James Chalfant

About

James Chalfant is a Professor Emeritus at the UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics Department. His research focuses on econometrics, agricultural marketing and demand analysis, risk and uncertainty, agricultural production and supply, and environmental economics. He has contributed to the development of econometric theory and its applications in agricultural economics, with a particular emphasis on demand analysis and risk management in agricultural markets. His work integrates econometric methods with practical issues in agricultural production, marketing, and environmental resource management, providing valuable insights into the economic behavior of agricultural producers and markets.

Research topics

• Computer Security
• Computer Science
• Pathology
• Business
• Medicine
• Medical physics
• Accounting

Selected publications

• Marketing Orders, Grading Errors, and Price Discrimination

  American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 2002-02-01 · 41 citations

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  Abstract Some marketing orders allow an agricultural industry to regulate the flow of product to market. We examine a more common, but less controversial, aspect of marketing orders, the setting and enforcement of grades, and show that purposefully introducing error into the grading process reduces farmers' incentives to produce high‐quality product, thus partially sustaining the adverse selection problem that would exist in the absence of grades. Because demand for high‐quality product is gener…

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• The Methyl Bromide Ban: Economic Impacts on the California Strawberry Industry

  Review of Agricultural Economics · 2005-05-06 · 40 citations

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  California strawberry production accounts for 18% of total methyl bromide use in U.S. agriculture. Under the Montreal Protocol, methyl bromide was slated to be banned in the United States in 2005. A critical use exemption was obtained for U.S. agriculture for 2005 and 2006, but the phaseout of methyl bromide continues. We examine the ban's effects on the California strawberry industry, and on individual production regions in the state. Under the most likely scenario, industry revenue will declin…

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• Estimating and testing the compensated double-log demand model

  Applied Economics · 2002-06-01 · 38 citations

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  In spite of the proliferation of flexible functional forms for consumer demand systems, the double-log demand model continues to be popular, especially in applied work calling for single-equation models. It is usually estimated in uncompensated form. It can also be estimated in compensated form, by deflating the income variable alone using Stone's price index. The compensated form has the same right-hand side as a single-equation version of the popular linear approximation to the Almost Ideal de…

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• Effect of tooth substrate and porcelain thickness on porcelain veneer failure loads in vitro

  Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry · 2017-12-19 · 28 citations

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• Grocery Retailer Behavior in Perishable Fresh Produce Procurement

  Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization · 2005-02-24 · 20 citations

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  This study examines supermarket retailer behavior in the procurement of iceberg lettuce from California and Arizona, vine-ripe and mature-green tomatoes from California, and mature-green tomatoes from Florida. The analysis relies upon both a reduced-form specification of farm-retail price spreads and a structural model of procurement for a perishable commodity with inelastic supply. The evidence supports a conclusion that buyers have been able to exercise oligopsony power in procuring iceberg le…

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Frequent coauthors

• Julian M. Alston

  University of California, Davis

  39 shared

• Rachael E. Goodhue

  University of California, Davis

  18 shared

• Colin A. Carter

  Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

  18 shared

• Nicholas E. Piggott

  12 shared

• Gordon C. Rausser

  University of California, Berkeley

  10 shared

• Kostas G. Stamoulis

  Economical and Social Research Centre

  10 shared

• Richard J. Sexton

  United States Naval Observatory

  7 shared

• Israel Finkelshtain

  Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  7 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  North Carolina State University

  1983

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