Marc F. Bellemare – Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology

My article with Chris Boyd titled “Why Not Insure Prices? Experimental Evidence from Peru” is now out in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
If you are interested in any of micro-insurance (or “index” insurance), the consequences of price volatility and risk on producers, the impacts of agricultural insurance on producers, or even just in lab-in-the-field experiments with agricultural producers...

There was a time when only a handful of restaurants would deliver in any given town. Growing up on the south shore of Montreal, the only things you could get delivered were no-frills foods like pizza, poutine, rotisserie chicken, or subs. And when a...

It is always nice to wake up to an email saying one of your papers has been accepted for publication. As the title indicates, my article with Chris Boyd Leon titled “Why Not Insure Prices? Experimental Evidence from Peru” is now forthcoming at the Journal...

A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Peter Lorentzen, professor of economics at the University of San Francisco, about Doing Economics for the New Books Network podcast.
Afterwards, I remarked to Peter, whom you can follow on Twitter here, that these were the best questions I had had on the book so far. Here is a link to our 40-minute conversation, during which we cover a lot of ground about the economics profession...