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Michael E. Sykuta
Present positions Associate Professor, Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri, 2005 to present. Director, Contracting and Organizations Research Institute, 2000 to present. Faculty Research Fellow, McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, 2006 to present. Academic Affiliate, International Center for Law & Economics, 2009 to present. Previous positions Assistant Professor, Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri, 1998-2005. Associate Director, Center for Research on Contracts and the Structure of Enterprise, University of Pittsburgh, 1995-98. Faculty Research Associate and Lecturer in Business Administration, Jospeh M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, 1995-98. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1994 Adjunct Assistant Professor, University College, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1994 Education Ph.D., Economics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1994. Major field: industrial organization. Dissertation title: "Real Effects of Futures Markets on Firm and Industry Behavior: A Study of Institutions and Contracting in the Crude Oil Industry." Dissertation committee: Arthur T. Denzau (chair), Lee Benham, Bruce C. Petersen. M.A., Economics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1990 B.S. (Honors), Economics, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1989. Research areas Economics of organization and contracting, corporate governance, law and economics, political economy, regulation and antitrust, industrial economics, corporate stragtegy, entrepreneurship. Professional memberships Agricultural & Applied Economics Association American Law & Economics Association International Food & Agribusiness Management Association International Society for New Institutional Economics Professional leadership President, Agribusiness Economics & Management Section, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, 2011 to present. President-elect, 2010 to 2011. Co-Editor, New Institutional Economics Abstracting Journal, Social Science Research Network, 2005 to present. Web Editor, International Society for New Institutional Economics, 1996 to present. Chair, Economics, Statistics & Information Resources Committee, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association 2008 to 2010. Advisor, Graduate Student Section, American Agricultural Economics Association 2004 to 2008. Books Klein, Peter G., and Michael E. Sykuta, eds., The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2010). Journal Articles "The Adoption, Diffusion and Evolution of Organizational Form: Insights from the Agrifood Sector" (with Harvey S. James, Jr., and Peter G. Klein), Managerial and Decision Economics, 32(4) June 2011 "Concentration, Contracting and Competition: Problems In Using The Packers & Stockyards Act To Supplement Antitrust" The CPI Antitrust Journal, 4(2) Spring 2010 Do Income Support Programs Impact Producer Hedging Decisions? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparative" (with Andrea E. Woolverton), Review of Agricultural Economics, 31(4) Winter 2009 “Farmer Trust in Producer- and Investor-Owned Firms: Evidence from Missouri Corn and Soybean Producers” (with Harvey S. James, Jr.), Agribusiness: An International Journal, 22(1) January 2006 “Property Right and Organizational Characteristics of Producer-Owned Firms and Organizational Trust” (with Harvey S. James, Jr.), Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 76(4) December 2005 "Market Integration: Case Studies of Structural Change" (with Jason V. Franklin, Joe Parcell, and Chris Fulcher), Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 34(2) October 2005 “Agricultural Organization in an Era of Traceability,” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 37(2) August 2005 “Politics, Economics, and the Regulation of Direct Interstate Shipping in the Wine Industry” (with Gina M. Riekhof), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(2) May 2005 “Who’s Monitoring the Monitor? Do Outside Directors Protect Shareholders’ Interests?” (with Eric Helland), Financial Review, 40(2) May 2005 “Undergraduate Perceptions of the Need for an Agricultural Entrepreneurship Curriculum” (with Joe Parcell), North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Journal, 49(1) March 2005. “Organizational Economics Research in the U.S. Agricultural Sector and the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute” (with Harvey S. James, Jr.), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86(3) August 2004 “Regulation and the Evolution of Corporate Boards: Monitoring, Advising or Window Dressing?” (with Eric Helland), Journal of Law and Economics, 47(1) April 2004 [8] “Contract Structure and Design in Identity Preserved Soybean Production” (with Joe Parcell), Review of Agricultural Economics, 25(2) Fall/Winter2003 “Financial Performance of Large Food Retailers” (with Bruce Bjornson), Agribusiness: An International Journal, 18(3) Summer 2002 “A New Institutional Economics Approach to Contracts and Cooperatives” (with Michael L. Cook), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 83(5) December 2001 "Putting Theories of the Firm in Their Place: A supplemental digest of the New Institutional Economics" (with Fabio Chaddad), Journal of Cooperatives, 14 1999 “Antitrust and Franchise Relocation in Professional Sports: An Economic Analysis of the Raiders Case” (with Kenneth Lehn), The Antitrust Bulletin, 42(3) Fall 1997 "Futures trading and supply contracting in the oil refining industry,” Journal of Corporate Finance, 2(4) July 1996 "Lending Discrimination: A Reply to Goldstein and Squires" (with Charles Leven), Urban Affairs Review, 30(4) March 1995 "The Importance of Race in Mortgage Lending Decisions" (with Charles Leven), Urban Affairs Quarterly, 29(3) March 1994 Chapters in Books “The Fallacy of ‘Competition’ in Agriculture,” in H.S. James, Jr., ed, The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition, Springer, forthcoming "Ronald H. Coase,” in P.G. Klein and M.E. Sykuta (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics, Aldershott, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010 “Empirical Methods in Transaction Cost Economics Research,” in P.G. Klein and M.E. Sykuta (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics, Aldershott, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010 “New Institutional Econometrics: The Case of Contracting and Organizations Research” Chapter 6 in E. Brousseau and J.M. Glachant (eds.), New Institutional Economics: A Textbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008 Other Miscellaneous Publications "Learn from history, don't repeat it," Competition in Agriculture Symposium, Antitrust & Competition Policy, Feb 2010 "Protecting Food Consumers or Milking Antitrust Concerns," syndicated opinion-editorial, Jan 2010 "Contracts in Agriculture" (with Ray Massey and Vern Pierce), University of Missouri Extension, 2009 “Regulating Wine By Mail” (with Gina Reikhof), Regulation, vol 23, no. 7, Fall 2004 Completed working papers "Impact of Granholm v. Heald on Small Winery Distribution Agreements" (with Michelle Mullins Santiago) "Why Do States Regulate Alcohol? A Political Economy Persecptive" (with Michelle Mullins Santiago) "Unilateral Versus Bilateral Incentives: Evidence from the U.S. Pork Industry" (with Jongick Jang, Douglas Miller and Seoung Joun Won) "Contracting for Consistency: Hog Quality and the Use of Marketing Contracts" (with Jongick Jang). Working papers in progress "The Nature of the Deal in the Post-Crisis Financial Market" "The Fallacy of 'Competition' in Agriculture" "Producer Responses to Farm Bill Changes: An Entrepreneurial Perspective" (with Andrea Woolverton) "Who Discloses Contracts, and Why? An Analysis of Contracts Contained in Corporate Filings" (with Peter G. Klein). “Innovation Dynamics and Optimal Licensing Strategies in the Agro-biotechnology Industry” (with Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes and David Catherine) Grants received "Producer Responses to Farm Bill Changes: An Entrepreneurial Perspective," USDA Economic Research Service, 2010-11 “Contracting Resources for Angel Investors,” Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2005-08 "Advancing Academic Research on Entrepreneurship" (co-investigator with Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Research Group, University of Missouri), Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2005-07 "Entrepreneurial and Organizational Responses to Biotechnology Innovation," Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology Alliance, 2006 "Contracting and Organizations Research Institute" (co-investigator), Unrestricted Gifts, Coase Foundation, 2002, 2003 and 2004 “Designing Food Supply Chains to Enhance Public Acceptance of Agricultural Biotechnology,” Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology Alliance, 2001-02 Faculty International Travel Grant, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000 Research Council Grant, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000 Select Consulting, Testimony and Reports Missouri Farm Bureau’s Production Agriculture Contracting Task Force – provided expert opinion and reviewed final draft of contracting checklists for Missouri grain and livestock producers, 2000. Comment on DOJ/USDA “Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcements Issues in Our 21st Century Economy” Workshops, International Center for Law & Economics Brief of Amici Curiae in TiVo, Inc., v. EchoStar Corp, et al., No. 2009-1374, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, on appeal from US District Court for the East District of Texas in Case No. 2:04-CV-01 Expert witness testimony on loss of farm business income – Heidlage v. Terra Renewal Services Inc., et al., U.S. District Court Case No. 3:03-CV-5008-SOW Expert opinion on contract formation in franchise development agreement – COC Services, Ltd.,v. COMPUSA, Inc, et al., U.S. District Court Case No. 05-01-00865-CV Expert opinion on loss of farm business income – Merritt v. Jenkins Quarry, LLC, et al., 2006 Expert opinion on grain marketing and HTA contracting practices and related damages – Irvington Elevator Company, Inc., v. Robert “Bob” Heser Sr., et al., Fourth Judicial Circuit, Marion County, IL, Case No. 08-L-44 Teaching
At the University of Missouri
At the University of Pittsburgh
At the University of Missouri-St. Louis
At Washington University
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