As I noted last week, the American Association of Wine Economists are meeting in Walla Walla in a few days. I thought you might be interested in the full program, including papers, authors, activities and so on. Lots of interesting wine economics topics and ideas. Enjoy
| JUNE 23, 2014 Whitman College, Maxey Hall | |
8:00 – 9:00 |
REGISTRATION, Maxey Auditorium Foyer |
| 9:00 – 10:30 Room – Maxey Auditorium | Session #1A: Consumers & Markets Chair: XXX |
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| Richard Belzer (Regulatory Checkbook) | Leveraging consumer ignorance and information search costs to maximize profits in US wine ‘Flash sales’: a follow up | ||
| Linda L. Lowry, Robin Back (both University of Massachusetts, Amherst) | Impact of farm winery legislation S 2582: an act relative to economic development reorganization on Massachusetts wineries | ||
| Marc Dressler (University Ludwigshafen, Germany) | Exploring success factors in export management – Results of a survey on relevance in the context of the wine business and performance of German producers | ||
| Olivier Gergaud (KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, France), Philippe Masset (Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland) | Using information about web searches to forecast auction prices of fine wines | ||
| 9:00 – 10:30Room – Maxey 207 | Session #1B: Tourism and Economic Impact Chair: Luigi Galletto (University of Padova, Italy) |
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| Christopher Lucha, Gustavo Ferreira, Martha Walker (all Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg) | Virginia wine tourism: a profitability analysis | ||
| Luca Rossetto, Luigi Galletto (both University of Padova, Italy) | Wine tourist profiles: a comparison between two wine routes in Veneto region | ||
| Theodore Lane (Western Regional Science Association), Bill Mundy (Bill Mundy Associates) | Walla Walla’s wine-based agro-industrial cluster | ||
| Martin Prokes, Kamil Prokes (both Mendel University Brno, Czech Republic) | Job creation by investing in the wine sector | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break Maxey Auditorium Foyer |
| 11:00 – 12:30Room – Maxey Auditorium | Session #2A: Coffee & FoodChair: Morten Scholer (International Trade Centre, Geneva, Switzerland) |
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| Morten Scholer (International Trade Centre, Geneva, Switzerland) | Coffee: the product, the trade and comparison with wine | ||
| Samrawit Ebabe (Jimma University, Ethiopia) | Constraints to Ethiopian coffee exports from a supply chain management perspective | ||
| Peter Roberts (Emory University) | Product differentiation, pricing and fair trading in specialty coffee markets | ||
| Albert I. Ugochukwu University of Saskatchewan, Jill E. Hobbs. University of Saskatchewan | Food product authenticity in agri-food markets: implications for collective reputation | ||
| Bernd Frick (University of Paderborn, Germany), Olivier Gergaud (KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, France), Laure Salais (Institut Paul Bocuse, France) | The demand for restaurants in Europe | ||
| 11:00 – 12:30Room – Maxey 207 | Session #2B: Trade and International I Chair: XXX |
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| Alejandro Gennari, Jimena Estrella. Xavier Brevet (both National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina) | Argentinean wineries’ strategies on export markets | ||
| Miguel A. Fierro, Rodrigo Romo Muñoz (both Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile) | Characterization of the Chilean bottled wine market | ||
| Cynthia Howson (University of Washington Tacoma), Pierre Ly (University of Puget Sound), Jeff Begun (University of Washington Tacoma) | Grape procurement, land rights and industrial upgrading in the Chinese wine industry | ||
| Maryline Filippi (University of Bordeaux, France) Elena Garnevka (Massey University, New Zealand) | Exporting wine to China from New Zealand and from France. Strategies and perspectives | ||
| 11:00 – 12:30Room – Maxey 307 | Session #2C: U.S. Wine Market & Industry Chair: XXX |
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| Raphael Schirmer (University of Bordeaux, France) | Drinking wine in the United States of America (from 1850 to the present) through the New York Public Library’s collection “What’s on the menu?” | ||
| Jon H. Hanf (Geisenheim University, Germany) | Retail branding and its consequences on wine brands | ||
| Bradley Rickard (Cornell University), Olivier Gergaud (KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, France), Hu Wenjing (Cornell University) | Trade liberalization in the presence of domestic regulations: likely impacts of the TTIP on wine markets | ||
| Robert Hodgson (Fieldbrook Winery) | The unimportance of terroir | ||
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15.15Room – Maxey Auditorium
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PLENARY SESSION: Welcome and Introduction |
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| Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University) | Welcome and Introduction | ||
| Kevin Pogue (Whitman College) | The Terroirs of the Walla Walla Valley American Viticultural Area | ||
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee Break Maxey Auditorium Foyer |
| 15:45 – 18:00Room – Maxey Auditorium | Session #3A: Varietals, Geography, Environment Chair: Julian Alston (UC Davis) |
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| Kate Fuller, Julian Alston, Olena S. Sambucci. (all UC Davis) | The value of powdery mildew resistance in grapes: evidence from California | ||
| Julian Alston (UC Davis), Kym Anderson (University of Adelaide) | Evolving varietal distinctiveness of US wine regions: comparative evidence from a new global database | ||
| Christopher Bitter (University of Washington, Seattle) | The evolving geography of the U.S. wine industry | ||
| Luigi Galletto, Federica Bianchin, Luigino Barisan (all University of Padova, Italy), Eugenio Pomarici (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) | An evaluation of a new drought-resistant rootstock in Italy | ||
| Jean-Philippe Roby (Bordeaux Science Agro, France) | Viticulture of varietal wines: the dead end of terroir at the time of global warming? Case study of Burgundy | ||
| Karl Storchmann (New York University), Peter Griffin (Vanderbilt University) | Climate change and vineyard prices | ||
| 15:45 – 18:00Room – Maxey 207 | Session #3B: Wine Investment Chair: Lee Sanning (Whitman College) |
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| Marie-Claude Pichery (Université de Bourgogne, France), Catherine Pivot (Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, France) | Wine investment: a profitable alternative investment or simply a long-term pleasure? | ||
| Beysül Aytac, Thi Hong Van, Hoang, Cyrille Mandou (all Sup de Co Montpellier Business School, France) | Wine: to drink or to invest? A study of wine as a financial asset in a French portfolio context | ||
| Philippe Masset, Jean-Philippe Weisskopf (both Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland) | Wine funds – an alternative turning sour? | ||
| Philippe Masset, Jean-Philippe Weisskopf (both Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland) | Wine indices in practice: nicely labeled but slightly corked | ||
| Jean-Marie Cardebat (Université de Bordeaux, France), Benoît Faye, Eric Le Fur (both INSEEC Bordeaux, France), Philippe Masset (Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland) | Is wine still an investable asset? | ||
| Benoît Faye, Eric Le Fur (both INSEEC Bordeaux, France) | Dynamics of fine wine and asset prices: evidence from short- and long-run co-movements | ||
| 15:45 -18:00Room – Maxey 306 | Session #3C: Quality and Experts IChair: XXX | ||
| Robin Golstein (Fearless Critic Media) | Do more expensive things generally taste worse? | ||
| Omer Gokcekus, Clare Finnegan (both Seton Hall University) | Lumping and splitting in expert ratings’ effect on wine prices | ||
| Neal Hulkower (McMinnville, OR) | Information lost: the unbearable lightness of vintage charts | ||
| Ying Lou, Jing Cao, Lynne Stokes (all Southern Methodist University) | Comparing measures of rater agreement for wine quality ratings | ||
| Dom Cicchetti (Yale University), Arnie Cicchetti (San Anselmo, CA) | Assessing reliability when multiple judges taste a single wine | ||
| Eric Stuen, Jon Miller, Robert Stone (all University of Idaho) | An analysis of consensus of prominent wine critic ratings in the US market | ||
| 19:00 – about 23.00 | Conference Dinner Long ShadowsBuses leave from Whitman College at 18:15 |
| JUNE 24, 2014 Maxey Hall |
| 9:00 – 10:30Room –Maxey Auditorium | Session #4A: Water, Whiskey, Wine, Food Chair: XXX |
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| Kevin W. Capehart (American University, Washington, DC) | Fine water: a hedonic pricing approach | ||
| Ian B. Page (University of Maryland) | The economics of whisky: an analysis of imperfect competition when product quality is endogenous | ||
| Kenneth Elzinga. University of Virginia, Carol Tremblay. Oregon State University, Victor Tremblay. Oregon State University | Craft beer in the USA: history, scope and geography | ||
| Yohannes Yehabe (Molde University College, Norway) | Assessment of weather impact on the sales of breweries in Norway: a panel data regression approach | ||
| Robert Harrington, Lobat Siahmakoun. (both University of Arkansas) | Which wine and food elements drive high and low levels of perceived match? | ||
| 9:00 – 10:30Room – Maxey 207
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Session #4B: Wine Demand Chair: XXX |
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| Getnet Yitagesu (Unity University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) | A principal component analysis of the demand structure of Wine. The Case of Addis Ababa | ||
| Paulina Rytkönen (Södertörn University, Sweden) | Wine in a vodka country – changing consumption patterns in Sweden’s way from a rural to an industrial nation | ||
| Gary M. Thompson (Cornell University) | Wine cellar optimization | ||
| Amy Holbrook, Dennis Reynolds (both Washington State University, Pullman) | What effect does wine closure type have on perceptions of wine’s appearance, bouquet, Taste, and overall quality? An empirical investigation | ||
| Judit Szigeti (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary), Szilárd Podruzsik, Orsolya Fehér, Péter Gál (all Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) | Wine affordability for the Hungarian consumers | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break Maxey Auditorium Foyer |
| 9:00 – 10:30Room – Maxey Auditorium
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Session #5A: Quality & Experts II Chair: XXX |
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| Adeline Alonso Ugaglia (Bordeaux Science Agro, France), Olivier Gergaud (KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, France) | Restaurant awards and financial rewards: Michelin | ||
| Guenter Schamel (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) | Points for sale? Examining the market entry of a new wine guide | ||
| Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University), Robin Goldstein (Fearless Critic Media), Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) | Do expert ratings measure quality? The case of restaurant wine lists | ||
| Robert Hodgson (Fieldbrook Winery) | The fallacy of wine competitions; a ten year retrospective | ||
| 11:00 – 12:30Room – Maxey 207
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Session #5B: Marketing Chair: XXX |
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| Steven Cuellar (Sonoma State University) | Measuring the return to social media | ||
| Lindsey Higgins, Erica Llanos (both California Polytech, San Luis Obispo) | A healthy, but confusing, indulgence? Wine consumers and the health benefits of wine | ||
| Benjamin C. Lawrence, Alex M. Susskind, Gary M. Thompson (all Cornell University) | Wine mailing lists | ||
| Jon H. Hanf, Oliver Gierig (both Geisenheim University, Germany) | Discussion of an Innovative pricing strategy in the context of wine tastings | ||
| 11:00 – 12:30Room – Maxey 306
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Session #5C: Industry Organization Chair: XXX |
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| Paulina Rytkönen (Södertörn University, Sweden) | The Swedish wine industry – institutions, knowledge, temperance and regional development in an upcoming wine country | |||
| Betsy Carter (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany) | The state versus the market: patterns of producer politics and the construction of status markets | |||
| Marc Dressler (University Ludwigshafen, Germany) | Organizational levers on reputation and performance – An empirical analysis of German wineries | |||
| Florine Livat (KEDGE Business School, Bordeaux, France), Jean-Marie Cardebat. (University of Bordeaux, France) | Are there too many appellations in Bordeaux? A renewal of the brand vs. appellation debate | |||
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | |||
| 14:00 – 15.30Room – Maxey Auditorium
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PLENARY SESSION: Regulation in the U.S. Wine Industry |
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| Orley Ashenfelter | Princeton University, Princeton | |
| Paul Beveridge | Family Wineries of Washington State, Seattle | |
| John Hinman | Hinman & Carmichael LLP, San Francisco | |
| Allen Shoup | Long Shadows, Walla Walla | |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee Break Maxey Auditorium Foyer |
| 15:45 – 17:15Room – Maxey Auditorium | Session #6A: Supply Chair: XXX |
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| Nick Vink, Theo Kleynhans, Willem Hoffmann. (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) | Financing wine barrels in South Africa: the Vincorp model | ||
| Alessandro Muscio, Gianluca Nardone, Antonio Stasi (all Università degli Studi di Foggia, Italy) | Perceived technological regimes: an empirical analysis of the wine industry | ||
| Lindsey Higgins. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo | Economic stochastic simulation model for small to medium sized wineries | ||
| Julien Cadot (ISG Business School, France), Adeline Ugaglia (Bordeaux Sciences Agro, France) | The horizon problem in Bordeaux wine cooperatives. | ||
| 15:45 – 17:15Room – XXX
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Session #6B: International & Trade II Chair: XXX |
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| Joachim Ewert (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa), Jon H. Hanf, Erik Schweickert. (Geisenheim University, Germany) | South African Cooperatives and the challenge of product quality | ||
| Silvia Gatti (University of Bologna, Italy) | Designations of origin for wines, labor and cooperatives in Emilia-Romagna between the Censuses of Agriculture 2000 and 2010 | ||
| Bo Gao, James L. Seale, Zhifeng Gao (all University of Florida) | U.S. import demand for wine by country of origin: a differential approach | ||
| Leo-Paul Dana (Montpellier Business School, France), Mathieu Labadan (University of Pau, France), Michael Mettrick, Agate Ponder-Sutton. (both University of Canterbury, New Zealand) | Interaction among wine makers in New Zealand | ||
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Coffee Break Maxey Auditorium Foyer |
| 17:30 – 18:00Room – Maxey Auditorium | PLENARY SESSION: Upshot and Outlook |
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| Karl Storchmann | New York University, New York | |
Alejandro Gennari |
National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina |
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| 19:00 – 23:00 | Dinner Whitehouse Crawford, Walla Walla |
| JUNE 25, 2014 09:00 – 18:00 |
| Tour of Walla Walla Vineyards and Wineries Geological Guide: Kevin Pogue, Whitman College Lunch at Basel Cellars |
| Buses leave from the Marcus Whitman Hotel at 9am |
Dear Mike:
What an amazing line-up, congratulations! Any chance of a transcript or that any/all of this might stream?
Look forward to being in touch,
Julie Ann Kodmur
707/963-9632
http://www.julieannkodmur.com
Karl says that some of the abstracts are on the website now and he will post papers as available.
Hi,
This is a very interesting program. Will the papers/presentation be available online after the conference?
Regards
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I will ask Karl to see if this is planned. It is easy to write to the individual authors to request the papers.
Karl says that some of the abstracts are on the website now and he will post papers as available. Still a good idea to contact the author to be sure to get a copy.
My favorite wine economist doesn’t appear to be speaking, so what’s the point? 🙂
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A comment from a typical wine consumer…..will they have an open wine tasting bar?
You are far from typical, Lydia — and I mean that as a compliment! The answer is that there will be a lot of wine, but mainly with the meals.