Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains
Pol Antràs and David Zilberman, Organizers
May 20-21, 2021
on Zoom.us
| Thursday, May 20 | ||
| 10:30 am |
Welcome James Poterba, MIT and NBER Spiro Stefanou, US Department of Agriculture |
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| 10:45 am |
Sunghun Lim, Louisiana State University Marc F. Bellemare, University of Minnesota Global Agricultural Value Chains and Structural Transformation |
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| 11:30 am |
Shawn Arita, US Department of Agriculture Jason Grant, Virginia Tech Sharon S. Sydow, US Department of Agriculture Jayson Beckman, US Department of Agriculture Has Global Agricultural Trade Been Resilient Under Coronavirus (COVID-19)? Findings From an Econometric Assessment |
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| 12:15 pm | Break | |
| 12:30 pm |
Thomas A. Reardon, Michigan State University |
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| 1:20 pm | Break | |
| 1:30 pm |
Bruno Conte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University and NBER Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER Local Sectoral Specialization in a Warming World |
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| 2:15 pm |
Ishan B. Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change |
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |
| Shorter Presentations Session | ||
| 3:15 pm |
Farid Farrokhi, Boston College Heitor S. Pellegrina, University of Notre Dame Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity |
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| 3:30 pm |
Joshua Deutschmann, University of Chicago Tanguy Bernard, GREThA, University of Bordeaux, and International Food Policy Research Ouambi Yameogo, IITA Contracting and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from an Experiment in Senegal |
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| 3:45 pm |
Lucas Zavala, Princeton University Unfair Trade? Market Power in Agricultural Value Chains |
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| 4:00 pm | Discussion | |
| 4:15 pm | Adjourn | |
| Friday, May 21 | ||
| 10:45 am |
Meilin Ma, Purdue University Jayson L. Lusk, Purdue University Concentration and Resiliency in the US Meat Supply Chains |
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| 11:30 am |
Austin F. Ramsey, Virginia Tech Barry Goodwin, North Carolina State University Mildred Haley, US Department of Agriculture Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing |
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| 12:15 pm | Break | |
| 12:30 pm |
A.G. Kawamura, Former Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture |
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| 1:20 pm | Break | |
| 1:30 pm |
Michael Delgado, Purdue University Meilin Ma, Purdue University H. Holly Wang, Purdue University Risk, Arbitrage, and Spatial Price Relationships: Insights from China’s Hog Market under the African Swine Fever |
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| 2:15 pm |
Obie Porteous, Middlebury College Reverse Dutch Disease with Trade Costs: Prospects for Agriculture in Africa's Oil-Rich Economies |
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |
| Shorter Presentations Session | ||
| 3:15 pm |
Sandro Steinbach, North Dakota State University Exchange Rate Volatility and Global Food Supply Chains |
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| 3:30 pm |
Liang Lu, University of Idaho Jason Winfree, University of Idaho Demand Shocks and Supply Chain Flexibility |
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| 3:45 pm |
Charles A Taylor, Harvard University Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University and NBER Algal Blooms and the Social Cost of Fertilizer |
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| 4:00 pm | Discussion | |
| 4:15 pm | Adjourn | |