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Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies

 

Advisory Board :


Byron Dorgan

U.S. Senator

Eric Aasmundstad

President, North Dakota Farm Bureau


Dave Berg

President and CEO, American Crystal Sugar Co.

Robert Carlson
President, North Dakota Farmers Union

Neil Conklin

President, Farm Foundation

D.C. Coston
Vice President for Agricultural Affairs, North Dakota State University

Neal Fisher
Adminstrator, ND Wheat Commission

Roger Johnson

North Dakota Agricultural Commissioner

Tom Lilja
Executive Director, North Dakota Corn Council

Bob Sinner

President, SB&B Foods, Inc.

Brian Sorenson

Director, Northern Crops Institute, North Dakota State University

 

Director:

     bullet.gif (964 bytes)   Won W. Koo

    Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Professor

   

Koo is a Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Professor of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Iowa State University in 1974. He was a faculty member at Montana State University for the 1975-1981 period before moving to North Dakota State University in 1981. He has been teaching international trade and econometrics for both graduate and undergraduate students. His research interests include international competitiveness, agricultural and trade policies, and international market development.

Won Koo

He has published more than 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters and about 230 research reports. He has also edited four books and published a textbook on international trade. He received the Outstanding Research Award (Quality of Research Discovery) from the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1981 and the Outstanding Published Research award from the Western Agricultural Economics Association in 1983. More recently, Dr. Koo received the Eugene R. Dahl Excellence in Research Award-Senior Career, from the College of Agriculture in 2000.  He is the recipient of the 45th Faculty Lectureship Award at NDSU for 2003.

For a full copy of Dr. Won W. Koo's CV, click here.

   

Research Faculty:

   
Jungho Baek, Research Assistant Professor 
 
Baek received his Ph.D. in Resource Economics, with a specialization in Econometrics, Microeconomics, and International Trade, from Michigan State University in 2004. Prior to CAPTS, he has conducted research for the Department of Forestry, at Michigan State University, and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, in South Korea. His research interests are in the field of international economics and econometric modeling.
 
 
Dae-Heum Kwon , Research Assistant Professor
 
Kwon received his PhD in Agricultural Economics, with a specialization in Econometrics and Time-series analyses from Texas A&M University in 2007. He has conducted researches on the U.S. monetary policy effects and the U.S. consumer behavior for the soft drink products. His research interests include the cauasality and aggregation issues in econometric and time-series modeling.
 
Richard Taylor, Research Scientist of Agricultural Economics
Taylor is a Research Associate at the Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies at North Dakota State University. He received his MS degree in agricultural economics from North Dakota State University in 1990 and joined NDSU as a research associate in 1991. He had several years of experience in farming before entering the graduate program at NDSU. He is responsible for maintaining the North Dakota farm economy model, the U.S. and world wheat industries model, and the U.S. and world sugar industries model.
 
 


Research Fellows:

Cheryl Wachenheim, Associate Professor of Agribusiness & Applied Economics
   
Adminstrative Assistant:
 

Judy Normann, Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies

Email: Judy.Normann@ndsu.edu

Phone: 701-231-7334

Office: Morrill 209

  

 



Created by: Joe Hoffman
Produced by: The Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
Phone: (701) 231-7334  --  Fax: (701) 231-7400
Address: 209 Morrill Hall