*Denotes Station Leader

In 2000, the fourth year of the current NE-165 Project, the members were involved in presenting three major research conferences, did extensive work on conferences to be held in year 5 of the Project, and continued to be very productive in completing research. The publication list for the year includes 71 journal articles, 31 book chapters, 27 station and agency publications, and 7 theses and dissertations. A book from the June 1998 conference, titled The Economics of HACCP: Costs and Benefits, edited by Unnevehr (IL) was published in 2000 by Eagan Press. In addition, a book based on the June 1999 conference, titled Transitions in Agbiotech: Economics of Strategy and Policy, edited by William Lesser (NY) was published by NE-165 on the internet (http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pubview.pl?pubid=24). Project members were very active in professional meetings and other fora across the United States and in Europe during the year, including at the summer meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association in Tampa, Florida

The Project's premier accomplishments during 2000 were three major conferences. The first was a conference on The American Consumer in the Changing Food System (http://www.umass.edu/ne165/conferences2000/american_consumer.html ), co-chaired by Denbaly (USDA/ERS) and MacDonald (USDA/ERS), with participation by Cotterill (CT), held in May in Washington, DC. The overall objective of the conference was to take stock and improve our understanding of causes and effects of increasing concentration and coordination, particularly stressing the role of final consumer demand in driving these changes in industry organization. Several papers from the conference were published in Agribusiness (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/issuetoc?ID=76509433) edited by Cotterill (CT).

NE-165 also co-organized two additional conferences held in 2000. The first was Global Food Trade and Consumer Demand for Quality, co-organized with the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium -- IATRC, held June 26-27 in Montreal, Canada. The conference was co-chaired by Krissoff (USDA/ERS), Bohman (USDA/ERS), and Caswell (MA). This conference focused on the confluence of consumer and trade economics, both from a methodological and empirical standpoint. The objective was to exam­ine consumer demand for quality attributes (including food safety) in the context of a global economy and expanding international trade and the role of both private firm strategies and public policy in facilitating consumer choice and free trade. A book based on the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

NE-165 also co-organized a conference on Valuing the Health Benefits of Food Safety held in September in Washington, DC. It was co-sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The conference committee was chaired by Nardinelli (FDA). The conference discussed economic issues related to valuing food safety risk reduction. It was a first step in developing a common approach to valuing risk reduction that will facilitate comparing programs across agencies. Because of the three conferences held in 2000, the Technical Committee did not meet separately during the year. Business meetings were held at the May and June conferences. The planning committees for the one conference and AAEA Annual Meeting activities to be held in 2001 (see below) met regularly during 2000 in person and through conference calls and email. During 2000, the Project continued to focus on improving communication among re­searchers and between researchers and decision makers. Our outputs are posted on the NE-165 web site and on AgEcon Search. This work is instantly available to researchers around the world. NE-165's core group at the Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut, and by subcontract at the University of Massachusetts, played a major role in supporting collaboration and communication. It helped organize the Project conferences, continued development of the NE-165 web site (http://www.umass.edu/ne165/), and maintained a listserv for the group. The Center continued to purchase and maintain 12 major data sets that are used on a regular basis by NE-165 members. The effectiveness of NE-165 research has been significantly enhanced by the availability of these detailed data sets. The core group also provides support for the NE-165 Working Paper and Reprint Series, which are distributed to over 200 economists, research libraries, and others worldwide. A CSREES Special Research Grant funds the Food Marketing Policy Center.

In 2000, NE-165 research was used by policy makers and private parties through their direct discussions and interactions with Project members, access to publications and working papers, and Congressional testimony. The scope of this impact has become increasingly international. Many of NE-165's impacts are discussed on the Project's web site at (http://www.umass.edu/ne165/impacts.html). The timely posting of this research on the internet has contributed to policy discussion worldwide.

Under the Project's first objective, strategy and policy analysis, Project researchers participated in major discussions on pricing, vertical coordination, supply chain relationships, and antitrust issues in the U.S. and the European Union. They also prepared analyses of, and in some cases participated in, major antitrust cases in the United States. Project members contributed a broad range of useful research on the operation of food markets in the United States and the world, focusing on pricing, competition, and policy issues. The May 2000 conference on The American Consumer in the Changing Food System provided timely information for the policy debate on developments in the industry and on increasing concentration in this sector. The conference included new data and analysis of concentration levels, the use of slotting fees and other strategies in the food supply chain, and consumer demand for attributes such as convenience, safety, taste, and nutrition.

Under the Project's first objective and its second, providing economic analysis of private and public strategies in order to assess their impact on improvement in food safety and other quality attributes, the Project's conference on Global Food Trade and Consumer Demand for Quality was a focal point for policy relevant research. The conference brought together research on consumer demand for food products with different attributes in different countries. It also concentrated on the interaction between consumer demand, country-level regulation of food quality, and international trade in food products. Another focal point was the September conference on Valuing the Health Benefits of Food Safety. It brought together researchers from several federal agencies, universities, and consulting firms who are engaged in measuring the benefits of food safety. The researchers were able to discuss methodology and laid out a plan for coordinating approaches to valuing health benefits.

Project members continued to be at the forefront of analyzing the benefits and costs of changes in regulatory policy regarding food quality, particularly food safety. Areas of work included analysis of mandatory requirements by FDA and USDA/FSIS that companies use a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) approach to food safety assurance and of the impact of mandatory nutrition labeling. Work also continued on analysis of other public and private quality assurance systems. Economic methodology was applied to analyze the operation of markets for quality attributes such as nutrition, pesticide residues, use of inputs produced with biotechnology, and other process attributes such as environmental friendliness. This research is directly used by private companies in their market analysis and by federal and state agencies in their rule making.

NE-165 is far along in the planning of one conference and activities at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) for 2001 (for details see http://www.umass.edu/ne165/upcoming.html). NE-165 has participated in the organization of a conference by Resources for the Future on Setting Food Safety Priorities: Toward a Risk-Based System to be held in May in Washington, DC. The conference will focus on the ability of federal agencies to evaluate foodborne risks across different sources and to allocate resources to risk reduction in the most effective manner. It is being organized by Taylor (RFF), Hoffman (RFF), and Caswell (MA).

NE-165 members are also involved in leading two new Sections of the AAEA that have organized tracks (series of related sessions) at the Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago in August. The Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section, led by Lesser (NY), will present sessions co-sponsored by NE-165 on food manufacturing and retail coordination, and on price reporting and data availability. The Food Safety and Nutrition Section, led by Jensen (IA), will present sessions co-sponsored by NE-165 on HACCP-based inspection systems, and rethinking how federal agencies approach valuation of food safety.

The year 2000 marks a transition for NE-165. The Project has been in existence since 1986 and is nearing the end of its third 5-year term, which will be its last. With the extension of the Project for one year by the Northeast Directors, NE-165 will formally end in 2002. NE-165 has been very productive as a group, extremely effective in encouraging cooperative research, and a key contributor to the success of individual researchers. NE-165 members are already redeploying in new organizations to continue their record of quality research and involvement in important policy issues in the food system.

CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY

Journal Articles

Golan, A., L. S. Karp, and J. M. Perloff. 2000.Estimating Coke and Pepsi’s Price and Advertising Strategies.Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 18:398-409.

Books, Chapters in Books

Carlton, D. W. and J. M. Perloff.  2000.  Modern Industrial Organization, 3rd ed.  Reading, MA:  Addison-Wesley.

CALIFORNIA-DAVIS

Station and Agency Publications

Carter, C. A., J. A. Chalfant, M. D. Santis, R. E. Goodhue, and F. Han.  2000.  Economic Impacts of the Methyl Bromide Ban on the California Strawberry Industry:  A Market Level Analysis.  University of California–Davis.

Journal Articles

Alvarez, A. M., E. G. Fidalgo, R. J. Sexton, and M. Zhang.  2000.  Oligopsony Power with Uniform Spatial Pricing:  Theory and Application to Milk Processing in Spain.  European Review of Agricultural Economics 27(3):347-364.

Paul, C. J. M., W. E. Johnston, and G. A. G. Frengley.  2000.  Efficiency in New Zealand Sheep and Beef Farming:  The Impacts of Regulatory Reform.  Review of Economics and Statistics 82(2):325-337.

Sexton, R. J. and T. A. Sexton.  2000.  Measuring Research Benefits in an Imperfect Market:  Reply to Holloway.  Agricultural Economics 22(2):129-131.

Zhang, M. and R. J. Sexton.  2000.  Captive Supplies and the Cash Market Price:  A Spatial Markets Approach.  Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 25(1):88-108.

CONNECTICUT

Journal Articles

Cotterill, Ronald W.  2000.  Editors Introduction, Agribusiness Forum, The Economic Analysis Related to the Canadian Wheat Board in the U.S. Countervailing Duty Investigation of Live Cattle from Canada.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal 16(4):485.

Cotterill, Ronald W., Ravi Dhar, and William Putsis.  2000.  Assessing the Competitive Interaction Between Private Labels and National Brands.  Journal of Business 73(1):109-137.

Cotterill, Ronald W. and William Putsis, Jr.  2000.  Market Share and Price Setting Behavior for Private Labels and National Brands.  Review of Industrial Organization 17(1):17-39.

Foltz, Jeremy, Bradford Barham, and Kwansoo Kim.  2000.  Universities and Agricul­tural Biotechnology Patent Production.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal 16(1):82-95.

Nevo, Aviv.  2000.  A Practitioners’ Guide to Estimation of Random Coefficients Logit Models of Demand.  Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 9(4):513-548.

Nevo, Aviv.  2000.  Mergers with Differentiated Products:  The Case of the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry.  The RAND Journal of Economics 31(3):395-421.

Putsis, William P. and Ronald W. Cotterill.  1999.  Share, Price and Category Expendi­ture-Geographic Market Effects and Private Labels.  Managerial and Decision Economics 20:175-187.

Books, Chapters in Books

Cotterill, Ronald W.  2000.  Dynamic Explanations of Industry Structure and Perform­ance.  In The American Consumer and the Changing Structure of the Food System, ERS/USDA, Washington, DC.

Cotterill, Ronald W.  2000.  Statement on Food Policy Issues.  In Food Policy Retreat Conference Proceedings.  Organization for Competitive Markets, Winsted, Connecticut.

Dhar, Tirtha and Ronald W. Cotterill.  2000.  Structural Approaches to Price Transmis­sion in Noncompetitive Market Channels:  A Study of the Fluid Milk Industry.  In The American Consumer and the Changing Structure of the Food System.  ERS/USDA, Washington, DC.

Foltz, Jeremy, Kwansoo Kim, and Bradford Barham.  2000.  A Dynamic Count Data Analysis of University Ag-Biotech Patents.  International Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology Research:  Conference Proceedings, Ravello, Italy.

Franklin, Andrew W.  2000.  The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenter Food Store Sales on Supermarket Concentration in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.  In The American Consumer and the Changing Structure of the Food System.  ERS/USDA, Washington, DC.

Plato, Gerald and Ronald W. Cotterill.  2000.  Consumer Prices for Breakfast Cereals After the 1996 Manufacturer Price Reductions.  In The American Consumer and the Changing Structure of the Food System.  ERS/USDA, Washington, DC.

FLORIDA

Journal Articles

Stevens, Thomas J. III, Richard L. Kilmer, and Sophia J. Glenn.  2000.  Economic Implications of Biological Control as a Strategy in the Control of Whiteflies in Green­house Poinsettia Production.  Journal of Economic Entomology 93(3):623-629.

GEORGIA

Station and Agency Publications

Phillips, R. D., K. H. McWatters, S. Sefa-Dedeh, Y.-C. Hung, M. S. Chinnan, L. R. Beuchat, and S. M. Fletcher.  2000.  West Africa Workplan/Annual Progress Report (October 1, 1999-September 30, 2000), Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program, Michigan State University, U.S. Agency for International Development.

Rimal, A. P., S. M. Fletcher, K. H. McWatters, S. K. Misra, and S. Deodhar.  2000.  Perception of Food Safety and Changes in Food Consumption Habits:  A Consumer Analysis.  Faculty Series FS-00-05, University of Georgia.

Journal Articles

Fletcher, S. M. and A. P. Rimal.  2000.  Are Pretzels, Chips and Bologna Taking Away Market Share from Peanut Products?  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 32(2):422.

Rimal, A. P. and S. M. Fletcher.  2000.  Consumer Perception of Food Safety and Change in Food Consumption Habits.  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 32(2):422.

Rimal, A., S. M. Fletcher, and K. H. McWatters.  2000.  Differences in Contingent Valuation Estimates from Referendum and Checklist Questions:  A Case Study of Beef Irradiation.  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 32(2):408.

ILLINOIS

Journal Articles

Onal, H., L. J. Unnevehr, and A. Bekric.  2000.  Regional Shifts in Pork Production:  Implications for Regional Competition and Food Safety.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82:968-978.

Unnevehr, L. J.  2000.  Food Safety Issues for Fresh Food Product Exports from LDCs.  Journal of Agricultural Economics 23:231-240.

Book, Chapter in Books

Cunningham, C. J. and L. J. Unnevehr.  2000.  Market Segmentation for Genetically Modified Corn and Soybean Exports.  In Transitions in Agbiotechnology:  Economics of Strategy and Policy, ed. William H. Lesser, 638-650.  Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut.

Kinwa-Muzinga, Annie and Michael A. Mazzocco.  2000.  Preferred Price Paths of Biotechnology-Derived Products:  Time and Portfolio Affects.  In Transitions in Agbiotechnology:  Economics of Strategy and Policy, ed. Willliam H. Lesser, 175-187.  Food Marketing Policy Center, University of Connecticut.

Nageotte, C., S. Thompson, and R. Westgren.  2000.  Design of an Electronic Informa­tion and Marketing System for a Quality-based Poultry Supply Chain.  In Chain Management in Agribusiness and the Food Industry, ed. J. H. Trienekens and P. J. P. Zuurbier, 291-300.  Management Studies Group, Wageningen University.

Nganje, William and Michael A. Mazzocco.  2000.  Economic Efficiency Analysis of HACCP in the U.S. Red Meat Industry.  In The Economics of HACCP, ed. L. J. Unnevehr, 241-265.  St. Paul, MN:  Eagan Press.

Unnevehr, L. J., editor.  2000.  The Economics of HACCP.  St. Paul, MN:  Eagan Press.

Unnevehr, L. J. and N. Hirschhorn.  2000.  Food Safety:  Issues and Opportunities for the World Bank.  World Bank Technical Paper No. 469, World Bank, Washington, DC, May.

INDIANA

Station and Agency Publications

John M. Connor.  2000.  Archer Daniels Midland:  Price-Fixer to the World, Fourth Edition.  SP 00-11, Purdue University, December, 400 pages.

Journal Articles

John M. Connor.  2000.  The Lysine Cartel:  Guest Editor’s Introduction.  Review of Industrial Organization 18:1-4.

John M. Connor.  2001.  “Our Customers Are Our Enemies”:  The Lysine Cartel of 1992-1995.  Review of Industrial Organization 18:5-21.

Herrmann, Roland, Claudia Röder, and John M. Connor.  2000.  Determinants of New Product Introductions in the U.S. Food Industry.  Applied Economics Letters 7:743-748.

Books, Chapters in Books

Brady, Aaron L., John M. Connor, and John B. Ford.  2000.  The United States Food Industry and Its Imperative for New Food Products.  In New Food Products for a Changing Marketplace, ed. Aaron L. Brady and John B. Ford .  Lancaster, UK:  Technonics.

John M. Connor.  2001.  Global Price Fixing:  “Our Customers Are The Enemy.” Dordrecht:  Kluwer Academic.

IOWA

Station and Agency Publications

Hayes, D., H. Jensen, and J. Fabiosa.  2000.  What Would Happen If Over-the-Counter Antibiotics Were Banned in Swine Rations?  Iowa Ag Review 6(3), Iowa State University.

Books, Chapters in Books

Bahnson, P., T. Proescholdt, H. Jensen, L. Unnevehr, and L. Omran.  2000.  The Association of Salmonella Culture Status of Mesenteric Lymph Nodes and Carcass Swabs of Pigs at a Commercial Slaughter Plant.  In Proceedings of the International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics.

Fox, J. and D. Hennessy.  2000.  Control Point Interventions in Ensuring Product Quality.  HACCP in Pork Processing:  Costs and Benefits.  The Economics of HACCP:  New Studies of Costs and Benefits, ed. L Unnevehr.  St. Paul, MN:  Eagan Press.

Jensen, H. H. and L. J. Unnevehr.  2000.  HACCP in Pork Processing:  Costs and Benefits.  The Economics of HACCP:  New Studies of Costs and Benefits, ed. L Unnevehr.  St. Paul, MN:  Eagan Press.

KANSAS

Journal Articles

Fox, John A. and David A. Hennessy.  1999.  Cost Effective Hazard Control in Food Handling.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81:359-372.

Lusk, Jayson L., John A Fox, and Christy L. McIlvain.  1999.  Consumer Acceptance of Irradiated Meat.  Food Technology 53:56-59.

KENTUCKY

Journal Articles

Marchant, Mary A., Sayed Saghaian, and Steven S. Vickner.  2000.  Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Management Strategies for U.S. Processed Food Firms in China.  International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 2:131-143.

Vickner, Steven S., Stephen P. Davies, Joan R. Fulton, and Valerie L. Vantreese.  2000.  Estimating Market Power and Pricing Conduct for Private Label and National Brands in a Product-Differentiated Oligopoly:  The Case of a Frozen Vegetable Market.  Journal of Food Distribution Research 31:26-38.

Vickner, Steven S. and Stephen P. Davies.  2000.  Estimating Strategic Price Response in a Product-Differentiated Oligopoly:  The Case of a Domestic Canned Fruit Industry.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal 16:125-140.

MASSACHUSETTS

Station and Agency Publications

Damery, D., D. Holm, D. Lass, and R. T. Rogers.  2000.  Food Marketing and Lumber Processing in Massachusetts—1958 to 1997.  University of Massachusetts, 107 pp.

Holm, D., D. Lass, R. T. Rogers, and D. Damery.  2000.  Agriculture’s Hold on the Commonwealth.  Executive Summary, Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture, 18 pp.

Holm, D., D. Lass, and R. T. Rogers.  2000.  Case Study of a Farm Viability Enhance­ment Program Participant.  University of Massachusetts, 20 pp.

Holm, D., D. Lass, and R. T. Rogers. 2000.  Food Self·Sufficiency in the New England States, 1975–1997.  University of Massachusetts, 25 pp.

Mojduszka, E. M., J. A. Caswell, D. B. West, and J. M. Harris.  1999.  Changes in the Nutritional Quality of Food Product Offerings and Purchases:  A Case Study in the Mid-1990s. Technical Bulletin Number 1880.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, December.

Journal Articles

Caswell, J. A.  2000.  Labeling Policy for GMOs:  To Each His Own?  AgBioForum.  Illinois Missouri Biotechnology Alliance 3 (1/Winter).

Gruber, J., R. T. Rogers, and R. J. Sexton.  2000.  Do Agricultural Marketing Coopera­tives Advertise Less Intensively Than Investor-Owned Food-Processing Firms?  Journal of Cooperation 15:31-46.

Henson, S. J. and J. A. Caswell.  1999.  Food Safety Regulation:  An Overview of Contemporary Issues.  Food Policy 24(6):589-603.

Mojduszka, E. M. and J. A. Caswell.  2000.  A Test of Nutritional Quality Signaling in Food Markets Prior to Implementation of Mandatory Labeling.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82:298-309.

Books, Chapters in Books

Colatore, C. and J. A. Caswell.  2000.  The Cost of HACCP Implementation in the Seafood Industry:  A Case Study of Breaded Fish.  In The Economics of HACCP: Costs and Benefits, ed. Laurian Unnevehr, 45-68.  St. Paul, MN:  Eagan Press.

Rogers, R. T.  2000.  Monopoly and Competition.  In The Academic American Encyclopedia. Grolier Incorporated, CT, USA.

Rogers, R. T.  2000.  The U.S. Food Marketing System.  In Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology, 2nd Edition, ed. J. Francis, 2701-2724.  New York, NY:  John Wiley and Sons.

MICHIGAN

Station and Agency Publications

Raper, K. C., L. M. Cheney, and M. Punjabi.  2000.  Assessing the Impact of a Hog Slaughter Plant Closing:  The Thorn Apple Valley Case.  Michigan State University Department of Agricultural Economics Staff Paper #2000-27.

van Ravenswaay, E. O.  1999.  Integrating Economics into Environmental and Natural Resources Policy.  In State of the Great Lakes 1999 Annual Report, ed. M. Wascak, 39-41.  Department of Environmental Quality, Office of the Great Lakes, Lansing, MI.

Weatherspoon, D. D., J. Oehmke, and K. C.  Raper.  2000.  An Era of Confusion:  The Land Grant Research Agenda and Biotechnology.  Michigan State University Department of Agricultural Economics Staff Paper #2000-26.

Weatherspoon, D. D., J. Oehmke, and K. C. Raper.  2000.  Identity Crisis:  Land Grant Research in the Biotechnology Era.  Michigan State University Department of Agricultural Economics Staff Paper #2000-16.

Journal Articles

Blend, J. R. and E. O. van Ravenswaay.  1999.  Measuring Consumer Demand for Ecolabeled Apples.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81:1072-1077.

Raper, K. C., H. A. Love, and C. R. Shumway.  2000.  Determining Market Power Exertion Between Buyers and Sellers  Journal of Applied Econometrics 15(3):225-252.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Journal Articles

Manalo, A. B., D. E. Morris, and M. S. Garrepy.  2000.  Food Processing in New Hampshire:  Who, Where, How Big, and So What?  (Abstract) Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 29:251.

NEW JERSEY

Station and Agency Publications

Bhuyan, S.  2000.  Vertical Integration and Market Performance in the U.S. Food Industries.  Industrial Organization Abstracts:  Firm Structure, Organization and Contracting.  Working paper series 1(9).

Bhuyan, S. and M. Reggimenti.  2000.  Demand for Alcohol by College Students:  An Empirical Evaluation.  Health Economics Abstracts. Working paper series, 5(15).

Journal Articles

Bhuyan, S.  2000.  Corporate Political Activities and Oligopoly Welfare Loss.  Review of Industrial Organization (17):411-426.

Bhuyan, S. and F. L. Leistritz.  2000.  Cooperatives in Non-agricultural Sectors:  A Potential Community Development Tool.  Journal of Community Development Society 31(1):89-111.

Hossain, Ferdaus and Adesoji O. Adelaja.  2000.  Consumers' Interest in Alternative Food Delivery Systems:  Results from a Consumers' Survey in New Jersey.  Journal of Food Distribution Research.

NEW YORK

Journal Articles

Lesser, W.  2000.  An Economic Approach to Identifying an “Effective Sui Generis System” for Plant Variety Protection Under TRIPS.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal 16(1):96-114.

Books, Chapters in Books

Lesser, W.  2000.  Intellectual Property Rights Under the Convention on Biological Diversity.  In Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights, ed. V. Santaniello, R. E. Evenson, D. Zilberman, and G. A. Carlson, 35-52.  Wallingford, UK:  CABI Publish­ing.

Lesser, W., editor.  1999.  Transitions in Agbiotech:  Economics of Strategy and Policy.  Proceedings of NE-165 Conference, June 24-25, 1999, Washington DC, including papers presented at the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research Conference, June 17-19, 1999, Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.  Available online at: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pubview.pl?pubid=24.

OHIO

Journal Articles

Lavoie, B. and I. M. Sheldon.  2000.  The Source of Comparative Advantage in Biotechnology:  A Real Options Approach.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal 16:56-67.

RHODE ISLAND

Journal Articles

Fong, Q. S. W. and J. L. Anderson.  2000.  Assessment of the Hong Kong Shark Fin Trade.  Infofish International 1:28-32.

Gudmundsson, E. and C. R. Wessells.  2000.  Ecolabeling Seafood for Sustainable Production:  Implications for Fisheries Management.  Marine Resource Economics 15(4):97-113.

Martinez-Garmendia, J., J. L. Anderson, and M. T. Carroll.  2000.  Effect of Harvesting Alternatives on the Quality of U.S. North Atlantic Bluefin Tuna.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 20(4):908-922.

Wessells, C. R.  2000.  Enlisting the Consumer in Sustainable Fisheries Production.  Maritimes 42(3):5-8.

TEXAS

Journal Articles

Adelaja, A., R. Nayga, Jr., K. Tank, and B. Schilling.  1999.  Challenges Facing the Foodservice Industry.  Journal of Restaurant and Foodservice Marketing 3(4):123-138.

Adelaja, A., R. Nayga, Jr., B. Schilling, and K. Tank.  1999.  A Note on Challenges Facing Food Retail Stores:  The Case of New Jersey.  International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management 27(8):302-310.

Adelaja, A., R. Nayga, and Z. Farooq.  1999.  Predicting Mergers and Acquisition in the Food Industry.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal 15(1):1-23.

Adelaja, A., R. M. Nayga, Jr., B. Schilling, and K. Tank.  2000.  Understanding the Challenges Facing the Food Manufacturing Industry.  Journal of Food Products Marketing 6(2):35-55.

Hiser, J., R. M. Nayga, Jr., and O. Capps, Jr.  1999.  An Exploratory Analysis of Familiarity and Willingness to Use Online Food Shopping Services in a Local Area of Texas.  Journal of Food Distribution Research 30:78-90.

Hooker, N., R. M. Nayga, Jr., and J. Siebert.  1999.  Preserving and Communicating Food Safety Gains.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81:1102-1106.

Kim, S., R. M. Nayga, Jr., and O. Capps, Jr.  2000.  The Effect of Food Label Use on Nutrient Intakes:  An Endogenous Switching Regression Analysis.  Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 25(1):215-231.

Nayga Jr., R. M.  2000.  A Note on Schooling and Obesity.  Journal of Health and Social Policy 12(2):65-72.

Nayga Jr., R. M.  1999.  A Note on Schooling and Smoking:  The Issue Revisited.  Education Economics 7(3):253-258.

Nayga Jr., R. M.  2000.  Nutrition Knowledge, Gender, and Food Label Use.  The Journal of Consumer Affairs 34(1):97-112.

Nayga Jr., R. M.  1999.  On Consumers’ Perception about the Reliability of Nutrient Content Claims on Food Labels.  Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing 11(1):43-55.

Nayga Jr., R. M.  1999.  Retail Health Marketing:  Evaluating Consumers’ Choice for Healthier Foods.  Health Marketing Quarterly 16(4):53-65.

Nayga Jr., R. M.  2000.  Schooling, Health Knowledge, and Obesity.  Applied Economics 32:815-822.

Nayga Jr., R. M.  1999.  Toward an Understanding of Consumers’ Perceptions of Food Labels.  International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 2(1):29-45.

Nayga Jr., R. M. and J. Siebert.  1999.  Analysis of At-Home Consumption of Dairy Products in the United States.  Journal of Food Products Marketing 5(3):65-78.

Nayga Jr., R. M., B. J. Tepper, and L. Rosenzweig.  1999.  Assessing the Importance of Health and Nutrition Related Factors on Food Demand:  A Variable Preference Investigation.  Applied Economics 31:1541-1549.

Nayga Jr., R. M. and D. Reed.  1999.  Factors Associated with the Intake of Dietary Supplements.  Family Economics and Nutrition Review 12(1):43-48.

Nayga Jr., R. M. and Z. Weinberg.  1999.  Supermarket Access in the Inner Cities.  Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 6(3):141-145.

Nayga Jr., R. M. and O. Capps, Jr.  1999.  U.S. Consumers’ Perceptions of the Importance of Following the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.  Food Policy 24:553-564.

Siebert, J., R. M. Nayga, Jr., and G. Thelen.  2000.  Enhancing the Financial and Marketing Performance of Firms in the Smoked and Processed Meat Industry.  Journal of Food Distribution Research 31(1):178-183.

WASHINGTON

Journal Articles

Brueckner, Erica C., Ken D. Duft, and Jill J. McCluskey.  2000.  Patron Demand Deposit Account and Regional Patronage Financing Activities of Agribusiness Cooperatives.  Journal of Agribusiness 18(3):289-302.

Druffel, Sarah M., Desmond O’Rourke, and Jill J. McCluskey.  2000.  Implications of Changes in the Food Supply Chain for Small and Medium-Sized Produce Supply Firms in the Pacific Northwest.  Journal of Food Distribution Research 31(1):240-243.

Janda, Karel, Jill J. McCluskey, and Gordon C. Rausser.  2000.  Food Import Demand in the Czech Republic.  Journal of Agricultural Economics 51(1):22-44.

Loureiro, Maria L. and Jill J. McCluskey.  2000.  Assessing Consumers’ Response to Protected Geographical Identification Labeling.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal 16(3):309-320.

McCluskey, Jill J.  2000.  A Game Theoretic Approach to Organic Foods:  An Analysis of Asymmetric Information and Policy.  Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 29(1):1-9.

McCluskey, Jill J.  2000.  Read the Warning:  This Product May Contain GMOs.  Choices, second quarter:39-43.

McCluskey, Jill J. and A. Desmond O’Rourke.  2000.  Relationships between Produce Supply Firms and Retailers in the New Food Supply Chain.  Journal of Food Distribution Research 31(3):11-20.

Worley, Thomas and Jill J. McCluskey.  2000.  Production Contracts as a Means of Vertical Coordination with Applications to the Wheat Industry.  Journal of Food Distribution Research 31(1):215-224.

Books, Chapters in Books

Loureiro, Maria L. and Jill J. McCluskey.  2000.  Effectiveness of PGI and PDO Labels as a Market Incentive for Rural Development Policies.  In Proceedings of the European Association of Agricultural Economists Meetings, LeMans, France, October 1999.

ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE--USDA

Station and Agency Publications

Frenzen, P., A. Majchrowicz, J. Buzby, and B. Imhoff.  2000.  Consumer Acceptance of Irradiated Meat and Poultry.  Agricultural Information Bulletin No. 757.

Golan, E., F. Kuchler and L. Mitchell with contributions from C. Greene and A. Jessup.  2001.  Economics of Food Labeling.  Agricultural Economic Report No. 793.

Golan, E., S. Vogel, P. Frenzen, and K. Ralston.  2000.  Tracing the Costs and Benefits of Improvements in Food Safety:  The Case of HACCP for Meat and Poultry.  Agricultural Economic Report No. 791.

Huang, K. and B. Lin.  2000.  Estimation of Food Demand and Nutrient Elasticities from Household Survey Data.  Technical Bulletin No. 1887.

Kuchler, F. and E. Golan.  1999.  Assigning Values to Life:  Comparing Methods for Valuing Health Risks.  Agricultural Economic Report Number 784.

Kuchler, F. and E. Golan.  1999.  How Can We Choose Among Life-Saving Programs?  Why Do Economists Keep Pushing Cost-Benefit Analysis?  Essay in ORACBA Newsletter.

MacDonald, J., C. Handy, M. Ollinger, and K. Nelson.  2000.  Consolidation in U.S. Meatpacking.  Agricultural Economic Report No. 785.

Ollinger, M., J. MacDonald, and M. Madison.  2000.  Poultry Plants Lowering Costs and Increasing Variety.  FoodReview 23(2).

Ollinger, M., J. MacDonald, and M. Madison.  2000.  Structural Change in U.S. Chicken and Turkey Slaughter.  Agricultural Economic Report No. 787.

Putnam, J.  2000.  What Do Americans Eat?  Agriculture Fact Book 1999.

Putnam, J. and J. Allshouse.  1999.  Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures, 1970-97.  Statistical Bulletin No. 965.

Ralston, K., Y. Starke, P. Brent, and T. Riggons.  2000.  Awareness of Risks Changing How Hamburgers Are Cooked.  FoodReview 23(2).

Roberts, T. and K. Ralston.  Risk Assessment of Public Health Impact of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Ground Beef.  Escherichia coli O157:H7 Risk Assessment Team, Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Journal Articles

Breuer, T., J. Buzby, T. L. Riggs, and T. Roberts.  2000.  Medical Costs, Productivity Losses and Premature Deaths Associated with Foodborne Salmonellosis.  Journal of the Association of Food and Drug Officials 64:6-11.

Kuchler, F., K. Ralston, and J. R. Tomerlin.  2000.  Do Health Benefits Explain the Price Premiums for Organic Foods?  Journal of Alternative Agriculture 15(1).

Book, Chapters in Books

Crutchfield, S., J. Buzby, P. Frenzen, J. Allshouse, and D. Roberts.  2000.  The Economics of Food Safety and International Trade in Food Products.  In proceedings of annual conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade.

Crutchfield, S., E. Golan, and F. Kuchler.  2000.  Labeling Genetically Modified Foods:  An Economic Appraisal.  In proceedings of annual conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade.

Golan, E., K. Ralston, P., Frenzen, and S. Vogel.  2000.  The Costs, Benefits, and Distributional Consequences of Improvements in Food Safety:  The Case of HACCP.  In The Economics of HACCP:  Costs and Benefits, ed. Laurian J. Unnevehr, 149-170.  St. Paul, MN:  Eagan Press.

Ollinger, M.  2000.  Market Influences on the Sanitation and Process Control Deficiencies in Selected U.S. Slaughter Industries.  In The Economics of HACCP:  Costs and Benefits, ed. Laurian J. Unnevehr, 171-186.  St. Paul, MN:  Eagan Press.

FARM FOUNDATION

Books, Chapters in Books

Armbruster, Walter J. and Peter J. Barry.  2001.  Directions of Agricultural Research and Development Policy.  In Agricultural Science Policy:  Changing Global Agendas, 241-247.  Baltimore, MD:  The Johns Hopkins University Press.

CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY

Golan, A., J. M. Perloff, and E. Z. Shen.  In Press.  Estimating a Demand System with Nonnegativity Constraints:  Mexican Meat Demand.  Review of Economics and Statistics.

CALIFORNIA-DAVIS

Paul, C. J. M. In Press. Modeling and Measuring Productivity in the Agri-Food Sector:  Trends, Causes, and Effects. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.

CONNECTICUT

Mainkar, Avinash V.  2000.  Product Proliferation as Barriers to Entry:  A Longitudinal Study in the Food Manufacturing Industry.  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Connecticut.

Mott, John.  2000.  Strategic Analysis of the Beef Subsector – A Query into the Presence of Market Power and Its Impact on Ranchers.  M.S. Thesis, University of Connecticut.

Samson, Pierre.  2000.  Market Power and Price Transmission:  The Case of Cheese.  M.S. Thesis, University of Connecticut.

GEORGIA

Hancock, S. J., T. Ray, S. M. Fletcher, and W. A. Thomas.  In Press.  Can New Genera­tion Cooperatives be a Feasible Solution for Georgia Peanut Marketing?  Proceedings of the American Peanut Research and Education Society, Inc.

Hancock, S. J., T. Ray, S. M. Fletcher, and W. A. Thomas.  In Press.  New Generation Cooperatives:  Adding Value to Rural Georgia.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(5).

Rimal, A. P., S. M. Fletcher, and K. H. McWatters.  In Press.  Food Handling at Home:  Do Consumers Know Enough?  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(5).

Rimal, A. P. and S. M. Fletcher.  In Press.  Peanut Products Purchase:  Effects of Nutrition Consideration and Household Characteristics.  Proceedings of the American Peanut Research and Education Society, Inc.

Rimal, A., S. M. Fletcher, and K. H. McWatters.  In Press.  Relative and Absolute Risk Format in Eliciting Willingness-to-Pay for Beef Irradiation.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(5).

ILLINOIS

Mazzocco, Michael A.  2000.  Measuring the Unmeasurable:  The Use of Constructs in Agribusiness Research.  Paper presented in joint session of WCC-72 Regional Research Project and Tenth World Congress of the International Agribusiness Management Association, Chicago, IL, June.

INDIANA

Connor, John M.  In Press.  The Evolution of the Global Lysine Industry:  1960-2000.  Review of Agricultural Economics Agribusiness.

Connor, John M.  2000.  Federal Antitrust Enforcement:  Focus on the Grain Industries.  Symposium, AAEA annual meeting, Tampa, Florida, August.

Favara, Felipe, Roberto Vassalo, and John M. Connor.  2000.  Food Multinational Enter­prise Investment Strategies.  Address at the Academy of Management annual meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August.

Herrmann, Roland and John M. Connor.  2000.  Determinants of New Food Product Introductions.  International Association of Agricultural Economics, Berlin, Germany, August.

Yu, Chih-Ching and John M. Connor.  In Press.  Retesting the Price-Concentration Relationship in Grocery Retailing.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal.

IOWA

Hennessy, D., J. Roosen, and J. Miranowski.  In Press.  Leadership and the Provision of Safe Food.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Roosen, J. and D. Hennessy.  In Press.  Capturing Experts' Uncertainty in Welfare Analysis:  An Application to Organophosphate Use Regulation in U.S. Apple Production.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83.

KANSAS

Schroeter, Christiane.  2000.  Consumer Perceptions of Three Innovations Related to Meat Processing.  M.S. Thesis, Kansas State University.

Shogren, Jason F., John A. Fox, Dermot J. Hayes, and Jutta Roosen.  In Press.  Observed Choices for Food Safety in Retail, Survey and Auction Markets.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

MASSACHUSETTS

Krissoff, B., M. Bohman, and J. A. Caswell, eds.  In Press.  Global Food Trade and Consumer Demand for Quality.  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Noelke, C.  2000.  Quality Management Systems and the Estimation of Market Power Exertion.  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 180 pp.

Rogers. R. T.  In Press.  Structural Change in U.S. Food Manufacturing, 1958 to 1997.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal 17(1).

NEW JERSEY

Bhuyan, S. and F. L. Leistritz.  In Press.  An Examination of Characteristics and Determinants of Success of Cooperatives in the Non-agricultural Sectors.  Journal of Cooperation.

Bhuyan, S.  2000.  Impact of Vertical Integration on Market Performance.  Selected paper presented at conference on Mathematics and Computers in Business and Economics, organized by the World Scientific Engineering Society, Montego Bay, Jamaica, December 20-22.

Bhuyan, S.  2000.  Vertical Integration and Market Performance in the U.S. Food Industries.  Selected paper presented at AAEA annual meetings, Tampa, FL, July 30-August 2.

Hossain, Ferdaus and Sanjib Bhuyan.  2000.  An Analysis of Technical Progress and Efficiency in U.S. Food Industries.  Presented at the national conference on American Consumer in the Changing Food System, organized by the ERS/USDA, Washington, DC, May 3-5.

Hossain, Ferdaus and Sanjib Bhuyan.  2000.  Measurement of Technological Change and Efficiency Gains in U.S. Food Industries and Factors Affecting Efficiency:  A Stochastic Frontier Production Function Approach.  Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Tampa, Florida, July 30-August 2.

Hossain, Ferdaus and Sanjib Bhuyan.  2000.  Technological Progress and Efficiency Performance in U.S. Food Industries Using Data Envelope Analysis.  Paper presented at the annual conference of Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, June 11-13.

RHODE ISLAND

Carroll, M. T., J. L. Anderson, and J. Martinez-Garmendia.  In Press.  Pricing U.S. Bluefin Tuna and Implications for Management.  Agribusiness:  An International Journal.

Martinez-Garmendia, J.  2000.  An Economic Analysis of the Shrimp Futures Market.  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Rhode Island.

TEXAS

Nayga Jr., R. M.  In Press.  Effect of Schooling on Obesity:  Is Health Knowledge a Moderating Factor?  Education Economics.

WASHINGTON

Loureiro, Maria L. and Jill J. McCluskey. 2000. Are "Green" Consumers Willing to Pay for Ecolabeled Produce?  The Food Sector in Transition - Nordic Research NJF Conference, Oslo, Norway, June.

Loureiro, Maria L. and Jill J. McCluskey. 2000.  Reputation Dynamics of the "Washington Apple" Label.  Selected paper presented at the Western Agricultural Economics Association meetings in Vancouver, Canada.

Loureiro, Maria L. and Jill J. McCluskey. 2000.  Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Agriculture Products.  Selected paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association meetings, Tampa, FL.

McCluskey, Jill J. 2000. Implications of Labeling for Product Differentiation and Trade.  Selected paper presented at the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society meetings in Sydney, Australia.

WISCONSIN

Kim, Sora.  2000.  Women's Use of Nutrition Information and Its Impact on Dietary Fat Consumption.  Master's Thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE--USDA

Buzby, J., P. Frenzen, and B. Rasco.  In Press.  Product Liability and Food Safety:  The Resolution of Food Poisoning Lawsuits.  In Interdisciplinary Food Safety Research to be published by CRC Press.

Golan, E. and F. Kuchler.  2000.  Labeling Biotech Foods:  Implications for Consumer Welfare and Trade.  Presented at meeting of International Trade Research Consortium, Montreal, CA, June 27.

Roberts, T.  1999.  Quantitative Risk Assessment for E. coli O157:H7 in Meat.  Paper presented at workshop on Quantitative Risk Assessment for E. coli O157:H7 in Meat, Hamilton, New Zealand, October 14-15.

Roberts, T., J. C. Buzby, and E. Lichtenberg.  In Press.  Economic Consequences of Foodborne Hazards.  Current Issues in Food Safety.  John Wiley and Sons.

Roberts, T., C. Narrod, S. Malcolm, and M. Modarres.  In Press.  An Interdisciplinary Approach to Developing a Probabilistic Risk Analysis Model:  Applications to a Beef Slaughterhouse.  In Interdisciplinary Food Safety Research, ed. Neal Hooker and Elsa Murano.  CRC Press.

Snowden, J., J. C. Buzby, and T. Roberts.  In Press.  Epidemiology, Cost, and Risk of Foodborne Disease, second edition of Foodborne Diseases, ed. D. Cliver and H. Riemann.  Academic Press, Inc.

Whiting, R., T. Roberts, C. Coleman Narrod, and others.  In Press.  Risk Assessment in the Control of VTEC,  Verotoxigenic E. coli.  Food and Nutrition Press, Inc.

APPROVED:

Julie A. Caswell, Chairperson, Technical Committee
May 7, 2001

Daniel Rossi, Administrative Advisor
May 14, 2001