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How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food-Safety Inspections

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Management Science

    Abstract
    Accuracy and consistency are critical for inspections to be an effective, fair, and useful tool for assessing risks, quality, and suppliers—and for making decisions based on those assessments. We examine how inspector schedules could introduce bias that ...
Designing Hydro Supply Chains for Energy, Food, and Flood

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M&SOM

    Abstract
    Problem definition: In this paper, we identify the unique challenges and trade-offs in hydro system development for developing countries and provide a supply chain perspective to expand these countries’ hydro networks for energy, irrigation, and flood ...
Government Interventions to Promote Agricultural Innovation

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M&SOM

    Abstract
    Problem definition: Agricultural innovation can help farmers improve their productivity; reduce their environmental impact; and address the challenges associated with ever-changing soil, weather, and market conditions. Promoting innovation often requires ...
Economically Motivated Adulteration in Farming Supply Chains

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Management Science

    Abstract
    Economically motivated adulteration (EMA) is a serious threat to public health. In this paper, we develop a modeling framework to examine farms’ strategic adulteration behavior and the resulting EMA risk in farming supply chains. We study both “preemptive ...
An Analysis of Price vs. Revenue Protection: Government Subsidies in the Agriculture Industry

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Management Science

    Abstract
    The agriculture industry plays a critical role in the U.S. economy, and various industry sectors depend on the output of farms. To protect and raise farmers’ income, the U.S. government offers two subsidy programs to farmers: the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) ...

Other Publications

Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Published 2019

Food supply chains during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Jill E. Hobbs
Canadian Journal of Agriculture Economics
Published Online: April 21, 2020

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