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Daniel Sumner

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Frank H. Buck, Jr. Professor and Director, UC Agricultural Issues Center

164 Hunt Hall

Phone: (530) 752-1668

Fax: (530) 752-5614

dasumner@ucdavis.edu

Selected Publications

Selected Recent Journal Articles

  • Effects of Milk Marketing Order Regulation on the Share of Fluid Grade Milk in the United States (with Joseph V. Balagtas and Aaron Smith). American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(4) (November 2007): 839-851.
  • Traceability, Liability and Incentives for Food Safety and Quality (with Sébastien Pouliot). Forthcoming in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (2008).
  • Domestic Support and Border Measures for Processed Horticultural Products: Analysis of EU Tomato Protection and Subsidies (with Bradley J. Rickard). Forthcoming in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (2008).
  • Perspectives on Farm Policy Reform (with Julian M. Alston). Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 32(1) (April 2007): 1-19.
  • Are Agricultural Policies Making Us Fat? Likely Links between Agricultural Policies and Human Nutrition and Obesity, and Their Policy Implications (with Julian M. Alston and Steven A. Vosti). Review of Agricultural Economics 28(3) (Fall 2006): 313-322.
  • Supply and Demand for Commodity Components: Implications of Free Trade versus AUSTFA for the U.S. Dairy Industry (with Julian M. Alston, Joseph V. Balagtas, and Henrich Brunke). Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 50(2) (June 2006): 131-152.
  • Consequences of Further Opening of the Korean Dairy Market (with Hyunok Lee and Byeong-il Ahn). Food Policy 31(3) (June 2006): 238-248.
  • The Payoff to Public Investments in Pest-Management R&D: General Issues and a Case Study Emphasizing Integrated Pest Management in California (with John D. Mullen, Julian M. Alston, Marcia T. Kreith, and Nicolai V. Kuminoff). Review of Agricultural Economics 27(4) (December 2005): 558-573.
  • Economic Consequences of Invasive Species Policies in the Presence of Commodity Programs: Theory and Application to Citrus Canker (with Albert K. A. Acquaye, Julian M. Alston, and Hyunok Lee). Review of Agricultural Economics 27(3) (September 2005): 498-504.
  • Capitalization of Farm Policy Benefits and the Rate of Return to Policy-Created Assets: Evidence from California Dairy Quota (with Norbert L. W. Wilson). Review of Agricultural Economics 27(2) (June 2005): 245-258.
  • Public Policy, Invasive Species and Animal Disease Management (with José E. Bervejillo and Lovell Jarvis). International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 8.1, January 2005.
  • Contributions of D. Gale Johnson to the Economics of Agriculture (with John Antle and Bruce L. Gardner). Economic Development and Culture Change 52(3) (April 2004): 659-679.
  • The Influence of Commodity Programs on Acreage Response to Market Price: With an Illustration Concerning Rice Policy in the United States (with Jeffrey D. McDonald). American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(4) (November 2003): 857-871.
  • Contracts and Quality in the California Winegrape Industry (with Rachael E. Goodhue, Dale M. Heien, and Hyunok Lee). Review of Industrial Organization 23 (2003): 267-282.
  • The Effect of the Northeast Dairy Compact on Producers and Consumers, with Implications of Compact Contagion (with Joseph V. Balagtas). Review of Agricultural Economics 25(1) (June 2003): 123-144.
  • Ex Ante Analysis of R&D: Anticipating Market Effects of New Uses for Whey and Evaluating Returns to R&D (with Joseph. V. Balagtas, Fiona M. Hutchinson, and John M. Krochta). Journal of Dairy Science 86(4) (May 2003): 1662-1672.
  • Diversification, Vertical Integration and the Regional Pattern of Dairy Farm Size (with Christopher A. Wolf). Review of Agricultural Economics 24(2) (Fall/Winter 2002): 442-457.
  • Hired Hooves: Transactions in a South Indian Village Factor Market (with Edward S. Prescott and Rolf A.E. Mueller). Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 46(2) (June 2002): 233-255.

Selected Other Recent Publications

  • The 2007 Farm Bill: Implications for Developing Countries (with Tim Josling, Robert L. Thompson, Mary Chambliss, and Kara Laney). International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council Issues Brief, No. 25 (September 2007).
  • Commodity Policy and the 2007 Farm Bill (with Kaush Arha and Tim Josling). Chapter 2.1 in U.S. Agricultural Policy and The 2007 Farm Bill. K. Arha, T. Josling, D.A. Sumner, and B.H. Thompson, eds., Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, USA. (2007): 5-23.
  • U.S. Commodity Programs and WTO Commitments (with Tim Josling, David Blandford, and Kaush Arha.” Chapter 2.2 in U.S. Agricultural Policy and The 2007 Farm Bill. K. Arha, T. Josling, D.A. Sumner, and B.H. Thompson, eds., Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, USA. (2007): 25-52.
  • Conserving Ecosystem Services across Agrarian Landscapes (with Kaush Arha, Tim Josling, and Barton H. Thompson). Chapter 3.7 in U.S. Agricultural Policy and The 2007 Farm Bill. K. Arha, T. Josling, D.A. Sumner, and B.H. Thompson, eds., Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, USA. (2007): 207-229.
  • Conclusions (with Kaush Arha, Tim Josling, and Barton H. Thompson). Chapter 4 in U.S. Agricultural Policy and The 2007 Farm Bill. K. Arha, T. Josling, D.A. Sumner, and B.H. Thompson, eds., Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, USA. (2007): 231-240.
  • Hurricanes and Invasive Species: The Economics and Spatial Dynamics of Eradication Policies (with Albert Acquaye, Julian Alston, and Hyunok Lee). Chapter 7 in New Approaches to the Economics of Plant Health. Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink, ed., Springer Publishing, forthcoming in July 2007.
  • U.S. Farm Programs and African Cotton. International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council Issues Brief, No. 22 (February 2007).
  • The Prospective Free Trade Agreement with Korea: Background, Analysis and Perspectives for California Agriculture (with Hyunok Lee). Report prepared for the American Farm Bureau. January 2007.
  • Farm Policy (with Alan L. Olmstead). Chapter in Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present. Millennial Edition. S.B. Carter, S.S. Gartner, M.R. Haines, A.L. Olmstead, R. Sutch, and G. Wright, eds., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, USA. (2006): 4-31 – 4-37.
  • Korea: Growth, Consolidation, and Prospects for Realignment (with Jung-Sup Choi and Hyunok Lee). In Agricultural R&D in the Developing World: Too Little Too Late? P.G. Pardey, J.M. Alston, and R.R. Piggott, eds., Washington D.C.: IFPRI (2006): 105-128.
  • Agricultural Trade Disputes Between Canada and the United States: Costly but Diminishing (with Richard Barichello and Timothy Josling). 29 pp. C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, No. 224 (December 2005).
  • Boxed In: Conflicts between U.S. Farm Policies and WTO Obligations. 30pp. Cato Institute Trade Policy Analysis, No. 32 (December 2005).
  • Reducing Cotton Subsidies: The DDA Cotton Initiative. In Agricultural Trade Reform and the DOHA Development Agenda. Will Martin and Kym Anderson, eds., Washington, D.C.: The World Bank (2005): 271-294.
  • Economic Consequences of Mandated Grading and Food Safety Assurance: Ex Ante Analysis of the Federal Marketing Order for California Pistachios (with Richard S. Gray, Julian M. Alston, Henrich Brunke, and Albert K.A. Acquaye). Monograph 46. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, March 2005.
  • The Measure of California Agriculture and its Importance in the State’s Economy (with Jose E. Bervejillo and Nicolai V. Kuminoff). Chapter 3 in California Agriculture: Dimensions and Issues, Jerry Siebert, ed., University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, (2003): 29-55.
  • The Wine and Winegrape Industry in North America (with Helen Bombrun, Julian Alston, and Dale Heien). Chapter 10 in Globalization of the World’s Wine Markets. Kym Anderson, ed., London: Edward Elgar (2004).
  • Quotas and Grain Production in China (with Dewen Wang, Jikun Huang, and Scott Rozelle). In Agricultural Trade and Policy in China: Issues, Analysis and Implications. Scott D. Rozelle and Daniel A. Sumner, eds., Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited (2003): 111- 136.
  • Introduction and Overview. In Exotic Pests and Diseases: Biology, Economics and Public Policy for Biosecurity. Daniel A. Sumner, ed., Ames: Iowa State Press (May 2003): 3-7.
  • Economics of Policy for Exotic Pests and Diseases: Principles and Issues. In Exotic Pests and Diseases: Biology, Economics and Public Policy for Biosecurity. Daniel A. Sumner, ed., Ames: Iowa State Press (May 2003): 9-18.
  • Economic Consequences of a New Exotic Pest: The Introduction of Rice Blast in California (with Jung-Sup Choi, Robert K. Webster, and Christopher Greer). In Exotic Pests and Diseases: Biology, Economics and Public Policy for Biosecurity. Daniel A. Sumner, ed., Ames: Iowa State Press (May 2003): 214-224.
  • International Trade Policy and Negotiations (with Stefan Tangermann). In Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Bruce Gardner and Gordon Rausser, eds., Amsterdam, Netherlands: North Holland Press (2002): 1999-2055.

Selected Books

  • U.S. Agricultural Policy and The 2007 Farm Bill. Kaush Arha, Tim Josling, Daniel A. Sumner, and Barton H. Thompson, eds., Stanford, California: Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, 2007.
  • Exotic Pests and Diseases: Biology and Economics for BIOSECURITY. Daniel A. Sumner, ed., Ames, Iowa: Iowa State Press, 2003.
  • Returns to University of California Pest Management Research and Extension: Overview and Case Studies Emphasizing IPM (with John D. Mullen, Julian M. Alston, Marcia T. Kreith, and Nicolai V. Kuminoff). Oakland, California: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, ANR Publication 3482, May 2003.
  • Agricultural Trade and Policy in China: Issues, Analysis and Implications. Scott D. Rozelle and Daniel A. Sumner, eds., Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003.
  • The Economics of Agriculture: Volume 1, Selected Papers of D. Gale Johnson. John M. Antle and Daniel A. Sumner, eds., Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  • The Economics of Agriculture: Volume 2, Papers in Honor of D. Gale Johnson. John M. Antle and Daniel A. Sumner, eds., Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  • Agricultural Policy Reform in the United States. Daniel A. Sumner, ed., Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 1995.
  • Agricultural Trade Policy: Letting Markets Work. Daniel A. Sumner, ed., Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 1995.

Selected Recent Outreach Publications

  • Farm Bill Energy Provisions: A California Perspective (with Hyunok Lee). AIC Farm Bill Brief, No.7 (July 2007).
  • Agricultural Conservation and the 2007 Farm Bill: A California Perspective (with Antoine Champetier de Ribes). AIC Farm Bill Brief, No.6 (July 2007).
  • The Farm Bill and California Dairy (with Joseph Balagtas and Hayley Boriss). AIC Farm Bill Brief, No.5 (July 2007).
  • The Farm Bill and California Food and Agriculture. AIC Farm Bill Brief, No.1 (July 2007).
  • Marketing Wine on the Web (with Susanne Stricker and Rolf A.E. Mueller). Choices, 22(1) (2007): 31-34.
  • California’s International Agricultural Exports in 2005 (with Omid Rowhani). AIC Issues Brief, No.31 (April 2007).
  • Bee-conomics and the Leap in Pollination Fees (with Hayley Boriss). Agricultural and Resource Economics Update, University of California, Davis 9(3) (Jan/Feb, 2006): 9-11.
  • U.S. Farm Policy and the White Commodities: Cotton, Rice, Sugar, and Milk. International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council Farm Bill Series, No. 5 (June 2007).
  • U.S. Farm Bill Subsidies and World Commodity Markets. International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council Farm Bill Series, No. 2 (April 2007).