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Brian D. Wright
Professor, ARE
301 Giannini Hall
(510) 642-9213
wright@are.berkeley.edu

Areas of Current Research

  • Economics of Markets for Storable Commodities
  • Economics of Conservation of Genetic Resources
  • Implications of Intellectual Property & Rights for Public and Private Research
  • Analysis of Patents and Licensing When One Patented Input Leads to Another
  • Patented Product Price Behavior in a Model of Finite Resources (such as minerals or petroleum) When Exploration Is Stochastic
  • Crop Insurance and Agricultural Management

Selected Publications

Wright, Brian. 2001. "Storage and Price Stabilization. In Handbook of Agricultural Economics." Edited by B. Gardner and G. Rausser. Johns Hopkins University, In Press. Chapter 14:  817-861.

Bobenrieth, Eugenio and Brian D. Wright. 2000.
    "A Model of Supply of Storage and Backwardation with Apparent Convenience Yield."
    Submitted to International Economic Review.

Pardey, Philip G., Bonwoo Koo, Brian D. Wright, M. Eric Van Dusen, Bent Skovmand, and Suketoshi Taba. 2001.  "Costing the Conservation of Genetic Resources:
    CIMMYT's Ex Situ Maize and Wheat Collection." Crop Science 41(4).

Pardey, Philip G. and Brian D. Wright. 2001.  "Intellectual Property Rights and Agricultural
    R & D."  International Food Policy Research Institute.

Pardey, Philip G. and Brian D. Wright. 2000. "Addressing Freedom to Operate Questions in Agricultural Biotechnology in the CGIAR." International Food Policy Research Institute. A Briefing Paper prepared for CGIAR Centers.
 

Pardey, Philip G. and Brian D. Wright.  2002.  "Agricultural R & D, Productivity and Global Food Prospects." In Plants, Genes and Agriculture, Second Edition.  Eds by M. Chrispeels  and D. Sadava.  Chapter 2.

Wright, Brian D. 2002.  "Biotechnology and Intellectual Property."  Prepared for the California Council on Science  and Technology, In Press.




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