Department of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Faculty


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Marco Costanigro

Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: Washington State University

Location: B326 Clark Bldg.
Telephone: (970) 491-6948
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Research Interests:
My research agenda can be framed within the general fields of applied econometrics, agricultural marketing and industrial organization.  My principal interest lies in studying how food quality and attribute information is transferred from producer to consumers, and whether such transfer can be made more efficient.  This broad research area spans the economics of reputation (brand and collective), labeling and advertisement, and the economics of quality assurance and traceability systems.  The wine market has been so far a favorite industry to study, mostly because of the remarkable range of consumer, product and price differentiation.  In the field of applied econometrics, I have a special interest in (and contributed to) the growing literature of quantitative methods focused on modeling consumers’ heterogeneous preferences.  Examples include random parameter and latent class models, quantile regression, clustering and factor analysis approaches.

Courses:

AREC 310 - Agricultural Marketing

AREC/ECON 335 - Introduction to Econometrics

Selected Publications, Presentations and Projects:

Publications and Working Papers
Costanigro, M., J.J. McCluskey, and R.C. Mittelhammer. “Segmenting the Wine Market Based on Price: Hedonic Regression when Different Prices mean Different Products,” Journal of Agricultural Economics. In press.


Costanigro, M., J.J. McCluskey, and R.C. Mittelhammer. “Let the Market be Your Guide: and Endogenous Classification and Valuation of Wines”. Journal of Applied Econometrics, under review.


Costanigro, M. and J.J. McCluskey. “The relationship Between Quality Choice, Firm and Collective Reputation”. Working paper.

Presentations and Posters
Collective versus Brand Reputations in Wines, selected paper presented at the AARES Organized Symposium at the 2007 AAEA, WAEA, and CAES Joint Annual Meeting in Oregon, July 29 - August 1, 2007.


Wine Valuation by Price Segments, selected poster at the 2006 American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting in Long Beach, July 23-26.


Identifying Submarkets in the Wine Industry: a Multivariate Approach to Hedonic Regression. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2006 American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting in Long Beach, CA, July 23-26.


Segmenting the Wine Market based on Price: Hedonic regression when different prices mean different products. Presented at the Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) meetings, San Francisco, CA 2005.


Price Segmentation of Wine, Academic Showcase Juried Poster Session Washington State University, 2005.


Price as a Signal of Quality: Segmenting the California and Washington Wine Markets based on Price, selected paper presented at the 2005 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society meetings in Coffs Harbour, Australia.


Urban Market improvement and Social Capital in Arsi and Bale. End of mission report and recommendations submitted to the Arsi and Bale Rural Development Project and F.A.O., Fall 2002.


Economic Implications of a Molecular Assay for Detection of Seed-Borne Botrytis spp. on Onions. Poster presented at the 2002 National Allium Research Conference Pasco, WA, 2002

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