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http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 Recent are_ucb_postprints items https://escholarship.org/uc/are_ucb_postprints/rss Recent eScholarship items from Postprints from Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UCB Fri, 15 May 2026 16:20:03 +0000 Spatial Procurement of Farm Products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m84n9bb Spatial Procurement of Farm Products and the Supply of Processed Foods: Application to the Tomato Processing Industry https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5m84n9bb Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hamilton, Stephen Kjorlien, Scott Ligon, Ethan Shafran, Aric Food Store Choices of Poor Households: A Discrete Choice Analysis of the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22c7b7rt Food Store Choices of Poor Households: A Discrete Choice Analysis of the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22c7b7rt Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Taylor, Rebecca Villas-Boas, Sofia B Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zh92962 Estimating the Relative Benefits of Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zh92962 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Ligon, Ethan Sadoulet, Elisabeth Targeting and  Informal Insurance https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4km8q3gv Targeting and  Informal Insurance https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4km8q3gv Wed, 6 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Ligon, Ethan Some $\lambda$-separable Frisch demands with utility functions https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s06c2zp We complete the characterization of two Frisch demand systems first developed by Browning et al (1985), and show that that these systems (i) do not restrict intertemporal substitution; but (ii) imply momentary utility functions which are additively separable in consumption. These utility functions turn out to take the well-known exponential and Stone-Geary forms. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s06c2zp Thu, 4 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Ligon, Ethan A note on the triple difference in economic models https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77g020ss A note on the triple difference in economic models https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77g020ss Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Berck, Peter Villas-Boas, Sofia B Is Benford's Law a Universal Behavioral Theory? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x45h2fw Is Benford's Law a Universal Behavioral Theory? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x45h2fw Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia Fu, Qiuzi Judge, George Bans vs. Fees: Disposable Carryout Bag Policies and Bag Usage https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nk1x8th Bans vs. Fees: Disposable Carryout Bag Policies and Bag Usage https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nk1x8th Fri, 29 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Taylor, Rebecca L Villas-Boas, Sofia B Identification of Supply Models of Manufacturer and Retailer Oligopoly Pricing https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zh144zt Identification of Supply Models of Manufacturer and Retailer Oligopoly Pricing https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zh144zt Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Hellerstein, Rebecca Effect of Sales on Brand Loyalty https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85s3h88b Effect of Sales on Brand Loyalty https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85s3h88b Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Perloff, Jeff Huang, Rui Revisiting the Income Effect: Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8448m75z Revisiting the Income Effect: Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8448m75z Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Gicheva, Dora Hastings, Justine Patterns of Pass-through of Commodity Price Shocks to Retail Prices https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6z3931r9 Patterns of Pass-through of Commodity Price Shocks to Retail Prices https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6z3931r9 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Berck, Peter Leibtag, Ephraim Solis, Alex Reformulating Competition: Gasoline Content Regulation and Wholesale Gasoline Prices https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6jt4x4p7 Reformulating Competition: Gasoline Content Regulation and Wholesale Gasoline Prices https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6jt4x4p7 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Hastings, Justine Brown, Jen Mansur, Erin Using Retail Scanner Data for Upstream Merger Analysis: Counterfactual Experiments in the Retail Coffee Market https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cn9d0rk Using Retail Scanner Data for Upstream Merger Analysis: Counterfactual Experiments in the Retail Coffee Market https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cn9d0rk Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Got Organic Milk? Consumer Valuations of Milk Labels after the Implementation o f the USDA Organic Seal https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5593m46q Got Organic Milk? Consumer Valuations of Milk Labels after the Implementation o f the USDA Organic Seal https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5593m46q Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Kiesel, Kristin An Introduction to Auctions https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tk408vh An Introduction to Auctions https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tk408vh Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B An Empirical Investigation of the Welfare Effects of Banning Wholesale Price Discrimination https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fq869bb An Empirical Investigation of the Welfare Effects of Banning Wholesale Price Discrimination https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fq869bb Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Outsourcing and Pass-Through https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35g7b4jg Outsourcing and Pass-Through https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35g7b4jg Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Hellerstein, Rebecca Consumer and Market Responses to Mad-Cow Disease https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13d1n5mg Consumer and Market Responses to Mad-Cow Disease https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13d1n5mg Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Schlenker, Wolfram An Information Theoretic Approach To Understanding The Micro Foundations of Macro Processes https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hz5g3cj An Information Theoretic Approach To Understanding The Micro Foundations of Macro Processes https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hz5g3cj Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Judge, George Short on Shots: Are Calls on Cooperative Restraint Effective in Managing a Flu Vaccines Shortage<em>?</em> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/09q664sc Short on Shots: Are Calls on Cooperative Restraint Effective in Managing a Flu Vaccines Shortage<em>?</em> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/09q664sc Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Dejanvry, Alain Sadoulet, Elisabeth A Larger Slice or a Larger Pie? Investigating Margins in the Distribution Channel https://escholarship.org/uc/item/064044x8 A Larger Slice or a Larger Pie? Investigating Margins in the Distribution Channel https://escholarship.org/uc/item/064044x8 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Klapper, Daniel Draganska, Michaela Learning, Forgetting, and Sales https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01v2r04t Learning, Forgetting, and Sales https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01v2r04t Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Villas-Boas, J Miguel Sales: Tests of Theories on Causality and Timing https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0076k5r6 Sales: Tests of Theories on Causality and Timing https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0076k5r6 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B Perloff, Jeff Berck, Peter Brown, Jen The law of demand versus diminishing marginal utility https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9c73m45q Diminishing marginal utility (DMU) is neither necessary nor sufficient for downward-sloping demand. Yet, upper-division undergraduate and beginning graduate students often presumeotherwise. This paper provides two simple counter-examples that can be used to help students understand that the Law of Demand does not depend on DMU. The examples are accompaniedwith the geometry and basic mathematics of the utility functions and the implied ordinary/Marshallian demands. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9c73m45q Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Bettie, Bruce R. Lafrance, Jeffrey T. Vertical relationships between manufacturers and retailers: inference with limited data https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gz1t778 In this paper, different models of vertical relationships between manufacturersand retailers in the supermarket industry are compared. Demand estimates areused to compute price-cost margins for retailers and manufacturers underdifferent supply models when wholesale prices are not observed. The purpose isto identify the set of margins compatible with the margins obtained from estimates of cost and to select the model most consistent with the data among non-nested competing models. The models considered are (1) a simple linear pricing model; (2) a vertically integrated model; and (3) a variety of alternative (strategic) supply scenarios that allow for collusion, non-linear pricing, and strategic behaviour with respect to private label products. Using data on yogurt sold in several stores in a large urban area of the U.S. the results imply that wholesale prices are close to marginal cost and that retailers have pricing power in the vertical chain. This is consistent with non-linear... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gz1t778 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Villas-Boas, Sofia B.