Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 22 (Monday)	Juha Siikamaki	Davis ARE (at Davis)	"Valuing Benefits of Finnish Forest Biodiversity Conservation - Logit Models for Pooled CV and Contingent Ranking Survey Data" .pdf .doc
February 7	Randy Walsh	Duke University	"Analyzing Open Space Policies in a Locational Equilibrium Model with Endogenous Landscape Amenities" ARE Departmental Job Talk Candidate for Assistant Professor Position
March 7	Jean-Philippe Stijns	Berkeley Econ	"Natural Resources and Innovation"
March 14	Peter Kuch	U.S. EPA	"EPA's Approach to Agriculturally Generated Environmental Problems" Presentation notes (.pdf) Career advice presentation notes (.pdf)
March 21	Georgina Moreno	Berkeley ARE	"Economics of Biological Pest Control" .pdf
March 28	Spring Break -- No Speaker
April 4	Gautam Sethi	Berkeley ARE	"Fishery Management Under Multiple Uncertainty" .ps .pdf
April 11	Susan Offutt	USDA/ERS	"What Does Farm Structure Imply for Future Farm Policy?" .pdf more information (including data access) Biographies of recent ERS hires
April 18	David Just	Berkeley ARE	"Learning and Recall in Bayesian Decision-making" .pdf
April 25	Gregory Graff	Berkeley ARE	Sources of Biological Innovation for Agriculture .pdf figures (.pdf)

We're always looking for future speakers!
Please write us if you would like to present or suggest an outside speaker for next semester.