Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section

Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
(Note: This name change is effective August 1, 2008)

 

Welcome to the Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section (IBES)

of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Last updated:  Saturday, June 28, 2008

IBES Concept Paper

IBES ByLaws

Past Meetings and Events

 

2008 Orlando Meeting, July 27-29, "Expanding Horizons"

July 27 or 28 (Sunday or Monday) Business Meeting: Date, time and place yet to be arranged

July 27 (Sunday) Symposium:  3:30-5:00 p.m. in Bonaire 6 

Session Title: How best to teach Institutional and Behavioral Economics: Across the curriculum? As free-standing courses? Why bother?

Session Notes: Institutional and behavioral economics offers a rich, diverse set of theories, frameworks, empirical analyses and perspectives that can complement standard agricultural economics curriculum and course content. This symposium will provide examples and offer a format for discussing how these concepts and empirical analyses can be taught not only as free-standing courses, but also as embedded content within marketing, agribusiness, resource and environmental economics and development courses. A panel of experienced teachers will offer their perspectives on how the inclusion of institutional and behavioral economics enriches and strengthens the content of the courses that they teach.

 

 

Moderator: James Sterns
Panelist: Fabio R Chaddad
Panelist: Lisa Daniels
Panelist: Brady James Deaton
Panelist: Michael Sykuta

 

 

July 28 (Monday ) Symposium: 9:30-11:00 a.m. in Boca II  

 

Sufficient Reason for Institutional Change: Applications of Bromley's Framework in Trade, Natural Resource, and Farm Policy Organized by G.Lynne; Moderator Discussants: P. Thompson; L. McCann  ( for a pdf file of the symposium proposal click here)   
  What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate? Examining the Differences of Opinion Between Economists and the General Public on Trade Policy Issues D. Schweikhardt   

 

Empathy Conditioned Reason: Pragmatic Ways to Resolve Natural Resource Conflicts R. Sheeder; G. Lynne   

 

Settled Beliefs and Institutional Change in Food and Agricultural Policy: Reform Attempts in the 2007 Federal Farm Bill T. Dobbs

July 29 (Tuesday) Symposium: 9:30 AM to 11:00 a.m. in Antigua 1

 

Institutional Analysis of Environmental Issues — The Right Tool for the Right Job L. McCann; D. Schweikhardt    

 

Transaction Costs and Neoclassical Analysis of Environmental Policy L. McCann  

 

Application of Transaction Cost Economics to Environmental Issues D. Bougherara   

 

Institutional Approaches for Managing Conflicts over Agricultural Issues C. Abdalla

Also on July 29 (Tuesday), Selected Paper Session: 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. (Room to be arranged) 

Session Title: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

Session Notes: Experimental economic methods applied to understanding the cognitive processes in selecting a wine and pricing of perishable goods. Institutional economic frameworks for understanding free riding and the evolution of unity within groups.

 

 

Moderator: Julie Ann Hogeland

 

 

 


 
 
     

 

Estimating the Effect of the Order of Information Revelation on Purchases: Expectations and Subjective Experience in the Wine Market C. R. Gustafson   

 

Why Aren't There Age-Based Hedonic Markets for Perishable Goods? D. Kerley; K. D. Messer; H. M. Kaiser; W. D. Schulze; B. Wansink   

 

Towards a Measurement of Free Riding within Private Collective Action Organizations F. Olson; M. L. Cook   

 

Those With Blue Hair Please Step Forward: An Economic Theory of Group Formation and Application to Cajas Rurales in Honduras C. Elias; J. Alwang; S. Buck   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 27-29 Poster Papers:

We also have several Poster Papers that have been accepted for presentation. Please plan on "stopping-by" and supporting this version of presented paper. Titles and authors are as follows:

The Racial Saving Gap Enigma: Unraveling the  Role of Past Institutions Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton
Individual-Based Learning and the Performance of Medical Centers in Taiwan: The Case of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Surgery Chern-Jhea  Luo, Fung-Mey  Huang, Yir-Hueih Luh
Resolving Expected Utility Anomalies with a Social Expected Utility Model Lindon J. Robison, Robert  Myers
Intestate Succession, Tenancy-in-Common, and Poverty:  An Analysis of Appalachian States Brady J. Deaton
Managing an Externality in the Confectionary Industry  Allan Schmid, Jon C. Phillips

IBES Listserv

To join the IBES listserve, send an e-mail to manager@aaealist.org with the following message:

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To e-mail members of the IBES listserv, send your message to ibes@aaealist.org.

 

Please feel free to contact any member of the 2007-2008 Executive Committee with questions, comments:


Randall Westgren, Chair
Lindon Robison, Chair-Elect (robison@msu.edu )
Samuel Cordes, Past Chair (smcordes@purdue.edu )
Gary Lynne, Secretary
Peter Klein, Member-at-Large (pklein@missouri.edu)
Paul Thompson, Member-at-Large

 


Last updated 06/28/2008

Webmasters: HJames@missouri.edu  and glynne1@unl.edu