Richard S. Gray

Agricultural and Resource Economics

With the vast and growing body of empirical evidence of the returns to agricultural innovation and the scope for advances in genomics and digital mechanisation, I have become convinced that greater investments in the development of agricultural innovation systems is an important pathway for economic growth, and perhaps the only pathway for achieving environmentally sustainable global economic growth. For the past decade I have focused on the economics of research and funding, intellectual property management as well as agricultural innovation systems and infrastructure.

Ph.D.  Dept. of Agriculture and Resource Economics, U. of California at Berkeley, 1991

M.Sc. Department of Agricultural Economics, U. of Saskatchewan, 1981  

B.S.A. (honours), Department of Agricultural Economics, U. of Saskatchewan, 1979

Hosseini, S., Gray, RS. & Torishizi, M. 2019. Cross-licensing agreements in presence of technological improvements. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 67(1): 115-130. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12180.

Slade, P. & Gray, RS. 2019. Wheat stocks and cointegration of wheat prices. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 67(1): 103-114. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12181.

Ge, H., Goetz, S.J., Gomez, M., Gray, RS. & Nolan, J. 2019. Modelling testing mechanism for mitigating genetically modified what contamination risks. International Journal of Production Research 57(2): 582-598. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2018.1472403.

Serfas, D., Gray, RS. & Slade, P. 2018. Congestion and distribution of rents in wheat export sector: A Canada-US cross border comparison. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 66(2): 187-207. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12171.

Torishizi, M. & Gray, RS. 2018. An economic analysis of Western Canadian grain export capacity. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 66(2): 255-282. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12148.

Hosseni, S. & Gray, RS. 2018. Who Governs Producer Controlled Research Organizations in the agricultural sector, and why? 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver British Columbia, International Association of Agricultural Economists. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.277133.

Mohammad, T., Murray F. & Gray, RS. 2018. Non-linear demand in a linear town. Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization. 16(2): 1-12. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jafio-2017-0019.

Gray, RS., Kingwell, R.S., Galushko, V., & Bolek, K. 2017.  Intellectual property rights and Canadian wheat breeding for the 21st century. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 65(4): 667-691. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12142.

Brewin, D. G., Schmitz, T. G., Nolan, J. F., & Gray, RS (2017). Grain transportation policy reform in Western Canada. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 65(4): 643-665. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12151.

Ge, H., Gray RS. & J. Nolan. 2017. Modeling the Optimal Strategies for Mitigating Genetically Modified Wheat Contamination Risks. International Journal of Business and Economics Research 6(5) 2017. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2018.1472403.

Smyth, S.J., Kerr, W.A. & Gray, RS., 2017. Regulatory barriers to international scientific innovation: approving new biotechnology in North America. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 23(2):134-145. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11926422.2016.1190771.

• Article of Enduring Quality 2012, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society
• Outstanding Journal Article CAES, 2011/12
• Fellowship in Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, July 2010

Past

• BPBE 315: Applied Micro Economics
• BPBE 820: Applied Micro Economics
• BPBE 851: Agricultural Policy and Institutions

 Current

• ARE 272: Introduction to Agricultural Economics
• ARE 890: Research Procedures in Agricultural Economics