Anton Bekkerman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics

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)

• AGEC 321: Economics of Agricultural Marketing

  • Course Notes and Syllabus

    Course Notes

    Syllabus

  • Homeworks

    Reading 1		Reading 2		HW 1		HW 1: soln
    HW 2		HW 2: soln		HW 3		HW 4
    HW 5		HW 6		HW 6: soln		HW 7
    HW 7: soln		HW 8		HW 8: soln		HW 9
    HW 9: soln		HW 10		HW 10: soln

    Next due date: Homework 10, December 8, 5:00 p.m.

  • Handouts

    Quiz 1: soln		Exam 1 review		Exam 1 rev: soln
    Chp 3-5 soln		Quiz 2: soln		Exam 2 review
    Exam 2 rev: soln		Futures market reading 1		Futures market reading 2
    Quiz 3: soln		Exam 3 review		Exam 3 rev: soln

    Quiz 3 is graded and can be picked up.

  • Grades, Anonymous Feedback, Calendar

    Grades

    Anonymous Feedback

    Office Hours Calendar

• ECNS 561: Econometrics I

  • Course Notes and Syllabus

    Course Notes

    Syllabus

  • Homework

    HW 1		HW 1: soln		HW 1: SAS		HW 2
    HW 2: soln		HW 2: SAS		HW 3		HW 3: data
    HW 3: soln		HW 3: SAS		Reading 1		Reading 2
    HW 4		HW 4: soln		Reading 3		HW 5
    HW 5: soln		HW 5: SAS		HW 6		HW 6: data
    HW6: soln		HW6: SAS		Reading 4		Reading 5
    Reading 6

    Next due date: Final Exam, December 12, 2 p.m.

  • Handouts

    SAS Code: correl		SAS Code: joint prob		SAS Code: macros
    Exam 1 review		OLS Geometry		SAS Code: hyp. tests
    Exam 2 review		Data project		Exam 3 review

  • SAS Lab Materials

    SAS lab notes		SAS lab code		SAS code 08/17
    SAS code 08/18		SAS code 08/23		Data: dt1
    Data: wheat 1		Data: wheat 2		IML guide

  • Grades, Anonymous Feedback, Calendar

    Grades

    Anonymous Feedback

    Office Hours Calendar

• Spring 2011

  • AGEC315: Agriculture in an Emerging Economy

    Materials (zip file)

• Fall 2010

  • AGEC321: Economics of Agricultural Marketing

    Materials (zip file)

  • ECNS561: Econometrics I

    Materials (zip file)

• Fall 2009

  • AGEC321: Economics of Agricultural Marketing

    Materials (zip file)

  • ECNS202: Principles of Macroeconomics

    Materials (zip file)

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)