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Kristin Kiesel and Colleagues Receive USDA Grant to Promote "Farm to Fork" Food Business Incubator in Sacramento
Nov. 21, 2016
Kristin Kiesel has collaborated on a new USDA grant to incubate "farm-to-fork" businesses for low-income communities in Sacramento's Promise Zone, which encompasses one of the most economically hardest‐hit ...
Katrina Jessoe, Ed Taylor and Dale Manning Find Evidence That Climate Change Will Alter Labor Allocations in Rural Mexico, Including Migration
Nov. 21, 2016
The study, published in The Economic Journal, uses a 28-year panel on individual employment and daily weather-station readings to test the impacts of weather shocks on labor allocations. It finds ...
Jens Hilscher and Mungo Wilson Propose a New Measure of Systematic Credit Risk
Nov. 21, 2016
The study shows that a straightforward and easy-to-implement and interpret measure of default probability contains significantly more information about future default and failure than S&P corporate credit ratings. The authors ...
Aaron Smith and Colleagues Explain Why Grain Futures Contracts Fail to Accurately Price Commodities
Nov. 21, 2016
The failure of U.S. grain futures contracts to properly price commodities has spurred considerable controversy in agricultural futures markets and raised questions over the value of grain futures contracts ...
Assets and Market Access Innovation Lab Team Wins BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence
Nov. 10, 2016
Michael Carter, ARE professor and director of the Assets and Market Access (AMA) Innovation Lab (formally BASIS CRSP), is part of a team of researchers who received the 2016 Board ...
Philip Martin Discusses Farm Labor and Illegal Migration With the New York Times
Oct. 31, 2016
Philip Martin, chairman of the Comparative Immigration and Integration Program and editor of the newsletters Migration News and Rural Migration News, responds to New York Times writer Eduardo Porter's ...
Shermain Hardesty Collaborates with UCCE Team to Study the Economic Impact of Local Food Producers
July 22, 2016
The key findings indicate that, for every dollar of sales, Sacramento Region direct marketers are generating twice as much economic activity within the region, as compared to producers who are ...
Ashish Shenoy Joins ARE Faculty
May 25, 2016
Ashish Shenoy joined the ARE department as an assistant professor on July 1, 2016. Ashish earned a B.A. in Economics at Stanford and a Ph.D. in Economics at ...
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Identification of Average Demand Models
January 23, 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Sébastien Pouliot, Iowa State University
Estimating Willingness to Pay for E85 in the United States
January 26, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Cristina Gualdani, University College London
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January 27, 3:30 PM - 4:50 PM
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Recent Publications
The Dual of the Maximum Likelihood Method
Q. Paris. Open Journal of Statistics, 6 (2016): 186-193.
Commercial and Industrial Demand Response Under Mandatory Time‐of‐Use Electricity Pricing
K. Jessoe, D. Rapson. The Journal of Industrial Economics 63 (3) (2015): 397-421.
J. Cuffey, T.K.M. Beatty, L. Harnack. Public Health Nutrition, (2015)1-16.
Where and How Index Insurance Can Boost the Adoption of Improved Agricultural Technologies
M.R. Carter, L. Cheng, and A. Sarris. Journal of Development Economics, 118, (2016): 59–71.
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