Research Interest Statement

My current research interests include analysis of seafood demand, relationship between fishery management and international seafood markets, the economics of alternative pricing strategies.

Biographical Sketch

Richard S. Johnston is professor emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Adjunct Professor, University of Tromso, Norway. He is a past editor of Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, past chair, Executive Committee, International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), past chair of the University Graduate Faculty of Economics at OSU, and a Member of the Advisory Board, Marine Resource Economics. He currently holds a half-time appointment in the Department.

Selected Recent Publications

Trondsen, T. and R.S. Johnston. 1998. “Market Orientation and Raw Material Control.” Journal of Market Focused Management 3:193-210.

Johnston, Richard S. and Zhengkun Zhang. 1998. “A Contribution to the Theory of Price Regulations and Commodity Bundling, with an Application to the Case of China.” Journal of Comparative Economics 26(1):142-149.

Johnston, Richard S., Lewis E. Queirolo, and Ali Emami. 1997. “Beyond EEZ: Rethinking Global Fishery and Trade Policies.” EEZ Technology 1(1):41-45.

Queirolo, Lewis E., Richard S. Johnston, and Zhengkun Zhang. 1997. “The Nature and Evolution of Cooperative Fishing Arrangements in Extended Jurisdiction Zones.” Marine Policy 21(3):255-266.

Johnston, Richard S., Lewis E. Queirolo and Zhengkun Zhang. 1996. “Competition and the Market for Fisheries Access Under Extended Jurisdiction.” Northwest Journal of Business and Economics. pp. 55-69.

Emami, Ali, Lewis E. Queirolo and Richard S. Johnston. 1994. “Trade Restrictions and Trade Reversal: Lessons from the U.S. - Canada Herring Dispute.” Marine Resource Economics 9(1):31-45.

Johnston, Richard S. and Douglas M. Larson. 1994. “Focusing the Search for Giffen Behavior.” Economic Inquiry XXXII(1):168-174.