Jeff Reimer
Associate Professor
213 Ballard Extension Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR 97331-3601
jeff.reimer@oregonstate.edu
541-737-1415
I specialize in the economics of international trade and commodity markets. I also have interests in international development and industrial organization.
Recent research is cited in this New York Times feature on food prices.
An interview about international grain markets is in this Oregon Public Radio broadcast.
Research on climate change and agricultural trade is summarized in ScienceDaily.
A post on Matthew Kahn's blog (look for Feb 8).
Education and Experience
2011-present, Associate Professor with tenure, Oregon State University
2005-2011, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
2003-2005, Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2003, Ph.D. from Purdue University
1999, M.S. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1994-1997, Economist evaluating the impact of agricultural development projects in Bangladesh
1994, B.S. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AREC 447 Agricultural Price and Market Analysis
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AEC 523 Statistics and Optimization for Economics
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AREC 543 Applied Trade Analysis
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Journal Articles
On the Economics of Virtual Water Trade, Ecological Economics, 2012
Minimum Wages, Immigration Control, and Agricultural Labor Supply, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2012 (with S. Buccola and C. Li)
The Domestic Content of Imports and the Foreign Content of Exports, International Review of Economics and Finance, 2011
Farmland Cash Rents and the Dollar, Agricultural Economics, 2011 (with S. Nag)
The Impact of Trade Costs on Firm Entry, Exporting, and Survival in Korea, Economic Inquiry, 2011 (with S. Kim and M. Gopinath)
Trade Costs and the Gains from Trade in Crop Agriculture, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010 (with M. Li)
Non-homothetic Preferences and International Trade, Review of International Economics, 2010 (with T. Hertel)
Estimation of Trade and Domestic Distortions: An Application to World Agriculture, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2010 (with S.M. Kang)
Who Should be Interviewed in Surveys of Household Income? World Development, 2010 (with M. Fisher and E. Carr)
Yield Variability and Agricultural Trade, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2009 (with M. Li)
Search Costs in Identity-Preserved Agricultural Markets, Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization, 2008
Would Indian Farmers Benefit from Liberalization of World Cotton and Sugar Markets? Agricultural Economics, 2008 (with S. Mittal)
Assessing Global Computable General Equilibrium Model Validity Using Agricultural Price Volatility, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007 (with E. Valenzuela, T. Hertel, R. Keeney)
Global Production Sharing and Trade in the Services of Factors, Journal of International Economics, 2006
Imperfect Competition and Strategic Trade Policy: Evidence for International Food and Agricultural Markets, Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization, 2006 (with K. Stiegert)
Vertical Integration in the Pork Industry, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2006
Predicting the Poverty Impacts of Trade Reform, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2005 (with T. Hertel)
Incorporating Commodity Stockholding into a General Equilibrium Model of the Global Economy, Economic Modelling, 2005 (with E. Valenzuela and T. Hertel)
Market Conduct in the U.S. Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry, Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization, 2004
Estimation of International Demand Behavior for Use with Input-Output Based Data, Economic Systems Research, 2004 (with T. Hertel)
Designing U.S. Corn Grades to Reflect End Use Value, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2003 (with L. Hill)
Graduate Students - Major Advisor
Man Li, Ph.D., 2010 (co-chair with Jun Jie Wu), International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC
Saurabh Datta, Ph.D., 2010, Summit Consulting, Washington DC
Sharmistha Nag, Ph.D., 2009 (co-chair with Steve Buccola), National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Dehli
Xiaojuan Zheng, M.S., 2010, Applied Economics PhD program, Oregon State University