Anton Bekkerman

205 Linfield Hall
Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics
Montana State University
P.O. Box 172920
Bozeman, MT 59717-2920
406-994-3032

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Curriculum Vitae

Professional Interests and Skills

Agricultural marketing
Risk management and agricultural policy
Applied econometrics
Spatio-temporal analysis
Multidisciplinary research
Expertise with SAS, R, LaTeX
Familiarity and experience with Java, C++, Linux/Unix

Teaching Experience

Agricultural marketing (AGEC 321)
Econometrics (ECNS 561)
Introduction to Macroeconomics (ECNS 202)

Selection of Current Working Papers

A Variable Threshold Band Approach to Measuring Agricultural Market Linkages

Keywords: variable threshold autoregression, spatially separated markets, impulse response, time dependencies
(with Barry K. Goodwin and Nicholas E. Piggott)


A Semi-Parametric Approach to Analyzing Differentiated Agricultural Products
Keywords: bull sales, heritable traits, product differentiation, quantile regression
(with G. Brester and T. McDonald)


The SURE Program: An Empirical Investigation of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection Behavior
Keywords: SURE, moral hazard, crop insurance, 2008 Farm Bill
(with V. Smith and M. Watts)


The Internet and the Demand for Proprietary Information Resources: Investigating Impacts in U.S. Public Libraries
Keywords: high-speed Internet, information search behavior, Internet access, public libraries
(with G. Gilpin)