Prior Seminars

2008 Seminar Series

 

December 5

Professor Karl S. Zimmerer, Geography Department, Penn State University

Spatial Interactions of Land Users and Land Use Involving Agriculture and the Environment

 

December 3 (Wednesday)

Professor Erling Vardal, Department of Economics, University of Bergen

How Effective are WTO Domestic Support Disciplines for Agriculture?

 

Friday, November 21

Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska (manuscript)

What comes first agricultural growth or democracy?

 

Friday, November 14

Timothy Regula, Mathematics Department, Penn State University

Accounting for self-interest and avoiding policy resistance in the public-health management of infectious diseases

 

Friday, November 7

Conrado (Bobby) Gempesaw, Dean of the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware

Managing Budgets in Higher Education – Responsibility Based Budgeting Approach

Video

 

Friday, October 31

Leif Jensen, Penn State University

Going to the Job Market

Video

 

Friday, October 24

Eric Jensen, AERS Graduate Student

The changing spatial distribution of Mexican farm workers in the United States from 1980 to 2006

Video

Gaurav Ghosh, AERS Graduate Student

A comparison of Bayesian and classical estimation frameworks in the context of spatial hedonic modeling

Video

 

Friday, October 17

Jeffrey Jacquet, Cornell University

Social and Economic Impacts from Natural Gas Development: A Wyoming Case Study

Video

 

Friday, October 10

Matthew Rousu, Susquehanna University 

The Value of Countermarketing Information to Smokers

Video

 

Friday, October 3

Sally McMurry, Penn State University

The Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project

Video 

 

Tuesday, September 30

Scott Loveridge, Michigan State University
(Located in 103 Weaver Building, University Park)

Accessing Untapped Markets in Graduate Student Recruitment

 

Friday, September 26

Stephen J. Goetz, Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
James Shortle, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics

Overviews of the structure and function of their centers, and opportunities for AERS faculty and students to make engage these entities in teaching, research, and outreach.

Video

 

Friday, September 19

Robert O'Connor, National Science Foundation

Federal Funding for Social Science Research: Trends and Opportunities

PowerPoint Video

 

Friday, September 12

John C. Becker, Penn State University

Australian Water Law Reform:  A Case Study for Reform of Water Law Systems

PowerPoint Video

 

Friday, March 28, 2008

John Miranowski, Iowa State University

“Ethanol Plant Investment under Risk: Evolution of the Biofuel Industry and Implications for the Rural Economy.”

 

Friday, March 21, 2008

Fernando Carrizao, Ph.D., Penn State University

"Valuing Implicit Hedonic Prices of Air Quality and Accessibility to Employment Centers in Bogota, Colombia"

 

Friday, March 7, 2008

Philip Martin, Ph.D., University of California-Davis

"International Migration: Global, American, and Agricultural Issues"

 

Monday, March 3, 2008

Greg Perry, Ph.D., Oregon State University

"What is the Future of the Agricultural Economics Profession?"

 

Thursday, February 28, 2008
M. E. John Lecture

Per Pinstrup-Anderse
H. E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition,
and Public Policy Cornell University and World Food Prize Laureate

"Ethics, Hunger and Globalization"