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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Fall Semester 2006
Coordinator: Wally Thurman and Michele Marra
All workshops are now scheduled in room 4210 Nelson Hall,
3:40 - 5:00 p.m., on Tuesdays unless otherwise posted.

Fall, 2006

9/26	Marc Bellemare (Duke)	Testing the Effects of Monitoring in Production Contracts: Evidence from Madagascar
10/16 Monday	David Zilberman (UC Berkeley)	Biotechnology: Is it a Missed Opportunity? Background Reading: The Contraction of Product Quality Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology Explaining Europe's Resistance to Biotechnology Agricultural Biotechnology: Productivity, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights, Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization
10/24**	William McCausland (University of Montreal)	On Bayesian Analysis and Computation for Functions with Monotonicity and Curvature Restrictions.
11/14	Eric Belasco (NCSU)	Probabilistic Models of Yield, Price, and Revenue Risks for Fed Cattle Production

**Workshop is with Econometrics