Agricultural Economics
Fall and Spring Seminars will be held on Fridays at noon in Charles E. Barnhart Bldg. Room 341, unless otherwise specified. Everyone is encouraged to attend.
Fall 2012
| Date | Presenter | Topic/Paper |
|---|---|---|
| August 2 | Graduate Students | Practice for AAEA poster sessions |
| August 8 | Graduate Students | Practice for AAEA presentations |
| August 17 | Jonathan Shepherd, Kentucky Farm Business Management | KFBM--Who we are and what we do |
| September 21 | Dr. Ning Zhang, Hangzou Dianzi University, China | Research on Management Modes of Farmland Water - An Empirical Analysis in China |
| September 28 | Dr. Matt Interis, Mississippi State University | Consequentiality Effects in Binary- and Multinomial-Choice Surveys |
| October 5 | Tim Hughes, Director, Biofuels Division, Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence | Kentucky’s biofuels and biomass industries |
| October 12 | Dr. Mindy Mallory, University of Illinois | How market efficiency and the theory of storage link corn and ethanol markets |
| October 19 | Rachael Brown and Sierra Enlow, University of Kentucky | ERS Internships and Government Data Accessibility |
| October 26 | Dr. M. Bakhshoodeh, University of Shiraz, Iran (International Speaker Series) CANCELED | Proxy means tests for targeting subsidies scheme in Iran |
| November 2 | Dr. Doug Southgate, The Ohio State University | Globalized fruit: transnational firms, tropical entrepreneurs and governments, and independent banana development |
| November 9 | Grant Cavanaugh, University of Kentucky | Launching exchange-traded derivatives contracts based on major indexes of global climate |
| November 16 | Dr. Jeff Englin, Arizona State University | Wild horse auctions: valuation of horse attributes |
| November 30, 1-2pm | Dr. Yoko Kusunose, University of Kentucky | Heterogeneous drought response in rural Morocco: characterization and vulnerability implications |
| December 7 | Dr. Bruce Yang, University of Kentucky | Assessing consumer willingness-to-pay for ground bison: the effects of the nutrition comparison |
| December 14 (CEB 228) | Dr. Jerry Skees, University of Kentucky | Reflections on my entrepreneurial leave: the opportunity to create a global company focused on natural disaster risk management in developing countries |
Spring 2013
| Date | Presenter | Topic/Paper |
|---|---|---|
| January 18 | Dr. Andreas Drichoutis, University of Ioannina, Greece (International Speaker Series) | Examining projection bias in experimental auctions: the role of hunger and immediate gratification |
| January 23 | Graduate Students | Practice for SAEA poster sessions |
| January 25 | Graduate Students | Practice for SAEA presentations |
| January 30 | Graduate Students | Practice for SAEA presentations |
| February 8 | Dr. Alison Davis, Director, CEDIK, University of Kentucky | What is CEDIK? |
| February 13 | Dan Hardin, Adam Hancock, and Stratton Hatfield, University of Kentucky | Results of the University of Kentucky Student Sustainability Survey |
| February 15 | Ben Collier, University of Kentucky | Disaster-related credit risk and financial inclusion (PRACTICE JOB TALK) |
| February 22 | Becky Naugle, Director, Kentucky Small Business Development Centers | What is the Kentucky Small Business Development Center? |
| March 8 (10am) | Dr. Andrew Griffith, University of Tennessee | Timing is Everything: At least in buying and selling feedstuffs |
| March 29 | International Speaker Series, speaker TBA | TBA |
| April 5 | John Barnhart and Dr. Cory Walters, University of Kentucky | TBA |
| April 12 | Dr. Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois | TBA |
| April 19 | Dr. Dave Debertin, University of Kentucky | TBA |
