Journal of Agricultural Economics

JAE'sImpact Factor!
JAE is now ranked 3rd out of 14 journals in the Agricultural Economics & Policy category, with an Impact Factor of 1.551! (ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2011: 3/14 (Agricultural Economics & Policy); 59/320 (Economics))

The Agricultural Economics Society Prize Essay Competition
The Society encourages the submission of essays – which carries a £1,000 prize awarded at the annual conference – by 30 November. For more information, please click here.

The Joint winners of the 2012 Competition are:
Giacomo Zanello for his essay entitled Mobile Phones and Radios: Effects on Transactions Costs and Market Participation for Households in Northern Ghana
and
Luca A. Panzone for his essay entitled Alcohol Tax, Price–Quality Proxy and Discounting: A Reason Why Alcohol Taxes May Rebound

Both of these essays were recently published in Volume 63, No.3 (September 2012) of Journal of Agricultural Economics and are freely available online until 31st December 2012.

Volume 64, Issue 1 (February 2013) of Journal of Agricultural Economics (JAE) includes a BRIC Special Feature. This Special Feature, which is freely available online, "...considers economic and social development in BRICs, their integration in world agricultural trade as well as environmental concerns." To read more, simply click on the paper titles below:

Introduction to the Special Feature: Will the BRIC Decade Continue? The Role of Rural Areas and Agriculture
Stephan Brosig, Ramona Teuber, Inna Levkovych, Rainer Thiele and Thomas Glauben

Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Anna Fruttero, Phillippe G. Leite and Leonardo R. Lucchetti

Are Russian Wheat Exporters Able to Price Discriminate? Empirical Evidence from the Last Decade
Zsombor Pall, Oleksandr Perekhozhuk, Ramona Teuber and Thomas Glauben

BRIC Agricultural Policies Through a WTO Lens
Lars Brink, David Orden and Giselle Datz

Multinationals vs. Cooperatives: The Income and Efficiency Effects of Supply Chain Governance in India
Anneleen Vandeplas, Bart Minten and Johan Swinnen

Environmental Impact of Foreign vs. Domestic Capital Investment in China
Boqiong Yang, Stephan Brosig and Jianguo Chen

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