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Richard J. Sexton is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, with notable contributions across economics and econometrics, food science, general agricultural and biological sciences, public health, environmental and occupational health, and general health professions.

The main topics addressed in Sexton's work include agricultural innovations and practices, obesity, physical activity, diet, food safety and hygiene, food security and health in diverse populations, economics of agriculture and food markets, food supply chain traceability, and food waste reduction and sustainability.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sexton span a range of themes related to food safety, supply chains, and agricultural economics:

  • "Economic impacts of food safety incidents in a modern supply chain: E. coli in the romaine lettuce industry" (2022, American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
  • "Market structure and resilience of food supply chains under extreme events" (2023, American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
  • "The Gains from Agricultural Groundwater Trade and the Potential for Market Power: Theory and Application" (2020, American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
  • "Farmers, Traders, and Processors: Buyer Market Power and Double Marginalization in Indonesia" (2020, American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
  • "The Transition from Small to Large Farms in Developing Economies: A Welfare Analysis" (2021, American Journal of Agricultural Economics)

Sexton has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Kristin Kiesel, Meilin Ma, Ashley Spalding, Rachael E. Goodhue, and Patrick W. McLaughlin.

Their research has been published in various academic venues, often appearing in:

  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Agricultural Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • American Journal of Health Promotion

Best Publications

  • Market Integration, Efficiency of Arbitrage, and Imperfect Competition: Methodology and Application to U.S. Celery

    Richard J. Sexton;Catherine L. Kling;Hoy F. Carman

  • Market Power, Misconceptions, and Modern Agricultural Markets

    Richard J. Sexton

  • Imperfect Competition in Agricultural Markets and the Role of Cooperatives: A Spatial Analysis

    Richard J. Sexton

  • The Formation of Cooperatives: A Game-Theoretic Approach with Implications for Cooperative Finance, Decision Making, and Stability

    Richard J. Sexton

  • Food processing and distribution: An industrial organization approach

    Richard J. Sexton;Nathalie Lavoie

  • Assessing the Importance of Oligopsony Power in Agricultural Markets

    Richard T. Rogers;Richard J. Sexton

  • Industrialization and Consolidation in the U.S. Food Sector: Implications for Competition and Welfare

    Richard J. Sexton

  • Factors Critical to the Success or Failure of Emerging Agricultural Cooperatives

    Richard J. Sexton;Julie Iskow

  • Strategic buyers and exclusionary contracts

    Richard Sexton;Robert Innes

  • What Do We Know About the Economic Efficiency of Cooperatives: An Evaluative Survey

    Richard J. Sexton;Julie Iskow

  • Imperfect Competition in Multiproduct Food Industries with Application to Pear Processing

    Joyce J. Wann;Richard J. Sexton

  • Agricultural trade liberalization and economic development: the role of downstream market power

    Richard J. Sexton;Ian Sheldon;Steve McCorriston;Humei Wang

  • The Effects of Imperfect Competition on the Size and Distribution of Research Benefits

    Julian M. Alston;Richard J. Sexton;Mingxia Zhang

  • Consumer Response to Continuous-Display Electricity-Use Monitors in a Time-of-Use Pricing Experiment

    Richard J. Sexton;Nancy Brown Johnson;Akira Konakayama

  • Cooperatives and the Forces Shaping Agricultural Marketing

    Richard J. Sexton

  • Agri-food supply chain: evolution and performance with conflicting consumer and societal demands

    Tina L. Saitone;Richard J. Sexton

  • A Century of Research on Agricultural Markets

    Robert J. Myers;Richard J. Sexton;William G. Tomek

  • Cooperatives as entrants

    Richard J. Sexton;Terri A. Sexton

  • The Competitive Implications of Top-of-the-Market and Related Contract-Pricing Clauses

    Tian Xia;Richard J. Sexton

  • Irrigation Districts and Water Markets: An Application of Cooperative Decision-Making Theory

    Michael D. Rosen;Richard J. Sexton

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian M. Alston
Julian M. Alston University of California, Davis
Catherine L. Kling
Catherine L. Kling Cornell University
Robert Innes
Robert Innes University of California, Merced
Colin A. Carter
Colin A. Carter University of California, Davis
B. Wade Brorsen
B. Wade Brorsen Oklahoma State University
Daniel A. Sumner
Daniel A. Sumner University of California, Davis
Timothy J. Richards
Timothy J. Richards Arizona State University
Richard E. Howitt
Richard E. Howitt University of California, Davis
Stephan Klasen
Stephan Klasen University of Göttingen

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