Organizers:

Richard Volpe, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Session Chairs:

Sharon Shewmake, Vanderbilt University

Papers:

"The Effect of Store Format on Consumers' Purchasing Decisions"
Richard Volpe, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Contact Author)
Abigail Okrent, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Ephraim Leibtag, U.S. Department of Agriculture

"Front-of-Package Claims and Nutritional Substance: Evidence from Potato and Corn Chips"
Ilya Rahkovsky, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Contact Author)
Michael Ollinger, U.S. Department of Agriculture

"Characteristics and Determinants of Food Deserts"
Paula Dutko, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Contact Author)
Tracey Farrigan, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Shelly Ver Ploeg, U.S. Department of Agriculture

"The Demand for Disaggregated Food-Away-From-Home Products"
Abigail Okrent, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Contact Author)
Julian Alston, University of California, Davis

Discussants:

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Session Chairs:

Manuel A. Hernandez, International Food Policy Research Institute

Papers:

"A Policy Instrument with Groundwater Permit Trading: An Empirical Exercise for the Ogallala Aquifer"
Sanchari Ghosh, Oklahoma State University
Keith Willett, Oklahoma State University (Contact Author)

"Supply of Traditional Crops Under Emerging Biomass Feedstock Markets"
Luba Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University (Contact Author)

"Do Marketing Margins Change with Food Scares? Examining the Effect of Food Recalls and Disease Outbreaks in the U.S. Red Meat Industry"
Manuel A. Hernandez, International Food Policy Research Institute (Contact Author)

"Optimal Thinning Decision in Management of Forest Resource: An Individual Tree Approach"
Christian Crowley, U.S. Department of the Interior
Yoshiaki Shimazaki, Akita Prefectural University (Contact Author)
Takashi Shinzato, Akita Prefectural University
Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Akita Prefectural University
Takashi Masaki, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan

Discussants:

Yoshiaki Shimazaki, Akita Prefectural University
Richard Volpe, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Luba Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University
Sanchari Ghosh, Oklahoma State University

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