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Alix-Garcia, Jennifer

Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Applied Economics

417 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-4499

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Barham, Bradford L.

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Co-Director, Program on Agricultural Technology Studies

422 Taylor Hall

(608) 265-3090

Research Interests:
Industrial organization; international agricultural development; Latin America

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Bromley, Daniel W.

Anderson-Bascom Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

331 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-6184

Research Interests:
Institutional economics; public decision making; environmental policy in developing countries.

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Carter, Michael

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Director, BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP)

411 Taylor Hall

(608) 263-2478

Research Interests:
Growth and Development in Low-Income Economies

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Chavas, Jean-Paul

Professor; Agricultural and Applied Economics

518 Taylor Hall

(608) 261-1944

Research Interests:
I conduct research on the economics of agriculture, price dynamics, technological change, applied econometrics, the economics of trade, and welfare and policy analysis.

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Cox, Thomas L.

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

520 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-9493

Research Interests:
Interregional analysis of domestic and international dairy policy; world dairy trade issues; marketing and production economics; nonparametric and econometric methods; analysis of demand, efficiency, and technical change. Whole farm, integrated, crop/livestock systems modeling; optimization

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Coxhead, Ian

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

413 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-6390

Research Interests:
I study the economics of development, especially relationships among trade, growth and environment. I am a Southeast Asia regional specialist with ongoing research in the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Deller, Steven C.

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

515 Taylor Hall

(608) 263-6251

Research Interests:
My work focuses on economic growth and development patterns at the community and small regional level.

Outreach and Extension Interests:
My outreach efforts focus on the needs of the residents of Wisconsin and range from local taxation policy to regional economic impact assessment. As the needs of the State change so does my outreach program.

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Foltz, Jeremy

Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Associate Director, Program on Agricultural Technology Studies

412 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-6871

Research Interests:
Production economics, technological change, biotechnology; economic development, Africa and the Middle East.

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Fortenbery, T. Randall

RENK Chair in Agribusiness, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Director, Renk Agribusiness Institute

519 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-4908

Research Interests:
Marketing and risk analysis; futures markets; international trade.

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Gould, Brian W.

Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Senior Scientist, Center for Dairy Research

421 Taylor Hall

(608) 263-3212

Research Interests:
Agricultural policy analysis; Ananlyis of the economics of food safety and nutrition; Consumer Behavior, Applied econometric modelling.

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Harris, Philip E.

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

517 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-9490

Research Interests:
Farm management; farm law, including estate planning, income taxation, and property rights and responsibilities.

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Hueth, Brent

Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Director, UW Center for Cooperatives

230 Taylor Hall

(608) 890-0924

Research Interests:
Contracting and organizations; agricultural markets; industrial organization; applied econometrics

Outreach and Extension Interests:
Design, management, and public policy of cooperative enterprises.

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Jones, Bruce L.

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

516 Taylor Hall

(608) 265-8508

Research Interests:
Agricultural finance; farm financial management; cooperative finance; government farm programs.

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Klemme, Richard M.

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Dean and Director, UW Extension

601 Ext. Bldg

(608) 263-2775

Research Interests:
Farm management and production economics; sustainable agriculture; alternative farm systems; examination of linkages among agriculture, the environment, and the rural community; decision hierarchies of Wisconsin farmers.

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Lewis, David

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

(608) 262-5905

Professor Lewis is on leave during the 2009-2010 academic year at the University of Puget Sound.

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Mitchell, Paul

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

418 Taylor Hall

(608) 265-6514

Research Interests:
Production economics, risk and uncertainty, contract theory, technology adoption, pest economics, resistance management, transgenic crops, crop insurance.

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Provencher, R. William

Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

416 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-9494

Research Interests:
Natural resource economics; resource allocation in a stochastic dynamic setting; dynamic programming.

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Schechter, Laura

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

334 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-9482

Research Interests:
Development economics; behavioral/experimental economics; risk analysis.

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Shapiro, Kenneth

Professor and Chair, Agricultural and Applied Economics

433 Taylor Hall

(608) 262-8966

Research Interests:
International economic development; grain and livestock marketing in Africa.

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Shi, Guanming

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

329 Taylor Hall

(608) 263-6250

Research Interests:
Applied Microeconomics, Intellectual Property Rights and Industrial Organization, Environmental and Resource Economics.

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Stiegert, Kyle

Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Director, Food System Research Group

221 Taylor Hall

(608) 263-4176

Research Interests:
--industrial organization
--antitrust policy
--financial economics
--international trade
--international competition policy

Outreach and Extension Interests:
same as research interests

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