• CAROLINE GUNNING TRANT, "Measuring the Existence Values
of National Parks in the Northwest Territories," U. of Guelph,
Kim Rollins, Advisor.
• HIKARU HANAWA, "An Econometric Analysis of the U.S. Kiwifruit
Industry," Cornell U., Lois Willett, Advisor.
• JASON HENDERSON, "An Analysis of Food Processing Plant's
Location Decisions in the Corn Belt Region," Purdue U., Kevin
McNamara, Advisor.
Honorable Mention
• JING CHEN, "Food Consumption and Projection of Agricultural
Demand/Supply Balance for 1996-2005 in China," The Ohio State
U., Wen Chern, Advisor.
• GREGORY HARNISH, "Analysis of Short-Run Barge Rates for
Southbound Grain on the Mississippi River System," The Pennsylvania
State U., James Dunn, Advisor.
• SCOTT MCCOLLUM, "Determinants of FSA Guaranteed Loan Use
Volume and Loss Claims for Arkansas Commercial Banks," U. of Arkansas,
Bruce Dixon, Advisor.
Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation
• ELVIRA SILVA, "A Unified Non-parametric Approach to Dynamic
Production Analysis and Efficiency Measurement." The Pennsylvania
State U., Spiro E. Stefanou, Advisor.
Honorable Mention
• KELLIE RAPER, "Empirical Measurement of Market Power," Texas
A&M U., H. Alan Love, Advisor. • ALBERT PARK, "Household Grain
Management Under Uncertainty in China's Poor Areas," Stanford
U., Scott Rozelle, Advisor.
• GERALD E. SHIVELY, "Land Degradation, Soil Conservation
and Risk: Evidence from a Dynamic Model of Philippine Upland Agriculture,"
U. of Wisconsin-Madison, Ian Coxhead, Advisor.
Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching
Less Than Ten Years' Experience
LOIS SCHERTZ WILLETT, Cornell U.. More Than Ten Years' Experience
MICHAEL E. WETZSTEIN, U. of Georgia. Graduate Teaching Award
JEAN-PAUL CHAVAS, U. of Wisconsin-Madison.
Distinguished Extension Program
Individual
NELSON BILLS, Cornell U. Group
Managing for Today's Cattle Market and Beyond Program, U. of
Wyoming.
Distinguished Policy Contribution
Group
The Agricultural and Food Policy Center, Texas A&M U.
Quality of Communications
• MAURY E. BREDAHL, NICOLE BALLENGER, JOHN C. DUNMORE and
TERRY L. ROE, Editors, "Agriculture, Trade, and the Environment:
Discovering and Measuring the Critical Linkages," Boulder, Colorado:
Westview Press, 1996. • VERNON W. RUTTAN, "United States
Development Assistance Policy: The Domestic Politics of Foreign
Economic Aid," Baltimore: The John Hopkins U. Press, 1996.
Honorable Mention
• RICHARD CORNES and TODD SANDLER, "The Theory of Externalities,
Public Goods and Club Goods, second edition, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
Quality of Research Discovery
• RULON D. POPE and RICHARD E. JUST, "Empirical Implementation
of Ex Ante Cost Functions," Journal of Econometrics 72 (1996):
231-249.
Honorable Mention
• ROBERT G. CHAMBERS and JOHN QUIGGIN, "Non-Point-Source
Pollution Regulation as a Multi-Task Principle-Agent Problem,"
Journal of Public Economics 59(1996):95-116.
Outstanding Journal Article
• SHU Y. HUANG and RICHARD J. SEXTON, "Measuring Returns
to an Innovation in an Imperfectly Competitive Market: Application
to Mechanical Harvesting of Processing Tomatoes in Taiwan,"
AJAE,1996, pp.558-571.
Honorable Mention
• YAIR MUNDLAK and HE HUANG, "International Comparison of
Cattle Cycles," AJAE, 1996, pp. 855-868.
Publication of Enduring Quality
• WILLIAM G. TOMEK and KENNETH L. ROBINSON, Agricultural
Product Prices, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972 (Second
edition, 1981, and third edition, 1990).
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