Projects Funded for Brian Wright
2022-2023
United States Crop Yield Growth: A Preliminary Investigation
Brian Wright
2013-2014
Aware of Their Surroundings: Do Farmers Self Regulate Their Pollution Contributions?
Brian Wright
Abstract
Specific Objectives of the Project
- Determine whether farmers self-regulate fumigants during periods of elevated ozone, relating this to the efficacy of “Spare the Air” days.
- Provided they self-regulate, determine the extent to which they do so, and whether the presence of “Spare the Air” days in a county affect their decisions.
Project Report/Summary of Results
- Although preliminary testing during the proposal stage indicated significant fumigant reductions due to elevated ozone, the effect has been identified as an artifact of existing month-dependent agricultural regulations. After controlling for months of the year, the effect becomes non-significant with magnitude zero.
2010-2011
Consumer Search and Quality Disclosure: Revisiting Evidence from Restaurant Hygiene
Brian Wright
Abstract
In a number of markets, transportation costs shape consumer behavior, leading firms to choose price and quality based on the decisions of nearby competitors. The theoretical literature on this kind of differentiation has shown that nearly any outcome can be generated by a model built upon reasonable assumptions (see Fisher, 1991 and Sutton, 1990), yet, simultaneity in firm choices makes it empirically difficult to estimate the effect of distance on firm choices. Using exogenous variation provided by the 1998 introduction of hygiene grade cards for restaurants in Los Angeles County, I investigate how the extent of product differentiation affects quality provision when only a portion of the market is regulated. I find evidence that unregulated firms improve hygiene more when they are located near regulated competitors.
2009-2010
Commercial Utilization and Knowledge Dissemination of Agricultural-Related Inventions of University of California
Brian Wright
2008-2009
Modeling Cash Rent Markets for Agricultural Land
Brian Wright
2006-2007
Does Patent Protection Lead to More and Faster Development of University Innovation? Evidence from Management of Ag-biotech Inventions by UC TTO
Brian Wright
2005-2006
Exploring the University's Investment in 'At-Risk' Patenting: Public Institutions Assuming Risk Where the Private Sector Has Not
Brian Wright
2004-2005
The Impacts of Intellectual Property Protection of Research Tools on Freedom to Operate in Agricultural Biotechnology at the University of California
Brian Wright
2002-2003
The Role of Compulsory Licensing and GURTS in Facilitating Public-Private Collaboration in Innovation for California Specialty Crop
Brian Wright
2001-2002
Intellectual Property Provisions in Public Private Partnerships in Agriculture Biotechnology
Brian Wright
2000-2001
Solutions for Intellectual-Property and Technology Market Failures in Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Market Expanding Role of Information in the Internet Economy
Brian Wright
Public-Private Partnerships and Proprietary Agricultural Biotechnology
Brian Wright and Eran Binenbaum
1998-1999
Managing Genetic Diversity of Monterey Pine in Light of Pitch Canker
Brian Wright