Brian Roe

Professor

Dept. of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics.

Ohio State University

614-688-5777

roe.30@osu.edu

 

My Departmental Homepage

My Vita

AEDE 806 Page

Livestock Outlook Page

Working Papers and Presentations

    Using Biomedical Technologies to Inform Economic Modeling: Challenges and Opportunities for Improving the Descriptive and Positive Analysis of Environmental Policies (with Tim Haab, paper presented at the RFF Frontiers of Environmental Economics Conference, Feb. 26, 2007)

    Understanding Human Response to Risk: A Multidisciplinary Research Agenda Involving Economics, Neurology, Genetics and Endocrinology

    Tractors on eBay: Differences between Internet and In-Person Auctions (with Florian Diekmann and Marvin Batte).

    Discretionary Latitude and Relational Contracting (with Steven Wu)

    Risk Tolerance and its Relation to Important Life Events (with Bidisha Mandal)

    Social Preferences and Relational Contracting Performance: An Experimental Investigation (with Steven Wu).  Revised version of Selected Paper presented at the 2006 ASSA meetings, Boston.

    Contract Enforcement, Social Efficiency and Distribution: Some Experimental Evidence (with Steven Wu). 

    Differences in Inequality Aversion and Destructive Reciprocity by Gender (with Steven Wu and Tim Haab).

    An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Incentive Schemes with Heterogeneous Agents (with Steven Wu, Tom Sporleder, and Natalie Nazaryan).   

    The Welfare Effects of Banning Tournaments When Commitment is Impossible: Some Results from the Broiler Sector (with Steven Wu).

    Tournaments, Fairness and Risk (with Steven Wu).

    Explaining Preference Reversals: Treatment, Selection and Cognition (with Tim Haab).

    Are Preferences Rank Stable? The Persistence of Preference Reversal Asymmetries in a Static Choice Setting (with Tim Haab).

    Consumption Externalities, Information Policies and Multiple Equilibria: Evidence for Genetically Engineered Food Markets (with Mario Teisl).

    Economies of Scale in Risk Identification: The Case of Foodborne Illness and Public Health.

    Genetically Modified Food Labeling: The Impacts of Message and Messenger on Consumer Perceptions of Label Credibility and Adequacy and of Product Risk (with Mario Teisl, in Food Policy).

    Changes in Homeowner Preferences for Housing Density Following 11 September, 2001. (with Elena Irwin and Hazel Morrow-Jones, in Applied Economics Letters).

    The Value of Clean Dairy Air: Accounting for Endogeneity and Spatially Correlated Errors in a Hedonic Analysis of the Impact of Animal Operations on Local Property Values (with Isaac Bayoh and Elena Irwin).

 

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AEDE 806

The Economics of Agricultural Production

Winter 2007

Syllabus

Lecture 1 (Primal/overview)

Lecture 2 (Duality)

Lecture 3 (Structure)

Lecture 4 (Tech Change)

Lecture 5 (Functional Forms and Aggregation)

Lectures 6 & 7 (State Contingent Production)

Lecture 8 (non parametric with slides)

Lecture 9 (ex ante cost functions)

Lecture 10 (dual and errors)

Lecture 11 (spatial production)

Lecture 12 (quality and damage control)

Homework #1 Instructions

Homework #2 Instructions

Final Paper Instructions

Sample Exam Questions