Areas of interest
- Bayesian Inference
- Applied Econometrics
- Agricultural and Food Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Economic Development
- Famine and Food Security
Teaching
- Module Convenor: International Development
- Module Convenor: Consumer Research Methods
- Module Convenor: Research Methods and Data Analysis
- Module Convenor: Consumer and Producer Theory
- Module Convenor: Quantitative Methods
Research centres and groups
- Centre for Agricultural Strategy
- Food Economics and Marketing
Research projects
Applications of Bayesian inference and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to problems in agricultural and food economics, anthropology, development, industrial-organization, genetics and environmental- and natural-resource-economics; hierarchical normal-linear modeling; composed-error modeling; models of economic survival and duration; inference in censored-, discrete-, truncated- and count-data models; spatial models of land-mine clearance, technology adoption, human and livestock disease control; Bayesian ranking and selection with applications to contests.
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Reviewer, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1988-).
- Reviewer, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (1989-).
- Reviewer, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (1989-).
- Discussant, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (1990).
- Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (1990-).
- Reviewer, Review of Agricultural Economics (1991-).
- Reviewer, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1991-).
- Organizer, Inaugural Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (1993).
- Reviewer, USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants (1993-).
- Reviewer, Economic Inquiry (1994-).
- Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1994-1997).
- Reviewer, Agribusiness: An International Journal (1995-).
- Reviewer, European Review of Agricultural Economics (1995-).
- Organizer, Principal-Papers Session, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (1996).
- Organizer and Discussant, Conference on Industrial Organization and the Food-Processing Industry, Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, France (1996).
- Coordinator, Selected Papers Review, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (1996).
- Reviewer, Annual Meetings of the Western Agricultural Economics Association (1997-).
- Reviewer, International Journal of Industrial Organization (1997-).
- Reviewer, Journal of Agribusiness (1999-).
- Reviewer, Agricultural Economics (1999-).
- Reviewer, Understanding Adoption Processes for Natural Resource Management Practices for Sustainable Agricultural Production in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2000).
- Organizer, Organized Symposium, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (2000).
- Organizer, Frontier Session, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (2001).
- Organizer, Principal Papers Session, Annual Meetings of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (2001).
- Associate Editor, Journal of Agri-Food Industrial Organization and Policy (2001-).
- Reviewer, Journal of Agricultural Economic (2002-).
- Reviewer, Selected Papers, European Association of Agricultural Economics (2003).
- Reviewer, European Review of Agricultural Economics (2002-).
- Reviewer, International Journal of Industrial Organization (2002-).
- Reviewer, Selected Papers, American Agricultural Economics Association Meetings (2003).
- Reviewer, Journal of Econometrics (2003-).
- Reviewer, Oxford Economic Papers (2003-).
- Reviewer, American Economic Review (2003-).
- Reviewer, Environment and Resource Economics (2005-).
- Reviewer, Food Policy (2005-).
- Reviewer, Environment and Development Economics (2006-).
- Reviewer, Environmental Modeling and Assessment (2006-).
- Reviewer, Environmental Modeling and Software (2006-).
- Reviewer, Environmental Science and Policy (2006-).
- Reviewer, Food Control (2007-).
- Reviewer, Papers in Regional Science (2007-).
- Reviewer, Special Issue, Journal of Regional Science (2007-).
- Editor, Special Issue, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Spatial Modeling of Bio-Economic and Land-Use Phenomena (2007).
- Reviewer, Food Control (2007-).
- Reviewer, The Annals of Economics and Statistics (2007-).
- Discussant, Public Choice Society meetings (2008).
- Reviewer, Agribusiness: An International Journal (2008-).
- Reviewer, European Review of Agricultural Economics (2009-).
- Reviewer, Regional Studies (2011-).
- Reviewer, Regional Science (2011-).
- Reviewer, African Journal of Agricultural Research (2011-).
- Reviewer, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (2011-).
- Reviewer, Computational Economics (2011-).
- Reviewer, Journal of Development Studies (2012-).
- Reviewer, Food Security (2011-).
- Reviewer, Growth and Change (2012-).
- Reviewer, Agricultural and Environmental Studies (2012-)
- Reviewer, Environmental research Letters (2013-).
