Presented by Steve Duff, chief economist at OMAFA.
Market Outlook: An Understanding of Ag Markets in Ontario
Dr. Nicolás Merener is a faculty member at the School of Business, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), where he has served since March 2008, including a tenure as Dean from June 2016 to April 2022. His research focuses on risk management, natural resources, commodities, financial engineering, and sustainability. Dr. Merener earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University in 2002 and a Bachelors in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires in 1997. Prior to his academic career, he was a Senior Vice President in the Fixed Income Research group at Lehman Brothers in New York
Extreme Dry Spells and Larger Storms in the U.S. Midwest Raise Crop Prices.
Dr. Ellen Goddard - Professor Emerita, University of Alberta
Do we know that the public wants gene edited livestock products: A short history of Canadian public research on gene editing to remove horns from dairy cows and diseases from pigs.
Brandon Schaufele is the Director of the Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre and an Associate Professor of Business, Economics, and Public Policy at the Ivey Business School. Prior to coming to Ivey, Brandon was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, as well as Research Director of the university’s Institute of the Environment. Brandon’s areas of expertise are regulation and energy, environmental and agricultural economics. He has published in a range of leading academic journals including, among others: the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Energy Economics and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Brandon served as Research Director of a national environmental policy think-tank and was Chair of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Association. He is currently an Officer and Treasurer of the Canadian Economics Association. Brandon has testified before provincial and federal governments, participated in hearings on major energy projects, consulted for a wide array of companies and law firms on a range of policy topics. Finally, he hosts of the podcast Ergs and Equilibrium.
The Surprising Static and Dynamic Effects of Oil and Gas Flaring on Agriculture
Dr. Madeline Turland is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta. Her research studies natural disaster insurance markets, adaptation to natural disasters, and water resource management. She received a BA from the FARE Department at the University of Guelph in 2016, an MSc. From the University of Saskatchewan in 2018 and a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis in 2024.
Climate Change and the Regulation of a Crashing Insurance Market
Dr. Jinhua Zhao, Dean and Professor, Cornell University
Seminar will be held at 2:30 - 4 pm
Defending Against Air Pollution: The Role of Active Information Nudges and Inattention
Dr. Aurélie Harou, Assistant Professor, McGill University
Technology adoption and farmer beliefs: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
Dr. David Just, professor, Cornell University
Lottery Selection and Probability Weighting: Testing Robustness to Extremes using the New York State Lotto
Dr. Glenn Fox, Professor Emeritus, FARE Department, University of Guelph
Measuring Canadian Energy Subsidies
Dr. Sabine Liebenehm, Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan
The Role of Risk and Time Preference in Social Network Formation
Dr. Maik Kecinski, Associate Professor, University of Delware
Reciprocity in Public Goods Games
Dr. Jorge Perez-Perez, Central Bank of Mexico
Visualization, Identification, and Estimation in the Linear Panel Event-Study Design
Dr. Rudy Nayga, Department Head and Professor, Texas A&M University
Women Empowerment in Agriculture
Dr. Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University
Stewart Lane Commemorative Lecture: Geoengineering Coastlines: From Accidental to Intentional?
Dr. Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University
Mangroves Help Reduce the Impact of Climate-induced Cyclones in India
Dr. David Zilberman, Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley
The Economics of Value Chains
Dr. Giacomo Zanello, Associate Professor and Chair, University of Reading
Physical Activity in Rural Livelihoods: Insights into the Missing Link in the Agriculture-nutrition Pathway
Dr. Sunghun Lim, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
Structural Transformation in the Era of Trade Protectionism
Dr. Jill McCluskey, Director and Regents Professor, Washington State University
Underpricing and Perceived Scarcity
Dr. Jill McCluskey, Director and Regents Professor, Washington State University
Kenneth R. Farrell Distinguished Public Policy Lectureship: Women in Agricultural Economics