2005 AAEA Annual Award Winners
Presidential Recognition Award for Special Service to the Association
Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University
Outstanding Master’s Thesis
Quoc Viet Luong, Cornell University
“Investment in Coffee Planting in Vietnam—A Real Option Analysis and Policy Recommendations”
Loren Tauer, Advisor
Kelly M. Cobourn, University of Maine
“Environmental Conservation on Agricultural Working Land: Assessing Policy Alternatives using a Spatially Heterogeneous Land Allocation Model”
Timothy J. Dalton, Advisor
Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
Jason Bergtold, Virginia Tech
“Advances in Applied Econometrics: Binary Discrete Choice Models, Artificial Neural Networks, and Asymmetries in the FAST Multistage Demand System”
Daniel Taylor and Aris Spanos, Advisors
Shinn-Shyr Wang, University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Strategic Behavior under Asset Value Maximization—An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Retail Margarine and Butter Markets”
Kyle Stiegert, Advisor
Tian Xia, University of California at Davis
“Cattle, Contracts, and Grocery Retailers: Three Essays on Industrial Organization in Agricultural Markets”
Richard Sexton, Advisor
Honorable Mention
Ahmet Tolga Ergun, University of Arizona
“Essays on Nonparametric and Applied Econometrics”
Alan Ker, Advisor
Daniel Gilligan, University of Maryland
“The Economics of Agricultural Labor Exchange with Evidence for Indonesia”
Ramon Lopez, Advisor
Distinguished Teaching
Less than 10 Years’ Experience
Lisa House, University of Florida
Undergraduate, More than 10 Years’ Experience
Paul Wilson, University of Arizona
Graduate, More Than 10 Years’ Experience
James Richardson, Texas A&M University
Distinguished Extension Program
Individual - Less than 10 Years’ Experience
Nicolas Piggott, North Carolina State University
Individual – More than 10 Years’ Experience
Stephen Amosson, Texas A&M University
Distinguished Extension Program - Group
Terry Hanson, John Anderson and James Avery, Mississippi State University, members of the “Trade Adjustment Assistance Training for Catfish Producers” team
Distinguished Policy Contribution Award
Wallace Tyner, Purdue University
Quality of Communication Award
Terri Raney, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
“Part I: Agricultural Biotechnology: Meeting the Needs of the Poor?”
The State of Food and Agriculture, 2003-04, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, 2004
Honorable Mention
M. Ataman Aksoy, World Bank, and John C. Beghin, Iowa State University, editors
“Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries”
World Bank, Washington, DC, 2005
Quality of Research Discovery Award
Scott Rozelle, University of California at Davis and Johan F.M. Swinnen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the World Bank
“Success and Failure of Reform: Insights from the Transition of Agriculture”
Journal of Economic Literature, XLII (June 2004): 404-456
Outstanding American Journal of Agricultural Economics Article
Jeffrey M. Peterson, Kansas State University, and Richard N. Boisvert, Cornell University
“Incentive-Compatible Pollution Control Policies Under Asymmetric Information on Both Risk Preferences and
Technology”
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(2): (May 2004): 291-306
Outstanding Review of Agricultural Economics Article
Steven T. Buccola, Oregon State University, and Yin Xia, University of Missouri at Columbia
“The Rate of Progress in Agricultural Biotechnology”
Review of Agricultural Economics, 26(1):3-18
Honorable Mention
Darren Hudson, Mississippi State University, and Jason Lusk, Purdue University
“What You Don’t Know Can Cost You: A Web-based Experiment in Price Discrimination”
Review of Agricultural Economics, 26(3):392- 403
Outstanding Choices Article
Stephanie Mercier, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, United States Senate
“The WTO and US Agricultural Policy: Intersections and Consequences”
Choices (Fourth Quarter, 2004)
Honorable Mention
Parke Wilde, Tufts University
“Message Under Revision: USDA Speaks About Beef, Pork, Cheese, and Obesity”
Choices (Third Quarter, 2004)
Publication of Enduring Quality Award
Gershon Feder, World Bank, Richard Just, University of Maryland, and David Zilberman, University of California at Berkeley
“Adoption of Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries: A Survey”
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 33(1985): 255- 298
Fellows
- Gershon Feder
- Ray A. Goldberg
- Peter Hazell
- Robert Innes
- Bruce A. McCarl
- Susan Offutt
Poster Session Awards
1st Place
To Nguyen and Richard Woodward, Texas A&M University; Mindy Selman, World Resources Institute; Marty Matlock, University of Arkansas, "NutrientNet.edu: Teaching Market- based Policy for Water Quality Management"
2nd Place
Silvia Secchi, Manoj Jha, Lyubov Kurkalova, Catherine Kling, Hongli Feng, Phil Gassman and Todd Campbell, Iowa State University, "Linking the Economic Costs and Water Quality Benefits of Conservation in Agricultural Lands: An Iowa Assessment"
3rd Place
Darius Lewis and Jeffrey Gillespie, Louisiana State University, "Processor Adoption of a Potential Crawfish Peeling Machine"
Graduate Student Case Study Competition
First Place
Michelle Mullins and Hilary Dorr, University of Missouri
Second Place
Purdue University
Third Place
Oklahoma State University
Outstanding Student Paper Awards
First Place
Andre Asselin, University of Alberta
Second Place
Amanda Neall, University of Alberta
Third Place
Carmen Albright, University of Arkansas
Undergraduate Academic Bowl
First Place
University of Florida
Second Place
McGill University
Third Place
Texas Tech University
Outstanding Chapter Award
First Place
University of Florida
Second Place
Texas Tech University
Third Place
Iowa State University
Creative Club Award
University of Idaho