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AgManager: Dan O'Brien's Reading List


Ag Economics Reading List for 2007

Title and Reference
Azzam, A., and J. Schroeter. (1991) "Implications of Increased Regional Concentration and Oligopsonistic Coordination in the Beef Packing Industry," Western Journal of Agricultural Economics. 16(2):374-381.
Babcock, M., J. Bunch, J. Sanderson, and J. Witt. (2003) ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF RAILROAD ABANDONMENT ON RURAL KANSAS COMMUNITIES, Kansas Department of Transportation Report No. KS-03-4.
Babcock, M. and J. Sanderson. (2004) THE IMPACT OF JUMBO COVERED HOPPER CARS ON KANSAS SHORT-LINE RAILROADS, Report by Kansas Department of Transportation and Kansas State University.
Bouras, B. (2007) "Market and Welfare Effects of Collusion with Reference to Multi-Product Food Oligopoly and Oligopsony," Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization. Volume 5, Article 5.
Carlton, Dennis W., and Jeffrey M. Perloff. "Modern Industrial Organization". 4th Edition, Pearson, Addison-Wesley. 2005.
Crespi, J., Z. Gao, and H. Peterson. (2005) "A Simple Test of Oligopsony Behavior with an Application to Rice Milling,"  Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization. Volume 3, Article 6.
Davis, L., and L. Hill. (1974) "Spatial Price Differentials for Corn among Illinois Country Elevators,"  American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 56(1):135-144.
Faminow, M., and B. Benson. (1990) "Integration of Spatial Markets," American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 72(1):49-62.
Hauser, R. J., J. Beaulieu, and C. Phillip Baumel. (1984) "Implicit Values of Multiple Car Grain Loading Facilities in Iowa and Nebraska," North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics. 6(2):80-90.
Helmberger, Peter G., and Jean Paul Chavas. "The Economics of Agricultural Prices".
Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall, Inc. 1996.
KANSAS GRAIN TRANSPORTATION. (2002) Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service, Kansas Department of Agriculture.
Manfredo, M., and D. Sanders. (2006) "Is Local Basis Really Local,"  Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management, Proceedings of the NCR-134 Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.
McNew, K., and D. Griffith. (2005) "Measuring the Impact of Ethanol Plants on Local Grain Prices,"  Review of Agricultural Economics. 27(2):164-180.
Sarmiento, C. and W. W. Wilson. (2005) "Spatial Modeling in Technology Adoption Decisions: The Case of Shuttle Train Elevators,"  American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 87(4):1034-1045.
Sexton, R., and M. Zhang. (2001) "An Assessment of the Impact of Food Industry Market Power on U.S. Consumers,"  Agribusiness. 27(1):59-79.
Taylor, M., K. Dhuyvetter, and T. Kastens. (2006) "Forecasting Crop Basis Using Historical Averages Supplemented with Current Market Information," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 31(3):549-567.
Tirole, Jean. "The Theory of Industrial Organization". Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press. 1988.
Tomek, William G. and K. L. Robinson. (2003) "Agricultural Product Prices." 4th edition, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London.
Vachal, K., J. Bitzan, T. VanWechel, and D. Vinje. (2006) "Differential Effects Rail Deregulation in the U.S. Grain Industry,"  International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, August 12-16.
Wenzel, B., L. Hill and P. Garcia. (2000) "The Effects of the Micro-Market Structure on Illinois Elevator Spatial Corn Price Differentials,"  Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management, Proceedings of the NCR-134 Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
 
 
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