Monday, April 22, 2002

12:00 p.m.
Registration

Session 1 - Afternoon
Moderator: B. Wade Brorsen, Oklahoma State University

1:00
"Contracting, Captive Supply and Price Behavior."
  Ming-Chin Chin and Robert D. Weaver, Pennsylvania State University

1:35
"Cattle Feeder Perceptions of Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting."
  Sarah Gruenwald and Ted C. Schroeder, Kansas State University

2:10
"Marginal Cash Market Behavior."
  Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, Kansas State University

2:45 - Refreshment Break

3:05
"Impact of Shortcoming in Retail Beef Prices on Research Applications."
  Wayne D. Purcell, Eluned Jones, and Christine Lensing, Virginia Tech

3:40
"Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE): Risks and Implications for the U.S."
  John A. Fox and Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, Kansas State University

4:15
"Consumer Willingness to Pay for Beef Palatability Characteristics: Results from an Experiment."
Stephen R. Koontz, William J. Platter, Keith E. Belk, J. Daryl Tatum, and Gary C. Smith, Colorado State University



Session 2 - Afternoon
Moderator: Scott Irwin, University of Illinois

1:00
"Inventory and Transformation Risks in Oilseed Processing."
  Roger A. Dahlgram, University of Arizona

1:35
"A Decision Model To Assess Cattle Feeding Price Risk."
  John D. Lawrence and Gary May, Iowa State University

2:10
"Basis Definition and Basis Behavior in Multiple Component and Butterfat/Skim Federal Order Dairy Markets."
  Neal Blue and Cameron Thraen, Ohio State University

2:45 - Refreshment Break

3:05
"The Information Content of Implied Volatility from Options on Agricultural Futures Contracts."
Mark R. Manfredo, Arizona State University, and Dwight R. Sanders, Southern Illinois University

3:40
"Integration and Causality in International Freight Markets - Modeling with Error Corrections and Directed Acyclic Graphs."
Michael S. Haigh, University of Maryland, Nikos Nomikos, Baltic Exchange U.K., and David Bessler, Texas A&M University

4:15
"Risk Aversion, Uncertainty Aversion, and Variation Aversion in Applied Commodity Price Analysis."
  Darren Frechette, Pennsylvania State University

5:00 - Informal Reception - Local Establishment