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Scott H. Irwin
Curriculum Vita, January 2009
344 Mumford Hall
1301 West Gregory Drive
Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801 |
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Voice: (217) 333-6087
Fax: (217) 333-5538
Email: sirwin@illinois.edu |
Website: http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/irwin
EDUCATION
| Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural Economics, Purdue University |
1986 |
| Master of Science in Agricultural Economics, Purdue University |
1983 |
| Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business, Iowa State University |
1980 |
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
| Laurence J. Norton Chair of Agricultural Marketing, Department
of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign |
2004 - present |
| Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
1997 - present |
| Research Associate, Office for Futures and Options Research, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
1997 - present |
| Francis B. McCormick Professor of Agricultural Marketing and Policy,
Department of Agricultural Economics, The Ohio State University |
1996 -1997 |
| Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, The Ohio State
University |
1996 - 1997 |
| Visiting Scholar, Office for Futures and Options Research and Department
of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
1993 - 1994 |
| Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The
Ohio State University |
1989 - 1996 |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural
Sociology, The Ohio State University |
1985 -1989 |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research and Outreach
Research interests in the areas of agricultural marketing and price analysis, agricultural risk
management, market efficiency, forecast evaluation, and futures market speculation.
Co-director of the AgMAS project ( http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/agmas) at the University of Illinois since its inception in 1994. This long-term research project provides unbiased and rigorous performance evaluations of agricultural market advisory services. The research results have been widely-used by US farmers when selecting advisory services and have also provided the foundation for a new generation of grain market ‘averaging' contracts.
Team leader of the farmdoc project ( http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/) at the University of Illinois since its inception in 1999. This innovative outreach project provides comprehensive economic information and analysis for farmers and agribusinesses in the U.S. Cornbelt. The project has garnered national, state, and campus awards for excellence. The farmdoc website has received over 18 million page requests to date.
Co-developer of the farm gate ( http://www.farmgate.uiuc.edu/), the first public-sector blog for farmers and agribusinesses in the U.S. Cornbelt. Introduced in December 2005, this pioneering site at the University of Illinois provides integrated information across agricultural subject-matter disciplines and receives over 10,000 unique visitors monthly.
Co-developer of Agritrends, a quarterly television program produced at The Ohio State University. The 30-minute program updated the agricultural commodity situation and presented important agricultural policy issues in a ‘talk-show' format. Over 20 public television stations throughout the US regularly aired the program between 1987 and 1993.
$4.4 million in grants awarded to support research and outreach program ($3.3 million in competitive extramural grants; $1.1 million in intramural grants and private gifts).
Co-developer of numerous online and spreadsheet decision-tools for agricultural decision-makers, ( http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/cropins).
Served as academic and research advisor to 11 Ph.D. and 19 M.S. graduate students.
Over 200 outreach presentations on a variety of topics, including agricultural marketing, market advisory service performance, crop insurance, grain and livestock market outlook, and managed futures investment.
Teaching
| Undergraduate: |
Commodity Futures and Options Markets |
1985/86 - 1992/93,
1994/95 - 1996/97 |
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Commodity Price Analysis |
1987/88 - 1992/93,
1997/98 - 2008/09 |
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Data Analysis for Agricultural and Applied Economics |
1994/95 - 1996/97 |
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Principles of Agricultural Finance |
1994/95 - 1996/97 |
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University of Illinois Resources for Today's Farm Business |
2004/05 - 2006/07 |
| Graduate: |
Applications of Regression Models I |
1997/98 - 2005/06 |
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Applications of Regression Models II |
1997/98 - 2005/06 |
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Research in Futures Markets |
2000/01, 2003/04, 2005/06, 2007/08 |
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
| Executive Board, American Agricultural Economics Association (elected) |
2008 - 2010 |
| Joint Task Force on Confederation of the American Agricultural Economics Association and the American Council on Consumer Interests |
2007 - 2009 |
| C-FARE Panel to Review the Census of Agriculture |
2006 - 2007 |
| Foundation Committee, American Agricultural Economics Association |
2006 - 2008 |
| Foundation Board, American Agricultural Economics Association (elected) |
2004 - 2006 (Program VP, 2006) |
| Enduring Publication Award Committee, American Agricultural Economics
Association |
2000 - 2003
(Chair, 2003) |
| CSREES Comprehensive Review Team for Department of Agricultural
Economics, Purdue University |
1999 |
| Professional Activities Committee, American Agricultural Economics
Association |
1992 - 2000
(Chair, 1999 - 2000) |
| Statistics and Standards Committee, Managed Futures Association |
1993 |
| Executive Committee, North Central Regional Research Committee 134 |
1988-2008 |
EDITORIAL BOARDS
| Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics |
2005-2007 |
| Journal of Alternative Investments |
1998-2002 |
| Review of Futures Markets |
1988-1994 |
AWARDS AND HONORS
| Paul A. Funk Recognition Award, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
2008 |
| College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Science Team
Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
2004 |
| Donald A. Holt Achievement Award, Illinois Council on Food and
Agricultural Research |
2004 |
| Cool Site Award – Content, University of Illinois Webmaster’s
Forum |
2004 |
| Distinguished Extension Program Award – Group, American Agricultural
Economics
Association |
2002 |
| Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
1997, 2001, 2005, 2006 |
| Distinguished Research Award for Young Faculty in the College of
Agriculture, The Ohio State University |
1988 |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Cabrini, S.M., S.H. Irwin, and D.L. Good. “Style and Performance of Agricultural Market Advisory Services.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(2007): 607-623.
Park, C.H., and S.H. Irwin. “What Do We Know about the Profitability of Technical Analysis?” Journal of Economic Surveys 21(2007): 786-826.
Isengildina, O., S.H. Irwin, and D.L. Good. “Are Revisions to USDA Crop Production Forecasts Smoothed?” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(2006):1091-1104.
Irwin, S.H., D.L. Good, and J. Martines-Filho. “The Performance of Market Advisory Services in Corn and Soybeans.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(2006): 162-181.
Shi, W., and S.H. Irwin. “Optimal Hedging with a Subjective View: An Empirical Bayesian Approach.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(2005): 918-930.
Hagedorn, L.A. , S.H. Irwin, D.L. Good, and E.V. Colino. “Does the Performance of Illinois Corn and Soybean Farmers Lag the Market?” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(2005): 1271-1279.
Isengildina, O., S.H. Irwin, and D.L. Good. “Evaluation of USDA Interval Forecasts of Corn and Soybean Prices.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(2004):990-1004.
Irwin, S.H., G.D. Schnitkey, D.L. Good, and P.N. Ellinger. The farmdoc Project: This is Still Your Father's Extension Program.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(2004):768-773.
Irwin, S.H., and B.R Holt. “The Impact of Large Hedge Fund and CTA Trading on Futures Market Volatility.” in Commodity Trading Advisors: Risk, Performance Analysis and Selection, G.N. Gregoriou, V.N. Karavas, F.S. L'Habitant and F. Rouah, editors, New York : John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2004, pp. 151-182.
Sherrick, B.J., F.C. Zanini, G.D. Schnitkey, and S.H. Irwin. “Crop Insurance Valuation under Alternative Yield Distributions.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(2004):406-419.
Sanders, D.R., S.H. Irwin, and R.M. Leuthold. “Noise Trader Sentiment in Futures Markets.” in Models of Futures Markets , B.A. Goss, editor, London : Routledge, 2000, pp. 86-116.
Zulauf, C.R., and S.H. Irwin. “Market Efficiency and Marketing to Enhance Income of Crop Producers.” Review of Agricultural Economics 20(1998):308-331.
Garcia, P., S.H. Irwin, R.M. Leuthold, and L. Yang. “The Value of Public Information in Commodity Futures Markets.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 32(1997): 559-570.
Irwin, S.H., C.R. Zulauf, and T.E. Jackson. “ Monte Carlo Analysis of Mean Reversion in Commodity Futures Prices.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78(1996): 387-399.
Colling, P.L., and S.H. Irwin. “The Reaction of Live Hog Futures Prices to USDA Hogs and Pigs Reports.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 71(1990):84-94.
Hall, J. A., B.W. Brorsen, and S.H. Irwin. “The Distribution of Futures Prices: A Test of the Stable Paretian and Mixture of Normals Hypotheses.” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 24(1989):105-116.
Irwin, S.H., D.L. Forster, and B.J. Sherrick. “Returns to Farm Real Estate Revisited.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 70(1988):580-587.
Lukac, L.P., B.W. Brorsen, and S.H. Irwin. “A Test of Futures Market Disequilibrium Using Twelve Different Technical Trading Systems.” Applied Economics 20(1988):623-639.
Irwin, S.H., and B.W. Brorsen. “Public Futures Funds.” Journal of Futures Markets 6(1985):461-485.
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