Prof Jeffrey LaFrance - Researcher Profile

Jeffrey LaFrance

Address

Department of Economics
Monash University, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 52409

Email: Jeffrey.Lafrance@monash.edu


Biography

Jeffrey T. LaFrance is a professor in the Department of Economics.


Jeffrey grew up on a veterinary farm and ranch operation in rural Montana in the USA. He earned Bachelor of Science (1977) and Master of Science (1979) degrees in economics at Montana State University and a PhD (1983) in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at LaTrobe University in 1989, is a fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA, formerly the American Agricultural Economics Association), and a Distinguished Scholar of the Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA).

He has held academic positions at Montana State University, the University of Washington, the University of Arizona, the University of California-Berkeley, and Washington State University.

Jeffrey has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE), Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (JARE), and Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He has been an associate editor of the AJAE, editor of the JARE, a referee for many scholarly journals, and has served on numerous committees of the AAEA and WAEA.

His research interests include econometrics, economic dynamics, land degradation and sustainable agriculture, natural resource use and management, demand theory, nutrition, food consumption and human health, public land management, aggregation theory, and agricultural policy analysis.

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Research & Supervision Interests

Keywords

Aggregation Theory, Agricultural Policy, Consumer Behaviour, Econometrics, Environment

Qualifications

PHD AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS
Institution: University of California Berkeley
Year awarded: 1983
MASTER OF SCIENCE (APPLIED ECONOMICS)
Institution: Montana State University
Year awarded: 1979
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ECONOMICS)
Institution: Montana State University
Year awarded: 1977

Publications

Book Chapters

Ball, V., Cavazos, R., LaFrance, J., Pope, R., Tack, J., 2010, Aggregation and arbitrage in joint production, in The Economic Impact of Public Support to Agriculture: An International Perspective, eds V Eldon Ball, Roberto Fanfani and Luciano Gutierrez, Springer, United States, pp. 309-328.

Journal Articles

Perloff, J.M., LaFrance, J.T., Chouinard, H., 2012, Brand name and private label price setting by a monopoly store, Economics Letters [P], vol 116, issue 3, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 508-511.

Pope, R., LaFrance, J., Just, R., 2011, Agricultural arbitrage and risk preferences, Journal of Econometrics [P], vol 162, issue 1, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 35-43.

Faulkner, G., Grootendorst, P., Nguyen, V., Andreyeva, T., Arbour-Nicitopoulos, K., Auld, C., Cash, S., Cawley, J., Donnelly, P., Drewnowski, A., Dube, L., Ferrence, R., Janssen, I., LaFrance, J., Lakdawalla, %., Mendelsen, R., Powell, L., Traill, B., Windmeijer, F., 2011, Economic instruments for obesity prevention: Results of a scoping review and modified delphi survey, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity [P], vol 8, Biomed Central Ltd, London UK, pp. 1-14.

LaFrance, J., Pope, R., 2010, Duality theory for variable costs in joint production, American Journal of Agricultural Economics [P], vol 92, issue 3, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 755-762.

Bessler, D., Dorfman, J., Holt, M., LaFrance, J., 2010, Econometric developments in agricultural and resource economics: The first 100 years, American Journal of Agricultural Economics [P], vol 92, issue 2, Oxford University Press, Cary USA, pp. 571-589.

Chouinard, H., Davis, D., LaFrance, J., Perloff, J., 2010, Milk marketing order winners and losers, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy [P], vol 32, issue 1, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 59-76.

Goodhue, R., LaFrance, J., Simon, L., 2009, Wine taxes, production, aging and quality, Journal of Wine Economics [P], vol 4, issue 1, American Association of Wine Economists, United States, pp. 65-83.

LaFrance, J., Pope, R., 2008, Homogeneity and supply, American Journal of Agricultural Economics [P], vol 90, issue 3, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 606-612.

LaFrance, J., 2008, The structure of US food demand, Journal of Econometrics [P], vol 147, issue 2, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 336-349.

Chouinard, H., Davis, D., LaFrance, J., Perloff, J., 2007, Fat taxes: Big money for small change, Forum for Health Economics & Policy: Timely and Evolving Forums on Important Health Care Issues [E], vol 10, issue 2, Berkeley Electronic Press, United States, pp. 1-28.

Pope, R., LaFrance, J., Just, R., 2007, Imperfect price deflation in production systems, American Journal of Agricultural Economics [P], vol 89, issue 3, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 738-754.

Beatty, T., LaFrance, J., 2005, United States demand for food and nutrition in the twentieth century, American Journal of Agricultural Economics [P], vol 87, issue 5, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 1159-1166.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Modelling Equity Markets within the Asia-Pacific Region.
Supervisors:
Lafrance, J (Main), Forbes, C (Associate).