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Wright, B.D. 2014.  “Multiple Peril Crop Insurance.”  Choices: The magazine of
food, farm, and resource issues,


3rd Quarter 2014, 29(3).





Wright, Brian D. 2014. “Data at our fingertips, myths in our minds:  recent
grain price jumps as the ‘perfect storm’,” Australian Agricultural and Resource
Economics, 58, pp. 538-553.





Wright, B.  2014.  “Global Biofuels: Key to the Puzzle of Grain Market
Behavior,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 28, No. 1, 73-98.





Cafiero, C., E. Bobenreith, J. Bobenreith, and B. Wright.  2014.  “Maximum
Likelihood Estimation of the Standard Commodity Storage Model: Evidence from
Sugar Prices,” Am. J. Agr. Econ. doi: 10.1093/ajae/aau068





Wright, B., K. Drivas, Z. Lei, and S.A. Merrill.  2014. “Industry-funded
academic inventions boost innovation.” Nature, Vol 507, 7492, Comment.





The Economics of Food Price Volatility. 2014. Eds J-P. Chavas, D. Hummels and B.
Wright, National Bureau of Econoimic Research.





Auffhammer, Maximilian, Bo Li, Brian Wright and Seung-Jick Yoo. 2014.
Specification and Estimation of the Transfer Function in Dendroclimatological
Reconstructions.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics, DOI
10.1007/s10651-014-0291-6.





Wright, Brian D. 2014. “Global Biofuels: Key to the Puzzle of Grain Market
Behavior.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 28 no. 1, Winter.





Bobenrieth, Eugenio, Brian D. Wright and Di Zeng. 2013. “Stocks-to-use ratios
and prices as indicator of vulnerability to spikes in gloabl cereal markets.”
Agricultural Economics 44, pp 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, Article 9.





Wright, B. D. 2012. International Grain Reserves And Other Instruments to
Address Volatility in Grain Markets. The World Bank Research Observer; 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,
62: 44-54.





Wright, Brian D. and T. Shih. 2011. “Agricultural Innovation.” In: Accelerating
Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Multiple Sectors, eds. R. Henderson and R.
Newell, 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. 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. 2011. Biofuels and Food Security: Time to Consider Safety
Valves? IPC Policy Focus. February.





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.” In: FAO-Food Outlook/Global Market Analysis, Special
Features, FAO Corporate Document Repository, December.





Wright, Brian D. 2009. Review of "The WTO and India's Pharmaceuticals Industry:
Patent Protection, TRIPS, and Developing Countries" by Sudip Chaudhuri, New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005. Economic Development and Cultural Change.





Lei, Z., 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, S. 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 Globalisation 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 H. , 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?” Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade: New Approaches to
Analyzing Market Structure and Instability. A. Sarris and D. Hallam, Eds.  Elgar
Publishing.





Alan Bennett, Gregory Graff, Brian Wright and David Zilberman. 2004. “Access to
Intellectual Property is a Major Obstacle to Developing Transgenic Horticultural
Crops,” California Agriculture, Vol. 58, No. 2: 120-127.





Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., Juan R.A. Bobenrieth and Brian D. Wright. 2004. “A
Model of Supply of Storage.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(3): 
605-616.





Carrizosa, Santiago, Steve Brush, Brian Wright, and Patrick 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 Brian D. Wright. 2004. “Implications of Incomplete
Performance for Optimal Insurance,” Economica, Vol. 71 (November 2004): 661-670.





Koo, Bonwoo, Philip Pardey and Brian D. Wright. 2004. Saving Seeds: The
Economics of Conserving Genetic Resources at the CGIAR Centers. CAB
International.





Koo, Bonwoo, Philip G. Pardey and Brian 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, Carol Nottenburg, Philip G. Pardey, Brian D. Wright and
Patricia 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, Philip Pardey and Brian D. Wright. 2003. “The Economic Costs of
Conserving Genetic Resources at the CGIAR Centers.” Agricultural Economics 29:
287-297.





Boettiger, Sara, Eric Van Dusen, Gregory D. Graff, Philip G. Pardey and Brian 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, Philip Pardey and Brian D. Wright. 2003. “The Price of Conserving
Agricultural Biodiversity.” Nature Biotechnology, 21(2): 123-125.





Koo, Bonwoo and Brian 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 Brian 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.





Bobenrieth, Eugenio S.A., Juan R.A. Bobenrieth and Brian D. Wright. 2002. “A
Commodity Price Process with a Unique Continuous Invariant Distribution Having
Infinite Mean.” Econometrica, 70(3): 1213-1219.





Koo, Bonwoo and Brian Wright. 2002. “The Timing of Evaluation of Gene bank
Materials and the Effects of Biotechnology.” 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, Philip G. Pardey and Brian 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, Brian D. Wright and David 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, Philip G. Pardey, and Brian 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., Bonwoo Koo, Brian D. Wright, M. Eric Van Dusen, Bent
Skovmand, and Suketoshi Taba. 2001. “Costing the Conservation of Genetic
Resources: CIMMYT’s Ex Situ Maize and Wheat Collection.” Crop Science 41(4).





Evenson, Robert E. and Brian 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 Brian 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 Brian 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 Brian D. Wright. 2000. “Sovereign Debt as Intertemporal
Barter.” American Economic Review 90(3) June: 621–639.





Wright, Brian. 2000. Book Review of: Krimsky, S. and R. Wrubel. Agricultural
Biotechnology and the Environment. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois
Press, 1996. In Agricultural Economics 1431(2000): 1–2.





Wright, Brian D. and Jeffrey 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 Brian 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, Cyrus A. Ramezani, and Brian 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, Cyrus A. Ramezani, and Brian 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, P.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, Jeffrey Williams, and Brian 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 Julie 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 David 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 Jeffrey 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 Brian 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.]
*[Also 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., David M. Newbery and Brian 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 Brian D. Wright. 1991. Storage and Commodity Markets.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 502 p.





Wright, Brian D. and Peter 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 Brian D. Wright. 1990. “Technology Transfer under
Asymmetric Information.” Rand Journal of Economics 21(1): 147–160.





Rausser, Gordon C. and Brian 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 David 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 Jeffrey 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
Writings in Critical Economics Series, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing,
Ltd.]





Wright, Brian D. and J. C. Williams. 1988. “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., Kostas Stamoulis, Yasuo Nishiyama, Daniel Pick, Alex McCalla,
and Colin 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., Kostas Stamoulis, Yasuo Nishiyama, Daniel Pick, Alex McCalla
and Colin 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 Brian 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 Tolley. 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Brian 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.





Wright, Brian D. “Alternatives for Mineral Tax Reform.” 1978. In Taxation and
Mining: Nonfuel Minerals in Bolivia and Other Countries (Chapter 8). Edited by
M. Gillis, M.W. Bucovetsky, G.P. Jenkins, U. Peterson, L.T. Wells and B.D.
Wright. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company.





Levin, R.C. and Brian D. Wright. 1978. “A Selective Overview of Economic
Research on Energy.” Social Science Energy Review 1(2).





Wright, Brian D. 1978. “The Economics of Energy Conservation.” In The Economic
Impact of Energy Conservation. Edited by Susan J. Bodilly. Washington, DC: U.S.
Government Printing Office (in Foresight, Volume III). Prepared for the
Subcommittee on Advanced Energy Technologies and Energy Conservation Research,
Development and Demonstration, U.S. Congress, House Committee on Science and
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