Everett B. Peterson Associate Professor Trade and Quantitative Methods Ph.D. 1989, Purdue University Office: 216-I Hutcheson Hall Phone: (540)231-6108 FAX: (540) 231-7417 E-mail: petrsone@vt.edu

Everett Peterson joined the faculty in 1989. His interests are in the areas of international trade and consumer demand. He teaches graduate courses in demand and production analysis, applied general equilibrium analysis, and anti-trust regulation.

In June 2004, he was elected as a Research Fellow by the Executive Board of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). He also received the AAEA Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in 1990 for “The Farm-Retail Price Spread Revisited: A General Equilibrium Perspective.”

IIn his spare time he enjoys cycling, running, snow skiing, and hiking.

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Selected Publications

Articles in refereed journals

Peterson, Everett B. and Huey-Lin Lee.  “Implications of Incorporating Domestic Margins into Analyses of Energy Taxation and Climate Change Policies.”  Economic Modelling, in press.

Peterson, Everett B. and David Orden.  “Avocado Pests and Avocado Trade.”  American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 90(2)(May 2008):  321-335.

Rojas C., and E. Peterson.  “Demand for Differentiated Products:  Price and Advertising Evidence from the U.S. Beer Market.”  International Journal of Industrial Organization. 26 No 1 (January 2008): 288-307.

Peterson Everett, and David Orden.  “Risk and Economic Assessments for U.S. Imports of Mexican Avocados.”  Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development.  4 No 1 (2008): 17-34.

Peterson, Everett B. and David Orden.  “Effects of Tariffs and Sanitary Barriers on High- and Low-Value Poultry Trade.”  Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 30 No 1 (April 2005): 109-127.

Hareau, Guy, George W. Norton, Bradford F. Mills, and Everett B. Peterson.  “Potential Benefits of Transgenic Rice in Asia: A General Equilibrium Analysis.”  Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, 44(2005) No 3, 229-246.

Bergtold, Jason, Ebere Akobundu, and Everett Peterson.  “The FAST Method: Estimating Unconditional Demand Elasticities for Processed Foods in the Presence of Fixed Effects.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 29 No. 2 (August 2004): 276-295.

Peterson, Everett B., Edward Van Eenoo, Jr., Anya McGuirk, and Paul V. Preckel.  “Does Jack Sprat Really Know Much About Fat.”  Choices, Third Quarter, 2001, pp. 24-25.

Peterson, Everett B., Edward Van Eenoo, Jr., Anya McGuirk, and Paul V. Preckel.  “Perceptions of Fat Content in Meat Products,”  Agribusiness:  An International Journal, 17 No. 4 (Autumn 2001): 437-453.

Book Chapters

Orden, David and Everett B. Peterson.  “Science, Opportunity, Traceability, Persistence and Political Will:  Necessary Elements of Opening the U.S. Market to Avocados from Mexico,” in New Frontiers in Environmental and Social Labeling, ed. Grote, Ulrike, Arnab K. Basu and Nancy H. Chau, Springer, 2006: 133-150.

Other Publications

Orden, David, Lili Gao, Xiang Xue, Everett Peterson, and Suzanne Thornsbury.  “Technical Barriers Affecting Agricultural Exports from China:  The Case of Fresh Apples.”  PRESIM Project Report, Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, (December 2007) 133 pp.

Peterson, Everett B. and Joachim Schleich.  “Economic and Environmental Effects of Border Tax Adjustments.”  Working Paper Sustainability and Innovation No. S 1/2007, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovative Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (October 2007) 31 pp.

Peterson, Everett B. and David Orden.  “Linking Risk and Economic Assessments in the
Analysis of Plant Pest Regulations: The Case of U.S. Imports of Mexican Avocados.”  Contractor and Cooperator Report No. (CCR-25), Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, October 2006. URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/ccr25/.

Peterson, Everett B. and Phylo Evangelou.  “Economic Analysis, Final Rule:  Allowed Fresh Hass Avocados from Approved Municipalities in Michoacan, Mexico, to be Imported Into All States Year-Round (APHIS Docket No. 03-022-3).  Washington, D.C., Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, (November 2004), 67 pp.