Azzeddine Azzam is professor of agricultural economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A. He was a visiting professor in Morocco and Italy; a professor of economics at the University of Dubai, U.A.E.; and senior advisor for economic research at the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dubai, U.A.E. Azzam taught economics as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He is a research fellow of the Economic Research Forum, a member of Phi Beta Delta, the Honor Society of International Scholars; and the recipient of the University of Nebraska 2008 Excellence in Graduate Education Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate Education. Azzam is founder and editor of Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization and founder and managing editor of Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences. He served as associate editor of Middle East Development Journal, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Agribusiness: An International Journal. He has numerous publications in internationally refereed journals. Azzeddine is a Moroccan-born U.S citizen, married to Sara Melin, a Swedish-born U.S citizen. Azzeddine and Sara have four children and reside in the U.S., Morocco, Sweden, and Dubai.
Articles
Trade Bans, Imperfect Competition, and Welfare: BSE and the U.S. Beef Industry (with Dimitrios Pangiotou), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (2010)
Between May 2003 and July 2005, the U.S. beef industry faced a total ban on...
Measuring Price Effects of Concentration in Mixed Oligopoly: An Application to the Swedish Beef-Slaughter Industry (with Hans Andersson), Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade (2008)
Empirical studies of market power focus exclusively on industries with private firms. Yet, it is...
Market and Welfare Effects of the U.S. Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act (with Kenneth Njoroge, Amalia Yiannaka, and Konstantinos Giannakas), Southern Economic Journal (2007)
This paper analyzes the market and welfare effects of the United States Livestock Mandatory Reporting...
Vertical Economies and the Structure of U.S. Hog Farms (with Cari Skinner), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (2007)
Scale economies are often touted as the factor behind the trend in the structure of...
Anti-corporate Farming Laws and Industry Structure: The Case of Cattle Feeding (with John Schroeter and David Aiken), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2006)
Nine midwestern states have laws that restrict the involvement of publicly held corporations in agriculture....