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Nicholas Piggott

Professor and Extension Specialist

Nelson Hall 4221B

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Bio

A native of Australia, Nick Piggott joined the ARE faculty in 1997. His research interests include demand analysis, agricultural markets, applied econometrics, agricultural biotechnology, and risk management. His extension program focuses on grain marketing and risk management. He has co-taught an undergraduate class introducing commodity futures markets and advises graduate students in the Ph.D. program.

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Top Publications

Spatial market integration in the presence of threshold effects

Does food safety information impact US meat demand?

Demand response to advertising in the Australian meat industry

Asymmetry in beef, lamb and pork farm-retail price transmission in Australia

Incorporating demand shifters in the Almost Ideal demand system

Approximating farm‐level returns to incremental advertising expenditure: Methods and an application to the Australian meat industry

The nested PIGLOG model: An application to US food demand

Has technology increased agricultural yield risk? Evidence from the crop insurance biotech endorsement

Spatiotemporal modeling of Asian citrus canker risks: implications for insurance and indemnification fund models

Estimating and testing the compensated double-log demand model

Price elasticities, joint products, and international trade

The Anticipated Value of SmartStax [trademark] for US Corn Growers

Measures of precision for estimated welfare effects for producers from generic advertising

The impact of corn rootworm protected biotechnology traits in the United States

Book Chapters

CONSTRAINED UTILITY MAXIMIZATION, The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy

The value of non-pecuniary characteristics of crop biotechnologies: A new look at the evidence, Regulating agricultural biotechnology: Economics and policy

Education

Ph.D. Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California at Davis 1997

M.S. Agricultural Economics University of California at Davis 1994

B.S. Agricultural Economics University of California at Davis 1992

Area(s) of Expertise

  • Agricultural Marketing
  • Agricultural Economics: Prices, Markets and Policy
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Demand Analysis
  • Agricultural Biotechnology