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Oral Capps Professor and holder of the Southwest Dairy Marketing Endowed Chair PhD (Agricultural Economics), Virginia Tech MS (Agricultural Economics), Virginia Tech MS (Statistics), Virginia Tech BS (Mathematics), Virginia Tech Research Interests: Demand Analysis, Applied Econometrics, and Price Analysis Office Address: 330B Blocker 2124 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-2124 Contact Information: (979) 845-8491 (Office) (979) 862-3019 (Fax) Email Address: ocapps@tamu.edu Personal Website: http://agecon2.tamu.edu/people/faculty/capps-oral/

About Dr. Capps:
Dr. Oral Capps, Jr. is Full Professor and holder of the Southwest Dairy Marketing Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics as well as co-founder and Managing Partner of Forecasting and Business Analytics, LLC, an economic consulting firm. He earned his B.S. in Mathematics in 1975, M.S. in Agricultural Economics, M.S. in Statistics in 1977, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 1979, all at Virginia Tech. Dr. Capps has been a member of the faculty at Texas A&M since September 1986. He has authored 110 refereed journal articles and co-authored four books. In 1995 and again in 2003, he received the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching. In 1997, he received the Journal of Food Distribution Research Best Journal Article Award. In 1998, he received the Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence for Team Research at Texas A&M University. In 1999, he received the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award and was a co-recipient of the Applied Consumer Economics Research Award from the American Council on Consumer Interests. In 2000, he was the co-recipient of the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review Outstanding Journal Article Award. In 2001, he received the Frank Panyko Distinguished Service Ward from the Food Distribution Society. In 2002, Dr. Capps received the Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence for Research at Texas A&M University. In 2004, Capps was a "Fish Camp" namesake at Texas A&M University. In 2006, Capps was appointed to the National Academies Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources to work on the economic development and current status of the sheep industry in the United States. In 2007, he was co-recipient of the AAEA President's Award. Finally, Dr. Capps will receive the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Agricultural Economics Association in February.

Selected Publications:
Hanselka, D.O., E.E. Davis, D.P. Anderson, and O. Capps, Jr., The Economic Impact of Country-of-Origin Labeling on the U.S. Beef Industry, VDM Verlag, 2008.

Williams, G.W., D. Bailey, O. Capps, Jr., L.A. Detwiler, H.A. Glimp, T. Hammonds, D.D. Hedley, H.H. Jensen, P.S. Kuber, and D.L. Thomas, Changes in the Sheep Industry in the United States: Making the Transition from Tradition, Committee on the Economic Development and Current Status of the Sheep Industry in the United States, National Research Council of the National Academies, The National Academies Press, 2008.

Capps, Jr., O., An Introduction to Applied Econometrics, Business Knowledge Series for the SAS Institute, Inc., November 2008.

Stockton, M., O. Capps, Jr., and D.A. Bessler, "Samuelson's Full Duality and the Use of Directed Acyclic Graphs," Journal of Applied Economics, 11, 1 (May 2008): 167-191.

Williams, G.W., O. Capps, Jr., and M.A. Palma, "Effectiveness of Marketing Promotion Programs: The Cases of Texas Citrus," Horticulture Science, 43, 2 (2008): 385-392.