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Graduate Programs

 

Centers:

EMAC, AgBioForum

CORI

 

Executive Education:

GICL

 

Core Ph.D. Faculty:

Chris Boessen

Michael L. Cook
Harvey S. James, Jr.
Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes
Peter G. Klein
Leonie Marks
Joe Parcell
Vern Pierce
Michael Sykuta
Yin Xia

 

 

 

Publications by ARI Faculty

Forthcoming

Chymis, A. H.S. James, Jr., S. Konduru, V. Pierce and R. Larson, "Asymmetric Information in Cattle Auctions: The Problem of Revaccinations," Agricultural Economics, forthcoming

Foss, N.J., and P.G. Klein, "Entrepreneurship and the Economic Theory of the Firm: Any Gains from Trade?" in R. Agarwal, S.A. Alvarez, and O. Sorenson (eds.), Handbook of Entrepreneurship: Disciplinary Perspectives, Norwell, Mass: Kluwer, forthcoming.

Kalaitzandonakes N., L.A. Marks and S.S. Vickner, "Sentiments and Acts Towards GMOs?" International Journal of Biotechnology, forthcoming.

Klein, P.G., "Introduction" to Radovan Kacin and Tomas Ricka (eds.), Nova Institucionalni Ekonomie a Ekonomicka Transformace (The New Institutional Economics and Economic Transition), Prague: Spolecnost pro Pravni a Ekonomicke Vzdelavani [Society for Legal and Economic Education], forthcoming.

Klein, P.G., "The Make-or-Buy Decision: Lessons from Empirical Studies," in C. Ménard and M. Shirley (eds.), Handbook of New Institutional Economics, Springer, forthcoming.

Parcell, J.L., and M. Sykuta, “Undergraduate Perceptions of the Need for an Agricultural Entrepreneurship Curriculum,” NACTA Journal.

 

2006

James, H.S., Jr., "Sustainable Agriculture and Free Market Economics: Finding Common Ground in Adam Smith," Agriculture and Human Values, 23(4), 2006.

James, H.S., Jr., "Self-selection Bias in Business Ethics Research," Business Ethics Quarterly, 16(4), 2006.

James, H.S., Jr., "Trust in Scientists and Food Manufacturers: Implications for the Public Support of Biotechnology," Journal of Agribusiness, 24(2), 2006.

James, H.S., Jr., and M. Sykuta, "Farmer Trust in Producer- and Investor-owned Firms: Evidence from Missouri Corn and Soybean Producers," Agribusiness: An International Journal, 22(1), 2006, 135-153

 

2005

Helland, E., and M. Sykuta, “Who’s Monitoring the Monitor?  Do Outside Directors Protect Shareholders’ Interests?” Financial Review, 40(2), 2005.

Hendrickson, M., and H.S. James, Jr., "The Ethics of Constrained Choice: How the Industrialization of Agriculture Impacts Farming and Farmer Behavior," Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 18(3), 2005, 269-291

James, H.S., Jr., (ed.), New Ideas in Contracting and Organizational Economics Research, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2005.

James, H.S., Jr., "The Ethical Challenges of Farming: A Report on Conversations with Missouri Corn and Soybean Producers," Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health, 11(2), 2005.

James, H.S., Jr., "Why Did You Do That? An Economic Examination of the Effect of Extrinsic Compensation on Intrinsic Motivation and Performance," Journal of Economic Psychology, 26(4), 2005, 549-566

James, H.S., Jr., and M. Sykuta, "Property Right and Organizational Characteristics of Producer-owned Firms and Organizational Trust," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 76(4), 2005, 545-580.

Riekhof, G., and M. Sykuta, “Politics, Economics, and the Regulation of Direct Interstate Shipping in the Wine Industry,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(2), 2005.

 

2004

Buccola, S. T., and Y. Xia, “The Rate of Progress in Agricultural Biotechnology,” Review of Agricultural Economics, 26(Spring/Summer), 2004, 3-18.

Chaddad, F.R. and M.L. Cook, “Understanding New Cooperative Models:  An Ownership-Control Rights Typology”, Review of Agricultural Economics, 2004, 348-360. 

Chaddad, F.R. and M.L. Cook, "The Economics of Organization Structure Changes:  A U.S. Perspective on Demutualization," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 75(4), 2004, 575-594.

Cook, M.L. and P. Barry, “Organizational Economics in the Food, Agribusiness, and Agricultural Sectors”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(3), 2004, 740-43.

Cook, M.L. and F.R. Chaddad, "Redesigning Cooperative Boundaries:  The Emergence of New Models," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(5), 2004, 1249-53.

Cook, M.L., F.R. Chaddad and C. Iliopoulos, “Advances in Cooperative Theory Since 1990:  A Review of Agricultural Economics Literature”, in G.W.J. Hendrikse (ed.),  Restructuring Agricultural Cooperatives, Haveka: Erasmus University Press, 2004, 65-90.

Helland, E., and M. Sykuta, “Regulation and the Evolution of Corporate Boards: Monitoring, Advising or Window Dressing?” Journal of Law and Economics, 47(2004): 167-193.

James, H.S., Jr. and J. Cohen, "Does Ethics Training Neutralize the Incentives of the Prisoner's Dilemma? Evidence from a Classroom Experiment," Journal of Business Ethics, 50(1), 2004, 53-61.

Kalaitzandonakes, N., "Another Look at Biotech Regulation?" Regulation, 27(1), 2004, 44-50.

Kalaitzandonakes, N. and J. Kaufman, “Electronic Trading, Structural Change and the Future of Agricultural Commodity Exchange,” in T. Smitz, et al. (eds.), E-Commerce in Agribusiness, Iowa State University Press, 2004.

Kalaitzandonakes, N., J. Kaufman, and X. Wang. “E-Commerce in Agricultural Input Distribution: Firm Entry and Disintermediation,” in T. Smitz, et al. (eds.), E-Commerce in Agribusiness, Iowa State University Press, 2004.

Kalaitzandonakes, N., L.A. Marks, and S.S. Vickner, "Media Coverage of Biotech Foods and Influence on Consumer Choice," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(5), 2004.

Kalaitzandonakes, N. and J. Parcell, “Do Agricultural Commodities Prices Respond to GMO Bans?” in R. Evenson and V. Santaniello (eds.), Consumer Acceptance of Biotech Foods, Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishers, 2004.

Marks, L.A., N. Kalaitzandonakes, and S.S. Vickner, "Consumer Purchasing Behavior Towards GM Foods in the Netherlands," in R.D. Evenson and V. Santaniello (eds.), Consumer Acceptance of Biotechnology Foods, Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishers, 2004.

Ménard, C., and P.G. Klein, "Organizational Issues in the Agrifood Sector: Toward a Comparative Approach," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(3), 2004, 750-55.

Parcell, J.L., and N.G. Kalaitzandonakes, “Do Agricultural Commodity Prices Respond To Bans Against Bioengineered Crops?” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 52(2), 2004, 201-09.

Parcell, J.L., J. Mintert, and R. Plain, “An Empirical Examination of Live Hog Demand,” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, forthcoming 2004.

Parcell, J.L., and M. Sykuta, “Undergraduate Perceptions of the Need for an Agricultural Entrepreneurship Curriculum,” North American College Teachers of Agriculture Journal, forthcoming 2004.

Riekhof, G., and M. Sykuta, “Regulating Wine By Mail,” Regulation, Fall 2004.

Sykuta, M. and H.S. James, Jr., "Organizational Economics Research in the U.S. Agricultural Sector and the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(3), 2004, 756-761.

 

2003

Cook, M.L., "The Emergence of New Cooperative Organizational Structures in North America" at Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies: The Role of Cooperatives in the International Agri Food Industry, Bad Herrenalb, Germany, June 15, 2003.

Cook, M.L. and F. Chaddad, "Emergence of Non-traditional Cooperative Structures:  Public and Private Policy Issues," in Proceedings of NCR-194 (2003)  (www.agecon.ksu.edu/
ACCC/ncr194/events/2003meeting/Chaddadandcoo.pdf
)

Dhuyvetter, K.C., E. Dean, and J.L. Parcell, “Using the Crude Oil and Heating Oil Markets for Diesel Fuel Purchasing Decisions,” Journal of Agribusiness, 21(2), 2003, 213-229.

Franken, J.R., and J.L. Parcell, " Cash Ethanol Cross-HedgingOpportunities,” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 35(3), 2003, 509-516.

James, H.S., Jr., "On Finding Solutions to Ethical Problems in Agriculture," Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 16(5), 2003, 439-457.

James, H.S., Jr., "The Effect of Trust on Public Support for Biotechnology: Evidence from the U.S. Biotechnology Study, 1997-1998," Agribusiness: An International Journal, 19(2), 2003, 155-168.

James, H.S., Jr., "Employment Contracts, U.S. Common Law, and the Theory of the Firm," International Journal of the Economics of Business, 10(1), 2003, 49-65.

Kalaitzandonakes, N. (ed.). Economic and Environmental Impacts of Agbiotech: A Global Perspective, Kluwer-Plenum Academic Publishers, New York, 2003.

Kalaitzandonakes, N., “The Future of Agrobiotechnology: Implications for National Competitiveness,” in M. Bhalgat, W. Ridely, A. Felsot, and J. Seiber (eds.), Agricultural Biotechnology, Oxford University Press, Washington, D.C., 2003.

Kalaitzandonakes N. and J. Bijman, “So Who's Driving Biotech Acceptance?” Nature Biotechnology, 21(4), 2003, 336-39.

Kalaitzandonakes N., J. Kaufman, and X. Wang, "Firm Entry through E-Commerce in the U.S. Agricultural Input Distribution industry? Journal on Chain and Network Science, 3(2), 2003, 123-33

Kalaitzandonakes, N. and J. Kaufman, “Innovation in Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods,” in K. Hunt (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science, New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003.

Kalaitzandonakes, N. and P. Suntornpithug, “Why Do US Cotton Farmers Adopt Biotechnology?” in N. Kalaitzandonakes, (ed.), Economic and Environmental Impacts of Agbiotech: A Global Perspective, New York: Kluwer-Plenum Academic Publishers, 2003.

Klein, P.G., and H. Luu, "Politics and Productivity," Economic Inquiry, 41(3), 2003, 433-47.

Marks, L.A., N. Kalaitzandonakes, K. Allison, and L. Zakharova, “Media Coverage of Agrobiotechnology: Did the Butterfly Have an Effect?” Journal of Agribusiness, 21(1), 2003, 1-20.

Marks, L.A. “Biotechnology,” in P. Johnson (ed.), Industries in Europe: Competition, Trends and Policy Issues, 2/e, London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003, 170-203.

Marks, L.A., N. Kalaitzandonakes and S.S. Vickner, "Evaluating Consumer Response to GM Foods: Some Methodological Considerations," Current Agriculture, Food and Resource Issues, 4, 2003, 80-94.

Parcell, J.L., “An Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Wholesale Pork Primals: Seasonality and Structural Change,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 28(2), 2003, 335-348.

Sykuta, M., and J.L. Parcell, “Contract Structure and Design in Identity Preserved Grain Production,” Review of Agricultural Economics, 25, 2003, 332-350.

Xia, Y., “Financing Agricultural Research in the New Biotechnology Era,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85(December), 2003, 1259-1265.

Xia, Y., and S. T. Buccola, “Factor Use and Productivity Change in the Alcoholic Beverage Industries,” Southern Economic Journal , 70(July), 2003, 93-109.

 

2002

Boehlje, M., J. Akridge, and N. Kalaitzandonakes, “Preparing for Success in the Agribusiness Market Place,” Journal of Agribusiness, 20(1), Spring 2002.

DeLorme, C.D., D.R. Kamerschen, P.G. Klein, and L.F. Voeks, "Structure, Conduct, and Performance: A Simultaneous-Equations Approach," Applied Economics, 34(17), 2002, 2135-41.

Foss, N.J., and P.G. Klein (eds.), Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization, Aldershott, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2002.

Foss, K., N.J. Foss, P.G. Klein, and S.K. Klein, "Heterogeneous Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Organization," Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 12(1), 2002, 79-96.

James, H.S., Jr., "When is a Bribe a Bribe? Teaching a Workable Definition of Bribery," Teaching Business Ethics, 6(2), 2002, 199-217.

James, H.S., Jr., "On the Reliability of Trusting," Rationality and Society, 14(2), 2002, 231-258.

James, H.S., Jr., "The Trust Paradox: A Survey of Economic Inquiries into the Nature of Trust and Trustworthiness," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 47(3), 2002, 291-307.

James, H.S., Jr. and F. Rassekh, "Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-Interest and Profit," in L. Hartman (ed.), Perspectives in Business Ethics, 2/e, Chicago, IL: Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2002,  248-256.

Kalaitzandonakes, N. and J. Kaufman, “An E-merging Revolution in Agricultural Commodity Exchange?” Choices, Spring, 2002, 6-10.

Marks, L.A., N. Kalaitzandonakes, K. Allison, and L. Zakharova, "Time Series Analysis of Risk Frames in Media Communication of Agrobiotechnology," in V. Santaniello, R.E. Evenson, and D. Zilberman (eds.), Market Development for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products, Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishers, 2002. 217-225.

Marks, L.A., N. Kalaitzandonakes and L. Zakharova, "On the Media Roller Coaster Will GM Foods Finish the Ride?" Choices, (Spring), 2002, 6-10.

Marks, L.A., S. Mooney, and N. Kalaitzandonakes, "Quantifying Scientific Risk Communications of Agrobiotechnology," in V. Santaniello, R.E. Evenson, and D. Zilberman (eds.), Market Development for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products, Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishers, 2002, 205-215.

Xia, Y., and S. T. Buccola, “Technology Structure and Productivity in the Meat Processing Industries,” Agribusiness: An International Journal, 18(Summer), 2002, 283-299.

Xia, Y., S. T. Buccola, and R. Fare, “Bioscience and Biotechnology,” Choices, (Summer), 2002, 24-25.

 

2001

Bredahl, M. and N. Kalaitzandonakes, “Biotechnology: Can We Trade It?” Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, 2(1), 2001, 75-92.

Kalaitzandonakes, N., “Strategies and Structure in the Emerging Global Seed Industry” Biofutur, 215, 2001, 38-42.

Kalaitzandonakes, N., R. Maltsbarger, and J. Barnes, “The Costs of Identity Preservation in the Global Food System,” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 49, 2001, 605-615.

Klein, P.G., "Were the Acquisitive Conglomerates Inefficient?" RAND Journal of Economics, 32(4), 2001, 745-61.

Klein, P.G., and S.K. Klein, "Do Entrepreneurs Make Predictable Mistakes? Evidence from Corporate Divestitures," Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 4(2), 2001, 3-25.

Lazzarini, S., F. Chaddad, and M.L. Cook, “Integrating Supply Chain And Network Analyses:  The Study Of Netchains”, Journal on Chain & Network Science, 1:1, 2001, 7-22.

Marks, L.A., “Communicating about Agrobiotechnology,” AgBioForum, 4(3&4), 2001, 152-154.

Marks, L.A. and N. Kalaitzandonakes, “Mass Media Risk Communication of Agrobiotechnology: Evidence from the United States and United Kingdom,” AgBioForum, 4(3&4), 2001, 199-208.

Sykuta, M.E. and M.L. Cook, “A New Institutional Economics Approach to Contracts and Cooperatives”, Amer. J. Agr. Econ., 83(5), 2001, 1271-1277.

Theodorakopoulou, I. and N. Kalaitzandonakes, “Structure and Performance of Private Public Knowledge Networks in Plant Biotechnology,” in S. Wolf and D. Zilberman (eds.), Knowledge Generation and Transfer in Agriculture, Kluwer-Plenum Academic Publishers, New York, 2001.

 
Updated June 2006

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