Dr. Konstantinos Giannakas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presented "Economic Effects of Purity Standards in Food Labeling Laws."
Dr. Susan Capalbo, Department Head & Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University entitled "Leadership and Other Challenges Facing Agricultural & Resource Economics Departments."
Dr. Amalie (Emie) Yiannaka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Getting Away with Robbery? Patenting Behavior with the Threat of Infringement." Link to paper
Dr. Greg Perry, Oregon State University, "What is the Future of the Agricultural Economics Profession?" See the archived presentation here
Dr. Chad Hart, Center for Agricultural & Rural Development, Iowa State University, "Bottlenecks and Oil Price Spikes: Impact on U.S. Ethanol and Agriculture"
Dr. Hongli Feng, Iowa State University, “The Allocation of Nutrient Load Reduction across a Watershed: Assessing Delivery Coefficients as an Implementation Tool.”
Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University, “Do Your Neighbors Know You Better than Themselves? A Prediction-Based Non-Market Valuation Method.”
Dr. Francoise Goulard, ESA-Purpan, France, “A Bio-Economic Model Evaluating Policy Cross-Compliance at the Farm Level.”
Dr. Scott Irwin, University of Illinois, “The Performance of Agricultural Market Advisory Services in Corn and Soybeans.”
Dr. Stephan Marette, INRA-INAPG, Paris & Card, Iowa State University, “Common Labels and Market Mechanisms.”
Dr. Laurian Unneverh, University of Illinois, “Food, Information, and Public Health: What Have We Learned After a Decade of New Policy.”
Dr. Peter F. Orazem, Iowa State University, “Labor Market Implications of Rising Costs of Employer-Provided Health Insurance.”
Dr. Dermot J. Hayes, Iowa State University, “Application of Geographic Indicator Concept in the U.S.”
Dr. Chris Peterson, Michigan State University, “Entrepreneurs, Innovation & Agriculture: A New Research Agenda.”
Drs. David Darling, Joseph Aistrup, Michael Babcock, David Norman and Wayne Nafziger, Kansas State University, “The Essentials of Economic Development: What Every Economist Should Understand.”
Dr. Bailey Norwood, Oklahoma State University, “Show Me the Money! The Value of College Graduate Attributes as Expressed by Employers and Perceived by Students.”
Dr. Michael Boland, Kansas State University, “Benchmarking Our Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral Programs Against Other Agricultural Economics Departments: Data from the National Food and Agribusiness Management Education Databases.”
Dr. James R. Coffman, Kansas State University, “The Relevance of the Land Grant Mission in the 21st Century: Part III.”
Dr. Gary Brester, Montana State University, “Distributional Impacts of Country of Origin Labeling.”
Dr. Luther Tweeten, The Ohio State University, “The Relevance of the Land Grant Mission in the 21st Century: Part II.”
Dr. John Schnittker, Schnittker Associates, “Presidential Power and Farm Policy Reform.”
Dr. Neil E. Harl, Iowa State University, “The Relevance of the Land Grant Mission in the 21st Century: Part I.”