Leo Simon

Public vs. Private Good Research at Land-Grant Universities (2008)

Rausser, Gordon, Simon, Leo, Stevens, Reid

The basic concern of this paper is the effect of private sponsorship of university research on the allocation of expenditures between public good research and commercial applications. Throughout the...

Public vs. Private Good Research at Land-Grant Universities (2008)

Rausser, Gordon, Simon, Leo, Stevens, Reid

The basic concern of this paper is the effect of private sponsorship of university research on the allocation of expenditures between public good research and commercial applications. Throughout the...

Public vs. Private Good Research at Land-Grant Universities (2008)

Rausser, Gordon, Simon, Leo, Stevens, Reid

The basic concern of this paper is the effect of private sponsorship of university research on the allocation of expenditures between public good research and commercial applications. Throughout the...

Public vs. Private Good Research at Land-Grant Universities (2008)

Rausser, Gordon, Simon, Leo, Stevens, Reid

The basic concern of this paper is the effect of private sponsorship of university research on the allocation of expenditures between public good research and commercial applications. Throughout the...

Perennial Crop Nurseries Treated with Methyl Bromide and Alternative Fumigants: Effects on Weed Seed Viability, Weed Densities, and Time Required for Hand Weeding (2008)

Anil Shrestha, Greg T. Browne, Bruce D. Lampinen, Sally M. Schneider, Leo Simon, Thomas J. Trout

Data on the efficacy of alternative fumigants to methyl bromide for weed control in perennial crop nurseries in California are needed because few herbicides are registered for this purpose. Field...

Structure and Power in Multilateral Negotiations: An Application to French Water Policy (2006)

Leo Simon, Rachael Goodhue, Gordon Rausser, Sophie Thoyer, Sylvie Morardet, Patrick Rio

Stakeholder negotiation is an increasingly important policymaking tool. However, relatively little is understood about the relationship between the structure of the negotiating process and the...

We Should Drink No Wine Before Its Time

Rachael Goodhue, Jeffrey LaFrance, Leo Simon

We consider the impact of taxes on the quantity and quality produced of goods whose market values accrue with age. The analysis is motivated by the high and increasing taxation rates in the wine...

Agri-environmental policies in the EU and United States: A comparison

Baylis, Kathy, Peplow, Stephen, Rausser, Gordon, Simon, Leo

Agri-environmental policies (AEPs) in the United States and the European Union are examples of payments for environmental services that pay farmers to reduce the negative externalities of...

Agri-environmental Policy in the European Union: Who's in Charge?

Baylis, Kathy, Peplow, Stephen, Rausser, Gordon, Simon, Leo

European Union (EU) agri-environmental programmes (AEPs) represent a significant step in the region’'s efforts to decouple agricultural output from production and export subsidies. While AEPs...

Causes of Multifunctionality: Externalities or Political Pressure?

Baylis, Kathy, Casamatta, Georges, Peplow, Stephen, Rausser, Gordon, Simon, Leo

The EU has argued that some agricultural subsidies are needed to provide the optimal amount of externalities (both positive and negative) produced by agriculture. The argument is that agriculture is...

Agri-environmental Policy in the European Union: Who's in Charge?

Baylis, Kathy, Peplow, Stephen, Rausser, Gordon, Simon, Leo

The EU has argued that some agricultural subsidies are needed to provide the optimal amount of externalities (both positive and negative) produced by agriculture. The argument is that agriculture is...

A DYNAMIC MODEL OF THE FOOD PROCESSING SECTOR IN THE NEW MARKET ECONOMIES OF CENTRAL EUROPE

Lyons, Robert, Goodhue, Rachael E., Rausser, Gordon, Simon, Leo

We evaluate the importance of the competitiveness and productive efficiency of the food processing sector for predicting policy outcomes, and the sector's performance under selected government...

Structure and Power in Multilateral Negotiations: An Application to French Water Policy

Simon, Leo, Goodhue, Rachael E., Rausser, Gordon, Thoyer, Sophie, Morardet, Sylvie, Rio, Patrick

Stakeholder negotiation is an increasingly important policymaking tool. However, relatively little is understood about the relationship between the structure of the negotiating process and the...

Public vs. Private Good Research at Land-Grant Universities

Gordon Rausser, Leo Simon, Reid Stevens

The basic concern of this paper is the effect of private sponsorship of university research on the allocation of expenditures between public good research and commercial applications. Throughout the...

COMPUTABLE POLICY MODEL OF EASTERN EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD INDUSTRY

Karel Janda, Rachael Goodhue, Robert Lyons, Gordon Rausser, Leo Simon

The development of an international trade during the last few years have shown, that there exist substantial impediments to the good trade performance of the East and Central European countries....