Nanotechnology has tremendous potential in food and agriculture. Few economic studies focused on specific products made using nanotechnology, let alone food or food related products. Using a national choice experiment survey, this analysis examines consumers’ valuations for nano-attributes. As...

This poster summarizes the parameter estimates from a hedonic pricing model of shell eggs.

Satellite-detected luminosity is sometimes used to proxy for economic activity although only recently within the mainstream economics literature (Henderson et al., 2012). If this method works it holds great promise for developing countries with weak statistical systems that face difficulties in...

The literature on the impacts of biofuels on food prices is characterized by contradictory findings and a wide range of estimates. To bring more clarity to this issue, we review studies on U.S. corn ethanol expansion released between 2008 and 2013. Normalizing corn price impacts by the increase...

We develop a theoretical and empirical model to measure the benets and costs of policy options for controlling a seedborne, imported fungus, Verticillium dahliae, seriously aecting lettuce production in California. In 1995, the disease Verticillium wilt, caused by the fungus V. dahliae,...