Faculty Member Information

<<Back to Faculty Listing

David Bessler Professor PhD (Agricultural Economics), University of California, Davis MS (Agricultural Economics), University of Arizona BS (Economics), University of Arizona Research Interests: Price Analysis, Algorithms of Inductive Causation, and DAGS Office Address: 349A Blocker 2124 TAMU College STation, TX 77843-2124 Contact Information: (979) 845-3096 (Office) (979) 862-1563 (Fax) Email Address: d-bessler@tamu.edu Personal Website: http://agecon2.tamu.edu/people/faculty/bessler-david/

About Dr. Bessler:
His research is in the area of applied decision analysis, especially as it contributes to understanding agricultural price uncertainty. He teaches graduate courses in inductive causation and applied time series analysis.

Selected Publications:
Bessler, D., and Zijun Wang. "Price and Quantity Endogeneity in Demand Analysis: Evidence from Directed Acyclic Graphs," Agricultural Economics, 34, 2006:87-95.

Bessler, D., and Zijun Wang. "A Monte Carlo Study on the Selection of Cointegrating Rank Using Information Criteria," Econometric Theory, 21,2005:593-620.

Bessler, D., and Michael Haigh. "Causality and Price Discovery: An Application of Directed Acyclic Graphs," Journal of Business, 77, 2004:1097-1121.

Bessler, D., and Jian Yang. "The Structure of Interdependence of International Stock Markets." Journal of International Money and Finance, 22, 2003: 261-287. [Reprinted in Financial Markets, Jeff Madura editor, London: Major Works Series, Sage Publications, Ltd. 2004].

Bessler, D., and Alpha Krenga. "Price Discovery: The Case of Millet in Bamako, Mali." Journal of African Economies, 11, 2002: 472-502.

Bessler, D., and Marc Nerlove. "Expectations, Information, and Dynamics", Chapter 3 in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Bruce Gardner and Gordon Rausser editors, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2001, pages 155-206.