Dr. Cesar L. Revoredo Giha

Rural Development and Food Marketing Team
Land Economy and Environment Research Group, Scottish Agricultural College (SAC)
King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK
(44-(0)131) 535 4344, Fax: (44-(0)131) 535 4246
cesar.revoredo@sac.ac.uk


Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest

Agricultural Economics, International Trade, Industrial Organization, Econometrics, Commodity Markets and Development Economics (e.g., Food Policy, Poverty, and Income Distribution).

Work in Progress

Cesar L. Revoredo Giha, Denis Nadolnyak and Stanley Fletcher
"Contract Marketing in the US after the 2002 Farm Act: The Case of Peanuts "
Paper to be presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, July 2005.

Alan W. Renwick and Cesar L. Revoredo Giha
"Crop Substitution on UK Sugar Beet Farms and its Effects on the Environment: A Multi-Product Cost Function Approach"
Paper to be presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, July 2005.

Alan W. Renwick, Cesar L. Revoredo Giha
"Analysis of the Impact on UK Sugar Production Efficiency of Reforming the EU Sugar Regime"
Environmental Economy and Policy Research Group Discussion Paper 07-2005. This paper was presented at the Agricultural Economics Society 79th Annual Conference 4-6 April 2005. Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, England

Alan W. Renwick, Cesar L. Revoredo Giha and Mark A. Reader
"UK Sugar Beet Farm Productivity under Different Reform Scenarios: A Farm Level Analysis"
Environmental Economy and Policy Research Group Discussion Paper 04-2005. This paper will be presented at the EAAE Congress "The Future of Rural Europe in the Global Agri-Food System" Copenhagen, Denmark 24-27 August 2005

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"Supplier reputation and price premium: The case of groundnuts in Rotterdam"
Paper presented at the 83rd EAAE Seminar "Food Quality Products in the Advent of the 21st Century: Production, Demand and Public Policy", Chania, Greece, September 4-7, 2003.

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"Does the Existence of Market Power Affect Marketing Loan Programs? "
Paper presented at the 2003 American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 27-30.

Stanley M. Fletcher and Cesar L. Revoredo
"Does the US Need the Groundnut Tariff Rate Quota Under the 2002 US Farm Act? "
Paper presented at the International Conference Agricultural policy reform and the WTO: where are we heading?, Capri, Italy, June 23-26, 2003

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"The US 2002 Farm Act and the Effects on US Groundnut Exports "
Paper Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, November 2002
A poster of this paper was presented at 25th conference of the IAAE, August 16-22 August, 2003, Durban, South Africa

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"Speculative Inventories, Contracts, and Product Differentiation: Explaining the Decreasing Variability in the Rotterdam Peanut Price "
Poster presented at the 10th Meeting of the European Association of Agricultural Economics, Zaragoza, Spain, August 28-30, 2002.

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"Role of a Forward Contract under the New Peanut Policy Environment "
Paper presented at the 2nd Workshop on Economics of Contracts in Agriculture,Annapolis, Maryland, USA, July 2002.

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"Speculative Inventories, Contracts, and Product Differentiation: Explaining the Decreasing Variability in World Peanut Price "
Paper accepted to the 8th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Aix-en Provence, France, June 2002.

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"Sources of Instability in the World Peanut Market: An Analysis based on Aggregate Data "
Paper Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, March 2002

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"Analysis of the World Trade in Peanuts "
Paper Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, February 2002

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"Non-Equivalence between Import Quotas and TRQs: Argentine Peanuts in the U.S. Market "
Paper Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, January 2002

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"The Competitiveness of Argentine Peanuts and the U.S. Domestic Price under Different Domestic Policies "
Paper Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, February 2002

Colin A. Carter and Cesar L. Revoredo
"The Working Curve and Commodity Storage under Backwardation "
Paper, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, December 2001

Colin A. Carter and Cesar L. Revoredo
"The Interaction of Commodity Working Stocks and Speculative Stocks "
Paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, USA, August 2000.

Cesar L. Revoredo
"On the Solution to the Dynamic Rational Expectations Commodity Storage Model in the Presence of Stockholding by Speculators and Processors "
Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Barcelona, Spain, July 2000.

Recent Publications and Reports

Cesar L. Revoredo and Stanley M. Fletcher
"World Peanut Market: An Overview of the Past 30 Years,"
Research Bulletin 437, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, May 2002.

Alex F. McCalla and Cesar L. Revoredo
"Prospects for Global Food Security: A Critical Appraisal of Past Projections and Predictions,"
International Food Policy Research Institute. 2020 Vision Discussion Paper 35. October 2001.

Colin A. Carter, Cesar L. Revoredo and Vincent Smith
"The Longer-Run Dynamics of World Wheat Prices: The Role of Stocks,"
In: (Ed.) J.M. Antle and V.H. Smith, The Economics of World Wheat Markets, CABI Publishing, London, 1999 (chapter contributor).

Cesar L. Revoredo
"Recent Developments in Commodity Policies in Latin America "
Report, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), September 1998

Presentations in MS Powerpoint

"Economic Impacts of the Proposed EU Sugar Reform on the UK Sugar Beet Agriculture "

Computer Programs used in some of the papers (in Gauss)

Marketing loan program
Rotterdam import market
Commodity market with speculative storage and inelastic supply
Commodity market with speculative storage and elastic supply
Commodity market with speculative and working storage, and inelastic supply
Commodity market with speculative and working storage, and elastic supply
Deaton and Laroque estimation of demand parameters

Links

US Department of Agriculature, Economic Research Service (ERS)
US Deparment of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
US Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
US Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency (FSA)
United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
UK, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
European Union, Agricultural Activities
World Trade Organization (WTO)