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Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization

Ed. by Azzam, Azzeddine

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Aims and Scope

The Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization (JAFIO) is a unique forum for empirical and theoretical research in industrial organization with a special focus on agricultural and food industries worldwide.

As concentration, industrialization, and globalization continue to reshape horizontal and vertical relationships within the food supply chain, agricultural economists are revising both their views of traditional markets as well as their tools of analysis. At the core of this revision are strategic interactions between principals and agents, strategic interdependence between rival firms, and strategic trade policy between competing nations, all in a setting plagued by incomplete and/or imperfect information structures. Add to that biotechnology, electronic commerce, as well as the shift in focus from raw agricultural commodities to branded products, and the conclusion is that a "new" agricultural economics is needed for an increasingly complex "new" agriculture.

JAFIO's mission is to provide a peer-reviewed, scholarly, international forum to address this new complexity with the added benefits of 1) electronic submission, 2) professional and constructive reviews by specialists in the topic area, 3) a response guaranteed in 10 weeks, 4) no galleys to proofread, and 5) instant publication upon acceptance. Through electronic submission, revision, and publication, manuscripts will no longer become obsolete because of lengthy reviews and/or waiting in the print line, as they often do in traditional paper journals.

The journal welcomes empirical as well as theoretical articles, notes, and perspectives. It is expected that both empirical and theoretical contributions are issue-driven, informed by the idiosyncrasies of food and agricultural markets, and have practical relevance to firm strategy and/or agricultural and food industry policy.

Of particular interest are issues related to regulatory economics and competition policy, horizontal and vertical coordination, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, auctions, product differentiation, food labeling, food safety, cooperatives and strategic alliances, economics of innovation and property rights, strategic trade, market structure and environmental economics, and political economy.

Submissions addressing issues which arise in specific antitrust cases in food and agricultural industries, or issues which arise in reconciling antitrust laws with modern industrial organization theory, are also welcomed.

Supplementary Materials

Type of Publication:
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Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services:

  • Advanced Polymers Abstracts (CSA)

  • Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace

  • Aerospace & High Technology Database (CSA)

  • AgBiotech News and Information

  • AGRICOLA

  • Aluminium Industry Abstracts (CSA)

  • ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering (CSA)

  • Associates Programs Source Plus

  • CAB Abstracts

  • Ceramic Abstracts / World Ceramics Abstracts (CSA)

  • Composites Industry Abstracts (CSA)

  • Computer & Information Systems Abstracts (CSA)

  • Copper Technical Reference Library (CSA)

  • Corrosion Abstracts (CSA)

  • CSA / ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts

  • Current Abstracts

  • Dairy Science Abstracts

  • Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (CSA)

  • EconLit

  • Electronics and Communications Abstracts (CSA)

  • EMBASE

  • Engineered Materials Abstracts (CSA)

  • Engineering Research Database (CSA)

  • Food Science and Technology Abstracts

  • Forestry Abstracts

  • Global Health

  • Grasslands and Forage Abstracts

  • High Technology Research Database with Aerospace (CSA)

  • Horticultural Science Abstracts

  • International Aerospace Abstracts

  • IBSS

  • Intute

  • Journal of Economic Literature

  • Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Abstracts

  • Leisure Tourism Database

  • Maize Abstracts Online

  • Materials Business File (CSA)

  • Materials Research Database (CSA)

  • Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts (CSA)

  • METADEX (CSA)

  • Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews

  • Organic Research Database

  • Pig News & Information

  • Plant Breeding Abstracts

  • Plant Genetic Resources Abstracts

  • Postharvest News and Information

  • Poultry Abstracts

  • RePEc

  • Rice Abstracts

  • Rural Development Abstracts

  • Scopus

  • Soils and Fertilizers Abstracts

  • Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts (CSA)

  • Sugar Industry Abstracts

  • Technology Research Database (CSA)

  • TOC Premier

  • Veterinary Science Database

  • World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts

  • WorldCat

Editors

Azzeddine Azzam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)

Editorial Assistant

Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)


Associate Editors

John Crespi, Kansas State University (USA)

Panagiotis Fousekis, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (Greece)

Jean-Philippe Gervais, Farm Credit Canada

Konstantinos Giannakas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)

David Hennessy, Iowa State University (USA)

Brent Hueth, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University (USA)

Philippe Marcoul, University of Alberta (Canada)

Dimitrios Panagiotou, University of Ioannina (Greece)

Jeff Reimer, Oregon State University (USA)

John R. Schroeter, Iowa State University (USA)

Khalid Sekkat, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

Kyle Stiegert, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)

Jim Vercammen, University of British Columbia (Canada)

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas, University of California-Berkeley (USA)

Tian Xia, Kansas State University (USA)

Amalia Yiannaka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)

Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University (USA)

Christine Zulehner, University of Vienna (Austria)
Advisory Board

Hans Andersson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)

Murray Fulton, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

Stephen Martin, Purdue University (USA)

GianCarlo Moschini, Iowa State University (USA)

Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University (USA)

Jeffrey Perloff, University of California-Berkeley (USA)

Jeffrey Royer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)

Richard Sexton, University of California-Davis (USA)

Ian Sheldon, Ohio State University (USA)

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