Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
 
Name
Mr. Predrag Rajsic
Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Specialization
Economics of constrained markets, comparative advantage and environmental externalities
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Office
MCLN 324
Phone Number
ext. 52764
Research Interests
  • Production economics 
  • Environmental policy and trade
  • Austrian economics
  • Methodologies of economics
Education
  • B.Sc. Forestry, University of Belgrade (1997 - 2001) Partially completed
  • B.Sc. Agricultural Economics, University of Guelph (2002 – 2005)
  • M.Sc. Food, Agricultural and Resource economics, University of Guelph (2005 – 2007)
  • Ph.D. Food, Agricultural and Resource economics, University of Guelph (2007 - present)
Select Publications

Rajsic, P., G. Fox and E. Ramlal. 2011. "Canadian Agricultural Environmental Policy". In Brouwer F., G. Fox and R. Jongeneel (Eds.), The economics of regulation: compliance with public and private standards in agriculture. CABI Publishing.

De Roest, K., J. Winsten, P. Rajsic and K. Dillen. 2011. "The impact of standards on the competitiveness of the EU with respect to pigs and poultry". In Brouwer, F., G. Fox and R. Jongeneel (Eds.), The Economics of Regulation: Compliance with Public and Private Standards in Agriculture. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing.

Rajsic, P. 2010. Comparative Advantage: From an Individual to the Economy. Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association 2010 AAEA, CAES, & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 25-27, 2010. 

Rajsic, P., A. Weersink and M. Gandorfer. 2009. Risk and Nitrogen Application Levels. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 57(2):223-239

Rajsic, P. and A. Weersink. 2008. Do farmers waste fertilizer? A comparison of ex post optimal nitrogen rates and ex ante recommendations by model, site and year. Agricultural Systems, 97(1):56-76.

Gandorfer, M. and P. Rajsic. 2008. Modeling Economic Optimum Nitrogen Rates for Winter Wheat When Inputs Affect Yield and Output-Price. Agricultural Economics Review, Vol. 9, Iss. 2.  

Jongeneel, R., I. Bezlepkina, F. Brouwer, L. Aramyan, K. Dillen, M. Farmer, V. Swales, S. Schlegel, R. Landgrebe, K. de Roest, C. V. Ortéga, P. Esteve, X. Poux, G. Fox, P. Rajsic, A. Meister, Z. Karaczun, and  J. Winsten. 2008.  Cross-Compliance (Facilitating the CAP reform: Compliance and competitiveness of European agriculture) (no. SSPE-CT-2005-006489). European Commission, Brussels.

Deen, B., K. Janovicek, G. Stewart, A. Weersink and P. Rajsic. 2007. Flat Profit Functions Associated with Variable Nitrogen Rates – Implications for Producers, Researchers and Policy-makers. The ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings (November 4-8, 2007), New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

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