Working Papers
The purpose of the Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology "Working Paper" series is to provide a forum to accelerate the presentation of issues, concepts, ideas and research results within the academic and professional community. Working Papers are published without peer review.
For each year these are grouped as:
- Refereed publications (journal articles, books and chapters in books)
- Proceedings, abstracts and other items
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Featured Working Papers
2015
2016
2018
- 18-01 - Kecinski, Maik. Inequality Aversion Dominates Competitive Behavior in Dynamic Sequential Duopolies
- 18-02 - Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition in Agro-biodiversity Hotspots: Baseline Report
2023
Working Paper Archives
Please note: All Working Papers below are PDFs. Prior to 2011, the department was previously known as Rural Economy.
2010-2019
2010
2011
2012
- 12-01 Boxall, Peter C., Orsolya Perger, and Katherine Packman. An Experimental Examination of Target Based Conservation Auctions. 22 p.
- 12-02 Yang, Jun, Steve Koeckhoven, Scott Jeffrey, and James Unterschultz. Economic Analysis of Vegetative Buffer Zone Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) for a Mixed Farm Operation in the Lower Little Bow Watershed. 24 p.
- 12-03 Bocionek, Milena, and Sven Anders. Estimating Price Rigidity in Vertically Differentiated Food Product Categories with Private Labels. 20 p.
2000-2009
2000
- 00-01 Haener, M., P.C. Boxall, and W.L. Adamowicz. Modeling Recreation Site Choice: Do Hypothetical Choices Reflect Actual Behavior? 25 p.
- 00-02 Chen, Kevin and Chen Chen. Cross Product Censoring in a Demand System with Limited Dependent Variables: A Multivariate Probit Model Approach. 22 p.
- 00-03 Swait, Joffre, Wiktor Adamowicz and Martin van Bueren. Choice and Temporal Welfare Impacts: Dynamic GEV Discrete Choice Models. 43 p.
2001
2002
- 02-01 Dosman, Donna and Wiktor Adamowicz. Combining Stated and Revealed Preference Data to Construct an Empirical Examination of Intrahousehold Bargaining. 30 p.
- 02-02 Ng, Desmond. A Socio-Cognitive Basis for Strategic Groups: Cognitive Dissonance in Seine Genetics. 35 p.
- 02-03 Ng, Desmond. Knowledge Based Competitive Strategies: Strategic Complementarities from an Australian Economics and Strategic Network Perspective. 35 p.
- 02-04 Ng, Desmond, Randall E. Westgren and Steven Sonka. A Coevolutionary Approach to Understanding the Paradox of Social Pressures versus Economic Efficiency Across the World's Food Chains. 21 p.
- 02-05 Yen, Steven T. and Kevin C. Chen. Potatp Consumption in Canada: Is it Becoming a Normal Good? 29 p.
2003
- 03-01 Adamowicz, Wiktor. Economic Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management: Theory versus Practice. 15 p.
- 03-02 Naidoo, Robin and Wiktor L. Adamowicz. Biodiversity and Nature-Based Tourism: The Potential for Sustainable Development in Uganda. 36 p.
- 03-03 Unterschultz, James R., Jamie Miller and Peter C. Boxall. An Examination of the On-Ranch Economics of Riparian Zone Grazing Management. 43 p.
2004
2005
2007
- 07-01 White, McKay, R. and Michele M. Veeman. A Survey of Literature on Genetically Modified Crops: Economics, Ethics and Society. 104 p.
- 07-02 Yang, Danyi, Jim Unterschultz, and Scott Jeffrey. Statistical Overview of Field Crop Acres, Yields, and Prices in Western Canada. 38 p.
- 07-03 Hauer, G., Steve Cumming, Fiona Schmiegelow, Wiktor Adamowicz, Marian Weber, Robert Jagodzinski. Tradeoffs between forestry resource and conservation values under alternate forest policy regimes: A spatial analysis of the western Canadian boreal plains. 52 p.
2008
2009
- 09-01 Holtz, Joffre and Jim Unterschultz. Hedging Alberta Government's Oil and Gas Revenue: Is Acting Like a Farmer a Viable Strategy? 28 p.
- 09-02 Gubanova, Tatiana, W. L. Adamowicz, and Melville McMillan. 'Pocket and Pot': Hypothetical Bias in a No-Free-Riding Public Contribution Game. 76 p.
- 09-03 Steiner, Bodo E. Old World Wines Revisited: Consumers' Valuation of Spanish and German Wines in the UK Wine Market. 89 p.
- 09-04 Steiner, Bodo E. and Jolene Ali. Regional Food Clusters and Government Support for Clustering: Evidence for a 'Dynamic Food Innovation Cluster' in Alberta, Canada? 43 p.
- 09-05 Steiner, Bodo E. The Extent and Nature of Contracting in the Wine Supply-Chain When Moral Hazard is Present. 42 p.
1995-1999
1995
- 95-01 Beckley, Thomas M. and Dianne Korber. Sociology's Potential to Improve Forest Management and Inform Forest Policy. 27 p.
- 95-02 Xu, Xiaosong and Scott R. Jeffrey. Efficiency and Technical Progress in Traditional and Modern Agriculture: Evidence from Rice Production in China. 22 p.
- 95-03 Adamowicz, Wiktor, Peter Boxall, Michael Williams and Jordan Louviere. Stated Preference Approaches for Measuring Passive Use Values: Choice Experiments versus Contingent Valuation . 30 p.
- 95-04 Yen, Steven T., Peter C. Boxall and Wiktor C. Adamowicz. An Economic Analysis of Donations for Environmental Conservation. 34 p.
- 95-05 Murray, E., W. Adamowicz, T. Beckley, D. Hatton MacDonald, L. Just, M. Luckert and W. Phillips. Non-market Valuation Biases Due to Aboriginal Cultural Characteristics in Northern Saskatchewan: The Values Structures Component. 17 p.
- 95-06 Salkie, Fiona J., Wiktor L. Adamowicz and Martin K. Luckert. Waster Management Behaviour of Households: A Cast Study of a Strike in Saskatchewan. 28 p.
- 95-07 Armstrong, Glen W., Frank S. Novak and Wiktor L. Adamowicz. Environmental and Financial Sustainability of Forest Management Practices. 14 p.
- 95-08 Orlick, Charles C., Leonard Bauer and Scott R. Jeffrey. An Annotated Bibliography of Crop Rotation and Tillage Literature with Special Emphasis on the Canadian Prairies. 36 p.
- 95-09 Veeman, Michele and Xizo-yuan Dong. The Economics of a Regulated Dairy Market: An Empirical Analysis of Factors Determining the Value of Fluid Milk Quota. 23 p.
1996
- 96-01 Unterschultz, James R. and Kwamena Quagrainie. Investment Analysis of Agri-Food Ventures: What Risk Premia are Appropriate? The Silence of the Literature. 11 p.
- 96-02 Unterschultz, James R. and Glen Mumey. Reducing Investment Risk in Tractors and Combines with Improved Terminal Asset Value Forecasts. 35 p.
- 96-03 Luckert, Martin K. Welfare Implications of the Allowable Cut Effect in the Context of Sustained Yield and Sustainable Development Forestry. 16 p.
- 96-04 Xu, Xiaosong and Michele Veeman. Model Choice and Structural Specification for Canadian Meat Consumption. 17 p.
- 96-05 Kuperis, Peter, Wiktor Adamowicz, Michele Veeman and Steve Hrudey. The Demand for Food Safety: An Empirical Analysis of Preferences for Pesticide and Hormone Regulation by Alberta Consumers. 19p.
- 96-06 Mumey, Glen and James Unterschultz. Risk Premia in Tractor and Combine Investments. 14p.
- 96-07 Kim, Renee Bo young, James R. Unterschultz, Michele Veeman and Paul Jelen. Analysis of the Korean Beef Market: A Study of Hotel Buyers' Perspectives of Beef Imports from Three Major Sources. Part I. 55p.
- 96-08 Kim, Renee Bo young, James Unterschultz and Michele Veeman. Analysis of the Korean Beef Market: A study of Hotel Buyers' Perspectives of Beef Imports from Three Major Sources. Part II. 20p.
- 96-09 Swait, Joffre and Wiktor Adamowicz. The Effect of Choice Environment and Task Demands on Consumer Behavior: Discriminating Between Contribution and Confusion. 36p.
- 96-10 Gill, Dhara S. Reframing Agricultural Extension Education Services in Industrially Developed Countries: A Canadian Perspective. 28p.
- 96-11 Unterschultz, James, Kwamena K. Quagrainie, Michele Veeman and Renee B. Kim. A Stated Preference Analysis of International Commodity Marketing: South Korean Hotel Meat Buyers' Perceptions of Canadian Beef, US Beef, and Australian Beef. 28p.
- 96-12 Dosman, Donna, Wiktor Adamowicz, Benoit Laplante and M. Luckert. Waste Management Legislation in Canada. 30 p.
- 96-13 Richards, Timothy J. and Scott R. Jeffrey. Cost and Efficiency in Alberta Dairy Production. 32 p.
- 96-14 Unterschultz, James, Kwamena Quagrainie and Michel Vincent. Evaluating Québec's Preference for Alberta Beef. 28 p.
- 96-15 Vincent, Michel, Jim Unterschultz, Mick Price and Mel Lerohl. Evaluating the Québec Beef Market: An Alberta Perspective. 64 p.
- 96-16 Chen, Kevin A. Symmetry Problems in the Linear AIDS Model: Further Results. 16 p.
- 96-17 Chen, Kevin and Karl Meilke. The Simple Analytics of Transferable Production Quota: Implications for the Marginal Cost of Ontario Milk Production. 24 p.
- 96-18 Goebel, Allison. Process, Perception and Power: Notes from "Participatory" Research in a Zimbabwean Resettlement Area. 34 p.
- 96-19 Watson, Leslie, Eloise C. Murray and Lesley Just. Gender and the Value of Trees in Mutoko Communal Area, Zimbabwe. 22 p.
- 96-20 Just, Lesley and Eloise Murray. Women and Agroforestry: A Human Ecology Approach to Understanding the Needs and Priorities of Women Farmers in Africa. 50 p.
1997
- 97-01 Matose, F., D.S. Gill and L. Just. Local People and Forest Resources in Zimbabwe. 17 p.
- 97-02 Unterschultz, James and Frank Novak. Flexible Pricing and Payment Alternatives on Canadian Wheat Board Pooling for Wheat. 76 p.
- 97-03 Kuperis, Peter, Michel Vincent, James Unterschultz and Michele Veeman. Niche Markets for Fresh Canadian Pork in the Pacific Northwest: A Case Study. 66 p.
- 97-04 Graham, Laura, William Phillips and Kay Muri-Leresche. Empirical Approaches to the Valuation of Small Wildlife Resources in Communal Areas in Zimbabwe. 40 p.
- 97-05 Parkins, John R. and Dhara S. Gill. Farmer Group Development in Kenya: Issues and Recommendations for Service Providers. 20 p.
- 97-06 Goebel, Allison. "Then It's Clear Who Owns the Trees": Evaluating Privatization in the Social Forest in a Zimbabwean Resettlement. 37 p.
- 97-07 Goebel, Allison. "Here It Is Our Land, The Two of Us": Women, Men and Land in a Zimbabwean Resettlement Area. 36 p.
- 97-08 Swait, Joffre and Wiktor Adamowicz. Choice Taks Complexity and Decision Strategy Selection. 44 p.
1998
- 98-01 Hatton MacDonald, Darls, Vic L. Adamowicz and Martin K. Luckert. Valuing Fuelwood Resources Using a Site Choice Model of Fuelwood Collection. 21 p. + appendices.
- 98-02 Richards, Timothy J. and Scott R. Jeffrey. Economic Performance in Alberta Dairy: An Application of the Mimic Model. 31 p.
- 98-03 Kuperis, P., M.M. Veeman and W.L. Adamowicz. Consumers' Responses to the Potential Use of Bovine Somatotrophin in Canadian Dairy Production. 22 p.
- 98-04 Adilu, Shiferaw, Michele Veeman and Terrence Veeman. Implications of the Multilateral Trade Agreement for Canadian Agriculture: C omputable General Equilibrium Evaluation. 26 p.
- 98-05 Kundhlande, G. and M.K. Luckert. Towards an Analytical Framework for Assessing Property Rights to Natural Resources: A Case Study in the Communal Areas of Zimbabwe. 25 p.
- 98-06 Renner, Miriam and Wiktor Adamowicz. The Effects of Alternative Agriculture and Fair Trade on the Development of Producer Groups and their Members: Case Studies from Northern Thailand. 31 p.
- 98-07 Aitkin, Darren, Jim Unterschultz and Scott Jeffrey. Case Study: Value Added in the Oats Industry in Alberta and Western Canada 1998. 46 p.
- 98-08 Aitkin, Darren, Jim Unterschultz and Soctt Jeffrey. An Historical Overview of Crop Acres in Western Canada. A Graphical and Statistical Approach. 43 p.
- 98-09 Chen, Kevin and Renee Kim. Estimation of Source- and Quality-Differentiated Import Demand Under Aggregate Import Quota: An Application to Japan's Wheat. 25 p.
- 98-10 Witwicki, Nicole, Naomi T. Krogman and Harvey Brooks. Theoretical Guidance on the Determinants of Success in Agricultural Marketing and Production Club. 26 p.
- 98-11 Hatton MacDonald, Darla and Marian Weber. Using Participatory Research Methods in Economic Research. 26 p.
1999
- 99-01 Unterschultz, James R., Harvey Brooks and Kojo M. Akabua. Empirical Investigation of Flexible Pricing and Payment Alternatives on Canadian Wheat Board Pooling for Wheat. 90 p.
- 99-02 Boxall, Peter C. and Wiktor L. Adamowicz. Understanding Heterogeneous Preferences in Random Utility Models: The Use of Latent Class Analysis. 47 p.
- 99-03 Jeffrey, Scott R. and Frank S. Novak. Evaluating Alternative Safety Net Programs in Alberta: A Firm-level Simulation Analysis. 25 p.
- 99-04 Swait, Joffre and Wiktor Adamowicz. Choice Environment, Market Complexity and Consumer Behavior: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach to Incorporating Decision Complexity into Models of Consumer Choice. 29 p.
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