Research

Working Papers

E85 and Fuel Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of 2007 EPA Test Data Forthcoming in the Journal of Energy Policy.

The Role of Yield-Price Correlation in Setting Optimal N Application Rates for Corn Production Presented at the 2006 AAEA Meetings in Long Beach, CA

Technical Analysis and Genetic Programming: Constructing and Testing a Commodity Portfolio Presented at the 2003 NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management.

The Value of Technical Analysis - this is an early draft. I've found a way to implement a much better fitness function, but it is computationally very costly. I'm running the new simulations now. I am also working on a variant using commodity futures prices, which adds a number of wrinkles.

Commodities, Options, and Volatility: Modelling Agricultural Futures Prices (was Curing Commodity Kurtosis?) Presented at the 1999 AAEA Annual Meetings, now in review at the AJAE.

State Space Modelling of Commodity Price Term Structure. with Paul L. Fackler. Presented at the 1999 AAEA Annual Meetings

 

Tools

Samson AEDE's computational server.

The FMEX Project-- A site I am working on for information on writing and using FORTRAN MEX files.

GARCHKIT -- A freely available toolbox that performs GARCH(1,1) and TGARCH(1,1) simulation and QMLE estimation.

LaTeX

Comprehensive TeX Archive -- just what it says.

For the PC, I recommend MikTeX and Winedt.

On the Mac, I recommend OzTeX and Alpha. .