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Kyle Stiegert
Stiegert, Kyle
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Director, Food System Research Group
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Telephone:(608) 263-4176
Fax:(608) 262-4376
Office Address:221 Taylor Hall
427 Lorch St.
Madison, WI  53706
Prof. Stiegert's Curriculum Vitae (PDF) Adobe PDF document

Research Interests

My research program is currently focused on the industrial organization of the U.S. and global food systems. Research interests include a) measuring market power in food processing and retailing industries, b) understanding the role of trade policies as facilitating practices for gaining market power c) improving the linkages between industrial organization and finance in terms of understanding firm behavior and market power, d) developing an improved understanding of the benefits and costs of global antitrust policies, international competition, cartels, and WTO policies affecting competitiveness of markets.

Outreach and Extension Interests

The FSRG (aae.wisc.edu/fsrg) operates a press release program that provides summaries of completed research and opinion papers on sensitive public issues. I have spoken to international audiences about market power issues in the food system. I teach methods for evaluating markets to competition agencies. I am always interested giving talks on pricing and market power in agricultural markets important to Wisconsin producers.

Recent Publications

  • Hamilton and Stiegert "An Empirical Test of the Rent-Shifting Hypothesis: The Case of State Trading Enterprises " Journal of International Economics  58(2002)
  • Dong, Fengxia, Thomas L. Marsh and Kyle W. Stiegert "State Trading Enterprises in a Differentiated Product Environment: The Case of Global Malting Barley Markets" American Journal of Agricultural Economics  88(2006)
  • Stiegert, K. , A. Ardalan and T. Marsh. " Foreign Market Entry Strategies in the European Union " Journal of Food Distribution Research.   37(2006)
  • Stiegert, Kyle W. "The producer, the baker, and a test of the mill price-taker" Applied Economic Letters  9(2002)
  • Stiegert, Kyle and Brian Balzer "Evaluating the Wheat Protein Complex" Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics   49(2001)
  • Boland, Michael, Nancy Mitchell and Kyle Stiegert "Midwest Grain" International Food and Agribusiness Management Review  3(2000)
  • Fanning, Marsh and Stiegert "Determinants of Fast Food Consumption." Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Food System Research Group working paper series:
  • Hertel, Thomas W. and Kyle W. Stiegert (co-senior author) "Managerial Hetergeneity and the Compositional Effect" Applied Economic Letters  April(2000)
  • Stiegert, Kyle and Azzeddine Azzam "Third World Debt and Wheat Imports: An Analysis for Selected Countries " North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics   12(1990)
  • Stiegert, Kyle, Azzeddine Azzam and B. Wade Brorsen " Markdown Pricing and Live Cattle Supply in the Beef Packing Industry" American Journal of Agricultural Economics  75(1993)
  • Patterson, Paul M. , Phil Abbott, and Kyle Stiegert. "Firm Level Competition in International Markets: The Impact of the Export Enhancement Program" Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics  21(1996)
  • Hertel, Thomas W. , Kyle W. Stiegert and Harry Vroomen. "Nitrogen-Land Substitution in Corn Production: A Reconciliation of Aggregate and Firm-Level Evidence " American Journal of Agricultural Economics  78(1996)
  • Stiegert, Kyle and B. Wade Brorsen. "The Distribution of Futures Prices: Diffusion-Jump vs. Generalized Beta-2" Applied Economic Letters  3(1996)
  • Stiegert, Kyle and Jean Pierre Blanc. "Japanese Demand for Wheat Protein Quantity and Quality " Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics  22 (1997)
  • Stiegert, Kyle W. and Thomas W. Hertel "Optimal Capacity in the Anhydrous Ammonia Industry" American Journal of Agriculultural Economics  79(1997)
  • Stiegert, Kyle and Hsing-Ming Peng "Liberalization in the Taiwan Wheat-Milling Industry" International Food and Agribusiness Management Review  1(1998)
  • Parcell, Joe and Kyle W. Stiegert "Spatial Competition for U.S. Hard Wheat Characteristics" Journal of Ag and Resource Economics  23(1998)
  • Balzer, Brian and and Kyle Stiegert. "The European Union-United States Wheat Gluten Policy Dispute." Journal of Food Distribution Research  7(1999)
  • Sharkey, Todd and Kyle Stiegert Sharkey, Todd and Kyle Stiegert. Madison, WI: 2006.
  • Stiegert "Introduction to Econometrics (Book Review)", Stock and Watson, ed. . 2004. Addison Wesley, 2004.
  • Stiegert, Kyle W. "Identifying Structural Characteristics of High Performing Industries Versus Industries With Considerable Market Power." in Marcelo Jose Braga, Danilo R.D. Aguiar & Erly Cardoso Teixeira, ed. Defesa da Consorrencia e Poder de Mercado no Agronegocio. Vicosa, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Vicosa, 2005, pp.89-100.
  • Sokol, Danny and Kyle W. Stiegert "Long Term Advisors and Short-Term Intervention in Antitrust Technical Assistance and Capacity Building."
  • Stiegert, Kyle "Imperfect competition, agriculture, and development." in , ed. Commodity Market Review, FAO-UN. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organzation, United Nations, 2008, pp.35-50.
  • Hsieh, Ming-Feng, Paul Mitchell, Kyle Stiegert "Potato Demand in an Increasingly Organic Marketplace (2008)." Agribusiness: An International Journal.
  • Fanning, Jasper, Thomas Marsh and Kyle W. Stiegert "Determinants of fast food consumption." British Food Journal (2008).
  • Reimer, Jeffrey and Kyle W. Stiegert "Imperfect Competition and Strategic Trade Theory: Evidence for International Food and Agricultural Markets" J. of Ag and Food Industrial Organization   4(1), Article 6(2006)
  • Stiegert, Kyle, Shinn-Shyr Wang, and Rich Rogers. " Price Cost Margins and Market power across the U.S. food sector." Agribusiness: An International Journal.
  • Hsieh, M., P. Mitchell, K. Stiegert "Potato Demand in an Increasingly Organic Marketplace" Agribusiness: An International Journal  (2009)
  • Stiegert, Kyle W. and Todd Sharkey "Food Pricing, Competition, and the Emerging Supercenter Format" Agribusiness: An International Journal   23(2007)
  • Dong, Fengxia, Thomas L. Marsh and Kyle W. Stiegert "State Trading Enterprises in a Differentiated Product Environment: The Case of Global Malting Barley Markets" American Journal of Agricultural Economics  88(2006)
  • Reimer, Jeffrey and Kyle W. Stiegert "Imperfect Competition and Strategic Trade Theory: Evidence for International Food and Agricultural Markets" J. of Ag and Food Industrial Organization   4(1), Article 6(2006)
  • Stiegert, K. , A. Ardalan and T. Marsh. " Foreign Market Entry Strategies in the European Union " Journal of Food Distribution Research.   37(2006)

Education

Ph.D., Agricultural Economics (Marketing and Trade), Purdue Unversity, 1993.
M.S., Agricultural Economics (Marketing and Price Analysis), Unversity of Nebraska, 1989.
B.S., Business Administration (Economics and Finance), University of Nebraska, 1981
 
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