Presentations

P1. Hochman, Eithan, and David Zilberman. “Two-Goal Environmental Policy:  An Integration of Micro and Macro Ad Hoc Decision Rules,” paper presented at the Third World Conference of the Econometric Society, Toronto, Canada, August 20-26, 1975.

P2. Hochman, Eithan, Richard E. Just, and David Zilberman. “The Use of Putty Clay Models for Dynamic Environmental Planning,” paper presented at the Western Economic Association Meeting, Honolulu/Kona, Hawaii, June 20-26, 1978.

P3. Just, Richard E., Andrew Schmitz, and David Zilberman. “Price Controls and Optimal Export Policies Under Alternative Market Structures,” paper presented at the Western Economic Association Meeting, Honolulu/Kona, Hawaii, June 20-26, 1978.

P4. Just, Richard E., David Zilberman, and Gordon C. Rausser. “A Putty-Clay Approach to the Distributional Effects of New Technology Under Risk,” paper presented at the Operations Research Society of Israel, International Conference on Operations Research in Agriculture and Water Resources, Jerusalem, Israel, November 25-29, 1979.

P5. Rausser, Gordon C., Richard E. Just, and David Zilberman, “Prospects and Limitations of Operations Research Applications in Agriculture and Agricultural Policy,” paper presented at the Operations Research Society of Israel, International Conference on Operations Research in Agriculture and Water Resources, Jerusalem, Israel, November 25-29, 1979.

P6. Zilberman, David, and Richard E. Just. “Agricultural Product Markets and the Demand for Seasonal Labor,” paper presented at the U. S. Department of Labor Conference, “Toward a Research Strategy on the Agricultural Labor Market in the United States,” Washington, D. C., January 9-11, 1980.

P7. Rausser, Gordon C., Alain de Janvry, Andrew Schmitz, and David Zilberman. “Principal Issues in the Evaluation of Public Research in Agriculture,” paper presented at the Symposium on Methodology for Evaluation of Agricultural Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May, 1980.

P8. Rausser, Gordon C., Richard E. Just, and David Zilberman. “Econometric vs. Programming:  Choosing the Tool for the Problem,” invited paper presented at the Symposium on Economic Modeling and Forecasting for Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada, May 22 and 23, 1980.

P9. Rausser, Gordon C., David Zilberman, and Richard E. Just. “The Distributional Impacts of Agricultural Programs,” invited paper presented at the Workshop on Perspective on Food and Agricultural Policy Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, October 4-7, 1981.

P10. Zilberman, David, and Gordon C. Rausser. “Comment:  A Proper Perspective on Adaptive Economics,” paper presented at the U. S. Department of Agriculture Conference on Modeling and Evaluating Policy and Institutional Impacts on Farm Firms:  Theory, Research, and Extension Applications, Arlington, Virginia, November 18-20, 1981.

P11. Just, Richard E., David Zilberman, and Gordon C. Rausser. “The Role of Governmental Policy in Agricultural Land Appreciation and Wealth Accumulation,” invited paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Economics Association, Washington, D. C., December 27-29, 1981.

P12. Zilberman, David. “The Use of Potential Optimal Control Models in Agricultural Economics,” invited paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) and the Western Agricultural Economics Association, Logan, Utah, August 1-4, 1982.

P13. Just, Richard E., Gordon C. Rausser, and David Zilberman. “Equity and Efficiency in Agricultural Production Systems,” invited plenary paper for the International Association of Agricultural Economics Meetings, Jakarta, Indonesia, August 23-September 2, 1982.

P14. Zilberman, David. “The Implications of the Economic Treadmill and Putty-Clay Models,” paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Symposium on Agricultural Investment, Asset Fixity, and the Agricultural Treadmill:  Modern Approaches to Solving Some Old Problems, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, August, 1983.

P15. Zilberman, David. “Seasonal Labor Arrangement in Israeli Agriculture,” paper presented at the Giannini Foundation Symposium on International Comparison of Seasonal Farm Labor Management, Davis, California, 1984.

P16. Zilberman, David, and Harold O. Carter. “Structural Dimensions of Agricultural Policies,” paper presented at the Conference on Alternative Agricultural and Food Policies and the 1985 Farm Bill, Berkeley, California, June, 1984.

P17. Zilberman, David. “Technological Change, Government Policies, and Exhaustible Resources in Agriculture,” invited paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, August, 1984.

P18. Zilberman, David (Discussant). Comments on “Modeling Dynamic Supply Response in Agriculture,” American Agricultural Economics Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, August, 1984.

P19. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “The Econometrics of Pesticide Use:  Why Specification Matters,” contributed paper for the American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, August, 1984.

P20. Just, Richard E., and David Zilberman. “Income Distributional Implications of Natural Resource Policy Decisions,” paper presented at the Western Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, July, 1985.

P21. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “Efficient Regulation of Environmental Health Risks,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Economic Association, Anaheim, California, July, 1985.

P22. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “Heterogeneous Production and Input Regulation in Agriculture: A Conceptual Framework for Welfare Analysis,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Iowa State University, Ames, August, 1985.

P23. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “Regulating Environmental Health Risks Efficiently in Developing Countries:  The Case of Latin America,” paper presented at the First Conference on Environmental Economics in Mexico and Latin America, Monterrey, Mexico, September, 1985.

P24. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “Efficient Regulation of Environmental Health Risks:  The Case of Drinking Water Contamination in California,” paper presented at the International Conference on Man’s Role in Changing the Global Environment, Venice, Italy, October, 1985.

P25. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “Heterogeneous Production and Input Regulation in Agriculture: A Conceptual Framework for Welfare Analysis,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Dallas, Texas, November, 1985.

P26. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “Regulating Environmental and Human Health Risks from Agricultural Residuals,” paper presented at the Conference on Decision Criteria for Residuals Management in Agriculture, Sacramento, California, April 17 and 18, 1986 (also published in its Proceedings).

P27. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “Problems of Pesticide Regulation: Health and Environment versus Food and Fiber,” paper presented at the Conference on Agricultural and Environment, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Resources for the Future, Washington, D. C., April 21-22, 1986.

P28. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “Efficient Management of Contamination Under Environmental Uncertainty:  Shellfish Contamination in California,” paper presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Workshop on Marine Pollution and Environmental Damage Assessment, Narragansett, Rhode Island, June 5 and 6, 1986.

P29. Lichtenberg, Erik, Douglas D. Parker, and David Zilberman. “Marginal Analysis of Welfare Effects of Environmental Policies:  The Case of Pesticide Regulation,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Lansing, Michigan, August 3-5, 1987.

P30. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “The Economics of Waste Management in Agricultural Production Systems,” invited paper presented at the Engineering Foundation Conference on Risk Analysis of Natural and Man-Made Hazards, Santa Barbara, California, November 8-13, 1987.

P31. Lichtenberg, Erik, and David Zilberman. “Quantifying Toxic Risks from Agriculture,” invited paper presented at the Conference on Regional Environmental Quality and Externalities from Production Agriculture sponsored by the Consortium for Research on Crop Production Systems, Airlie House, Virginia, January 21-22, 1988.

P32. Zilberman, David. “Pesticide Economics,” invited paper presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of Australian Agricultural Economics Society, Melbourne, Australia, February 3, 1988.

P33. Zilberman, David. “The Present and Future of Agricultural Resources Economics,” invited paper presented at the University of Maryland Commercial Agricultural and Resource Policy Program, May 14, 1988.

P34. Babcock, Bruce A., Erik Lichtenberg, and David Zilberman. “Estimating the Productivity of Pesticides in Controlling Yield and Quality Damage,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, August 1-3, 1988.

P35. Bigman, David, David Newbery, and David Zilberman. “New Approaches in Agricultural Policy Research: Discussion,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Economics Association, Chicago, Illinois, December 28, 1987.

P36. Just, Richard E., Erik Lichtenberg, and David Zilberman. “Joint Management of Buffer Stocks for Water and Commodities,” presented at the University of Maryland Commercial Agricultural and Resource Policy Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, May 4-5, 1989.

P37. Just, Richard E., Erik Lichtenberg, and David Zilberman. “Effects of the Feed Grain and Wheat Programs on Irrigation and Groundwater Depletion in Nebraska,” paper presented at the University of Maryland Commercial Agricultural and Resource Policy Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, May 4-5, 1989.

P38. Just, Richard E., Erik Lichtenberg, and David Zilberman. “Effects of Commodity Programs on Health:  The Case of Tobacco,” paper presented at the University of Maryland Commercial Agricultural and Resource Policy Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, May 4 and 5, 1989.

P39. Lichtenberg, Erik, Robert C. Spear, and David Zilberman. “The Economics of Re-Entry Regulation in Controlling Pesticide-Induced Illness Among Farmworkers,” invited paper presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Workshop on Estimating and Valuing Morbidity in a Policy Context, Research Triangle, North Carolina, June, 1989.

P40. Hanemann, Michael W., Erik Lichtenberg, and David Zilberman. “Conservation Versus Cleanup in Agricultural Drainage Control,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 30-August 2, 1989.

P41. Just, Richard E., Erik Lichtenberg, and David Zilberman.  “Joint Management of Buffer Stocks of Commodities and Groundwater,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Atlanta, Georgia, December 27-30, 1989.

P42. Zilberman, David, “The Appropriate Model for the Choice of Agricultural Inputs:  Primal, Dual, or Other,” invited paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Economics Association, Atlanta, Georgia, December 27-30, 1989.

P43. Zilberman, David, and Margriet Caswell. “The Management of Drainage in California,” paper presented at the Western Economics Association Meeting, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 14, 1989.

P44. Zilberman, David. “Health and Production Tradeoffs in Pesticide Regulation,” paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 3, 1990.

P45. Zilberman, David. “Impacts of Environmental Considerations on Agricultural Policy Formulations,” paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 3, 1990.

P46. Parker, Douglas D., and David Zilberman. “Price Transmission Across Marketing Levels in a Hedonic Framework,” paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 1990.

P47. Zilberman, David. “Pesticide Tradeoffs:  Economic, Welfare, and Health,” paper presented at the Symposium on Economics of Reducing Pesticide Use, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley, October 26, 1990.

P48. Zilberman, David. “The Dynamics of Regional Management of Water and Drainage,” paper presented at the International Workshop and Conference:  Food Problems in Developing Countries and the Potential Contribution of R&D to their Solution, BARD-US-Israel Agricultural Research and Development Fund, the Phillipe Monaster Center for Economics Research, and the Center for Research in Agricultural Economics, in collaboration with CINADCO-Ministry of Agriculture, Israel, December 10-13, 1990.

P49. Zilberman, David. “Water Rights and Technology Adoption,” invited paper presented at the Department of Economics, University of Chicago, April 29, 1991.

P50. Zilberman, David, Andrew Schmitz, Ariel Dinar, and Farhed Shah. “A Water Scarcity or a Water Management Crisis?” paper presented at Waterscapes ’91:  International Conference on Water Management for a Sustainable Environment (organized by the Government of Canada and the Canadian Water Resources Association) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, June 2-8, 1991.

P51. Zilberman, David. “Pesticide Policy and Regulation” (Chair of session, Contemporary Policy Issues), paper presented at Challenges of the Changing Global Environment, Western Economic Association, 66th Annual Conference, Seattle, June 29-July 3, 1991.

P52. Zilberman, David (Discussant, Individually Organized Session). “Economics of Food Labeling,” paper presented at Challenges of the Changing Global Environment, Western Economic Association, 66th Annual Conference, Seattle, June 29-July 3, 1991.

P53. Buschena, David E., and David Zilberman. “Risk Attitudes Over Income Under Discrete Status Levels,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, August 4-7, 1991.

P54. Shah, Farhed, and David Zilberman. “Environmental Degradation and Technological Change,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, August 4-7, 1991.

P55. Zilberman, David (Discussant). “Evaluating Programs that Save Lives,” paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, August 4-7, 1991.

P56. McWilliams, Bruce, David Zilberman, and George B. Frisvold. “Estimating Adoption Behavior From Time of Adoption Data:  The Case of Computers in California,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, August 4-7, 1991.

P57. Zilberman, David (facilitator and speaker). Workshop on Economics for the Conference on Urban Pesticide Spraying:  Charting a Course for Public Health Protection, Santa Monica, California, October, 2-4, 1991.

P58. Dinar, Ariel, Anthony Fisher, and David Zilberman.  “Impact of Global Climate Change on California’s Agriculture,” invited paper presented at the Peder Sather Symposium on Global Change:  European and American Policy Responses, University of California at Berkeley, October 16-18, 1991.

P59. Zilberman, David. “The Economics of Pesticide Use,” paper presented at the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, April 30, 1991; the Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, May 24, 1991; the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Maryland, October 4, 1991; and the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Connecticut, October 21, 1991.

P60. Zilberman, David. “The Economics of Drainage Management,” paper presented at the University of Massachusetts, October 22, 1991, and the University of California at Davis, November 21, 1991.

P61. Zilberman, David, and Ujjayant Chakravorty. “Efficient Management of Water in Agriculture,” paper presented at the International Conference on Natural Resources and Environmental Management in an Interdependent World, sponsored by IICA and Resources for the Future, San Jose, Costa Rica, January 22-24, 1992.

P62. Zilberman, David. “The Economic Implications of the Sweetpotato Whitefly for Consumers, Growers, and the Farm Credit Industry,” paper presented at the Conference on The Economic Impacts of the Sweetpotato Whitefly, University of California at Riverside, January 17, 1992.

P63. Zilberman, David, Philip Haney, and Seung Jick Yoo. “The Impact of Energy Price Changes on Citrus Growers and California Agriculture,” Report produced for the California Energy Commission, presented at the CEC Workshop, Economic Implications of Higher Electricity Rates to Agricultural Class Customers and the Various Alternatives Available to Reduce Their Electricity Demands, Sacramento, March 27, 1992 (Berkeley:  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, March, 1992).

P64. Parker, Douglas D., and David Zilberman. “Technology Transfer in Biotechnology:  Evidence and Analysis,” paper presented at the Western Economic Association International Conference, San Francisco, California, July, 1992.

P65. Zilberman, David. “Transaction Costs and the Political Economy of Water Markets,” paper presented at the Western Economic Association International Conference, San Francisco, California, July, 1992.

P66. Zilberman, David (Moderator). Chemical vs. Biological Control of Pests:  An International Comparison, Organized Symposium at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, August, 1992.

P67. Zilberman, David. “Environmental Dimensions of Grains from Trade” (subsequently retitled “Environmental Aspects of Economic Relations Between Nations”), paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, August, 1992.

P68. Zilberman, David, Ariel Dinar, Cheryl Brown, Federico Castillo, Madhu Khanna, and Neal MacDougall. “Lessons From California’s Response to the Drought:  On Behavior Under Uncertainty,” paper presented at Quantifying Long Run Agricultural Risks and Evaluating Farmer Responses to Risk Seminar, University of Arizona, Tucson, September, 1992.  Proceedings of a Seminar sponsored by Southern Regional Project S-232, Orlando, Florida.

P69. Buschena, David E., and David Zilberman. “Similarity of Choices and the Performance of the Expected Utility Approach:  Empirical Results,” paper presented at Quantifying Long Run Agricultural Risks and Evaluating Farmer Responses to Risk Seminar, University of Arizona, Tucson, September, 1992. Proceedings of a Seminar sponsored by Southern Regional Project S-232, Orlando, Florida.

P70. Zilberman, David. “Implications of Environmental/Food Safety Regulations for Agriculture,” panelist at the Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Interface, Bennett Agricultural Round Table Program, sponsored by the Farm Foundation, Sacramento, California, Summer, 1992.

P71. Zilberman, David. “Economic Implications of Higher Electricity Rates on California Agriculture,” panelist at the Workshop on Assembly Bill 2236, Economic Implications of High Electricity Rates to Agricultural Class Customers and the Various Alternatives Available to Reduce Their Electricity Demands, sponsored by the California Energy Commission, March 27, 1992.

P72. Zilberman, David, and Richard Howitt. “The Economics of Water Supply Restrictions:  Impacts of Miller/Bradley on California Agriculture,” paper presented at the Conference on Regional Water Management, Regional Water Constraints:  Physical, Institutional and Economic Differences, Berkeley, California, October 15 and 16, 1993.  Sponsored by the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley; College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley; the Water Resources Center, University of California, Systemwide; and the Water and Resource Economics Consortium.

P73. Zilberman, David (Moderator). “The Economics of Water for Environmental and Recreational Purposes,” paper presented at the Conference on Regional Water Management, Regional Water Constraints:  Physical, Institutional and Economic Differences, Berkeley, California, October 15 and 16, 1993.   Sponsored by the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley; College of Natural Resources, University of California at Berkeley; the Water Resources Center, University of California Systemwide; and the Water and Resource Economics Consortium.

P74. Zilberman, David. “Agricultural Water Conservation and Quantity Constraints in California,” paper presented at the session, “Agricultural Water Conservation Strategies,” Conference on Regional Water Management: Regional Water Constraints:  Physical, Institutional and Economic Differences, Berkeley, California, October 15 and 16, 1993.   Sponsored by the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley; College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley; the Water Resources Center, University of California, Systemwide; and the Water and Resource Economics Consortium.

P75. Zilberman, David (Discussant). “The Future of Water Markets:  Emerging Institutions, Shifting Paradigms, and Organizations,” paper presented at the Conference on Market Approaches to Environmental Protection, Stanford University, December 3 and 4, 1993. Sponsored by the Center for Economic Policy Research (with the Koret Foundation and Cain Conference Fund) and the Institute for International Studies.

P76. Zilberman, David. “Case Studies and Solutions:  Economic Impacts,” paper presented at the UC Wetlands/Agricultural Workshop, organized by the Integrated Natural Resources Workgroup and the Agricultural/Wildlife Workgroup, University of California Cooperative Extension, Santa Nella California, April 28 and 29, 1994. Sponsored by the Salinity Drainage Program, U. C., DANR Council of Deans and Directors.

P77. Zilberman, David (Discussant). “Emergency Response vs. Preparedness:  Opportunity for Change,” paper presented at the conference, Drought Management in a Changing West:  New Directions for Water Policy, Portland, Oregon, May 11-13, 1994. Sponsored by the Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute; West National Technical Center, Soil Conservation Service/USDA; International Drought Information Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Western States Water Council; Institute for Water Resources, Corps of Engineers; Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Interior; Climate Analysis Center, NOAA; and the High Plains Climate Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

P78. Buschena, David E., and David Zilberman. “Testing the Effects of Similarity on Risky Choice Utility,” paper presented at the session “Information and Uncertainty,” The 69th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International, Markets and the Environment, Vancouver, B.C., June 29-July 3, 1994.

P79. McWilliams, Bruce, and David Zilberman. “Learning by Using and Technology Adoption,” paper presented at the session “Economics of Technology Adoption in Agriculture,” 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Western Agricultural Economics Association, and Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, San Diego, California, August 7-10, 1994.

P80. Zilberman, David (Moderator). Session:  “Welfare Economics Applications: Property Rights and Animal Health.”  1994 Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Western Agricultural Economics Association, and Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, San Diego, California, August 7-10, 1994.

P81. Parker, Douglas D., and David Zilberman. “The Distributional Effects of Private Sector R&D Management:  In-House and at Public Institutions,” paper presented at the session on U. S. Agricultural Policy, 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Western Agricultural Economics Association, and Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, San Diego, California, August 7-10, 1994.

P82. Zilberman, David (Speaker). Who Owns the Water?  A Look at the Middle East Water Crisis, Council Program, World Affairs Council of Northern California, September 11, 1994.

P83. Zilberman, David, and Terry Roe (Discussants). “The Political Economy of Water Allocation:  Lobbying, Negotiations and Other Game-Theoretic Approaches,” paper presented at the International Conference on Coordination and Decentralization in Water Resource Management, October 3-6, 1994. Sponsored by the Center for Agricultural Economic Research and the Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy, University of Minnesota; and the Water Resources Economics Consortium with the Brian Y. Davidson Center for Agribusiness, the Jerusalem School of Business Administration; the Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD); Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Center for International Cooperation (MASHAV); and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Rehovot, Israel.

P84. Zilberman, David. “Environmental Qualities and Environmental Policies,” paper presented at the International Conference on Coordination and Decentralization in Water Resource Management, October 3-6, 1994. Sponsored by the Center for Agricultural Economic Research and the Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy, University of Minnesota; and the Water Resources Economics Consortium with the Brian Y. Davidson Center for Agribusiness, the Jerusalem School of Business Administration; the Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD); Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Center for International Cooperation (MASHAV); and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Rehovot, Israel.

P85. Zilberman, David. “Coordinated Approaches to Trade and Environment Policy in the Pacific Basin: Initial Results for Mexico, A Comment,” paper presented at the International Conference on Economic Development and Cooperation in the Pacific Basin, Berkeley, California, June 30-July 1, 1995.

P86. Zilberman, David. “Legislating Reductions in Pesticide Use: Universal Paradigm or Silly Idea?”  paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economic Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 6-9, 1995.

P87. Hamilton, Steve, David Sunding, and David Zilberman. “Voting on Environmental Health Risks,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economic Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 6-9, 1995.

P88. Zilberman, David, Gareth Green, and David Sunding. “The Effects of Land Allocation, Soil Quality, and Water Cost on Irrigation Technology Adoption,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economic Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 6-9, 1995.

P89. Zhao, Jinhua, and David Zilberman. “Endogenous Investment, Restoration and Nature of Irreversibility,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economic Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 6-9, 1995.

P90. Zilberman, David. “Workshop Wrap-Up,” presented at the conference on Privatization of Technology and Information Transfer in U.S. Agriculture:  Research and Policy Implications, Madison, Wisconsin, October 25 and 26, 1995.

P91. Zilberman, David, Madhu Khanna, and Leslie Lipper. “Economics of Sustainable Agriculture,” paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Melbourne, Australia, February 11-16, 1996.

P92. Zilberman, David (Organizer of session). “Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Policy Analysis,” paper presented at the 71st Annual Western Economic Association International Conference, San Francisco, California, June 28-July 2, 1996.

P93. Babcock, Bruce, P. G. Lakshminarayan, JunJie Wu, and David Zilberman. “The Economics and Environmental Impact of the CRP,” paper presented at the 71st Annual Western Economic Association International Conference, San Francisco, California, June 28-July 2, 1996.

P94. Zilberman, David, David Sunding, Gordon Rausser, and Alan Marco. “What Happens After a Pesticide Is Banned?” paper presented at the 71st Annual Western Economic Association International Conference, San Francisco, California, June 28-July 2, 1996.

P95. Khanna, Madhu, and David Zilberman. “Precision Technology and Nonpoint Pollution Control,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, San Antonio, Texas, July 28-31, 1996.

P96. Zilberman, David. “Pesticide Use and Regulation: Making Economic Sense Out of an Externality and Regulation Nightmare,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, San Antonio, Texas, July 28-31, 1996.

 

P97. Dumas, Chris, and David Zilberman (Organizers of session). Free Session: “Using the World Wide Web to Teach Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Economics: A Set of Tools and Experiences to Get You Started,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, San Antonio, Texas, July 28-31, 1996.

 

P98. Zilberman, David. “Agriculture, Technology, and Rural Development,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Federal Reserve System Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.  Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, October 3 and 4, 1996.

 

P99. Zilberman, David. “The Economics of Precision Agriculture,” paper presented at the Workshop on Remote Sensing of Agriculture in the 21st Century.  Sponsored by NASA, National Institute for Global Environmental Change, and the College of Agriculture at UC Davis, Davis, California, October 23-25, 1996.

P100. Zilberman, David. “Agricultural and Resource Economics Works on Risks,” paper presented at the University of California Risk Workshop, Berkeley, California, October 31-November 1, 1996.

P101. Zilberman, David, Madhu Khanna, and Leslie Lipper. “Economics, Technology, and Sustainability,” paper presented at the World Food Summit, Rome, Italy, November 13-17, 1996.  Sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

 

P102. Zilberman, David. “The Economics of Improved Irrigation Technologies,” paper presented at the California Irrigation Institutes 35th Annual Meeting, Fresno, California, January 29, 1997.

P103. Zilberman, David, and Amir Heiman. “Money-Back Guarantees as Options,” paper presented at the 1997 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, Berkeley, California, March 21-24, 1997.  For more details, see http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/~market/ CONFERENCE/ SESSIONS/sa1.6. html

P104. Zilberman, David, and Amir Heiman. “The Value of Economic Research,” paper presented at the conference on Measuring the Benefits of Policy-Oriented Social Science Research, Washington, D. C., April 4 and 5, 1997. Sponsored by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

P105. Zilberman, David. “The Problems of Pesticide Regulation—The Dilemma Associated with Safe and Plentiful Food,” paper presented at the 2nd Seminar on Environmental and Resource Economics, Girona, Spain, May 19-20, 1997.

P106. Khanna, Madhu, Katti Millock, and David Zilberman. “Sustainability, Technology, and Incentives,” paper presented at Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, June 8-10, 1997.

 

P107. Zilberman, David. “Capital, the Human’s Edge,” paper presented at the 72nd Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International, Seattle, Washington, July 9-13, 1997.

P108. Khanna, Madhu, and David Zilberman. “Agricultural Policies, Precision Farming, and Environmental Protection,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Toronto, Canada, July 27-30, 1997.

P109. Zilberman, David. “Evaluating Social Science Research:  Benefits and Costs,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Toronto, Canada, July 27-30, 1997.

P110. Zilberman, David. “Results from the AAEA Survey and Data Task Force,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Toronto, Canada, July 27-30, 1997.

P111. Zhao, Jinhua, and David Zilberman. “Timing of Technology Adoption and Empirical Test of Real Option Theory,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Toronto, Canada, July 27-30, 1997.

P112. Zilberman, David.  “New Approaches for the Management of Natural Resources,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Toronto, Canada, July 27-30, 1997.

P113. Zilberman, David, Cherisa Yarkin, and Amir Heiman. “Agricultural Biotechnology:  Economic and International Implications,” paper presented at the XXIII International Conference of Agricultural Economists, “Food Security, Diversification, and Resource Management:  Refocusing the Role of Agriculture?, Sacramento, California, August 10-16, 1997.

P114. Zilberman, David. “Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Genetic Resource Utilization,” paper presented at International Conference on Building the Basis for Economic Analysis of Genetic Resources in Crop Plants, August 17-19, 1997.  Sponsored by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

P115. Zilberman, David. “Biotechnology in Agriculture: Its Potential and Problems,” MSU Department of Agricultural Economics Distinguished Speaker Presentation, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October, 1997.  For more details, see http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/ Newsletters/ tues_101497.html

P116. Zilberman, David. “Agricultural Biotechnology: Economic and International Implications,” paper presented at the James S. and Dorothy Wershow Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, February 19, 1998.

P117. Zilberman, David, Brent Hueth, and Dan Cohen.  “Non-Predator Vertebrate Pest Damage in California Agriculture:  An Assessment of Economic Impacts in Selected Crops,” paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual Vertebrate Pest Conference, Costa Mesa, California, March 2-5, 1998.

P118. Zilberman, David (Moderator of Session). “Aggregate Production and Productivity Analysis,” Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 2-5, 1998.

P119. Zilberman, David. “Implications of the Social Capital Paradigm,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 2-5, 1998.

P120. Zilberman, David (Panelist). “The Process of Innovation,” panel held at the conference on R&D Investment and Economic Growth in the 20th Century sponsored by Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley, March 26-28, 1999. For more details, see http://aghistory.ucdavis.edu/UCGroupPage.htm

P121. Zilberman, David. “Comments on South Florida Development,” presented at the conference on Integrating Agricultural and Ecological Solutions in South Florida, West Palm Beach, Florida, April 28-29, 1999.  For more details, see http://www.sfrestore.org/sct/ agworkshop/intag.htm

P122.  Zilberman, David, and Michael Chai. “Global Technical Change and the Poor, speakers at the conference on Openness, Macroeconomic Crises and Poverty: A Dialogue and Consultation on WDR 2000/01, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 10-12, 1999.  For more details, see http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/wdrpoverty/malaysia/papers.htm

P123. Zilberman, David, Louis Bucklin, and Amir Heiman. “Transaction Risk in Leasing Durable Goods,” paper presented at the Marketing Science Conference: A Time of Reflection and Renewal, School of Management, Syracuse, New York, May 20-23, 1999.  For more details, see http://sominfo.syr.edu/informs/saturday_sessions.html

P124. Zilberman, David. “Climate Change and Agriculture,” paper presented at the 3rd Toulouse Conference on Environment and Resource Economics, Toulouse, France, June 14-16, 1999.

P125. Zilberman, David, Cherisa Yarkin, and Amir Heiman. “Knowledge Management and the Economics of Agricultural Biotechnology, paper presented at the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research, Rome, Italy, June 17-18, 1999, and Ravello, Italy, June 19, 1999.

P126. Zilberman, David.  “Future Directions in Water Resource Management,” keynote paper presented at the Universities Council on Water Resources 1999 Annual Meeting and International Water and Resource Economics Consortium 6th Biennial Meeting and Co-Sponsored by the International Water Resources Association, Kamuela, Hawaii, June 29-July 2, 1999.  For more details, see http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/csf/kbac/d1999-07-06.html

P127. Zilberman, David. “Applications to Resources, Biotech, and the Environment,” paper presented at a Pre-AAEA Conference Workshop on Social Capital: A New Paradigm for an Increasingly Diverse Profession, Nashville, Tennessee, August 7, 1999.  For more details, see http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~internat/soccap/AAEAworkshop.html

P128. Zilberman, David. “The Role of Economic Research in the Evolution of International Biotechnology,” paper presented at the conference on the Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor, Bonn, Germany, November 15-16, 1999.

P129. Zilberman, David. “Water and Economy,” major paper presented at the Water, Mankind, and the Future 2nd International Symposium on Water, Cannes, France, May 29-31, 2000.

P130. Zilberman, David. “Economic Considerations in Designing Water Systems for Arid Zones,” keynote paper presented at the Conference on Water and the Environment:  Resolving Conflicts in the Development of Drylands Water, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, June 4-7, 2000.

P131. David Zilberman. “Climate Change and the Reduction of Input Costs,” paper presented at the Seventh Annual “Farming for Profit” Moose Jaw Convention and Jamboree, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 18-20, 2000.

P132. Zilberman, David, and Margriet Caswell. “An Economic Analysis of Algoculture,” paper presented at The Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, July 10-14, 2000. For more details, see http://www.orst.edu/dept/IIFET/2000/speakersz.html

P133.  Zilberman, David, and David Buschena. “Generalized Expected Utility, Heteroscedastic Error, and Path Dependence in Risky Choice,” paper presented at the Econometric Society World Congress, Seattle, Washington, August 12, 2000.  For more details, see http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/doornik/eswc2000/a/0100.html

P134. Zilberman, David. “On the Theory and Practice of Environmental Economics,” paper presented at Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Symposium, Ames, Iowa, September 17-18, 2000.

P135. Zilberman, David. “The Economics of Climate Change,” paper presented at conference on Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change: The Science and the Policy, Sproul Room, International House, University of California, Berkeley, March 23, 2000.

P136. Sunding, David, Mark Metcalfe, and David Zilberman. “Risk Management and the Environment,” paper presented at SERA-IEG-31 Annual Meeting, Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Risk in U.S. Agriculture, Gulf Shores State Park Resort, Gulf Shores, Alabama, March 22 and 23, 2001.

P137. Zilberman, David, and Jennifer Alix. “Industrial Organization and Pest Dynamic Considerations in Agricultural Pest Resistance Management,” paper presented at the Resources for the Future Conference on Economics of Resistance, Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, April 5-6, 2001.

P138. Zilberman, David. “Information Technology and the Evolution and Structure of Agriculture,” paper presented at the Symposium on the Impacts of E-commerce and Information Technology on Global Agricultural Markets, Waugh Auditorium, Economic Research Service, Washington, D. C., May 29 and 30, 2001.  For more details, see http://www.farmfoundation.org/e-commerce.htm

P139. Zilberman, David, and David Sunding. “Water Conservation Policy and the Yield Effect of Modern Irrigation Technologies,” paper presented at the 7th Conference of the International Water Economic Resources Consortium, Girona, Spain, June 3-5, 2001.

P140. Zilberman, David. “Conservation Capital and Sustainable Economic Growth,” paper presented at the 76th Annual Western Economic Association International Conference, San Francisco, California, July 4-8, 2001.

P141. Zilberman, David. “Implications of the Nonmarket Functions of Agricultural for Modeling and Data Collection,” paper presented at the 76th Annual Western Economic Association International Conference, San Francisco, California, July 4-8, 2001.

P142. Hellegers, Petra, David Zilberman, and E. C. Van Ierland. “Dynamics of Agricultural Groundwater Extraction,” paper presented at the AAEA and CAES Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 5-8, 2001.

P143. Zilberman, David. “Food Safety Policies:  Science Versus Beliefs,” paper presented at the 2nd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Monterey, California, June 24-27, 2002.

P144. Zilberman, David. “A Clearinghouse to Improve the Productivity of Intellectual Property Rights,” paper presented at the AAEA and WAEA Annual Meeting, The Hyatt Regency, Long Beach, California, July 28-31, 2002.

P145.   Zilberman, David, and Karina Schoengold. “Water and Development: The Importance of Irrigation in Developing Countries,” paper presented at the Bretton Woods Conference on Agricultural Producers and Productivity, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, September 29-October 1, 2002.

P146. Zilberman, David. “Creating Incentives for Sustainable Water Use,” paper presented at the Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge Scientific Conference, Sion, Switzerland, October 8-11, 2002.

P147. Zilberman, David. “The Economics of Climate Change in Agriculture,” paper presented at the International Conference on Climate Change and Environmental Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, November 11-12, 2002.

P148. Zilberman, David. “Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights,” paper presented at Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meetings, Washington, D. C., January 3-5, 2003.

P149. Zilberman, David. “The Economics of Land Zoning:  A Dynamic Approach,” paper presented at Workshop on Equilibrium Modeling Approaches at the Boundaries of Industrial Organization, Public Economics, and Environmental Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, February 28-March 1, 2003.

P150. Zilberman, David. “The Role of Information,” paper presented at Performance-Based Environmental Policies for Agriculture Workshop, Waugh Conference Center, USDA Economic Research Service, Washington, D. C., March 20-21, 2003.

P151. Zilberman, David. “Sustainable Management of Water,” paper presented at conference sponsored by Cal Fed and Chico State University on the Economic Value of Environmental Resources:  General Methodology and Case Studies, Chico State University, Chico, California, April 25, 2003.

P152. Zilberman, David. “An Integrated, Multi-Dimensional, Risk-Management Approach to Controlling Invasive Species,” paper presented at Economics of Invasive Species Workshop, Washington, D. C., May 12-13, 2003.

P153.   Zilberman, David, Greg Graff, David Roland-Holst. “Agricultural Biotechnology and Globalization: How Will Public-Private Partnerships Evolve?” paper presented at the Environmental Costs and Benefits of Transgenic Crops in Europe: Frontis Workshop, Wageningen University, Holland, June 1-4, 2003.

P154. Zilberman, David. “Agricultural Economics: Still a Distinct Field?” paper presented at the AAEA • RSS • CAES Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 27-30, 2003. Co- Sponsored by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

P155. Zilberman, David. “The Economic Impact of Climate Change,” paper presented at Symposium AAEA • RSS • CAES Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 27-30, 2003. Co-Sponsored by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

P156. Zilberman, David. “Agricultural Development Retrospective,” paper presented at The 25th International Conference of Agricultural Economists Reshaping Agriculture’s Contributions to Society, International Centre, Durban, South Africa, August 16-22, 2003.

P157.   Zilberman, David. “Water Reforms, Institutions’ Performance, Allocation, Pricing, and Resource Accounting,” paper presented at The 25th International Conference of Agricultural Economists Reshaping Agriculture’s Contributions to Society, International Centre, Durban, South Africa, August 16-22, 2003.

P158.  Zilberman, David. “Productivity, Access, and Risk: The Keys to Biotechnology in Developing Countries,” keynote paper presented at the Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Scheman Building, Iowa State Center, Ames, Iowa, September 21-22, 2003.

P159. Zilberman, David, Nicholas Brozovik, and David Sunding. “Measuring the Gains from Groundwater Management When User Cost Varies Over Space,” paper presented at the Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Scheman Building, Iowa State Center, Ames, Iowa, September 21-22, 2003.

P160. Schoengold, Karina, and David Zilberman. “Economics of Water Quality and Agriculture,” paper presented at an OECD Expert Meeting, Gyeongju, The Republic of Korea, October, 2003.

P161. Zilberman, David. “Economic Implications of Ag Biotechnology in a Regulated Economy and Subsidized Agriculture,” paper presented at the Norwegian Study Tour: Novel Foods, Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals, GM Foods, University of California, Davis, California, October 23-24, 2003.

P162. Zilberman, David. “Agricultural Biotechnology:  Productivity, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights,” paper presented at a conference on The Role of GMOs in Trade Disputes, The Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, October 30-31, 2003.

P163. Cash, Sean, David Sunding, and David Zilberman. “Health Tradeoffs in Pesticide Regulation,” paper presented at the Agricultural Institute of Canada Foundation Conference:  From the Farm Gate to the Dinner Plate, The Westin Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, November 2-4, 2003.

P164. Zilberman, David. “Improving Agriculture’s Global Competitiveness and Profitability,” keynote paper presented at Positioning Agricultural and Resource Economics: From Priorities to Action, San Antonio, Texas, November 6, 2003.

P165.  Zilberman, David, “Yield Effects of Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries,” paper presented at the Transgenics and the Poor: Science, Regulation and Development Strategy, McManus Lounge, Hollister Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, November 7-8, 2003.

P166.  Zilberman, David, “The Evolution of Water Institutions and Policies,” paper presented at the Economics of Water and Agriculture:  An International Workshop in Honor of Professor Yoav Kislev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, December 18, 2003.

P167. Zilberman, David. “Precision Farming in Cotton in California in Decision Aids:  Tomorrow’s Solutions Today’s Cotton,” paper presented at the Beltwide Cotton Conference, San Antonio, Texas, January 5, 2004.

P168. Zilberman, David. “Global Trends in Agricultural Technology and Their Impact for Outward Oriented Developing Countries,” paper presented at the Conference on Vietnam’s International Economic Integration—Opportunities and Challenges, Melia Hanoi Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 29-30, 2004.

P169. Zilberman, David. “New Waves of Information Technology,” paper presented at Workshop on Economic Opportunities for Information Technologies in Agriculture, Resources, and the Environment:  Linking University Research and Commercial Application, Faculty Club, University of California, Berkeley, California, May 27, 2004.

P170. Zilberman, David. “Economics of Water Quality,” paper presented at ZEW Summer Workshop:  The Management of Global Commons, Mannheim, Germany, June 21-23, 2004.

P171. Zilberman, David. “Water Supply, Water Technology and the Environment,” paper presented at ZEW Summer Workshop:  The Management of Global Commons, Mannheim, Germany, June 21-23, 2004.

P172. Zilberman, David. “The Effects of Market Structure on Pest Resistance Buildup,” paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Denver, Colorado, August 1-4, 2004.

P173. Zilberman, David (Discussant). “Media, Information and Consumer Choice,” principal paper presented at Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Denver, Colorado, August 1-4, 2004.

P174. Zilberman, David.  “The Evolution of Water Institutions,” keynote speaker at International Symposium on Water and Sustainable Development, Justus-Liebig University, Giesen, Germany, October, 2004.

P175. Zilberman, David (Discussant). “Effects of Ozone in Ambient Air,” comments made at Workshop on Representations of Dose-Response Relationships for Chemicals Associated with Non-Cancer Effects and Their Policy Implications, Jack London Waterfront Plaza Hotel, Oakland, California, January 27-28, 2005.

P176. Alston, Julian, Richard Just, and David Zilberman. “What We Have Learned and Where Do We Go from Here,” paper presented at the Conference on the Economics of Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies, Annual Meeting of NC-1003, Washington D. C., March 10-12, 2005.

P177. Zilberman, David. “Emerging Issues in Agricultural Innovation,” paper presented at the Canadian Agricultural Innovation Research Network Workshop, Calgary, Alberta, March 18-19, 2005.

P178. Zilberman, David. “Incentives and Market Mechanisms for Adoption,” paper presented at workshop, Energy and Sustainable Growth in California:  New Horizons for Innovation and Adoption, sponsored by CSRD and Giannini Foundation, University of California Berkeley, City Club of Berkeley, Berkeley, California, April 22, 2005.

P179. Zilberman, David. “Economics of Environmental Services:  The Limits of Incentives,” paper presented at conference, A New Currency for Conservation:  Markets and Payments for Ecosystem Services from Our Nation’s Forests and Farms Featuring Special Sessions on Conservation Incentives for Southern Forestlands, Phoenix Park Hotel, Washington, D. C., May 18-20, 2005.

P180. Zilberman, David. “Targeting Environmental Services Payment for Poverty Alleviation,” paper presented at FAO Workshop, Environmental Services for Poverty Reduction and Food Security, Lebanon Room, FAO, Rome, Italy, May 30-31, 2005.

P181. Zilberman, David. “Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,” paper presented at Summer Certificate Course, Sustainable Development and Environmental Management, St. Petersburg State University, Petergoff Campus, June 2-12, 2005.

P182. Zilberman, David. “Principles of Environmental Policymaking,” paper presented at Summer Certificate Course, Sustainable Development and Environmental Management, St. Petersburg State University, Petergoff Campus, June 2-12, 2005.

P183. Zilberman, David. “Marketing,” paper presented at workshop, Can New Products and New International and Domestic Marketing Channels Increase Rural Incomes?  Ideas, Models, and Evidence, Sonoma, California, June 18, 2005.

P184. Zilberman, David. “Rural Development, Public Goods, and the West,” paper presented at workshop, Can New Products and New International and Domestic Marketing Channels Increase Rural Incomes?  Ideas, Models, and Evidence, Sonoma, California, June 18, 2005.

*P185. Zilberman, David.  “Economics of Water,” keynote paper presented at the conference on Business of Water: Problems and Solutions, Charlton College of Business, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, May 12, 2006.

*P186. Zilberman, David.  “Water Resource Management and the Poor,” keynote paper presented at  the International Conference on Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural  Resource Use,  Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, May 18, 2006.

*P187. Zhao, Jinhua, and David Zilberman.  “Optimal Land Conversion under Agricultural and Environmental Uncertainties,” paper presented at the AAEA 2006 Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, July  24, 2006.

*P188. Brozovic, Nicholas, David Sunding, and David Zilberman.  “On the Spatial Nature of the Groundwater Pumping Externality,” selected paper presented at the AAEA 2006 Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, July 25, 2006.

*P189. Cash, Sean, and David Zilberman.  “Food Insecurity, Food Storage, and Obesity,” selected paper presented at the AAEA 2006 Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, July 25, 2006.

*P190. Zilberman, David. “Economic Instruments for the Conservation and Payment of Environmental Services: Lessons Learned in the Fields,” invited paper presented at the Workshop on Payment for Environmental Services in the Urban Setup, Auditorio CONCYTEC, Lima, Peru, August 25, 2006.

*P191. Zilberman, David.  “Preserving the Valley, Lurin, Peru,” invited paper presented at the Workshop on Payment for Environmental Services in the Urban Setup, Auditorio CONCYTEC, Lima, Peru, August 25, 2006.

*P192. Zilberman, David.  “The Transition from Agricultural Economics to Agribusiness”, Seminar for the Federal Agricultural Economists Group, CREES, Washington, D. C., September 18, 2006.

*P193. Zilberman, David. “Integrating Location Theory with Risk Management for Invasive Management,” paper presented at the Farm Foundation and USDA Economic Research Service Workshop on the Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management, Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, October 19-20, 2006.

*P194. Zilberman, David, Holly Ameden, and Sean Cash. “Invasive Species Management:  Border Enforcement, Location, Theory, and Risk,” paper presented at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, 9th Occasional California Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, UC Santa Barbara, November 3-4, 2006.

*P195. Zilberman, David, Yanhong Jin, and Amir Heiman. “Adoption and the Management of Fit Risk: Ag Economist Journey to Marketing,” Seminar at the Haas Business School, UC  Berkeley, California, November 9, 2006.

*P196. Zilberman, David. “Measuring Support of Water in Agriculture,” invited paper presented at the OECD: Expert Meeting on Measuring Agricultural Water Subsidies and Sustainable Agricultural Water Use, Paris, France December 11-12, 2006.

*P197. Zilberman, David. “The Intersection of Energy and Agriculture:  Biofuel and New Technology,” paper presented at the Energy Biosciences Institute Campus-Lab Forum, 145 Dwinelle, University of California, Berkeley, California, March 19, 2007.

*P198. Zilberman, David.  “Trends in the Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms and Bioenergy Production,” invited paper presented at a Workshop on the Future of Environmental Policy In Mexico: Growing Green, Institute Nacional de Ecologia, Mexico City, Mexico, April 26, 2007.

*P199. Zilberman, David, Steve Sexton, Gal Hochman, Deepak Rajagopal, and David Roland-Holst. “The Intersection of Energy and Agriculture:  Biofuel and New Technology,” paper presented at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, May 18, 2007. http://www.docstoc.com /docs/11364140/The-Intersection-of-Energy-and-Agriculture-Biofuel-and-New-Technology

*P200. Zilberman, David. “Food Safety, Invasive Species, and Agricultural Trade Restrictions,” paper presented at Pre-AAEA Conference on Brainstorming Workshop on Political Economy of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Portland, Oregon, July 29, 2007.

*P201. Zilberman, David. “Water Trading in an Era of Increasing Energy Prices,” paper presented at Applied Economics for Global Issues AAEA – WAEA – CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 30, 2007.

*P202. Serra, Teresa, David Zilberman, and José M. Gil.  “Differential Uncertainties and Risk Attitudes between Conventional and Organic Producers:  The Case of Spanish COP Farmers,” selected paper presented at Applied Economics for Global Issues AAEA – WAEA – CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 31, 2007.

*P203. Ameden, Holly, Sean B. Cash, and David Zilberman. “Invasive Species Management: Importers, Border Enforcement, and Risk,” selected paper presented at the Applied Economics for Global Issues AAEA – WAEA – CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 31, 2007.

*P204. Vickers, D. Angele, Sean B. Cash, Holly Ameden, and David Zilberman. “An Agent-Based Model of Border Enforcement for Invasive Species Management,” selected paper presented at the Applied Economics for Global Issues AAEA – WAEA – CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 31, 2007.

*P205. Serra, Teresa, David Zilberman, and José M. Gil.  “An Investigation of the Effects of Decoupling on Farms’ Technical Inefficiencies,” selected paper presented at Applied Economics for Global Issues AAEA – WAEA – CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 31, 2007.

*P206. Zilberman, David. “The Distributional Effects of Payments for Environmental Services Programs,” paper presented at Applied Economics for Global Issues AAEA – WAEA – CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 31, 2007.

*P207. Zilberman, David.  “Water Management Is an Energy Problem: Mixing Water with Oil,” paper presented at the Berkeley Conference on Intersection of Energy and Agriculture: Implications of Biofuels and the Search for a Fuel of the Future, UC Berkeley, October 4-5, 2007.

*P208. Zilberman, David, Steve Sexton, Gal Hochman, Deepak Rajagopal, and David Roland-Holst. “The Intersection of Energy and Agriculture:  Biofuel and New Technology,” paper presented at Applied Economics and Management Seminars, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 15, 2007 http://vivo.cornell.edu/individual/ vivo/individual32393.

*P209. Zilberman, David. “Water, the Environment, and California’s Agriculture,” paper presented at the Cal-Med Sonoma Workshop on Market Organization, Resources and Finance in Mediterranean Crops, Sonoma, CA, October 25, 2007.

*P210. Zilberman, David.  “Technology Adoption and Competitiveness in Agriculture,” keynote paper presented  at the University of Copenhagen Workshop on Innovation and Technology Adoption in Danish Agriculture, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 8, 2007.

*P211. Zilberman, David.  “Fuel vs. Food:  What Role for Bioenergy?,” paper presented at the European Environment Agency Conference on Innovation and Technology Adoption Seminar (Institute of Food and Resource Economics), Copenhagen, Denmark, November 9, 2007.

*P212. Zilberman David. “The Economic of Assessing Water Stress,” Workshop on Indicators Development. An Approach of the Aqua Stress Project, Basel, Switzerland, November  12, 2007.

*P213. Zilberman, David.  “The Theory and Main Policy Issues of Water Pricing in Agriculture  – Taking into Account Economic and Environmental Aspects?” OECD Expert Meeting on Sustainable Financing for Affordable Water Services: From Theory to Practice, Paris, France, November 14-15, 2007.

*P214. Zilberman, David. “Market Uncertainty and Animal Health,” paper presented at the Pro-Poor Policy Options for Control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Africa and Southeast Asia Workshop, Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 13, 2007.

*P215. Zilberman, David. “Incorporating Price Responsiveness into Environmental Lifecycle Assessment,” paper presented at the Farm Foundation and USDA’s Office of Energy Policy and New Uses and USDA’s Global Change Program Office Conference on the Lifecycle Carbon Footprint of Biofuels, Miami, Florida, January 29, 2008.

*P216. Zilberman, David, and Deepak Ragagopal.  “What Are the Economics of 1st Generation Biofuel Feedstock Production?” paper presented at FAO of the United Nations Expert Meeting on Bioenergy Policy, Markets and Trade and Food Security, Rome, Italy, February 18-20, 2008.

*P217. Zilberman, David.  “Biofuels:  A Challenge to Economics Research,” paper presented at NC-1034 Impact Analysis and Decision Strategies for Agricultural Research symposium on Energy and Agriculture:  Emerging Policy and R&D Issues, Washington, D. C., March 7-8, 2008.

*P218. Zilberman, David, Thomas Sproul, and David Roland-Holst. “The Economics of Managing Animal Disease,” paper presented at SCC-76 Annual Meeting, Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources, Perdido Beach, Alabama, March 15, 2008.

*P219. Zilberman, David.  “Energy Costs and Biofuels as Drivers of the Current and Projected Price Boom and Resource Implications,” paper presented at UC President’s Advisory Commission Meeting, Berkeley, California, April 3, 2008.

*P220. Zilberman, David. “Agrobiodiversity and Climate Change,” paper presented at DIVERSITAS 75th Symposium on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes, UC Davis, April 7, 2008.

*P221. Zilberman, David. “The Economics of Biofuel,” invited seminar paper presented at the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, April 11, 2008.

*P222. Zilberman, David. “Yield Effects of Genetically-Modified Crops in Developing Countries,” invited paper presented at the International Award for Research in Agrochemicals Symposium in Honor of Dr. Frederick J. Perlak, American Chemical Society 234th National Meeting and Exposition, Boston, Massachusetts, August 19, 2007.

 

*P223. Zilberman, David. “Irrigation Issues – a View from the US,” invited paper presented at the Alberta Agricultural Economics Association Annual Conference on Agriculture:  Toward a Sustainable Future, Red Deer, Alberta,  May 2, 2008.

*P224. Zilberman, David.  “Income Distribution Implications of Biofuels,” paper presented at the Sustainable Biofuels and Human Security Workshop, University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign, May12, 2008.

*P225. Zilberman, David, Gal Hochman, and Steven Sexton. “Food Safety, the Environment and Trade Restrictions,” paper presented at the Conference on The Political Economy of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, World Bank, Washington D.C., May 24, 2008.

*P226. Zilberman, David. “Water Pricing in Agriculture  in an Era of Rising Energy Prices,” paper presented at OECD Expert Meeting on Sustainable Financing for Affordable Water Services: From Theory to Practice, Paris, France, June 15, 2008.

*P227. Serra, Teresa, David Zilberman, Barry K. Goodwin, and José M. Gil. “Nonlinearities in the U.S. Corn-Ethanol-Oil Price System,” selected paper presented at the 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, July 29, 2008.

*P228. Rajagopal, Deepak, and David Zilberman. “A New Microeconomics Based Environmental Life Cycle Model,” paper presented at the 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, July 29, 2008.

*P229. Krishna, Vijesh V., Unai Pascual, and David Zilberman. “Potentials of Green Consumerism for Landrace Conservation: Evidence from Eggplant Production Sector of India,” paper presented at the 10th Annual BIOECON Conference on The Effectiveness and Efficiency of Biodiversity Conservation Instruments, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, September 28-30, 2008.

*P230. Zilberman, David, Deepak Rajagopal, Steven Sexton, and Gal Hochman.  “Biofuel Policy and Food Prices,” paper presented at the 2008 Joint Annual Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Houston, Texas, October 7, 2008.

*P231. Zilberman, David.  “Economics of Land Use/Bioenergy,” paper presented at the EBI Workshop on Bioenergy Crop Modelling and Land Use, Calvin Lab, UC Berkeley, October 9-10, 2008.

*P232. Sexton, Steven, Deepak Rajagopal, David Zilberman, and Gal Hochman. “Food Versus Fuel: How Biofuels Make Food More Costly and Gasoline Cheaper,” presented at the Giannini Foundation Symposium: Causes and Consequences of the Food Price Crisis, Bancroft Hotel, Berkeley, California, October 10, 2008.

*P233. Rajagopal, Deepak, Gal Hochman, and David Zilberman. “Regulation of GHG Emissions from Biofuel Blended Energy,” paper presented at the Farm Foundation Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, October 15-16, 2008.

*P234. Zilberman, David. “Smallholder Livelihoods, Poultry Markets, and HPAI Risk:  Lessons from the Mekong Region,” paper presented at the Pro-Poor HPAI Risk Reduction Strategies—A DFID Funded Research Program:  Second Meeting of the Steering Committee, Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, October 27, 2008.

*P235. Zilberman, David. “Incorporating Science into Economics Analysis,” a keynote paper presented at the Workshop on Socioeconomic Impacts of Biofuel, the Road Ahead, Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 2008.

*P236. Zilberman, David, Rajagopal, Deepak, Steven Sexton, and Gal Hochman.  “Biofuel Policy and Food Prices,” paper presented at the Workshop on Socioeconomic Impacts of Biofuel:  The Road Ahead, Chicago, Illinois, November 15, 2008.

*P237. Rajagopal, Deepak, Gal Hochman, and David Zilberman. “Regulation of GHG Emissions from Biofuel Blended Energy,” paper presented at the 28th United States Association for Energy Economics/International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE/USAEE) American Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 3-5, 2008.

*P238. Hochman, Gal, Steven Sexton, and David Zilberman.  “The Economics of Trade, Biofuel, and the Environment,” invited talk presented at the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Annual General Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, December 7, 2008.

*P239. Hochman, Gal, Gordon Rausser, and David Zilberman.  “U.S. versus E.U. Biotechnology Regulations and Comparative Advantage: Implications for Future Conflicts and Trade,” paper presented at the Workshop on Transatlantic Methods for Handling Global Challenges – Managing Biosafety and Biodiversity in a Global World, Berkeley, California, December 11-12, 2008.

*P240. Hochman, Gal,  Chrysostomos Tabakis,  and David Zilberman. “Trade, Institutions, and  Reforms,” paper presented at the Allied Social Science Associations Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 3, 2009.

*P241. Graff, Gregory, Gal Hochman, and David Zilberman. “How European Resistance to Biotechnology Has Hurt the Developing World,” paper presented at the EBI Conference on Biotechnology in Developing Countries, University of California, Berkeley, January 23, 2009.

*P242. Zilberman, David. “Market-Based Instruments to Preserve Support and Enhance Ecosystem Goods and Services,” paper presented at the International Think Tank on Market-Based Instruments to Preserve, Support and Enhance Ecosystem Goods and Services, Banff, Alberta, February 6-7, 2009.

*P243. Zilberman, David. “The Political Economy of Biotechnology and Its Implication,” invited paper presented at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, March 5, 2009.

*P244. Rajagopal, Deepak, Gal Hochman, and David Zilberman. “Incorporating Economics into Life Cycle Analysis,” paper presented at the Latin American Environmental Economics (ALEAR) Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, March 19, 2009.

*P245. Zilberman, David, Deepak Rajagopal, Steven Sexton, Gal Hochman, and Teresa Serra.  “The Economics of Biofuels, Food, and the Environment,” keynote paper presented at the Latin American Environmental Economics (ALEAR) Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, March 20, 2009.

*P246. Zilberman, David.  “The Economics of the Bioeconomy,” invited lecture presented at the Bioresource Series Lecture, University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, March 27, 2009.

*P247. Hochman, Gal, Deepak Rajagopal, and David Zilberman.  “Gasoline Prices, OPEC, and Biofuel,” paper presented at the Farm Foundation Bioeconomy Workshop, Washington, D. C., March 30, 2009.

*P248. Sauer, Johannes, and David Zilberman.  “Innovation Behaviour at Farm Level – Selection and Identification,” paper presented at the 83rd Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, Dublin, Ireland, March 30-April 1, 2009.