演讲题目：A Dynamic Heterogeneous Agent Model of Credit-Linked Index Insurance and Agricultural Technology Adoption
主讲人：Dr. Mario J. Miranda（Andersons Professor of Finance & Risk Management Dept. of Agricultural, Environmental, & Development Economics The Ohio State University）
工作语言：英文
主持人：苏剑 博士（8797威尼斯老品牌副教授）
点评人：李连发 博士（8797威尼斯老品牌副教授）
秦雪征博士（8797威尼斯老品牌副教授）
时间： 2013 年6月21日（星期五）上午10:30-11:30
地点： 8797威尼斯老品牌305
8797威尼斯老品牌经济学系
2013年6月15日
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Mario Miranda教授简介：
Mario Miranda is currently Andersons Professor of Finance and Risk Management, in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University. His research has focused on the modeling of stochastic dynamical systems in agricultural, financial, environmental, and development economics. Areas of application include international economic development, agricultural and catastrophic risk management, credit and insurance markets, international food security, agricultural and environmental policy, industrial organization, and farm management. His research has produced one book on computational economic dynamics, which has been adopted by many of the world’s top-ranked doctoral programs in Economics; over 50 peer-reviewed articles, two of which rank among the three most frequently cited articles in the field of “agricultural insurance”; and several computational modeling and risk management software packages used by researchers throughout the world. He has also won numerous university research and teaching awards.
Professor Miranda served seven years as Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University, ranked by National Research Council as top program in its field in USA. Miranda currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Computational Economics, and the Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response. He has served as a consultant to the Chicago Board of Trade, the World Bank, U.S. Agency for International Development, numerous private corporations, and several branches of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including the Economic Research Service, Risk Management Agency, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Chief Economist. He has acquired extensive international experience, having worked on major research projects or taught graduate-level courses in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, and Peru. Miranda holds a dual Ph.D. in Economics and Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
