Current/Recent Courses

• AAE 706: Applied Risk Analysis
• AAE 741: Advanced Policy Analysis

Recent Publications

• Dhar, Tirtha, Jean-Paul Chavas, Ronald W. Cotterill and Brian W. Gould "An Econometric Analysis of Brand Level Strategic Pricing Between Coca Cola Company and PepsiCo." Journal of Economics and Management Strategy  14(2005)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul and Kwansoo Kim "An Econometric Analysis of Price Dynamics in the Presence of a Price Floor: The Case of American Cheese" Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics   37(2005)
• Bouamra-Mechemache, Z., Jean-Paul Chavas, T.L. Cox and V. Réquillart "EU Dairy Policy Reform and Future WTO Negotiations: A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis" Journal of Agricultural Economics   53 (2002)
• Boumara-Mechemache, Z., Jean-Paul Chavas, T.L. Cox and V. Réquillart "Partial Market Liberalization and the Efficiency of Policy Reform: The Case of the European Dairy Sector" American Journal of Agricultural Economics   84(2002)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul and Daniel Mullarkey "On the Valuation of Uncertainty in Welfare Analysis" American Journal of Agricultural Economics   84(2002)
• Kim, Kwansoo, Bradford L. Barham, Jean-Paul Chavas and Jeremy Foltz "Research and Development at U.S. Research Universities: An Analysis of Scope Economies." Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. AAE Staff Paper Series
• Holt, Matthew and Jean-Paul Chavas "The Econometrics of Risk." in Richard E. Just and Rulon D. Pope, Editors, ed. A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in U.S. Agriculture. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp.213-242.
• Kim, Kwansoo and Jean-Paul Chavas "A Dynamic Analysis of the Effects of a Price Support Program on Price Dynamics and Price Volatility" Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics   27(2002)
• Di Falco, Salvatore and Jean-Paul Chavas "Crop Genetic Diversity, Farm Productivity and the Management of Environmental Risk in Rainfed Agriculture" European Review of Agricultural Economics  33(2006)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul "A Global Analysis of Constrained Behavior: The LeChatelier Principle “in the Large”" Southern Economic Journal  72(2006)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul and Kwansoo Kim "An Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Market Liberalization on Price Dynamics and Price Volatility" Empirical Economics   31(2006)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul and Z. Bouamra-Mechemache "The Economic Efficiency of Policy Reform and Partial Market Liberalization Under Transaction Costs" Bulletin of Economic Research  58 (2006)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul and Z. Bouamra-Mechemache "Efficiency Measurements and the Gains from Trade under Transaction Costs" Journal of Productivity Analysis  26(2006)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul . Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice. New York: Elsevier, 2004.
• Mehta, Aashish and Jean-Paul Chavas "Responding to the Coffee Crisis: What can we learn from price dynamics?." Journal of Development Economics.
• Mehta, A. and Jean-Paul Chavas "Responding to the Coffee Crisis: What can we learn from Price Dynamics?" Journal of Development Economics  85(2008)
• DiFalco, S. and Jean-Paul Chavas "Rainfall Shocks, Resilience and the Effects of Crop Biodiversity on Agroecosystem Productivity" Land Economics  64(2008)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul "A Cost Approach to Economic Analysis under State-Contingtent Production Uncertainty" American Journal of Agricultural Economics  90(2008)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul "On Fair Allocations" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization  68(2008)
• Stanger, T.F., J. Lauer and Jean-Paul Chavas "Long-Term Cropping Systems: The Profitability and Risk of Cropping Systems Featuring Different Rotations and Nitrogen Rates " Agronomy Journal  100(2008)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul "On Storage Behavior under Imperfect Competition, with Application ot the American Cheese Market" Review of Industrial Organization  33(2008)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul "On The Economics of Agricultural Production" Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics  52(2008)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul and Daniel W. Bromley "On the Origins and Evolving Role of Money" Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics  164(2008)
• Chavas, Jean-Paul "On the Productive Value of Biodiversity" Environmnetal and Resource Economics  42(2009)
• Baggio, Michele and Jean-Paul Chavas "On the Consumer Value of Complementarity: A Benefit Function Approach." American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
• Di Falco, Salvatore, and Jean-Paul Chavas "On Crop Diversity, Risk exposure and Food Security in the Highlands of Ethiopia." American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
• Chavas, Jean-Paul, Josh Posner and Janet Hedtcke "Organic and Conventional Production Systems in the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial: Economic and Risk Analysis." Agronomy Journal.
• Chavas Jean-Paul and Michele Baggio "On the Consumer Value of Diversity."
• Shi, Guanming, Jean-Paul Chavas and Kyle Stiegert "An Analysis of Bundle Pricing: The Case of the Corn Seed Market."
• Chavas, Jean-Paul "On The Productive Value of Biodiversity." Environmental and Resource Economics.
• Chavas, Jean-Paul and Salvatore Di Falco "Complementarity, Convexity and the Productive Value of Biodiversity: Evidence from an Agroecosystem in Ethiopia."

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