James Vercammen, University of British Columbia
Business
Professor
Vancouver, British Columbia
james.vercammen@sauder.ubc.ca
Office:
(604) 822-5667
(604) 827-3844
Bio/Research
James Vercammen joined the Faculty July 1, 1991 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July, 1996.
Born and raised on a family farm in Saskatchewan , Dr Vercammen completed a Diploma in Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan in 1978 before going farmi...
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Born and raised on a family farm in Saskatchewan , Dr Vercammen completed a Diploma in Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan in 1978 before going farmi...
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Bio/Research
James Vercammen joined the Faculty July 1, 1991 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July, 1996.
Born and raised on a family farm in Saskatchewan , Dr Vercammen completed a Diploma in Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan in 1978 before going farming himself. In 1983, he returned to the University and completed a BSA and MSc degree, both in Agricultural Economics, while continuing to farm. In 1988 he entered a doctoral program at the University of California , Berkeley , and completed a PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics in 1991. He has maintained a continuing interest in his family farm in Saskatchewan .
Dr Vercammen’s areas of expertise are agricultural insurance, food market policy analysis and industrial organization of food markets. As well as a special class on regulating food markets for senior undergraduate students, Dr Vercammen teaches courses in Agricultural Marketing and Quantitative Methods within the Faculty as well as a course in Managerial Economics in the faculty of Commerce.
His doctoral research concerned farm credit markets, particularly the effects of risk and asymmetric information on the structure of credit contracts. His interest in this area has continued in his present research where he is analyzing various aspects of farm safety nets. As well he has collaborated on various studies on agricultural marketing, including the pricing strategies of agricultural cooperatives, western Canadian grain transportation and optimal hedging strategies for agricultural producers in commodity futures markets. His current research interests include agricultural insurance, vertical coordination in agricultural markets and the economics of food safety. Dr. Vercammen is co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics and serves on the Executive of the Western Agricultural and Resource Economics Association.
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Born and raised on a family farm in Saskatchewan , Dr Vercammen completed a Diploma in Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan in 1978 before going farming himself. In 1983, he returned to the University and completed a BSA and MSc degree, both in Agricultural Economics, while continuing to farm. In 1988 he entered a doctoral program at the University of California , Berkeley , and completed a PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics in 1991. He has maintained a continuing interest in his family farm in Saskatchewan .
Dr Vercammen’s areas of expertise are agricultural insurance, food market policy analysis and industrial organization of food markets. As well as a special class on regulating food markets for senior undergraduate students, Dr Vercammen teaches courses in Agricultural Marketing and Quantitative Methods within the Faculty as well as a course in Managerial Economics in the faculty of Commerce.
His doctoral research concerned farm credit markets, particularly the effects of risk and asymmetric information on the structure of credit contracts. His interest in this area has continued in his present research where he is analyzing various aspects of farm safety nets. As well he has collaborated on various studies on agricultural marketing, including the pricing strategies of agricultural cooperatives, western Canadian grain transportation and optimal hedging strategies for agricultural producers in commodity futures markets. His current research interests include agricultural insurance, vertical coordination in agricultural markets and the economics of food safety. Dr. Vercammen is co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics and serves on the Executive of the Western Agricultural and Resource Economics Association.
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