Commodity Markets Wright, Brian D. Forthcoming 2011. “International Grains Reserves: and other instruments to address volatility in Grain Markets.” World Bank Research Observer. Wright, Brian D. 2011. “The Economics of Grain Price Volatility.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Vol. 33, No. 1: 32-58. DOI:10.1093/aepp/ppq033. Wright, Brian D. 2011. “Grain reserves and food security in the Middle East and North Africa.” Food Security, ed. A. Varadachary, Vol. 3 (Suppl 1): S61-S76, Springer: DOI 10.1007/s12571-010-0094-z. Cafiero, C., E.S.A. Bobenrieth., J.R.A. Bobenrieth, and B.D. Wright. 2009. "The Empirical Relevance of the Competitive Storage Model." Journal of Econometrics doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.10.008. Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth, and B.D. Wright. 2008.“A Foundation for the Solution of Consumption-Saving Behavior with a Borrowing Constraint and Unbounded Marginal Utility.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 32, 695-708. Bobenrieth, Eugenio H. and J.R.A Bobenrieth H., and B.D. Wright. 2005. “Theoretical Advances in the Modeling of Storage and Speculation.” Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade: New Approaches to Analysing Market Structure and Instability. A. Sarris and D. Hallam, Eds. Elgar Publishing. Cafiero, Carlo, and B. D. Wright. 2005. “Is the storage model a “closed” empirical issue?” In Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade: New Approaches to Analysing Market Structure and Instability. A. Sarris and D. Hallam, Eds. Elgar Publishing. Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth, and B. D. Wright. 2004. “A Model of Supply of Storage.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(3): 605-616. Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth, and B. D. Wright. 2002. “A Commodity Price Process with a Unique Continuous Invariant Distribution Having Infinite Mean.” Econometrica, 70(3): 1213-1219. Wright, Brian D. 2002. “Agricultural Risk Management.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Wright, Brian D. 2001. “Storage and Price Stabilization.” In Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Edited by B. Gardner and G. Rausser. Johns Hopkins University. Chapter 14: 817-861. Wright, Brian D., and J.C. Williams. 2000. “A Theory of Negative Prices for Storage.” Journal of Futures Markets 20(1): 59–71. (Reprinted as one of six best articles over a 17-year span, chosen for the millennium issue.) *[Originally published 1989, 9(1): 1–13.] Genetic Resources Koo, Bonwoo, Philip G. Pardey and Brian D. Wright. 2003. "Costing the Conservation of Genetic Resources: A Comparison of the CIMMYT and ICARDA Gene banks" in Efficient Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies, (ed) Detlef Virchow, Springer-Verlag. Pardey, Philip G., Bonwoo Koo, Brian D. Wright, M. Eric Van Dusen, Bent Skovmand, and Suketoshi Taba. 2001. “Costing the Conservation of Genetic Resources: CIMMYT’s Ex Situ Maize and Wheat Collection.” Crop Science 41(4). IP and Innovation Wright, Brian D., and T. Shih. Forthcoming 2011. “Agricultural Innovation.” In Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Multiple Sectors, eds. R. Henderson and R. Newell, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press for National Bureau of Economic Research. Koo, B., and B.D. Wright. 2010. "Dynamic Effects of Patent Policy on Sequential Innovation." Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 489- 512, Summer. Lei, Z., R. Juneja, and B. D. Wright. 2009. "Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for biological research." Nature Biotechnology 27, No. 1, January: 36-40. Wright, Brian D. 2009. Review of "The WTO and India's Pharmaceuticals Industry: Patent Protection, TRIPS, and Developing Countries." by Sudip Chaudhuri, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005. Economic Development and Cultural Change. Wright, B. D. 2007. “Agricultural Innovation after the Diffusion of Intellectual Property Protection.” Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property, J. Kesan, Ed. Wallingford, UK: CABI International. Boettiger, S., and B. D. Wright. 2006. “Open Source Biology: Open Questions.” Innovations Fall, Vol. 1, No. 4: 45–5 Wright, Brian D. 2006. “I’innovazione in agricoltura nell’era diritti di proprieta Intellectuale.” In M. De Benedictis, F. de Stefano and A. Giannola, eds. Dal Meridionalismo All’agricultura Del Terzo Millennio. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Ialiane. Wright, Brian D. 2006. Plant Genetic Engineering and Intellectual Property ProtectionicAgricultural Biotechnology in California Series, Publication 8186, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Wright, Brian D., and P.G. Pardey. 2006. “The Evolving Rights to Intellectual Property Protection in the Agricultural Biosciences.” International Journal of Technology and Globalization 2, nos. 1/2: 12-29. Wright, Brian D., and P.G. Pardey. 2006. “Changing Intellectual Property Regimes: Implications for Developing Country Agriculture.” International Journal of Technology and Globalization 2, nos. 1/2: 93-114. Bennett, Alan, G.D.Graff, B.D. Wright, and D. Zilberman. 2004 “Access to Intellectual Property is a Major Obstacle to Developing Transgenic Horticultural Crops,” California Agriculture, Vol. 58, No. 2: 120-127. Binenbaum, Eran, C. Nottenburg, P.G. Pardey, B. D. Wright, and P. Zambrano. 2003. “South-North Trade, Intellectual Property Jurisdictions, and Freedom to Operate in Agricultural Research on Staple Crops.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51(2): 309-355. Boettiger, Sara, E. VanDusen, G.D. Graff, P.G. Pardey, and B. D. Wright. 2003. “Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Biotechnology: International Aspects.” Handbook of Plant Biotechnology, eds. Paul Christou and Harry Klee. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Koo, Bonwoo, and B.D. Wright. 2003. “Economics in Patenting an Input Essential to Further Research.” In Economics, Law and Intellectual Property: Seeking Strategies for Research and Teaching in a Developing Field, eds. Ove Granstrand. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Nottenburg, Carol, P.G. Pardey, and B.D. Wright. 2002 “Accessing Other People’s Technology for Non-profit Research.” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 46:3: pp. 389-416. Wright, Brian D. 2002. “Biotechnology and Intellectual Property.” Chapter 8 of California Council on Science and Technology, Benefits and Risks of Food Biotechnology: July 151-165. Graff, G., A. Bennett, B.D. Wright, and D. Zilberman. 2001. “Intellectual Property Clearinghouse Mechanisms for Agriculture: Summary of an Industry, Academia, and International Development Round Table. IP Strategy Today. No. 3-2001, pp12-30. Wright, Brian D. 2001. “Challenges for Public Agricultural Research and Extension in a World of Proprietary Science and Technology.” In Proceedings of Knowledge Generation and Transfer: Implications for Agriculture in the 21st Century. Edited by Steven Wolf. Greenwood Press. Chapter 4. 63-76. Binenbaum, Eran, P.G. Pardey, and B.D. Wright. 2001. “Public-Private Research Relationships: The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83(3): 748-753. Yoo, Seung Jick, and B.D. Wright. 2000. “Persistence of Growth Variation in Tree-Ring Chronologies.” Forest Science 46(4): 507–520. Wright, Brian D. 2000. “Intellectual Property Rights Challenges and International Research Collaborations in Agricultural Biotechnology.” In Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor. Edited by M. Qaim, A. Krattiger, and J. von Braun. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Chapter 18: 289–314. Wright, Brian D. 2000. “International Crop Breeding in a World of Proprietary Technology.” In Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights. Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology. Edited by V. Santaniello, R.E. Evenson, D. Zilberman, and G.A. Carlson. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing. Chapter 8: 127–138. Wright, Brian D. 2000. Book Review of: Krimsky, S. and R. Wrubel. Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1996. In Agricultural Economics 1431(2000): 1–2. Insurance and Risk Management Mahul, Olivier, and B.D. Wright. 2007. “Optimal Coverage for Incompletely Reliable Insurance.” Economics Letters. Mahul, Olivier, and B. D. Wright. 2004. “Implications of Incomplete Performance for Optimal Insurance,” Economica, Vol. 71 (November 2004): 661-670. Mahul, Oliver and B.D. Wright. 2003. “Designing Optimal Crop Revenue Insurance.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 85(3): 580-589. Kletzer, Kenneth M. and B. D. Wright. 2000. “Sovereign Debt as Intertemporal Barter.” American Economic Review 90(3)June: 621

Commodity Markets

Wright, Brian D. Forthcoming 2011. “International Grains Reserves: and other instruments to address volatility in Grain Markets.” World Bank Research Observer.

Wright, Brian D. 2011. “The Economics of Grain Price Volatility.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Vol. 33, No. 1: 32-58. DOI:10.1093/aepp/ppq033.

Wright, Brian D. 2011. “Grain reserves and food security in the Middle East and North Africa.” Food Security, ed. A. Varadachary, Vol. 3 (Suppl 1): S61-S76, Springer: DOI 10.1007/s12571-010-0094-z.

Cafiero, C., E.S.A. Bobenrieth., J.R.A. Bobenrieth, and B.D. Wright. 2009. "The Empirical Relevance of the Competitive Storage Model." Journal of Econometrics doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2009.10.008.

Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth, and B.D. Wright. 2008.“A Foundation for the Solution of Consumption-Saving Behavior with a Borrowing Constraint and Unbounded Marginal Utility.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 32, 695-708.

Bobenrieth, Eugenio H. and J.R.A Bobenrieth H., and B.D. Wright. 2005. “Theoretical Advances in the Modeling of Storage and Speculation.” Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade: New Approaches to Analysing Market Structure and Instability. A. Sarris and D. Hallam, Eds. Elgar Publishing.

Cafiero, Carlo, and B. D. Wright. 2005. “Is the storage model a “closed” empirical issue?” In Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade: New Approaches to Analysing Market Structure and Instability. A. Sarris and D. Hallam, Eds. Elgar Publishing.

Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth, and B. D. Wright. 2004. “A Model of Supply of Storage.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(3): 605-616.

Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth, and B. D. Wright. 2002. “A Commodity Price Process with a Unique Continuous Invariant Distribution Having Infinite Mean.” Econometrica, 70(3): 1213-1219.

Wright, Brian D. 2002. “Agricultural Risk Management.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History.

Wright, Brian D. 2001. “Storage and Price Stabilization.” In Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Edited by B. Gardner and G. Rausser. Johns Hopkins University. Chapter 14: 817-861.

Wright, Brian D., and J.C. Williams. 2000. “A Theory of Negative Prices for Storage.” Journal of Futures Markets 20(1): 59–71. (Reprinted as one of six best articles over a 17-year span, chosen for the millennium issue.)

*[Originally published 1989, 9(1): 1–13.]

Genetic Resources

Koo, Bonwoo, Philip G. Pardey and Brian D. Wright. 2003. "Costing the Conservation of Genetic Resources: A Comparison of the CIMMYT and ICARDA Gene banks" in Efficient Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies, (ed) Detlef Virchow, Springer-Verlag.

Pardey, Philip G., Bonwoo Koo, Brian D. Wright, M. Eric Van Dusen, Bent Skovmand, and Suketoshi Taba. 2001. “Costing the Conservation of Genetic Resources: CIMMYT’s Ex Situ Maize and Wheat Collection.” Crop Science 41(4).

IP and Innovation

Wright, Brian D., and T. Shih. Forthcoming 2011. “Agricultural Innovation.” In Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Multiple Sectors, eds. R. Henderson and R. Newell, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press for National Bureau of Economic Research.

Koo, B., and B.D. Wright. 2010. "Dynamic Effects of Patent Policy on Sequential Innovation." Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 489- 512, Summer.

Lei, Z., R. Juneja, and B. D. Wright. 2009. "Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for biological research." Nature Biotechnology 27, No. 1, January: 36-40.

Wright, Brian D. 2009. Review of "The WTO and India's Pharmaceuticals Industry: Patent Protection, TRIPS, and Developing Countries." by Sudip Chaudhuri, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005. Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Wright, B. D. 2007. “Agricultural Innovation after the Diffusion of Intellectual Property Protection.” Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property, J. Kesan, Ed. Wallingford, UK: CABI International.

Boettiger, S., and B. D. Wright. 2006. “Open Source Biology: Open Questions.” Innovations Fall, Vol. 1, No. 4: 45–5

Wright, Brian D. 2006. “I’innovazione in agricoltura nell’era diritti di proprieta Intellectuale.” In M. De Benedictis, F. de Stefano and A. Giannola, eds. Dal Meridionalismo All’agricultura Del Terzo Millennio. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Ialiane.

Wright, Brian D. 2006. Plant Genetic Engineering and Intellectual Property ProtectionicAgricultural Biotechnology in California Series, Publication 8186, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Wright, Brian D., and P.G. Pardey. 2006. “The Evolving Rights to Intellectual Property Protection in the Agricultural Biosciences.” International Journal of Technology and Globalization 2, nos. 1/2: 12-29.

Wright, Brian D., and P.G. Pardey. 2006. “Changing Intellectual Property Regimes: Implications for Developing Country Agriculture.” International Journal of Technology and Globalization 2, nos. 1/2: 93-114.

Bennett, Alan, G.D.Graff, B.D. Wright, and D. Zilberman. 2004 “Access to Intellectual Property is a Major Obstacle to Developing Transgenic Horticultural Crops,” California Agriculture, Vol. 58, No. 2: 120-127.

Binenbaum, Eran, C. Nottenburg, P.G. Pardey, B. D. Wright, and P. Zambrano. 2003. “South-North Trade, Intellectual Property Jurisdictions, and Freedom to Operate in Agricultural Research on Staple Crops.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51(2): 309-355.

Boettiger, Sara, E. VanDusen, G.D. Graff, P.G. Pardey, and B. D. Wright. 2003. “Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Biotechnology: International Aspects.” Handbook of Plant Biotechnology, eds. Paul Christou and Harry Klee. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Koo, Bonwoo, and B.D. Wright. 2003. “Economics in Patenting an Input Essential to Further Research.” In Economics, Law and Intellectual Property: Seeking Strategies for Research and Teaching in a Developing Field, eds. Ove Granstrand. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Nottenburg, Carol, P.G. Pardey, and B.D. Wright. 2002 “Accessing Other People’s Technology for Non-profit Research.” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 46:3: pp. 389-416.

Wright, Brian D. 2002. “Biotechnology and Intellectual Property.” Chapter 8 of California Council on Science and Technology, Benefits and Risks of Food Biotechnology: July 151-165.

Graff, G., A. Bennett, B.D. Wright, and D. Zilberman. 2001. “Intellectual Property Clearinghouse Mechanisms for Agriculture: Summary of an Industry, Academia, and International Development Round Table. IP Strategy Today. No. 3-2001, pp12-30.

Wright, Brian D. 2001. “Challenges for Public Agricultural Research and Extension in a World of Proprietary Science and Technology.” In Proceedings of Knowledge Generation and Transfer: Implications for Agriculture in the 21st Century. Edited by Steven Wolf. Greenwood Press. Chapter 4. 63-76.

Binenbaum, Eran, P.G. Pardey, and B.D. Wright. 2001. “Public-Private Research Relationships: The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83(3): 748-753.

Yoo, Seung Jick, and B.D. Wright. 2000. “Persistence of Growth Variation in Tree-Ring Chronologies.” Forest Science 46(4): 507–520.

Wright, Brian D. 2000. “Intellectual Property Rights Challenges and International Research Collaborations in Agricultural Biotechnology.” In Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor. Edited by M. Qaim, A. Krattiger, and J. von Braun. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Chapter 18: 289–314.

Wright, Brian D. 2000. “International Crop Breeding in a World of Proprietary Technology.” In Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights. Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology. Edited by V. Santaniello, R.E. Evenson, D. Zilberman, and G.A. Carlson. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing. Chapter 8: 127–138.

Wright, Brian D. 2000. Book Review of: Krimsky, S. and R. Wrubel. Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1996. In Agricultural Economics 1431(2000): 1–2.

Insurance and Risk Management

Mahul, Olivier, and B.D. Wright. 2007. “Optimal Coverage for Incompletely Reliable Insurance.” Economics Letters.

Mahul, Olivier, and B. D. Wright. 2004. “Implications of Incomplete Performance for Optimal Insurance,” Economica, Vol. 71 (November 2004): 661-670.

Mahul, Oliver and B.D. Wright. 2003. “Designing Optimal Crop Revenue Insurance.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 85(3): 580-589.

Kletzer, Kenneth M. and B. D. Wright. 2000. “Sovereign Debt as Intertemporal Barter.” American Economic Review 90(3)June: 621–639.