Charles B. Moss

Professor

Department of Food and Resource Economics

University of Florida

1130B McCarty Hall

P.O. Box 110240

Gainesville, FL 32611-0240

Telephone: (352) 392-1845 Ext. 404
Fax: (352) 392-3646
Email: cbmoss@ufl.edu

Personal Information
Published Papers on the Web
Biographical Sketch
Full Vitae
Short Resume
Featherstone, Allen M., Charles B. Moss, Timothy G. Baker, and Paul V. Preckel. "The Theoretical Effects of Farm Policies on Optimal Leverage and the Probability of Equity Loss." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 70(3) (August 1988): 572-9. JSTOR.
Moss, Charles B., Ronald P. Muraro, and William G. Boggess. "Distortionary Impacts of the 1982 and 1986 U.S. Tax Codes on Capital Investments: A Case Study of Investment in Orange Groves." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 21(2) (December 1989): 107-16. AgEcon Search.
Moss, J.S. Shonkwiler, and John E. Reynolds. "Government Payments to Farmers and Real Agricultural Asset VAlues in the 1980s." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 21(2)(December 1989): 139-54. AgEcon Search.
Featherstone, Allen M. and Charles B. Moss. "Quantifying Gains to Risk Diversification Using Certainty Equivalence in a Mean-Variance Model: An Application to Florida Citrus." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 22(2)(December 1990): 191-8. AgEcon Search.
Moss, Charles B. "Financing Agriculture Under Changing Environmental Regulations: A Discussion of the Emerging Teaching and Research Agenda." (Invited) American Journal of Agricultural Economics 73(5) (December 1991): 1405-6. JSTOR.
Moss, Charles B., Stephen A. Ford, and Mario Castejon. "Effect of Debt Position on the Choice of Marketing Strategies for Florida Orange Growers: A Risk Efficiency Approach." Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 23(2)(December 1991): 103-12. AgEcon Search.
Moss, Charles B. "The Cost-Price Squeeze in Agriculture: An Application of Cointegration." Review of Agricultural Economics 14(2)(July 1992): 205-213.JSTOR.
Moss, Charles B. and J. S. Shonkwiler. "Estimating Yield Distributions Using a Stochastic Trend Model and Nonnormal Errors." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 75(5)(November 1993): 1056-62. JSTOR.
Nyamusika, Nfune, Thomas H. Spreen, Owen Rae, and Charles Moss. "A Bioeconomic Analysis of Bovine Respirator Disease Complex." Review of Agricultural Economics 16(1)(January 1994): 39-53. JSTOR.
Featherstone, Allen M. and Charles B. Moss. "Measuring Economies of Scale and Scope in Agricultural Banking." (Invited) American Journal of Agricultural Economics 76(August 1994): 655-61. JSTOR.
Weldon, Richard N., Endah Srinarni, Charles B. Moss, and John J. Van Sickle. "Financial Appraisal of the Banks for Cooperatives." Journal of Agricultural Cooperation 9(1994): 13-26. Agecon Search.
Purvis, Amy, William G. Boggess, Charles B. Moss and John Holt. "Technology Adoption Decisions Under Irreversibility and Uncertainty: An Ex Ante Approach." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77(August 1995): 541-51. JSTOR.
Greene, Gretchen, Charles B. Moss, and Thomas H. Spreen. "Demand for Recreational Fishing in Tampa Bay, Florida: A Random Utility Approach." Marine Resource Economics 12: 293-305. AgEcon Search.
Ramirez, Octavio A., Charles B. Moss, and William G. Boggess. "A Stochastic Optimal Control Formulation of the Consumption/Debt Decision." Agricultural Finance Review 57(1997): 29-38. http://afr.aem.cornell.edu/57/volume_57_article3.htm.
Theil, Henri and Charles B. Moss. "The Measurement of Inequality by Components of Total Expenditure." Empirical Economics 24(3)(1999): 559-61. EBSCOhost.
Moss, Charles B. "Returns, Interest Rates, and Inflation: How They Explain Changes in Farmland Values." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79(4)(November 1997): 1311-8. JSTOR.
Theil, Henri and Charles B. Moss. "A Proposed Set of Nine Regions for the United States and the Inequality of Population Densities." Empirical Economics 25(4)(2000): 715-9. EBSCOhost.
Moss, Charles B. "Estimation of the Cobb-Douglas with Zero Input Levels: Bootstrapping and Substitution." Applied Economics Letters 7(10)(Oct 2000): 677-9. EBSCO
Moss, Charles B. and Andrew Schmitz. "Price Behavior in the U.S. Sweetener Market: A Cointegration Approach." Applied Economics 34(10)(2002): 1273-81. EBSCOhost.
Moss, Charles B., Troy G. Schmitz, Albert Kagan, and Andrew Schmitz. "Institutional Economics and the Emergence of E-Commerce in Agribusiness." Journal of Agribusiness21(1)(Spring 2003): 83-101. Agecon Search.
Schmitz, Troy G., Charles B. Moss, and Andrew Schmitz. "Marketing Channels Compete for U.S. Stocker Cattle." Journal of Agribusiness 21(Fall 2003): 131-48. Agecon Search.
Moss, Charles B. and Andrew Schmitz. "Delineating the Relevant U.S. Sweetener Markets." Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 2(1)(2004) Article 1. http://www.bepress.com/jafio/vol2/iss1/art1.
Mishra, Ashok K., Charles B. Moss, and Kenneth Erickson. "Valuing Farmland with Multiple Quasi-Fixed Inputs." Applied Economics 36(15)(2004): 1655-69. EBSCOhost.
Schmitz, Troy G., Andrew Schmitz, and Charles B. Moss. "Reduced Demand due to StarLink Corn: A Structural Change Model." Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization 2(2)(2004): Article 6. http://www.bepress.com/jafio/vol2/iss2/art6.
Gray, Richard, Charles B. Moss, and Andrew Schmitz. "Genetically Modified Organisms: Rights To Use Commodity Names and the Lemons Problem." Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 2(2)(2004) Article 7. http://www.bepress.com/jafio/vol2/iss2/art7.
Erickson, Kenneth W., Charles B. Moss, and Ashok K. Mishra. "Rate of Return in the Farm and Nonfarm Sectors: How Do They Compare?" Journal of Agricultural and Appied Economics 36(December 2004): 789-95. Agecon Search.
Blank, Steven C., Kenneth W. Erickson, and Charles B. Moss. "Profit Patterns Across American Agriculture." Journal of Agriculatural and Applied Economics 30(August 2005): 205-30. Agecon Search.
Moss, Charles B. "Valuing State-Level Funding for Research: Results for Florida." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 38(1)(April 2006): 169-83. Agecon Search.
Pierre, Raphael, Thomas H. Spreen, and Charles B. Moss. "Invasive Species and Biosecurity: Cost of Monitoring and Controlling Mediterranean Fruit Flies in Florida." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 38(2)(August 2006): 337-43. Agecon Search.
Erickson, Kenneth W., Charles B. Moss, and Ashok K. Mishra. "Farm Wealth Inequality Within and Across States in the United States." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 35(2)(October 2006): 251-64. Agecon Search.
Schmitz, Andrew, Charles B. Moss, and Troy G. Schmitz. "Ethanol: No Free Lunch." Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 5(2)(2007) Article 3. http://www.bepress.com/jafio/vol5/iss2/art3/.
University of Florida Sites
Center for Applied Optimization
Food and Resource Economics Department
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS)
UF Web Mail Portal
UF Spam Portal
University of Florida Libraries
Links to E-Journals University of Florida Access Required
University of Florida
MyUfl
Frequent Internet Sites
JSTOR-Electronic Journal Archive
USDA/Economic Research Service
Google Search
USDA Library at Cornell
ISI Web of Knowledge
Yahoo
AgEcon Search
EconWPA Economics Working Paper Links by Washington University
NBER National Bureau of Economic Research
RePEc at the University of Connecticut
My EconPapers
Economists Jokes
EconStats
Courses Taught
Agricultural Finance (AEB 6145)
Agricultural Risk Analysis and Decision Making (AEB 6182)
Applied General Equilibrium Notes
Applied Nonlinear Workshop (October 2008)
Econometric Methods I
Econometric Seminar (1995)
Financial Theory I (FIN 6446)
Mathematics for Food and Resource Economics (AEB 4511)
Mathematical Programming for Economic Analysis (AEB 6592)
Production Economics (AEB 6184)
Static and Dynamic Optimization (AEB 6533)
Statistics for Food and Resource Economics (AEB 6933)
Recent Presentations
"A State-Dependent Production Function: An Economist's Apology" Quincy NFREC PowerPoint, WMA File
"Agricultural Land Values and Producer's Balance Sheets" Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University PowerPoint
"Agribusiness and U.S. Foreign Policy" Political Science Department University of Florida PowerPoint
Personal Webpages
Alachua Free Net
www.charlesbmoss.info
Home Computer
Old Ricardo Webpage
Outside Readings
Friedman - Essays in Positive Economics
Sample Computer Programs
GMM Estimator - Simple Linear Estimator R Code
GMM Nonlinear Boom/Bust Estimator R Code
Alabama Land Data file
Arkansas Land Data file
Florida Land Data file
Georgia Land Data file

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