For Special Funding We Thank: National Crop Insurance Services and National Cotton Council.

7:30 - 9:00 pm

Welcome Reception

8:00 - 8:20 am

Welcome and Introductions

Impacts of the Rules for Calculating APH on the Performance of APH Insurance. Alisher Umarov, Bruce Sherrick, and Gary Schnitkey

9:00 - 9:40 am

Investigating the Feasibility of Insuring an Uninsured Crop With No Objective Loss Data. Keith H. Coble, J. Corey Miller, Saleem Shaik, Terry Hanson, and Steve Sempier

9:40 - 10:00 am  Break

10:00 - 10:40 am

Adversity and the Propensity to Fail: The Impact of Disaster payments and Multiple Peril Crop Insurance on U.S. Farm Failure Rates. Barrett E. Kirwan

10:40 - 11:20 am

Extent, Location, and Characteristics of Land Cropped Due to Insurance Subsidies. Ruben Lubowski, Roger Claassen and Michael Roberts

11:20 - noon

A Note on Forward Contract Cycling. Gabriel J. Power and Cal Turvey

noon - 1:20 pm  Lunch

1:20 - 2:00 pm

Group Decision Making Under Risk. Micheal P. Brady, Brian Roe, Steven Y. Wu

2:00 - 2:40 pm

Marketing as Risk Management. David Zilberman

2:40 - 3:00 pm  Break

3:00 - 3:40 pm

Risk Aversion, Prudence, and the Three-Moment Decision Model for Hedging. Xiaomei Chen, H. Holly Wang and Ron Mittelhammer

3:40 - 4:20 pm

Calibrating Wealth Effects and Decoupled Payments. David R. Just

4:20 - 5:00 pm

Using Satellite-Based and/or Weather Station Information to Construct Smaller than County Sized Area Insurance Instruments. Joe Attwood

March 18 - Saturday

8:00 - 8:40 am

Normality Testing: R-test revisited. Ardian Harri and Keith H. Coble

8:40 - 9:20 am

Understanding Human Response to Economic Risk: An Overview of a Multidisciplinary Research Plan Involving Neuroscience, Genetics and Endocrinology. Brian Roe, Tim Haab, David Beversdorf and Howard Gu

9:20 - 10:00 am

Market Distortions in the Voluntary Price Reporting System for Live Cattle: Theory and Evidence from South Dakota. Scott Fausti

10:00 - 10:20 am  Break

10:20 - 11:00 am

Who Pays for Sudden Oak Death? An Econometric Investigation of an Emerging Pathogen on California Nurseries. Jesse Tack and Alix Peterson Zwane

11:00 - 11:30

Business Meeting.