• BRADLEY JEFF BOWLAND, "Marginal Benefits of Trade and Environmental
Policy: Valuing Air Pollution and Health in a Developing Country,"
North Carolina State University, John C. Beghin, Advisor.
• WILLARD A. DELAVAN, "Valuing the Benefits of Protecting
Groundwater from Nitrate Contamination in Southeastern Pennsylvania,"
Pennsylvania State University, Donald Epp, Advisor.
• JEFFREY M. PETERSON, "Optimal Design of Voluntary ÔGreenÕ
Payment Programs to Limit Nitrate Contamination Under Price and
Yield Risk," Cornell University, Richard Boisvert, Advisor.
Honorable Mention
• NICOLE AUDRA ELMER, "The Environmental Effects of Expanded
Trade: A Firm-Level Simulation Analysis of Investment in Texas
Grapefruit," Texas A&M University, Amy Thurow, Advisor.
• IBRAHIMA HATHIE, "Political Economy of Pricing Decisions:
The Case of Peanuts in Senegal," University of Connecticut, Rigoberto
A. Lopez, Advisor.
•LEE ZIEGLER, "Test of Distributional Assumptions and the
Informational Content of Agricultural Futures Options," Montana
State University, David Buschena, Advisor.
Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation
• NICHOLAS EDWARD PIGGOTT, "The Benefits and Costs of Generic
Advertising of Agricultural Commodities," University of California,
Davis, Julian Alston and James Chalfant, Advisors.
Honorable Mention
• ELIZABETH ROBINSON, "Evolution of Property Rights with Incomplete
Enforcement," Stanford University, Jeffrey Williams, Advisor.
• RICHARD T. WOODWARD, "Sustainability, Efficiency, and Economic
Analysis: A Macroeconomic Framework with Microeconomic Implications,"
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Richard Bishop, Advisor.
Distinguished Teaching
Less Than Ten Years' Experience
PATRICK J. BYRNE, University of Florida. Undergraduate Teaching, More Than Ten
Years' Experience
GARY F. FAIRCHILD, University of Florida. Graduate Teaching Award, More Than Ten
Years' Experience
JAMES E. WILEN, University of California, Davis.
Distinguished Extension Program
Group
MASTER MARKETER PROGRAM, Texas A&M University, Steve Amosson,
Stan Bevers, Jackie Smith, Roland Smith, and Mark Waller.
Distinguished Policy Contribution
Individual
COLIN CARTER, University of California, Davis.
Honorable Mention
• C. FORD RUNGE, University of Minnesota.
Quality of Communications
• TODD SANDLER, "Global Challenges: An Approach To Environmental,
Political, and Economic Problems," Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press. 234 pp., 1997.
Quality of Research Discovery
• FRANCES R. HOMANS and JAMES E. WILEN, "A Model of Regulated
Open Access Resource Use," Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management, 32 (1997): 1-21.
Outstanding Journal Article
• BOB BAULCH, "Transfer Costs, Spatial Arbitrage, and Testing
for Food Market Integration," American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, 79 (May 1997): 477-487.
Honorable
Mention
• PAUL W. HEISEY, MELINDA SMALE, DEREK BYERLEE, AND EDWARD
SOUZA, "Wheat Rusts and the Costs of Genetic Diversity in the
Punjab of Pakistan," American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
79 (August 1997): 726-737.
Publication of Enduring Quality
• RICHARD E. JUST, "An Investigation of the Importance of
Risk in FarmersÕ Decisions," American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, 56 (1974): 14-25.
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