Faculty Profiles - Gary D. Thompson

[Gary Thompson]
Dr. Thompson's research interests include agricultural production and marketing particularly as they relate to fresh vegetables. Current research in these areas focuses on factors determining vertical coordination and international linkages within produce firms. Other agricultural production research has analyzed the extent to which institutional changes in Mexico's ejidos can affect agricultural production.

Dr. Thompson also maintains interest in demand issues relating to organic produce, food safety, and health concerns. Application of econometrics to non-traditional sources of quantitative and qualitative data—scanner data, primary data from interviews and questionnaires—is a common theme in his work. Dr. Thompson's current teaching responsibilities include an upper division production economics course and an M.S.-level operations research course in which mathematical programming is treated. In spring 2000, he became Editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Blank, Steven C., and Gary D. Thompson. “Can/Should/Will a Niche Become the Norm? Organic Agriculture's Short Past and Long Future,” Contemporary Economic Policy 22(October 2004):483–503.

Wilson, Paul N., and Gary D. Thompson. “Time Integration: Agribusiness Structure for Competitive Advantage,” Review of Agricultural Economics 25(Spring-Summer 2003):30–43.

Thompson, Gary D. and Paul N. Wilson. “Common Property as an Institutional Response to Environmental Variability,” in Property Rights and Environmental Problems, Bruce A. Larson, ed. Volume 2, 2003, pp. 149–160.

Thompson, Gary D., and Ricardo Cavazos Cepeda. “Gauging the Recent Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement,” Journal of the Food Distribution Research Society, forthcoming, March 2002.

Thompson, Gary D. "International Consumer Demand for Organic Foods." HortTechnology, Vol. 10, No. 4, Oct-Dec 2000.

Thompson, Gary D. and Paul N. Wilson. "Market Demands for Bagged, Refrigerated Salads." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 24(December 1999):463-481.

Anderson, D.P., P.N. Wilson, and G.D. Thompson. "The Adoption and Diffusion of Level Fields and Basins." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 24(December 1999):186-203.

Lyon, Charles C. and Gary D. Thompson. "Model Selection with Temporal and Spatial Aggregation: Alternative Marketing Margin Models." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 73(August 1993):523-536. (Senior authorship not assigned.)

Thompson, Gary D. "Consumer Demand for Organic Foods: What We Know and What We Need to Know." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80(December 1998).

Thompson, Gary D. and Julia Kidwell. "Explaining the Choice of Organic Produce: Cosmetic Defects, Prices, and Consumer Preferences." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80(May 1998):277-287.

Thompson, Gary D. and Paul N. Wilson. "Ejido Reforms in Mexico: Conceptual Issues and Potential Outcomes," Land Economics 70(November 1994):448-465.

Thompson, G.D. and P.N. Wilson. "The Organizational Structure of the North American Fresh Tomato Market: Implications for Seasonal Trade Disputes." Agribusiness: An International Journal. (September/October 1997):533-547.

Wilson, Paul N., Gary D. Thompson, and Roberta L. Cook. "Mother Nature, Business Strategy and the Fresh Produce Industry." Choices (First Quarter 1997):18-21, 24-25.

Dono, Gabriele and Gary D. Thompson. "Explaining Changes in Italian Consumption of Meat: Parametric and Non-Parametric Analysis." European Review of Agricultural Economics 21(1994):175-198.