Andreas Ziegler, University of Lübeck 2087 TOPiCS in AgribuSinESS rESEArCH Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D135 Subject: Agribusiness Economics and Management AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers explore wide-ranging issues relevant to agribusiness managers. Interesting case studies highlight important concepts. Moderator: Maria Marshall, Purdue University Presentations: long Memory in Agricultural Commodity Futures Price volatility: robust Estimates and implications for Option Pricing - Gabriel Power and Calum Turvey, Cornell University lending to Agribusinesses in Zambia - Brian Mwanamambo and Victoria Salin, Texas A&M University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 78 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions 2088 WHAT´S FOr DinnEr TOnigHT? WHAT TO EAT, AnD WHErE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D134 Subject: Consumer/Household Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session The papers in this session examine changing consumer preferences for food. Moderator: Christopher Davis, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Evidences of Changes in Preferences among beef Cuts varieties - Oscar Ferrara and Ronald W. Ward, University of Florida A Dynamic Analysis of Food Demand Patterns in urban China - Hui Liao and Wen Chern, The Ohio State University Determinants of Food Away from Home among AfricanAmericans - Calvert Pert and Sanjib Bhuyan, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Consumer Demand for Meat Cuts and Seafood - Christopher Davis, USDA-Economic Research Service; Steven Yen, University of Tennessee; Biing-Hwan Lin, USDA-Economic Research Service 2090 biOMASS MODEling FOr biOEnErgY POliCY AnAlYSES: AnAlYTiCAl iSSuES AnD CHAllEngES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E141 Subject: Emerging Technologies AAEA Organized Symposium This session will provide a discussion of the existing economic models dealing with biomass in energy and agricultural policy analysis. The session will highlight model and data issues from established U.S. research programs focusing on energy and agricultural policy analysis. The thrust of the session will be forward looking and the panelist presentations will focus on current and future modeling extensions, new and emerging policy issues, and key model and data challenges facing economists in this emerging field. Organizer: Aziz Elbehri, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: Aziz Elbehri, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: biomass and Environmental Policy Modeling—An Application of FASOMgHg Model - Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University biomass and Agriculture Policy Analysis—The Case of POlYSYS Model - Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, University of Tennessee The role of biomass in Energy Policy Analysis—The Case of nEMS Model - Aziz Elbehri, USDA-Economic Research Service; Zia Haq, U.S. Department of Energy 2089 COMMODiTY PriCES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D136 Subject: Demand and Price Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session Assessing market performance. Moderator: Walter Thurman, North Carolina State University Presentations: Announcement Effects and the Theory of Storage: An Empirical Study of lumber Futures - Berna Karali and Walter Thurman, North Carolina State University impacts of Quality Characteristics on u.S. Cotton Prices and value - Ya Wu, Lewell Gunter, and W. Donald Shurley, University of Georgia Forecast Performance of Futures Price Models for Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat - Linwood Hoffman, USDA-Economic Research Service; Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign; Jose Toasa, George Washington University 2091 PAYMEnTS FOr EnvirOnMEnTAl SErviCES: A Win-Win OPPOrTuniTY FOr AgriCulTurAl DEvElOPMEnT AnD FOOD SECuriTY? Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E148 Subject: Environmental Economics AAEA Organized Symposium FAO’s 2007 State of Food and Agriculture Report special topic is the increasingly popular concept of payments for ecosystem services (PES). The report focuses on three issues: 1) Are expanded environmental services compatible with development objectives, including poverty reduction?; 2) How big payment flows to developing countries are likely to be; and 3) The reforms needed so that PES programs contribute to agricultural development and poverty reduction objectives. After an overview, the remaining three presentations report on the design of efficient payments, poverty reduction consequences, and the record to date for payments programs. Organizer: Gerald Nelson, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign TuESdAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 79 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Presentations: Environmental Services, Payments, and Developing Country Agriculture - Prabhu Pingali, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Measuring Ecosystem Services to implement Efficient Payment Mechanisms - John Antle, Montana State University The Distributional Effects of Payments for Environmental Services Programs - David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley Do Payments for Environmental Services in Agriculture Work? - Gerald Nelson, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign The third model uses ARMS data and focuses on the hog industry from the perspective of farmers. The attributes of each modeling approach will be discussed, such as data requirements, data aggregation, required assumptions, and solution methods. Organizer: Mary Muth, RTI International Moderator: Mary Muth, RTI International Presenters: Gary Brester, Montana State University; Michael Wohlgenant and Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University 2092 COnSErvATiOn TArgETing Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D137 Subject: Environmental Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session The session provides perspective on land conservation issues. Moderator: John Westra, Louisiana State University Presentations: Allocating Conservation resources under the Endangered Species Act - Christian Langpap, Tulane University; Joe Kerkvliet, Oregon State University reducing Crop nutrient “Safety Margin” Applications: The Yield reserve Program - Todd Metcalfe, Darrell Bosch, and James Pease, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Exploring the Cost Effectiveness of land Conservation Auctions and Payment Policies - Jeffery Connor, John Ward, and Brett Bryan, CSIRO Land and Water 2094 POliCY, inFrASTruCTurE, AnD TECHnOlOgY OPTiOnS FOr THE AlTErnATivE EnErgY SECTOr Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A107 Subject: Food and Agricultural Marketing AAEA Organized Symposium This session will investigate: 1) competitive trade-offs between corn-ethanol and biomass-ethanol, including infrastructure requirements; 2) policy aspects of formulating bio-fuels subsidies based on energy content; and 3) the application of the cooperative business model to organize and finance wind turbine sites. Organizer: Julie Hogeland, USDA-Rural Development Moderator: Julie Hogeland, USDA-Rural Development Presentations: The Evolution of the Cooperative business Model for u.S. Wind Energy Development: retrospective and Prospects Alan Borst, USDA-Rural Development biofuel Policy issues - Wallace Tyner, Purdue University Expected infrastructure requirements for the u.S. Ethanol industry - Roger Ginder, Iowa State University 2093 MODEling THE EFFECTS OF rESTriCTing livESTOCk MArkETing METHODS: A COMPAriSOn OF THrEE MODElS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C124 Subject: Food and Agricultural Marketing AAEA Organized Symposium This session compares and evaluates models that use different approaches to measuring the effects of restricting alternative marketing arrangements in the meat industry. The first model uses aggregate industry data and focuses on linked stages of the beef industry in an equilibrium displacement modeling approach. The second model uses MPR data and focuses on linked stages of the hog industry. 2095 DETErMinAnTS OF FOOD CHOiCES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D138 Subject: Food Safety and nutrition AAEA Selected Paper Session This session examines the many factors that influence household food choices, and the health outcomes associated with those choices. Moderator: Lisa Mancino, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: Demographics and lifestyles in Consumers´ nutrition Consideration in Food Selection - Arbindra Rimal, Southwest Missouri State University; Wanki Moon, Southern Illinois University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 80 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Food Away from Home Consumption and Obesity: An Analysis by Service Type and by Meal Occasion - Gayaneh Kyureghian and Rodolfo Nayga, Texas A&M University; BiingHwan Lin, USDA-Economic Research Service; George Davis, Texas A&M University Does Where We live Matter?: understanding the link between Obesity and the Market for Food - Susan Chen and Samantha Snyder, Purdue University Maternal Human Capital and Childhood nutritional Deprivation: A Multi-level Modeling Approach - Sundar Shrestha and Jill Findeis, Pennsylvania State University new Product introductions and Market Concentration in u.S. Food industry - Haimanti Bhattacharya and Robert Innes, University of Arizona Deficiency Payments and Market Power: Effects of imperfect Competition on Welfare Distribution and Decoupling - Carlo Russo, University of California, Davis retail Services and Food Prices: A Structural Approach Alessandro Bonanno and Rigoberto A. Lopez, University of Connecticut 2096 FArM AnD OFF-FArM WOrk DECiSiOnS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D140 Subject: Human Capital and labor AAEA Selected Paper Session This session explores various factors influencing the farm and off-farm work decisions and productivity impacts of workers Moderator: Wallace Huffman, Iowa State University Presentations: Firm Size, Technical Change, and Wages: Evidence from the Pork Sector from 1990-2005 - Li Yu, Iowa State University; Terrance Hurley, University of Minnesota; Peter Orazem and James Kliebenstein, Iowa State University intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations and Participation in Offfarm Work among u.S. Farm Women - Latika Bharadwaj and Jill Findeis, Pennsylvania State University nonpecuniary benefits to Farming and Decoupled Payments - Nigel Key and Michael Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service 2098 CAPPing THE CAP EFFECTS: CHAngES in FOOD AnD FibEr SECTOrS in THE nEW MEMbEr STATES AnD THEir nOn-Eu nEigHbOrS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D133 Subject: international Development AAEA Organized Symposium Gyongi Kurthy focuses on the effects of the second pillar of the CAP, i.e., payments that aim at rural development. The need for matching funds present a challenge in using these funds. Agricultural trade gains will be discussed by Mieczyslaw Adamowicz including effects on economic growth, farm sector, and regional differences. Expectations of the farming community in the neighboring non-EU member countries (Vladimir Kovalchuk) focus on trade and adjustments in the crop mix and farm structure. Organizer: Wojciech Florkowski, University of Georgia Moderator: Zbigniew Bochniarz, University of Minnesota Panelists: Mieczyslaw Adamowicz, Warsaw Agricultural University; Judith Stallmann, University of Missouri at Columbia; Masahiko Gemma, Waseda University 2097 COnTribuTiOnS in EMPiriCAl AnAlYSiS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E147 Subject: industrial Organization/Supply Chain Management AAEA Selected Paper Session This session offers a menu of innovative empirical approaches to addressing important industrial organization issues in the food marketing chain. Moderator: Jeffrey Reimer, Oregon State University Presentations: Spatial Competition in Private labels - Timothy Richards and Paul Patterson, Arizona State University; Stephen Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University 2099 rESEArCH in PArTnErSHiP WiTH FAiTH-bASED ngOS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F151 Subject: international Development AAEA Organized Symposium Agricultural economics and international development research in partnership with faith-based NGOs presents myriad issues for academics and the NGOs themselves. This session will address the research and information needs of faith-based NGOs, highlight the very different models of effective partnerships between economists (from academia or from NGO staff or consultancies, etc) and program managers and policy makers, and discuss the potential contribution of collaborative applied economics research to the programs of NGOs. TuESdAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 81 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Organizer: Paul McNamara, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Moderator: Paul Wilson, University of Arizona Discussant: Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology Presentations: Pastoralism and Poverty—research informing Practice Douglas Brown, World Vision Canada Do Faith-based ngOs represent a replicable Example for the Delivery of Public Services? An Application to Health Care Delivery in Developing Countries - Kenneth Leonard, University of Maryland at College Park A research Partnership to Measure the Prevalence and Health impacts of Food insecurity among Hiv/AiDS Patients in Delhi, india - Paul McNamara, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Anil Cherian, Emmanuel Hospital Association; Joel Cuffey, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign The papers in this session deal with several topical areas that affect agricultural trade. One paper estimates the demand for chilled fish fillets by country of origin for the EU. Moderator: Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University Presentations: An Anatomy of Morocco´s Agricultural Trade growth Xinshen Diao, International Food Policy Research Institute; Agapi Somwaru, USDA-Economic Research Service; Niachia Li and Terry Roe, University of Minnesota improving Transportation infrastructure in brazil: An Analysis using Spatial Equilibrium Model on the Soybean World Market - Rafael Costa and Parr Rosson, Texas A&M University Estimation and Analysis of rational Expectations Model of international Cotton Market - Oleksiy Tokovenko, Dmitry Vedenov, and Lewell Gunter, University of Georgia international Trade and Competitiveness of lake victoria Fillets in the Eu - Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University 2100 ECOnOMiC grOWTH AnD gEnDEr iSSuES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E143 Subject: international Development AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session examine issues related to economic growth as well as the role of gender in agriculture. Moderator: Ereney Hadjigeorgalis, New Mexico State University Presentations: Economic growth under globalization: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis - Renan Zhuang and Won Koo, North Dakota State University Short-term investments in Agriculture: is There a gender bias? - Priya Bhagowalia, Susan Chen, and Gerald Shively, Purdue University Promoting Sustainable Pro-poor growth in rwandan Agriculture: What Are the Policy Options? - Michael Morris and Liz Drake, World Bank; Xinshen Diao, International Food Policy Research Institute; Kene Ezemenari, World Bank 2102 EXCHAngE rATES AnD HEDging DECiSiOnS: iMPACT On iMPOrTS AnD PriCES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room D139 Subject: international Trade AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers examine the effects of exchange rate passthrough on the domestic prices of meat products in Japan, nominal and real exchange rate change by China, the effectiveness of hedging, and the effects of NAFTA and exchange rate changes on Mexican maize imports. Moderator: TBD Presentations: The Exchange rate Pass-through into import Prices: The Case of Japanese Meat imports - Dragan Miljkovic and Renan Zhuang, North Dakota State University nominal and real Exchange rate Change by China: global Agricultural impacts on Prices - Stephen MacDonald and Ralph Seeley, USDA-Economic Research Service Hedging Decisions of importing Firms for u.S. Commodity with Multiple risks: The Case of Soybeans - Qiang Zhang, Michael Reed, and Leigh Maynard, University of Kentucky Exchange rate Sensitivity of Mexican Maize imports from the united States - Rakhal Sarker, University of Guelph Subject: international Trade AAEA Selected Paper Session 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 82 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 2101 iMPACT OF DEMAnD, TrAnSPOrTATiOn, AnD grOWTH On TrADE Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E142 TuESdAy Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions 2103 ECOnOMiCS OF lAnD AnD WATEr rESOurCES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E144 Subject: natural resource Economics AAEA Selected Paper Session This session explores various aspects of the economics of land and water resources, with a primary focus on resource conservation and management. Moderator: Andrew Plantinga, Oregon State University Presentations: groundwater Pumping by Heterogeneous users - Alexander Saak and Jeffrey Peterson, Kansas State University resilience, uncertainty, and the role of Economics in Ecosystem Management - Nicholas Brozovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University natural resources Endowment and Economic growth in the Southeastern united States - Valentina Hararska, Vaughn Elliot, and Conner Bailey, Auburn University land Trusts Policy: is it Socially Optimal? - Yanay Farja and Gordon Rausser, University of California, Berkeley 2105 EMErging iSSuES in AniMAl HEAlTH ECOnOMiCS: TOPiCAl AnD METHODOlOgiCAl COnSiDErATiOnS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C122 Subject: Policy Analysis AAEA Organized Symposium The depth and complexity of emerging animal health issues are creating increased needs for information and tools to support decision making, particularly in developing countries. The organized symposia will review a number of key issues related to informational gaps in the area of animal health, including modalities for domestic and international responses to disease, mechanisms for promoting compensation programs, an assessment of relevant disease priorities, and the impacts of alternative strategies for disease control on different groups of stakeholders, and discuss new, innovative frameworks to think through some of these issues. Organizers: Karl Rich, International Livestock Research Institute; Alex Winter-Nelson, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Moderator: Karl Rich, International Livestock Research Institute Panelists: Karl Rich, International Livestock Research Institute; Alex Winter-Nelson, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Presentations: international responses to Animal Health Emergencies - Alex Winter-Nelson, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign; Karl Rich, International Livestock Research Institute Priorities for Pro-poor Animal Disease Control Efforts - Karl Rich, Brian Perry, and Jeffrey Mariner, International Livestock Research Institute; Lovell Jarvis, University of California, Davis Modalities for Compensation to Control the Spread of Animal Diseases: The Case of Highly Pathogenic Avian influenza - Christopher Delgado, World Bank; Clare Narrod, International Food Policy Research Institute; Patricia McKenzie and Cornelis De Haan, World Bank; Anni McLeod and Ana Riviere-Cinnamond, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Devesh Roy, International Food Policy Research Institute; Karl Rich, International Livestock Research Institute Future Demands on Epidemiology and Economics to Analyze Animal Disease: A research Agenda - Karl Rich, International Livestock Research Institute; Alex WinterNelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lovell Jarvis and Andres Perez, University of California, Davis 2104 DYnAMiC inTErACTiOnS bETWEEn rESiDEnTiAl DEvElOPMEnT AnD nATurAl AMEniTiES: rEFlECTiOnS On EXPEriEnCES in lAkE-riCH lAnDSCAPES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E145 Subject: natural resource Modeling and valuation AAEA Organized Symposium This symposium brings together researchers studying interactions among natural amenities, residential property values, and development decisions, migration and demographic trends, and management of local economies and ecosystems. Emphasis is given to studies of lake-rich regions and dynamic interactions among land conversion decisions, lake amenities, and lake management strategies. Panelists will compare and contrast research findings and management responses in different regions and reflect on future research needs. Organizer: Kathleen Bell, University of Maine TuESdAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Panelists: Kathleen Bell, University of Maine; Elena Irwin, The Ohio State University; Bill Provencher and David Lewis, University of Wisconsin at Madison 83 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Panelists: Mark Stephenson, Cornell University; Geoff Benson, North Carolina State University; Bruce Jones, University of Wisconsin; L.J. Butler, University of California, Davis 2106 iMPliCATiOnS OF POliCiES in ASiA, AuSTrAliA, AnD AFriCAn COnTinEnTS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F149 Subject: Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session use information from various sources to examine the impacts of avian flu, bio-ethanol, off-farm labor market, and privatization on the respective countries’ economy. Moderator: Joe Balagtas, Purdue University Presentations: The Potential Economic impact of Avian Flu Pandemic on Taiwan - Ching-Cheng Chang, Academia Sinica; HsingChun Lin, National Chiayi University; Duu-Hwa Lee, Aletheia University An Economy-wide Analysis of increasing bio-ethanol Production in Taiwan - Shih-Hsun Hsu, National Taiwan University; Ching-Cheng Chang, Academia Sinica; HsingChun Lin, National Chiayi University; Duu-Hwa Lee, Aletheia University; Huey-Lin Lee, National Institute For Environmental Studies income growth and Mobility of rural Households in kenya: role of Persistence, Human Capital, and Access to the Off-farm labor Market - Mary Mathenge, Michigan State University Economic Evaluation of new Technologies and Promotions in the Australian Sheep and Wool industries - Stuart Mounter, University of New England, Australia 2108 nEW APPrOACHES TO ESTiMATiOn Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room E146 Subject: research Methods/ Econometrics/Stats AAEA Selected Paper Session A potpourri of econometric applications featuring new and innovative methods are applied to a consideration of price and market relationships. Moderator: TBD Presentations: Forecasting Housing Prices under Alternative Submarket Structures - Zhuo Chen, University of Chicago; Seong-Hoon Cho, Neelam Poudyal, and Roland Roberts, University of Tennessee Fed Cattle Price Discovery: Directed Acyclic graph and Time Series Modeling - Andrew Lee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Man-Keun Kim, University of Maryland at College Park Phase Space reconstruction and nonlinear Equilibrium Dynamics in the united States beef Market - Michael McCullough, Washington State University; Thomas Marsh and Ray Huffaker, Washington State University A Comparison of rAS And Entropy Methods in updating iO Tables - Syud Ahmed and Paul Preckel, Purdue University 2107 DAirY rESOurCE MAnAgEMEnT: A COMPArATivE AnAlYSiS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room A108 Subject: Production Economics AAEA Organized Symposium The introductory presentation will provide an overview of what is known about the relative number and competitiveness of U.S. dairies based on farm-level data. It will describe and compare conventional, organic, and pasture-based dairies and assess their relative competitiveness. Four presentations by panel members will follow, with discussion regarding trends in their respective regions: the northeast, the south, the upper midwest, and the west. Organizers: Richard Nehring, USDA-Economic Research Service; Jeffrey Gillespie, Louisiana State University; Carmen Sandretto, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: Loren Tauer, Cornell University 2109 ECOnOMiC MODEl uSing SPATiAl AnAlYSiS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room F150 Subject: resource and Environmental Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Session TuESdAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. This session explores application of various economic models in a geo-statistical framework. Moderator: Christopher Dumas, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Presentations: bayesian and Frequentist Approaches to Hedonic Modeling in a geo-Statistical Framework - Gaurav Ghosh and Fernando Carriazo-Osorio, Pennsylvania State University A Detailed Hydro-economic Model for Assessing the Effects of Surface Water and groundwater Policies: A Demonstration Model from brazil - Marco Maneta, Marcelo Torres, Richard Howitt, Stephen Vosti, and Wesley Wallender, University of California, Davis 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 84 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. AAEA Sessions Evaluating the impact of government land use Policies on Tree Canopy Coverage - Jeffrey Dorfman, Elizabeth Hill, and Elizabeth Kramer, University of Georgia 2110 riSk AnD CHOiCE: THEOrY AnD APPliCATiOnS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room C123 Subject: risk and uncertainty AAEA Selected Paper Session Papers in this session deal with various topics in risk and choice. Moderator: Holly Wang, Washington State University Presentations: Joint Estimation of risk Preferences and Technology: Flexible utility or Futility? - Sergio Lence, Iowa State University A broad Assessment of Moral Hazard in Crop insurance using Administrative Data - Michael Roberts, Erik O’Donoghue, and Nigel Key, USDA-Economic Research Service The Effects of uncertainty and Contract Structure in Specialty grain Markets - Nick Paulson and Bruce Babcock, Iowa State University Average vs. Marginal risk Aversion: reconciling Simultaneously risk Averse and risk loving behavior - Travis Lybbert, University of California, Davis; David Just, Cornell University 2111 EXPAnDing THE rEACH OF ECOnOMiC iMPACT AnAlYSiS FOr EXTEnSiOn PrOgrAMS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B114 Subject: Teaching, Communication, and Extension AAEA Organized Symposium Extension Services are seeking to document their public value. This symposium addresses these questions: 1) How can we develop a national network to do more public value, economic impact, or benefit-cost analyses on Cooperative Extension Service programs? 2) How can we best work with extension administrators to develop a system for implementing economic analyses of extension programs? 3) How can we deliver training programs to enhance the capacity for doing these analyses? The three panelists will share ideas on each question and then open it for group discussion. Half the time will be spent in discussion with participants. Organizer: George Morse, University of Minnesota Moderator: Walter Armbruster, Farm Foundation Panelists: Laura Kalambokidis, University of Minnesota; Dean McCorkle, Texas A&M University; George Morse, University of Minnesota TuESdAy 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 85 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 Tuesday, July 31, 2007 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. WAEA Sessions 2112 FOOD AnD AgriCulTurAl MArkETing Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B110 2115 FArM POliCY iSSuES Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B117 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Kristina Kreutzer, Purdue University Presentations: Do We Expect Differential impacts of Farm Programs on Agriculture land values across Mountain States? - Saleem Shaik, North Dakota State University north American Trade Suspension Agreement and Winter Tomato Supply response - Gary Thompson, Satheesh Aradhyula, and Russ Tronstad, University of Arizona The impact of research returns across Time and Space: A Computable general Equilibrium Study of Cattle research in Colorado - Eihab Fathelrahman, USDA-Agricultural Research Services; Dana Hoag and Stephen Davies, Colorado State University WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Christiane Schroeter, Arkansas State University Presentations: Analyzing the Effects of State Dependence and Heterogeneity in Consumers´ Organic and Conventional Fresh Produce Choices using Household level Scanner Data - Yuko Onozaka, Colorado State University; David Bunch and Douglas Larson, University of California, Davis Consumption of Milk Products in urban China - Junfei Bai and Thomas Wahl, Washington State University The impact of Economic Factors on Obesity and Consumer Health: An Empirical Analysis - Christiane Schroeter, Arkansas State University; Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University 2116 2113 nATurAl rESOurCE ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B111 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: J.William Levedahl, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: regional Economic Development and net Economic values of Public Access to Colorado Fourteeners - Catherine Keske and John Loomis, Colorado State University Spatial limits of the TCM revisited: island Effects - John Loomis and Juan Gonzalez, Colorado State University; Armando Gonzalez-Caban, USDA-Forest Fire Laboratory Spatial Dependence in Hedonic Property Models: Do Different Corrections for Spatial Dependence result in Economically Significant Differences in Estimated implicit Prices? - Julie Mueller, Galen University; John Loomis, Colorado State University THE 2007 FArM bill: iMPliCATiOnS FOr AgriCulTurE AnD COnSErvATiOn in THE WEST Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B118 WAEA Organized Symposium Policy Analysis Organizer: Vincent Smith, Montana State University Moderator: Vincent Smith, Montana State University Presentations: Commodity Programs in the 2007 Farm bill: implications for Western Agriculture - Joseph Glauber, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist Conservation Policy and the 2007 Farm bill: implications for the West - George Frisvold, University of Arizona Trade Policy and the 2007 Farm bill: Possible Consequences for Western Agriculture - Colin Carter, University of California, Davis Science Policy in the 2007 Farm bill and Agricultural Productivity in the West - Philip Pardey, University of Minnesota 2114 nATurAl rESOurCE ECOnOMiCS Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B112 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Naga Tosakana, University of Idaho Presentations: A Comparison of Parametric and non-parametric Estimates of Willingness to Pay for recreation Site Attributes in the Caribbean national Forest - Miguel Henry, University of Idaho; Jonathan Yoder, Washington State University Disparate Stakeholder Management of Wildlife issues in the Southern greater Yellowstone Area - Lynne Koontz, U.S. Department of the Interior; Dana Hoag, Colorado State University Transferability vs. non-transferability: The benefits of using a lottery vs. Prices to Distribute a Public good - Adrienne Ohler, Hayley Chouinard, and Jonathan Yoder, Washington State University 2117 FOOD AnD AgriCulTurAl MArkETing Oregon Convention Center Meeting Room B119 WAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Armenak Markosyan, Washington State University Presentations: The role of Consumer risk Perceptions and Attitudes in Cross Cultural beef Consumption Changes - Ted Schroeder, Kansas State University; Glynn Tonsor, Michigan State University; Joost Pennings, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign; James Mintert, Kansas State University Demand for Produce Differentiated by Production Process, nutritional Content, and Source: Factors Affecting Consumer Willingness to Pay - Dawn Thilmany, Jennifer Keeling Bond, Katie Ryan, and Craig Bond, Colorado State University identifying Consumer Preferences for Shelf-label information - Joshua Berning, Jill McCluskey, and Hayley Chouinard, Washington State University 2007 AAEA, WAEA, CAES Joint Annual Meeting • Portland, Oregon • July 29 - August 1 86 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. TuESdAy