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Alan Ker

Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1996; Professor; Econometrics and Resource Economics.

 

 

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Office: Chávez, Rm. 423
Phone: (520) 621-6265
email: aker@ag.arizona.edu

 

Alan Ker
Dr. Ker has undertaken research in a wide range of fields including theoretical and applied econometrics and agricultural and resource policy. Current research interests are nonparametric econometrics in nonstandard data environments, intermediaries and political economy aspects of the U.S. crop insurance program, and the effect of legal and political institutions on water transfers in the West.

Selected Publications

Brewer, Jed, Robert Glennon, Alan P. Ker, and Gary Libecap. “Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms,” Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.

Ker, Alan P. and A. Tolga Ergün. “On the Revelation of Private Information in the U.S. Crop Insurance Program,” Journal of Risk and Insurance (74)2007:761–776.

Brewer, Jed, Robert Glennon, Alan P. Ker, and Gary Libecap. “Transferring Water in the American West: 1987–2005,” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 40(2007):1021–1053.

Sam, Abdoul G. and Alan P. Ker. “Nonparametric Regression under Alternative Data Environments,” Statistics and Probability Letters, 76(2006):1037–1046.

Racine, Jeff and Alan P. Ker. “Rating Crop Insurance Policies with Efficient Non-parametric Estimators That Allow Mixed Data Types,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 31(2006):27–39.

Ker, Alan P. and A. Tolga Ergün. “Empirical Bayes Nonparametric Kernel Density Estimation,” Statistics and Probability Letters, 75(2005):315–324.

Ker, Alan P. and Keith Coble. “Modeling Conditional Yield Densities.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85(2003):291–304. (Lead article)

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