Thesis: Argentina s Constraints on Technological Advancement in the Twentieth Century

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1 Anthony R. Delmond Phone: (202) PO Box , Hulbert Hall 201A Homepage: students.ses.wsu.edu/delmond Pullman, WA Education Ph.D., Economics,, 2018 (expected) Dissertation: Essays on Perception of Quality Committee: Jill J. McCluskey (chair), Bidisha Mandal, Andrew J. Cassey, Michael P. Brady MSc, Economic History, London School of Economics, 2009 Thesis: Argentina s Constraints on Technological Advancement in the Twentieth Century BA, Economics and English, University of North Florida, 2004 Areas of Special Interest Industrial Organization Applied Microeconomics Applied Econometrics Experimental Economics Working Papers Delmond, A.R., J.J. McCluskey, M.A. Rogova, and M. Yormirzoev (2017). Russian Consumer Willingness to Pay for Genetically Modified Food. (Revised and resubmitted) Delmond, A.R., and J.J. McCluskey. Collective Reputations. Nadreau, T.P., and A.R. Delmond (2017). Forecasts. Works in Progress Impacts of Regional Designations on Returns from Contributions and Impacts, Retrospectives and Delmond, A.R., and H. Ahmed. Can Free-Riding Be Beneficial? Optimal Antimicrobial Use Under Free-Riding and Resistance Externalities. Delmond, A.R., C.A. Durham, J.J. McCluskey, and M.E. Waldrop. Making the Most of an Economic Lab Experiment: A Methodology for Consumer-Valuation Surveys. Delmond, A.R. Credit Constraints and Leasing in the Auto Industry.

2 Anthony R. Delmond 2 Delmond, A.R., and J.C. Strandholm. Environmentally-Friendly Firms: Corporate Social Responsibility or Just a Warm Glow? Delmond, A.R., and J.C. Strandholm. Preference for Home in the Beer Market. Berry, K.C., A.R. Delmond, R. Morin-Chassé, J.C. Strandholm, and J.F. Shogren. Coasian Bargaining Under Varying Institutional Frameworks. Book Chapters Delmond, A.R., J.J. McCluskey, and J.A. Winfree. In press. Product Quality and Reputation in Food and Agriculture. In G. Cramer, K.P. Paudel, and A. Schmitz, eds., Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. Research Experience Research Assistant, Dr. Jill McCluskey, 2014, Present Research on product quality, marketing, and reputation in food and agricultural markets. Experience working on a grant proposal to conduct a field experiment. Conducted field and lab experiments for both producers and consumers in food and agricultural industries. Intern, USDA Economic Research Service, Summer 2015 Identified patterns in land ownership and tenure across U.S. farmland using TOTAL and ARMS data from USDA-NASS. Contributed early statistical analyses to USDA ERS Economic Information Bulletin 161 (Bigelow, Borchers, and Hubbs, 2016). Teaching Experience Instructor, EconS 452, Advanced Business Management Economics, WSU Semester: Fall 2017 Instructor, EconS 327 / I Bus 470, International Trade and Finance, WSU & Global Campus Semesters: Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Summer 2017 Teaching Assistant, EconS 503: Microeconomic Theory II (Ph.D.), WSU Numerous guest lectures, Spring 2017 Teaching Assistant, EconS 302: Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis, WSU Guest lectures, Spring 2014 Teaching Assistant, EconS 301: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory with Calculus, WSU Weekly recitation session, Fall 2013

3 Anthony R. Delmond 3 Conferences Presentations Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference, The Limited Benefits of Sharing: Evidence of a Declining Collective Reputation Effect in the Washington Wine Industry May 23-25, 2017 in Bend, Oregon XV European Association of Agricultural Economists Congress, Impacts of Regional Designations on Returns from Collective Reputations August 30-September 1, 2017 in Parma, Italy (presentation by coauthor) Workshops 2015 Summer Institute, Topics in the History of Economics Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University May 31-June 12, 2015 in Durham, North Carolina Professional Service Reviewer (journal), Food Policy & Journal of Food Distribution Research Reviewer (textbook), International Economics. (Irwin & Chinn, Forthcoming) Consulting editor (textbook), Advanced Microeconomic Theory: An Intuitive Approach with Examples (Muñoz-Garcia, 2017) & Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data (Agresti, 2010) Organized WSU graduate student brown bag series, 2015 Professional Affiliations American Economic Association Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Western Economic Association International Honors H. Delight and Orlo H. Maughan Scholarship, 2013 Florida Bright Futures Scholarship, Technical Proficiencies Document processing: LaTeX, Microsoft Office Mathematical/Graphical programming: Wolfram Mathematica, MATLAB Statistical software: R, Stata, GAUSS, SAS

4 Anthony R. Delmond 4 Public Service Treasurer, Wheat Whackers Junior Roller Derby, Pullman, WA, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Non-Academic Work Experience Database Management for Unitrin Services Group Jacksonville, Florida, Senior Implementations Specialist for CitiStreet Financial Jacksonville, Florida,

5 Anthony R. Delmond 5 References Dr. Jill McCluskey Dr. Bidisha Mandal Pullman, WA Pullman, WA Office: (509) Office: (509) mccluskey@wsu.edu bmandal@wsu.edu Dr. Andrew Cassey Dr. Mark Gibson (teaching reference) Pullman, WA Pullman, WA Office: (509) Office: (509) cassey@wsu.edu mjgibson@wsu.edu

6 Essays on Perception of Quality Dissertation Summary Anthony R. Delmond Chapter 1: Impacts of Regional Designations on Returns from Collective Reputations (Job Market Paper) In this paper, I investigate the economic returns to dynamic regional designations present in agricultural markets. Geographical indications (GIs) define region based collections of producers sharing terroir. Exploiting this geography quality nexus, firms employ regional collective reputations to signal product quality to consumers. We develop an empirical framework to study the simultaneous employment of firm and collective reputations and to disentangle the dynamic effects of increasing regional designations (i.e., narrowing the GI space). The model incorporates a familiarity term, which decreases in the number of regions and directly affects consumers abilities to use information about firm and region specific product quality. As the number of GIs increases, the returns to each region s collective reputation increase to a point and then begin to fall. The results indicate a crowding out of the benefits of regional specificity with significant impacts on aggregate returns. These findings suggest policies restricting the proliferation of GIs may increase firm level revenues. Chapter 2: Making the Most of an Economic Lab Experiment: A Methodology for Consumer Valuation Surveys Certain survey designs and the associated estimation approaches can either bias estimates or confound their interpretation. The purpose of this paper is to examine survey designs currently used in consumer product valuation and determine how to obtain the most accurate predictions. The lab experiment on organic beer utilizes multiple randomly selected treatments across two survey designs: (1) a double bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation, and (2) a Likert scale valuation technique. This paper incorporates sensory perception, demographics, and bids under multiple elicitation frameworks to determine which method obtains the highest accuracy out of sample predictions, and to our knowledge it is the first paper directly to compare double bounded dichotomous choice contingent valuation methods with fractional and ordinal analysis. This research should improve current methods of data collection and analysis, and it should narrow researchers choices for how best to approach valuation problems in a lab setting. Chapter 3: Russian Consumer Willingness to Pay for Genetically Modified Food This paper examines consumer demand for GM food products in Russia, where legislation has banned the nation s import and production of GMOs. Survey data collected in Perm, Russia for the purpose of this study show that consumers perceptions of biotechnology in food production tend to be negative. Consumers perceived risks associated with GMOs are manifested in low mean willingness to pay (WTP) for GM bread relative to the conventional alternative. Among survey respondents, nearly 80% stated they would be unwilling to purchase GM bread discounted up to 50%. Previous research has indicated Russian consumers food purchase decisions are motivated by health concerns and naturalness. Our survey data tend to corroborate those prior findings, but the results in this study go further. Using principal component analysis, we find money driven components correspond with higher likelihood of purchasing GM food and healthdriven components correspond with lower likelihoods. To our knowledge, this is the first contingent valuation study of first generation GM food in Russia, and the findings have economic implications for the existence of any future market for GM goods in Russia.