What is the Difference Between Bilateral and Multilateral Trade Agreements?
One question that has come up recently is whether there is a difference between bilateral…
Author Eric Belasco
Eric Belasco
Eric Belasco is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. He received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He conducts research in the areas of agricultural marketing, risk management, farm policy, and financial engineering. Examples of this research include evaluations into grid pricing risk, the use of forward contracts in mitigating profit risk, modeling revenue risk in cattle production, and characterizing the link between weather and production indicators.
The Long Run View of Cattle Market Fundamentals
I always look forward to seeing all the participants at our annual outlook conference and…
(Podcast) Episode 011: The 2016 Election Outcome and NGP Agriculture
Anton Bekkerman and Eric Belasco sit down to chat about the big issues that…
Will the upcoming election directly impact agriculture?
Despite agriculture’s importance to US trade and foreign policy, Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton are…
(Podcast) Episode 009: The Present and Future of US Beef Markets
The AgEconMT crew is joined by Dr. Gary Brester, a Professor of Economics in…
The Importance of Trade and the TPP in U.S. Beef Production
While the meat casino has been a recent hot topic in the cattle markets, this…
Is the Cattle Futures Market in Chaos?
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Welcome to the ‘Meat Casino’! …
(Podcast) Episode 002: Spotlight on Eric Belasco
Today Anton Bekkerman interviews and helps listeners get to know Dr. Eric Belasco, an…
Now that the dust has settled, what is driving the cattle market?
It appears that the roller coaster cattle market that started in 2011 has come close…
The role of financial engineering in agriculture
For much of the public, financial engineering was the main culprit in the recent financial…