University of Kentucky College of Agriculture
Areas of Focus
  • Experimental and Behavioral Economics

    • Contract Theory
    • Decision Making and Intertemporal Choice
  • Food and Agribusiness Management

    • Agriculture and agribusiness finance, production and marketing; economic, policy, and business analysis
    • Food and consumers: demand analysis, regulation issues
    • International food trade and policy; agribusiness implications

  • Agricultural and Food Marketing

    • Demand and supply analysis, industry modeling, price forecasting
    • Futures markets, forward contracts, price risk management strategies, price discovery mechanisms
    • Market integration over time, form, and space
    • Value creation through storage, processing, and distribution
    • Impacts of policies and events on ag. and food markets
    • Nutrition, public health, and food safety
  • Environmental and Resource Economics

  • Economic Development and Entrepreneurship

    • Firm location decisions
    • Factors affecting entrepreneurship decisions
  • Production Economics/Farm Management

  • Public Policy/Finance

  • Contract Theory

  • International Trade

    • Effects of trade liberalization on world agricultural trade patterns.
    • Effects of macroeconomic policies on US agricultural prices and trade
  • Ag Policy

  • Equine Economics