James K Binkley

Professor of Agricultural Economics

Department: Agricultural Economics
Phone: 765.494.4261
Office: Krannert 621
E-mail: jbinkley@purdue.edu

Professor Binkley has worked on a wide range of issues, most relating to commodity and food markets. His recent research has focused on the retail sector, food away from home, and consumer demand for nutrition. He has published in a variety of journals, ranging from the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Review of Economics and Statistics to the Journal of the American Statistical Association and the International Journal of Obesity . In 1994 he and graduate student Martin Benirschka won the American Journal of Agricultural Economics best article award for their paper "Optimal Storage and Marketing Over Space and Time."

- Recent Publications

Binkley, J. K. (2006). The Effect of Demographic, Economic, and Nutrition Factors on the Frequency. AAEA Annual Meeting.

Binkley, J. K. (2006). The Effect of Demographic, Economic, and Nutrition Factors on the Frequency of Dining Out. Journal of Consumer Affairs.

Binkley, J. K. (2005). Consumer choice of breakfast cereals: Healthy or Unhealthy?. AAEA Summer Meeting.

Binkley, J. K. (2005). Whole Grain and Low Fat: Household Choice of Bread, Milk and Breakfast Cereal. Meeting of Nc 69.

Binkley, J. K. (2005). A comparison of the nutritional effects of fast food and table service restaurants. Symposium on Obesity AAEA Summer Meetings 2005.

Binkley, J. K. (2004). Purchasing Patterns for Nutritional-Enhanced Foods: The Case of Calcium enhanced Orange Juice [14175]. AAEA Meeting. http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/detailview.pl?paperid=14175

Binkley, J. K. (2003). a day without food away from home is a day with better nutrition. annaul meeting of AAEA.

eales, j. h., & J. K. Binkley (2003). vertical differentiation in theory and practice. journal of agricultural and food organization, 1(1), 10-18.

Binkley, J. K., & j. j. bejnorowitz (2003). consumer price awarness in grocery shopping. journal of retailing, 50(2), 144-152.

Binkley, J. K. (2003). Functional food analysis. Workshop on Scanner Data.