Publications
- Bobenrieth, E., J. Bobenrieth, A. Villegas and B. Wright. 2022. "Estimation of Endogenous Volatility Models with Exponential Trends." Mathematics (forthcoming).
- Sun, Z. and B.D. Wright. 2022. “Citations backward and forward: Insights into the patent examiner’s role.” Research Policy , September. doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2022.104517
- Sun, Z., Z. Lei, B D. Wright, M. Cohen and T. Liu. 2021. “Government targets, end-of-year patenting rush and innovative performance in China.” Nature Biotechnology 39: 1068–1075
- Guerra, E., E. Bobenrieth, J. Bobenrieth, and B. D. Wright. 2021. “Solving dynamic stochastic models with multiple occasionally binding constraints.” Economic Modelling 104
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J. R.A. Bobenrieth, E. Guerra, B.D. Wright. and D. Zeng. 2020. “Putting the empirical commodity storage model back on track: Crucial implications of a ‘negligible’ trend.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 103, 3: 1034-1057.
- Wright, B.D. 2020. “Comments on Alston and Pardey: Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture.” NBER Research Symposium Beyond 140 Characters: The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, Mountain View, CA, January 3.
- Martin, P.L., R. E. Goodhue and B.D. Wright, Eds. 2020. California Agriculture, Dimensions and Issues. Giannini Foundation 20-01.
- Drivas, K., Lei, Z, and Brian D. Wright. 2018 “Application publication or confirmation of grant: Which matters more for academic technology transfer?” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 56 (January): 204-228, doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2017.10.005
- Drivas, K., Lei, Z, and Brian D. Wright. 2017 “Academic patent licenses: Roadblocks or signposts for nonlicensee cumulative innovation?” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137 (May): 282-303. doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.03.018
- Lei, Z. and B.D. Wright. 2017 “Why Weak Patents? Testing the Examiner Ignorance Hypothesis.” Journal of Public Economics 148 (April):43-56. doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.02.004
- Hernando, Y., Colwell, K. and Wright, B.D. 2016 “Doing well while fighting river blindness: the alignment of a corporate drug donation programme with responsibilities to shareholders.” Tropical Medicine and International Health. 21 no. 10: 1304– 1310 (October) 2016. doi:10.1111/tmi.12759.
- Cafiero, C., Eugenio S.A. Bobenrieth H., Juan R.A. Bobenrieth H., and Brian D. Wright 2015. “Maximum likelihood estimation of the Standard Commodity Storage Model. Evidence from Sugar Prices.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 97(1) (January): 122-136. doi: 10.1093/ajae/aau068
- Auffhammer, Maximilian, Bo Li, Brian Wright and Seung-Jick Yoo 2015 “Specification and Estimation of the Transfer Function in Dendroclimatological Reconstructions.” Environmental and Ecological Statistics 22:105–126 DOI 10.1007/s10651-014-0291-6
- Wright, Brian D. 2015 “The Role of Agricultural Economists in Sustaining Bad Programs.” Chapter 14 of A.M. Balisacan, U. Chakravorty and M.-L. Ravago, Editors, Sustainable Economic Development: Sources, Environment and Institutions. Oxford, U.K and San Diego, CA.
- Drivas, K., Lei, Z., Merrill, S.A. and Wright, B.D. 2014 “Industry-Funded Academic Inventions Boost Innovation.” Nature 507, March 20 2014: 297-299. doi:10.1038/507297a
- Wright, B. D. 2014 “Data at our fingertips, myths in our minds: recent grain price jumps as the “perfect storm.” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 58, October, pp. 538–553.
- Wright, Brian D. 2014 “Global Biofuels: Key to the Puzzle of Grain Market Behavior.” Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 28 no. 1, Winter.
- Wright, B,D. (2014) “Review of ‘Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era’ by Angelina Snodgrass Godoy.” Journal of Economic Literature 52 No. 4: 1187-89. DOI: 10.1257/jel.52.4.1160.r16
- Chavas, J-P, D. Hummels, and B. D. Wright, eds. 2014 The Economics of Food Price Volatility Chicago, IL. National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth and B. D. Wright. 2014. “Bubble Troubles? Rational Storage, Mean Reversion and Runs in Commodity Prices.” The Economics of Food Price Volatility. Jean-Paul Chavas, David Hummels, and Brian Wright, Eds. Chicago, IL. National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio, Brian D. Wright and Di Zeng. 2013. “Stocks-To-Use Ratios And Prices As Indicators Of Vulnerability To Spikes In Global Cereal Markets.” Agricultural Economics 44 (2013) 1–10.
- Wright, Brian D. 2012. “Grand missions of agricultural innovation.” Research Policy, Vol. 41, pp. 1716-1728.
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth and B. D. Wright. 2012. “Strict Concavity of the Value Function for a Family of Dynamic Accumulation Models. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1.
- Wright, Brian D. 2012. “International Grains Reserves, and other instruments to address volatility in Grain Markets.” The World Bank Research Observer 27 2; doi: 10.1093/wbro/lkr016.
- Cafiero, Carlo, E.S.A. Bobenrieth, J.R.A Bobenrieth, and B.D. Wright. 2011. “The empirical relevance of the competitive storage model.” Journal of Econometrics, 162: 44-54.
- T. Shih. and Brian D. Wright. 2011.“Agricultural Innovation.” In: Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Multiple Sectors, Eds. R. Henderson and R. Newell, pp.: 49-85, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press for National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Wright, Brian D. and C. Cafiero. 2011.“Grain reserves and food security in the Middle East and North Africa.” Food Security, (Suppl. 1): S61–S76 DOI 10.1007/s12571-010-0094-z.
- Wright, Brian D., and A. Prakash. 2011. “The fallacy of price interventions: a note on price bands and managed tariffs.” In: Safeguarding Food Security in Volatile Global Markets, ed. A. Prakash, Chapter 12, pp.: 241-251, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
- Wright, Brian D. 2011. “Addressing the biofuels problem: food security options for agricultural Feedstocks.” In: Safeguarding Food Security in Volatile Global Markets, ed. A. Prakash, Chapter 23, pp.: 481-492, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
- Wright, Brian D. 2011. “The Economics of Grain Price Volatility.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Vol. 33, No. 1: 32-58. DOI:10.1093/aepp/ppq033.
- Wright, Brian D. 2010. “Comment: Agricultural Biotechnology: The Quest to Restore Freedom to Operate in the Public Interest.” In Dreyfuss, R.C., First, H., and Zimmerman, Diane L. Working within the boundaries of intellectual property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
- Koo, Bonwoo and B.D. Wright. 2010. “Dynamic Effects of Patent Policy on Sequential Innovation." Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 489- 512, Summer.
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio and B.D. Wright, 2009. “The Food Price Crisis of 2007/2008: Evidence and Implications.” FAO-Food Outlook/Global Market Analysis, Special Features, FAO Corporate Document Repository, December
- Lei, Zhen, R. Juneja and B.D. Wright. 2009. “Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for biological research." Nature Biotechnology 27, No. 1, January:36-40.
- Wright, Brian D. 2008. “Speculators, Storage and the Price of Rice." ARE Update 12 No. 2, November/December, Giannini Foundation, University of California, 2008.
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth and B.D. Wright. 2008. “A Foundation for the Solution of Consumption-Saving Behavior with a Borrowing Constraint and Unbounded Marginal Utility.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 32, 695-708.
- Wright, Brian D. 2007. “Agricultural Innovation after the Diffusion of Intellectual Property Protection.” Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property, J. Kesan, Ed. Wallingford, UK: CABI International.
- Mahul, Olivier, and B.D. Wright. 2007. “Optimal Coverage for Incompletely Reliable Insurance.” Economics Letters.
- Boettiger, Sara and B.D. Wright. 2006. “Open Source Biology: Open Questions.” Innovations Fall, Vol. 1, No. 4: 45–5
- Wright, Brian D. 2006. “I’innovazione in agricoltura nell’era diritti di proprieta Intellectuale.” In M. De Benedictis, F. de Stefano and A. Giannola, Eds. Dal Meridionalismo All’agricultura Del Terzo Millennio. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane.
- Wright, Brian D. 2006. Plant Genetic Engineering and Intellectual Property Protection Agricultural Biotechnology in California Series, Publication 8186, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/InOrder/Shop/ItemDetails.asp?ItemNo=8186
- Wright, Brian D., and P.G. Pardey. 2006. “The Evolving Rights to Intellectual Property Protection in the Agricultural Biosciences.” International Journal of Technology and Globalization 2, nos. 1/2: 12-29.
- Wright, Brian D. and P.G. Pardey. 2006. “Changing Intellectual Property Regimes: Implications for Developing Country Agriculture.” International Journal of Technology and Globalization 2, nos. 1/2: 93-114.
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio, J. Bobenrieth H. and B.D. Wright. 2005. “Theoretical Advances in the Modeling of Storage and Speculation.” Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade: New Approaches to Analyzing Market Structure and Instability. A. Sarris and D. Hallam, Eds. Elgar Publishing.
- Cafiero, Carlo and B.D. Wright. 2005. “Is the storage model a “closed” empirical issue? The empirical ability of the storage model to explain price dynamics.” Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade: New Approaches to Analyzing Market Structure and Instability. A. Sarris and D. Hallam, Eds. Elgar Publishing.
- Graff, G., B.D. Wright, A.B. Bennett and D. Zilberman. 2004. “Access to intellectual property is a major obstacle to developing transgenic horticultural crops.” California Agriculture 58 no. 2, June.
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J.R.A. Bobenrieth and B.D. Wright. 2004. “A Model of Supply of Storage.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(3): 605-616.
- Carrizosa, Santiago, S. Brush, B.D. Wright, and P. McGuire. 2004. Accessing Biodiversity and Sharing the Benefits: Lessons from Implementing the Convention on Biodiversity. Bonn, Germany: International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
- Mahul, Olivier and B.D. Wright. 2004. “Implications of Incomplete Performance for Optimal Insurance.” Economica, Vol. 71 (November 2004): 661-670.
- Koo, Bonwoo, P. Pardey and B.D. Wright. 2004. Saving Seeds: The Economics of Conserving Genetic Resources at the CGIAR Centers. CAB International.
- Koo, Bonwoo, P.G. Pardey and B.D. Wright. 2003. "Costing the Conservation of Genetic Resources: A Comparison of the CIMMYT and ICARDA Gene banks" in Efficient Conservation of Crop Genetic Diversity: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies, Ed. Detlef Virchow, Springer-Verlag.
- Binenbaum, Eran, C. Nottenburg, P.G. Pardey, B.D. Wright and P. Zambrano. 2003. “South-North Trade, Intellectual Property Jurisdictions, and Freedom to Operate in Agricultural Research on Staple Crops.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 51(2): 309-355.
- Koo, Bonwoo, P. Pardey and B.D. Wright. 2003. “The Economic Costs of Conserving Genetic Resources at the CGIAR Centers.” Agricultural Economics 29: 287-297.
- Boettiger, Sara, E.Van Dusen, G. D. Graff, P.G. Pardey and B.D. Wright. 2003. “Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Biotechnology: International Aspects.” Handbook of Plant Biotechnology, Eds. Paul Christou and Harry Klee. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Koo, Bonwoo, P.G. Pardey and B.D. Wright. 2003. “The Price of Conserving Agricultural Biodiversity.” Nature Biotechnology, 21(2): 123-125.
- Koo, Bonwoo and B.D. Wright. 2003. “Economics in Patenting an Input Essential to Further Research.” In Economics, Law and Intellectual Property: Seeking Strategies for Research and Teaching in a Developing Field, Eds. Ove Granstrand. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Mahul, Oliver and B.D. Wright. 2003. “Designing Optimal Crop Revenue Insurance.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(3): 580-589.
- Pardey, P.G. and B.D. Wright. 2003. “Agricultural R&D, Productivity and Global Food Prospects.” Chapter 2 in M.J. Chrispeels and D.E. Sadava, Eds. Plants, Genes, and Crop Biotechnology, 2nd ed. Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett.
- Wright, B.D. 2003 “Storage.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History Volume 1: Oxford University Press. Joel Mokyr Ed. : 56-58
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., J. R.A. Bobenrieth and B.D. Wright. 2002. “A Commodity Price Process with a Unique Continuous Invariant Distribution Having Infinite Mean.” Econometrica, 70(3): 1213-1219.
- Koo, Bonwoo and B.D. Wright. 2002. “The Timing of Evaluation of Gene bank Materials and the Effects of Biotechnology.” In Agricultural Globalization, Trade, and the Environment, Eds. Charles B. Moss et al. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Chapter 22. (Reprinted with the permission of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.)
- Nottenburg, Carol, P.G. Pardey and B.D. Wright. 2002. “Accessing Other People’s Technology for Non-profit Research.” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 46:3: pp. 389-416.
- Wright, Brian D. 2002. “Agricultural Risk Management.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History.
- Wright, Brian D. 2002. “Biotechnology and Intellectual Property.” Chapter 8 of California Council on Science and Technology, Benefits and Risks of Food Biotechnology: July 151-165.
- Graff, G., A. Bennett, B.D. Wright and D. Zilberman. 2001. “Intellectual Property Clearinghouse Mechanisms for Agriculture: Summary of an Industry, Academia, and International Development Round Table." IP Strategy Today. No. 3-2001, pp12-30.
- Wright, Brian D. 2001. “Challenges for Public Agricultural Research and Extension in a World of Proprietary Science and Technology.” In Proceedings of Knowledge Generation and Transfer: Implications for Agriculture in the 21st Century. Edited by Steven Wolf. Greenwood Press. Chapter 4. 63-76.
- Wright, Brian D. 2001. “Storage and Price Stabilization.” In Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Edited by B. Gardner and G. Rausser. Johns Hopkins University. Chapter 14: 817-861.
- Binenbaum, Eran, P.G. Pardey, and B.D. Wright. 2001. “Public-Private Research Relationships: The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83(3): 748-753.
- Pardey, Philip G., B. Koo, B.D. Wright, M.E.Van Dusen, B. Skovmand and S. Taba. 2001. “Costing the Conservation of Genetic Resources: CIMMYT’s Ex Situ Maize and Wheat Collection.” Crop Science 41(4).
- Evenson, Robert E. and B.D. Wright. 2001. “The Value of Plant Biodiversity for Agriculture.” In Agricultural Science Policy: Changing Global Agendas. Edited by J.M. Alston, P.G. Pardey, and M.J. Taylor. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University. Chapter 10: 187–210.
- Koo, Bonwoo and B.D. Wright. 2000. “The Optimal Timing of Evaluation of Gene bank Accessions and the Effects of Biotechnology.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(4): 797–811.
- Yoo, Seung Jick and B.D. Wright. 2000. “Persistence of Growth Variation in Tree-Ring Chronologies.” Forest Science 46(4): 507–520.
- Wright, Brian D. 2000. “Intellectual Property Rights Challenges and International Research Collaborations in Agricultural Biotechnology.” In Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor. Edited by M. Qaim, A. Krattiger, and J. von Braun. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Chapter 18: 289–314.
- Wright, Brian. 2000. “International Crop Breeding in a World of Proprietary Technology.” In Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights. Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology. Edited by V. Santaniello, R.E. Evenson, D. Zilberman, and G.A. Carlson. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing. Chapter 8: 127–138.
- Kletzer, Kenneth M. and B.D. Wright. 2000. “Sovereign Debt as Intertemporal Barter.” American Economic Review 90(3) June: 621–639. (Reprinted as Ch. 10 of Part I of Volume I: The “Theory of Sovereign Debt,” R.W. Kolb, Ed., The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Elgar, 2016.
- Wright, Brian D. and J.C. Williams. 2000. “A Theory of Negative Prices for Storage.” Journal of Futures Markets 20(1): 59–71. (Reprinted as one of six best articles over a 17-year span, chosen for the Millennium issue.) *[Originally published 1989, 9(1): 1–13.]
- Bobenrieth, Eugenio and B.D. Wright. 1999. “The Short-Run Dynamics of World Wheat Prices.” In The Economics of World Wheat Markets. Edited by J. Antle and V. Smith. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing. Chapter 5: 107–125.
- Koo, Bonwoo and Brian D. Wright. 1999. “The Role of Biodiversity Products as Incentives for Conserving Biological Diversity: Some Instructive Examples.” The Science of the Total Environment 240 (1999): 21–30.
- Cafiero, Carlo, C.A. Ramezani, and B.D. Wright. 1999. “Crop Insurance between Private Market and Public Intervention.” In Insurance and Financial Services and the Modernization of Agricultural Firms. Rome: ISMEA.
- Cafiero, Carlo, C.A. Ramezani, and B.D. Wright. 1999. “The Market for Insurance Contracts in Agriculture: The United States Experience.” In Insurance and Financial Services and the Modernization of Agricultural Firms. Rome: ISMEA.
- Wright, Brian D. 1999. “Can Agricultural Genetic Resources be a Bonanza for the South?” In Development, Duality and the International Economic Regime: Essays in Honor of Gustav Ranis. Edited by G. Saxonhouse and T.N. Srinivasan. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Chapter 12: 330–358.
- Wright, Brian D. 1998. “Intellectual Property and Farmers’ Rights.” In Agricultural Values of Plant Genetic Resources. Edited by R.E. Evenson, D. Gollin, and V. Santaniello. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing. Chapter 16: 219–232.
- Pardey, Philip G., B. Skovmand, S. Taba, M.E. Van Dusen, and B.D. Wright. 1998. “The Cost of Conserving Maize and Wheat Genetic Resources Ex Situ.” In Farmers, Gene Banks and Crop Breeding. Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice. Edited by Melinda Smale. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Chapter 3: 35–56.
- Wright, Brian D. 1998. “Public Germplasm Development at a Crossroads: Biotechnology and Intellectual Property.” California Agriculture 52(6) November/December: 8–13.
- Wright, Brian D. 1997. “Crop Genetic Resource Policy: The Role of Ex Situ Gene Banks.” Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 41(1): 81–115.
- Brennan, Donna, J. Williams, and B.D. Wright. 1997. “Convenience Yield without the Convenience: A Spatial-Temporal Interpretation of Storage under Backwardation.” The Economic Journal 107(443): 1009–1022.
- Culy, J.G., E.G. Read, and B.D. Wright. 1996. “The Evolution of New Zealand’s Electricity Supply Structure.” In International Comparisons of Electricity Regulation. Edited by Richard J. Gilbert and Edward P. Kahn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 8: 312–365.
- Wright, Brian D. 1998. “Public Germplasm Development at a Crossroads: Biotechnology and Intellectual Property.” California Agriculture 52(6) November/December: 8–13.
- Wright, Brian D. and Bruce L. Gardner. 1995. Reforming Agricultural Commodity Policy. Washington, DC: The AEI Press, 153 p.
- Wright, Brian D. 1995. “Goals and Realities for Farm Policy.” In Agricultural Policy Reform in the United States. Edited by Daniel A. Sumner. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute. Chapter 2: 9–44.
- Wright, Brian D. and J.A. Hewitt. 1994. “All-risk Crop Insurance: Lessons from Theory and Experience.” In Economics of Agricultural Crop Insurance: Theory and Evidence. Natural Resource Management and Policy Series. Edited by Darrell L. Hueth and William H. Furtan. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Chapter 4: 73–112.
- Wright, Brian D. 1993. “Public Insurance of Private Risks: Theory and Evidence from Agriculture.” In Government Risk-Bearing: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, May 1991. Edited by Mark S. Sniderman. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers: 45–65.
- Wright, Brian D. 1993. “Crop Insurance for Developing Countries.” In Food Security and Food Inventories in Developing Countries. Edited by Peter Berck and David Bigman. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. Chapter 6: 107–130.
- Wright, Brian D. and D. Zilberman. 1993. “Agricultural Research Structures in a Changing World.” In U.S. Agricultural Research: Strategic Challenges and Options. Edited by Robert D. Weaver. Bethesda, MD: Agricultural Research Institute. Chapter 20: 289–310.
- Wright, Brian D. and J.C. Williams. 1993. “Conducting A Price Band: Some Discordant Notes.” In Papers of the 1993 Annual Meeting Western Agricultural Economics Association. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona: I, 95–126.
- Wright, Brian D. 1993. “Dynamic Perspectives on Agricultural Policy Issues.” Frederick V. Waugh Memorial Lecture, American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meetings, Orlando, FL, August 4, 1993. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 75(5): 1113–1125.
- Wright, Brian D. 1992. “Policy Regimes, Market Disturbances and Food Security.” In Improving Agricultural Trade Performance under the GATT. Edited by T. Becker, R. Gray and A. Schmitz. Kiel, Germany: Wissenschaftsverlag Vauk: 62–76.
- Ardeni, Pier Giorgio and B.D. Wright. 1992. “The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis: A Reappraisal Independent of Stationarity Hypotheses.” The Economic Journal 102(413): 803–812.
- *[Reprinted 1998 in New World Order Series, Volume 13, Export-Led Versus Balanced Growth in the 1990s. Edited by H. Singer, N. Hatti and R. Tandon. New Delhi: BR Publishing Corporation.]
- *[Reprinted 1999 in The Economics of Commodity Markets. Edited by D. Greenaway and W. Morgan, International Writings in Critical Economics Series. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.]
- Kletzer, Kenneth M., D.M. Newbery and B.D. Wright. 1992. “Smoothing Primary Exporters’ Price Risks: Bonds, Futures, Options and Insurance.” In “Financial Markets, Institutions and Policy” (Special Issue of refereed papers, Anthony S. Courakis, editor). Oxford Economic Papers 44(4): 642–671.
- *[Reprinted 1993 in Financial Markets, Institutions and Policy. Edited by Anthony S. Courakis, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 109–139.]
- Williams, Jeffrey C. and B.D. Wright. 1991. Storage and Commodity Markets. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 502 p.
- Wright, Brian D. and P.G. Warr. 1990. “The Isolation Paradox, the Social Discount Rate and Neutrality: Further Thoughts.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 105(1): 239–241.
- Gallini, Nancy T. and B.D. Wright. 1990. “Technology Transfer under Asymmetric Information.” Rand Journal of Economics 21(1): 147–160.
- Rausser, Gordon C. and B.D. Wright. 1989. “Alternative Strategies for Trade Policy Reform.” In Policy Coordination in World Agriculture (Chapter 5). Edited by Harald von Witzke, C. Ford Runge and Brian Job. Kiel: Wissenshchaftsverlag Vaul Kiel KG.
- Wright, Brian D. 1989. Review of Robert L. Paarlberg, “Fixing Farm Trade: Policy Options for the United States.” Journal of International Economics 26(1–2): 194–196.
- Wright, Brian D. and D.M.G. Newbery. 1989. “Financial Instruments for Consumption Smoothing by Commodity-Dependent Exporters.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 71(2): 511–516.
- *[Also published 1991 as Chapter 9 in Commodity Risk Management and Finance. New York: Oxford University Press: 124–133. (For the World Bank with the permission of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics).]
- *[Reprinted 1992 in The Economics of Cooperation, East Asian Development and the Case for Pro-Market Intervention. Edited by J.A. Roumasset and S. Barr. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Inc., 1992. Chapter 3: 39–50.]
- Wright, Brian D. 1988. “Storage, Stability, and Farm Programs.” In Agricultural Stability and Farm Programs: Concepts, Evidence and Implications (Chapter 2). Edited by Daniel A. Sumner. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
- Wright, Brian D. 1988. Review of Energy: Markets and Regulation, edited by R.L. Gordon, H.D. Jacoby, and M.B. Zimmerman. Journal of Economic Literature 26(June): 723–725.
- Wright, Brian D. and J.C. Williams. 1988. “Measurement of Consumer Gains from Market Stabilization.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 70(3): 616–627.
- *[Reprinted 1998 in Measuring Welfare Changes, J. Creedy, editor, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series, M. Blaug, Ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.]
- Wright, Brian D. and J.C. Williams1988. “The Incidence of Market-Stabilizing Price Support Schemes.” Economic Journal 98(393): 1183–1198.
- Wright, Brian D. 1987. “Evaluation of Agricultural Research Projects: The Project Evaluation Perspective.” In Economic Evaluation of Agricultural Research: Methodologies and Brazilian Applications (Chapter 4). Edited by R.E. Evenson, E. Rodriguez da Cruz, A.F.D. Avila, and V. Palma. New Haven, CT: Yale University.
- Wright, Brian D. 1987. “On the Design of a System to Improve the Production of Innovations.” In Direct Protection of Innovation. Edited by W. Kingston. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers for the Commission of the European Communities.
- Wright, Brian D., K. Stamoulis, Y. Nishiyama, D. Pick, A. McCalla, and C. Carter. 1987. “Trade Barriers and Macroeconomic Factors Affecting Exports of California Specialty Crops.” Report prepared by the members of Study Group VI of the University of California Agricultural Issues Center, Marketing California Specialty Crops: Worldwide Competition and Constraints, Davis, CA.
- Wright, Brian D., K. Stamoulis, Y. Nishiyama, D. Pick, A. McCalla and C. Carter. 1987. “Analysis of Trade Barriers and the Prospects for Reform: The Case of California Specialty Crops.” In Marketing California Specialty Crops: Worldwide Competition and Constraint. Edited by H.O. Carter and C.F. Nuckton. Proceedings of the University of California Agricultural Issues Center Symposium, June, Davis, CA.
- Chamley, Christophe and B.D. Wright. 1987. “Fiscal Incidence in an Overlapping Generations Model with a Fixed Asset.” Journal of Public Economics 32(1): 3–24.
- Wright, Brian D. 1986. Participant. Discussions 1 and 2 in “The Share Economy: A Symposium,” edited by William D. Nordhaus and Andrew John. Journal of Comparative Economics 10(4): 438–443, 464–468.
- Wright, Brian D. 1985. “Commodity Market Stabilization in Farm Programs.” In U.S. Agricultural Policies: The 1985 Farm Legislation. Edited by Bruce L. Gardner. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI).
- Wright, Brian D. 1985. “The Resource Allocation Problem in Research and Development.” In The Economics of R&D Policy. Edited by George S. Tolley., James H. Hodge and James F. Oehmke. New York, NY: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc.
- Wright, Brian D. 1985. Review of A.B. Atkinson. “Social Justice and Public Policy.” Journal of Economic Literature 23(3): 1221–1222.
- Wright, Brian D. and J.C. Williams. 1984. “The Welfare Effects of the Introduction of Storage.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 99(1): 169–192.
- Wright, Brian D. 1984. “The Effects of Price Uncertainty on the Factor Choices of the Competitive Firm.” Southern Economic Journal 51(2): 443–455.
- Wright, Brian D. and J.C. Williams. 1984. “Anti-Hoarding Laws: A Stock Condemnation Reconsidered.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 66(4): 447–455.
- Wright, Brian D. 1983. “The Economics of Invention Incentives: Patents, Prizes, and Research Contracts.” American Economic Review 73(4): 691–707.
- Wright, Brian D. and J.C. Williams. 1982. “The Economic Role of Commodity Storage.” Economic Journal 92(367): 596–614.
- *[Also published in 1999, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, The Economics of Commodity Markets, David Greenaway and C.W. Morgan (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, UK.]
- Wright, Brian D. and J.C. Williams. 1982. “The Roles of Public and Private Storage in Managing Oil Import Disruptions.” Bell Journal of Economics 13(2): 341–353.
- Warr, Peter and B.D. Wright. 1981. “The Isolation Paradox and the Discount Rate for ‘Benefit-Cost Analysis.'” Quarterly Journal of Economics 96(1): 129–145.
- Wright, Brian D. 1980. “The Cost of Tax-Induced Energy Conservation.” Bell Journal of Economics 11(1): 84–107.
- Wright, Brian D. 1979. “The Effects of Ideal Production Stabilization: A Welfare Analysis Under Rational Behavior.” Journal of Political Economy 87(5): 1011–1033.
- Gillis, M., M.W. Bucovetsky, G.P. Jenkins, U. Peterson, L.T. Wells and B.D. Wright, Editors. 1978. Taxation and Mining: Nonfuel Minerals in Bolivia and Other Countries. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Printing Company.
- Gillis, M., G.P. Jenkins, L.T. Wells and B.D. Wright. 1978. “Evaluation of the Present System of Mining Taxation.” In Taxation and Mining: Nonfuel Minerals in Bolivia and Other Countries (Chapter 7). Edited by M. Gillis, M.W. Bucovetsky, G.P. Jenkins, U. Peterson, L.T. Wells and B.D. Wright. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company.
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