First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Deanna,Newcomb,Lecturer,,Lecturer,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1818de9d
Tiffany,Dowell Lashmet,Associate Professor and Extension Specialist,"Tiffany's focus is on providing legal information to Texans involved in the agricultural industry. Her primary focus includes water law, property rights, oil and gas leasing, right-to-farm legislation, and litigation between producers and animal rights groups.",Agricultural Law Specialist||Associate Professor and Extension Specialist,Amarillo Research and Extension Center||Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n21d78221
Douglass,Shaw,Professor,"Dr. Shaw's current research emphasis is on the economics of risk and uncertainty. In particular, he works on valuing environmental amenities and changes in objective and perceived risks associated with contamination of resources or those risks that affect human health. He has recently written about the effects of ozone pollution on asthma patients, the risks from consuming contaminated fish, the perceived risks of nuclear waste transport, risks associated with natural hazards (earthquakes and hurricanes), and responses to the perceived risks of drinking water contaminated with arsenic.",Professor,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3ca2bb39
Donnie,Carpenter,Lecturer,,Lecturer,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4be06dfb
Dmitry,Vedenov,Associate Professor,"Dr. Vedenov's research interests are in agribusiness, finance, decision-making under uncertainty, risk management, crop insurance and dynamic models in economics.",Associate Professor,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n816d692b
David,Leatham,Professor and Associate Department Head,"My primary research focus is on improving financial decision making for agricultural businesses including farms and ranches. The optimal portfolio of assets (investment decisions), and the optimal portfolio of short-term credit, long-term credit and owner's equity to finance assets (capital structure decisions) are important business decisions. The outcome of investment and capital structure decisions is dependent on future events; thus, time and uncertainty must be considered. Much of this research is done in a risk/return framework where optimal decisions depend on an individual's risk/return preference.
My secondary focus is on improving the ability of financial intermediaries to provide credit TO agricultural businesses (agricultural credit). Specifically, this work centers on 1) designing and evaluating financial derivatives that can be used by agricultural lenders to manage interest rate risk, 2) improving credit assessment models, and 3) assessing the impact of deregulation and structural changes on agricultural lender's ability and willingness to provide credit to agricultural firms.",Professor and Associate Department Head,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n864c2955
David,Anderson,Professor and Extension Economist,"Dr. David Anderson is a Professor and Extension Economist in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University. His extension education and research activities are in livestock, and food products marketing and agricultural policy. He is the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Livestock and Food Products Marketing economist. Dr. Anderson's program has focused research on livestock markets and the impact of alternative farm programs on the livestock, dairy and crop sectors of agriculture. Recent extension programs have focused on livestock market outlook and farm programs.",Professor and Extension Specialist,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9813d7bc
Kalu A. Senarath,Dharmasena,Instructional Associate Professor,"Dr. Dharmasena's current research interests are in the areas of Consumer Economics, Behavioral Economics, Health and Nutrition Economics, Economics of Food Security, Food Environments and Obesity, Spatial Price Modeling, Probability Forecast Evaluation, and Market Integration and Price Discovery. He has extensive training in applied econometrics, both structural and time-series. He has expertise in organizing and analyzing extremely large consumer transaction data, such as Nielsen Homescan panel. Also, he is very comfortable with handling macroeconomic data and other national, state and county level data in modeling and forecasting work.",Instructional Associate Professor,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n9b9b8bf6
Desmond,Ng,Associate Professor,"Dr. Ng's research is mainly focused on the interstices of strategic management and agribusiness. A focus of Dr. Ng's research program is to examine strategic issues at multiple levels of analysis that span intra-firm, firm, inter-firm and market level processes. This involves drawing from varied disciplinary areas that include management, psychology, sociology and evolutionary thinking; including complex system perspectives.",Associate Professor,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb8adcfe8
David,Bessler,Regents Professor Emeritus,"Dr. Bessler's research is in the area of applied decision analysis, especially as it contributes to understanding agricultural price uncertainty. He teaches graduate courses in research methodology and applied time series analysis.",Professor,Agricultural Economics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nf70e7e08