Alan Ker

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Professor and Elton R. Smith Chair in Food and Agricultural Policy
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

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After obtaining his joint PhD in Economics and Statistics at North Carolina State University (1992-1996), Alan worked as a professor and subsequently Head from 2002-2007 in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona. In April 2009, Alan moved to Canada where he joined the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics in his new position as Chair and Professor. In September 2014, Alan concluded his 5-year term and became Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy. Alan served as 2016-17 President of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. In 2019, he became the OAC Research Chair in Agricultural Risk and Policy. Also in 2019, he became Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. In 2021, Alan was named Fellow of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society. Alan joined the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University where he holds the Elton R. Smith Endowed Chair in Food and Agricultural Policy. 

 

Notes: * denotes M.Sc. student; ** denotes Ph.D. student; *** denotes industry non-Ph.D. person.

Germani, Anna Rita, Angelo Castaldo, and Alan P. Ker; “Sticks, Carrots, and Environmental Crime in Italy: An Empirical Analysis”,   European Journal of Law and Economics, 2024.

Germani, Anna Rita, Georgia Marini, Allesso D'Amato, Alan P. Ker, “Do Environmental Crimes Contribute to Air Pollution? Empirical Evidence and Effects on Health”,  Economica Politica, 2024.

Zhang, Fangyi**, Alan P. Ker, and Satheesh Aradhyula “Estimating Regime-Dependent Price Volatility Transmissions for Wheat”, Applied Economic Letters, 2024.\\

Lu, Hanjun**, and  Alan P. Ker. “Testing for Distributional Structural Change with Unknown Breaks: Application to Pricing Crop Insurance Contracts”, Journal of Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 2024.

Larue, Bruno, and Alan P. Ker. “Climate Change, Production and Trade in Apples” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2024.

Biden, Scott***,  Alan P. Ker, Bruno Larue, and Stephen Duff***. “Economic Impacts of a Disease Outbreak in Canada's Pork Industry: Case of a Price-Taking, Open Country.” Food Policy, 2024.

Schuurman, Daniel* and  Alan P. Ker. “Heterogeneity, Climate Change, and Crop Yield Distributions: Solvency Implications for Publicly-Subsidized Crop Insurance Programs.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics,  2024.

Ker, Alan P. ``Method Myopia.'' Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2024.

 

 

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