Devry S. Boughner, "The Economics of 2-Tier Tariff-Rate Import Quotas: An Empirical Application to the United States Dairy Industry," Cornell University, Harry de Gorter, Advisor
Isabelle Schluep, "The Law and Economics of 'Consumer Only' Financed Export Subsidies: A Context for the WTO Panel on Canadian Dairy Pricing Policy," Cornell University, Harry de Gorter, Advisor
Honorable Mention
Yin Xia, "Technology Structure and Productivity Change in the U.S. Meat Products Industry," Oregon State University, Steven Buccola, Advisor
Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation
John Cranfield, "Aggregating Non-Linear Consumer Demands - A Maximum Entropy Approach," Purdue University, Paul Preckel, Advisor
Stijn Reinhard, "Econometric Analysis of Economic and Environmental Efficiency of Dutch Dairy Farms," Wageningen University, Geert Thijssen and A.J. Oskam, Advisors
Jonathon Keith Yoder, "Wildlife on Private Land: Contracting Over Wildlife-Inflicted Property Damage and Abatement," North Carolina State University, Gerald Carlson, Advisor
Distinguished Teaching
Less Than Ten Years' Experience
Frank Dooley, Purdue University
Undergraduate Teaching, More Than Ten Years' Experience
Raymond Folwell, Washington State University
Graduate Teaching Award, More Than Ten Years' Experience
Jeffrey Williams, University of California - Davis
Distinguished Extension Program
Individual
Timothy Kelsey, Pennsylvania State University, "Local Taxes and Our Community"
Group
"Managing Risk and Profits" - More than 30 faculty and staff in 13 universities and companies participated. The institutions and directors are: Iowa State University, Robert Wisner; The Ohio State University, Dean Baldwin, Cameron Thraen and Norman St-Pierre; University of Wisconsin, Robert Cropp and Kevin Bernhardt.
Distinguished Policy Contribution
Individual
Ralph Heimlich, USDA/Economic Research Service, Washington, D.C.
Quality of Communications
David Orden, Robert Paarlberg, and Terry Roe, "Policy Reform in American Agriculture Analysis and Prognosis," Copyright 1999 by The University of Chicago Press.
Honorable Mention
Gerald C. Nelson, Timothy Josling, David Bullock, Laurian Unnevehr, Mark Rosegrant, and Lowell Hill. "The Economics and Politics of Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture: Implications for WTO 2000," (with Julie Babinard, Carrie Cunningham, Alessandro De Pinto, Elisavet I. Nitsi), Bulletin 809, November 1999, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Copyright 1999, University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
Quality of Research Discovery
Robert Innes, "Self-Policing and Optimal Law Enforcement When Violator Remediation is Valuable," Journal of Political Economy, (107, no.6): 1305-1325.
Honorable Mention
Joseph A. Herriges and Catherine L. Kling, "Non-linear Income Effects in Random Utility Models," The Review of Economics and Statistics, (81, no.1): 62-72.
James N. Sanchirico and James E. Wilen, "Bioeconomics of Spatial Exploitation in a Patch Envirnoment," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, (37): 129-150.
Outstanding Journal Article: AJAE
Theofanis Tsoulouhas and Tomislav Vukina, "Integrator Contracts with Many Agents and Bankruptcy," 81 (1999): 61-74.
Honorable Mention
Darren L. Frechette and Paul L. Fackler, "What Causes Commodity Price Backwardation?", 81 (1999): 761-771.
Outstanding Journal Article: RAE
Steven T. Buccola and James E. McCandlish, "Rent Seeking and Rent Dissipation in State Enterprises," 21, (1999): 358-373.
Outstanding CHOICES Article
Jason F. Shogren and John Tschirhart, "The Endangered Species Act at Twenty-Five," Third Quarter, (1999): 4-9.
Honorable Mention
Robert Innes, "Regulating Livestock Waste: An Economic Perspective," Second Quarter, (1999): 14-19.
Publication of Enduring Quality
Yoav Kislev and Willis Peterson, "Prices Technology and Farm Size." Journal of Political Economy, 90 (1982): 578-595.
Honorable Mention