Staff Profile:Dr Garth Holloway

Name:

Dr Garth Holloway

Job Title:

Reader in Agricultural Economics and Statistics

Responsibilities:

• Leader: Bayesian Methods in Theoretical and Applied Research at the University of Reading
• Programme Director: MSc. Development Economics
• Admissions Coordinator: MSc. Programmes in Agricultural and Food Economics
• Librarian: School of Agricultural Policy and Development
• Instructor: Econometrics, Quantitative Methods, Microeconomic Theory, Development Economics

Areas of Interest:

• Applied Econometrics
• Bayesian Inference
• Agricultural and Food Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Economic Development

Current Research:

Applications of Bayesian inference and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to problems in agricultural and food economics, anthropology, development, industrial-organization, genetics and environmental- and natural-resource-economics; hierarchical normal-linear modeling; composed-error modeling; models of economic survival and duration; inference in censored-, discrete-, truncated- and count-data models; spatial models of land-mine clearance, technology adoption, human and livestock disease control; Bayesian ranking and selection with applications to contests.

Professional Service:

• Reviewer, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1988—)
• Reviewer, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (1989—)
• Reviewer, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (1989—)
• Discussant, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (1990)
• Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics(1990—)
• Reviewer, Review of Agricultural Economics (1991—)
• Reviewer, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1991—)
• Organizer, Inaugural Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (1993)
• Reviewer, USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants (1993—)
• Reviewer, Economic Inquiry (1994—)
• Associate Editor,American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1994-1997).
• Reviewer,Agribusiness:An International Journal (1995—).
• Reviewer, European Review of Agricultural Economics (1995—).
• Organizer, Principal-Papers Session, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (1996)
• Organizer and Discussant, Conference on Industrial Organization and the Food-Processing Industry, Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, France (1996).
• Coordinator, Selected Papers Review, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association (1996).
• Reviewer, Annual Meetings of the Western Agricultural Economics Association(1997—).
• Reviewer, International Journal of Industrial Organization (1997—).
• Reviewer, Journal of Agribusiness (1999—).
• Reviewer, Agricultural Economics (1999—).
• Reviewer, Understanding Adoption Processes for Natural Resource Management Practices for Sustainable Agricultural Production in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2000).
• Organizer, Organized Symposium, Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association(2000)
• Organizer, Frontier Session Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association(2001)
• Organizer, Principal Papers Session Annual Meetings of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (2001)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Agri-Food Industrial Organization and Policy (2001—)
• Reviewer, Journal of Agricultural Economic (2002—)
• Reviewer, Selected Papers, European Association of Agricultural Economics (2003)
• Reviewer, European Review of Agricultural Economics (2002—)
• Reviewer, International Journal of Industrial Organization (2002—)
• Reviewer, Selected Papers, American Agricultural Economics Association Meetings (2003)
• Reviewer, Journal of Econometrics (2003—)
• Reviewer, Oxford Economic Papers (2003—)
• Reviewer, American Economic Review (2003—)
• Reviewer, Environment and Resource Economics (2005—)
• Reviewer, Food Policy (2005—)
• Reviewer, Environment and Development Econmics (2006—)
• Reviewer, Environmental Modeling and Assessment (2006—)
• Reviewer, Environmental Modeling and Software (2006—)
• Reviewer, Environmental Science and Policy (2006—)
• Reviewer, Food Control (2007—)
• Reviewer, Papers in Regional Science (2007—)
• Reviewer, Special Issue, Journal of Regional Science (2007—)
• Editor, Special Issue, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Spatial Modeling of Bio-Economic and Land-Use Phenomena (2007)
• Reviewer, Food Control (2007—)
• Reviewer, The Annals of Economics and Statistics (2007—)

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

I continue to be the beneficiary of wonderful intellectual contributions from my many talented co-authors, some of whom feature in the selection below. For a full list of publications, please see my personal homepage.

• Holloway, G. , B. Shankar and S. Rahman."Bayesian Spatial Probit Estimation: A Primer With An Application To HYV Rice Adoption." Agricultural Economics 27(2002):383-402.
• Fleisher, M. and G. J. Holloway "The Problem With Boys:Bridewealth Accumulation, Sibling Gender and the Propensity to Cattle Raid Among the Kuria of Tanzania. Current Anthropology 45(2004)2:284-88.
• Holloway, G. J., C. Nicholson, C. Delgado, S. Ehui and S. Staal."A Revised Tobit Procedure for Mitigating Bias in the Presence of Non-Zero Censoring." Agricultural Economics 31(2004)1:97-106.
• Holloway, G. J., D. Tomberlin and X. Irz.Hierarchical Analysis of Production Efficiency in a Coastal Trawl Fishery. In R. Scarpa and A. Alberini (eds.) Simulation Methods in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Boston: Kluwer Academic Press, 2005.
• Holloway, G. J. and D. Tomberlin. "Bayesian Ranking and Selection of Fishing Boat Efficiencies." Marine Resource Economics 21:4(2006).
• Holloway, G. J. D. Lacombe and J. LeSage."Spatial Econometric Issues for Bio-Economic and Land-Use Modeling." Journal of Agricultural Economics 58:3(2007)549-88.
• Tomberlin, D. and G. J. Holloway. "Bayesian Hierarchical Estimation of Technical Efficiency in a Fishery." Applied Economics Letters (forthcoming).
• Holloway, G. J., S. Ehui and A. Teklu."Bayes Estimates of Distance to Market: Transactions Costs, Cooperatives and Milk-Market Development in the Ethiopian Highlands." Journal of Applied Econometrics (forthcoming)

Submitted Manuscripts:

• Hattam, C. and G. J. Holloway."Bayes Estimates of Time-to-Organic Certification: Avocados, Access and Organics in Michoacán Mexico."
• Holloway, G. J., D. Lacombe and T. O'Shaugnessy."How Large Is Congressional Dependence: Bayesian Spatial Probit Analysis of Congressional Voting on the Farm Bill."
• Holloway, G. J. and D. Skuras. "Bayes Estimates of the Effects of Capital Subsidies in the Greek Food Industry, 1987-1996."
• Holloway, G. J., M. Mazzocchi and F. Perali. "Bayes Inference in the Conditionally Censored Tobit Regression."
• Holloway, G. J and Q. Paris."Bayes Estimates of The Paris-Von-Liebig Model."
• Holloway, G. J."Stackelberg on Conduct and Conjectural Variations."
• Holloway, G."Simple Econometrics of Impact Assessment: Theory with An Application to Milk Market Participation In The Ethiopian Highlands."