John C. Bernard
John C. Bernard
Associate Professor
Education
  • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1999
  • M.S., Cornell University, 1994.
  • B.A., Ithaca College, 1989
Current Courses
  • FREC 316: Economics of Biotechnology and New Technologies
  • FREC 404: Food and Fiber Marketing
  • FREC 615: Advanced Prices and Statistics
Research
  • Consumer Behavior and Food Marketing
  • Auction Experiments
  • Economics of Technology
Professional Activities
  • Member, American Agricultural Economics Association
  • Member, Food Distribution Research Society
  • Member, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
Recent Publications

Gifford, K. and J.C. Bernard.  “Factor and Cluster Analysis of Willingness to Pay for Organic and Non-GM Food.” Journal of Food Distribution Research, Forthcoming.

Bernard, J.C., J.D. Pesek, Jr., and X. Pan.  “Consumer Likelihood to Purchase Chickens with Novel Production Attributes.”  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 39(2007): 581-596.

Awokuse, T.O. and J.C. Bernard.  “Spatial Price Dynamics in U.S. Regional Broiler Markets.”  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 39(2007): 447-456

Bernard, J.C., C. Zhang and K. Gifford.  “An Experimental Investigation of Consumer Willingness to Pay for Non-GM Foods when an Organic Option is Present.”  Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 35(2006): 374-385.

Bernard, J.C.  “Finding and Retaining the Dominant Strategy: The Second-Price, English, and ‘Sealed-Offer’ English Auctions.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 60(2006): 553-561.

Gifford, K. and J.C. Bernard.  “Influencing Consumer Purchase Likelihood of Organic Food.” International Journal of Consumer Studies, 30(2006): 155-163.

Bernard, J.C. and D.J. Bernard.  “Using Context in Classroom Experiments: A Public Good Example.”  International Review of Economics Education, 4(2005): 9-22.

More publications [ + ]

Bernard, J.C., W. Schulze, and T. Mount.  “Bidding Behavior in the Multi-Unit Vickrey and Uniform Price Auctions.”  Applied Economics Letters, 12(2005): 589-595.

Bernard, J.C. “Evidence of Affiliation of Values in a Repeated Trial Auction Experiment.” Applied Economics Letters, 12(2005): 687-691.

Jaiswal, S.,E.R. Benson, J.C. Bernard and G.L. Van Wicklen.  “Neural Network Modelling and Sensitivity Analysis of a Mechanical Chicken Catching System.”  Biosystems Engineering, 92(2005): 59-68.

Bernard, J.C. and W. Schulze.  “The Next New Thing: Curiosity and the Motivation to Purchase Novel Products.”  Economics Bulletin 3(2005): 1-8.

Bernard, J.C., X. Pan, and R. Sirolli.  “Consumer Attitudes towards Genetic Modification and Other Controversial Production Attributes for Chicken.”  Journal of Food Distribution Research, 36(2005): 1-11.

Gifford, K. and J.C. Bernard.  “The Impact of Message Framing on Organic Food Purchase Likelihood.”  Journal of Food Distribution Research, 35(2004): 19-28.

Bernard, J.C., J.D. Pesek, Jr., and C. Fan.  “Performance Results and Characteristics of Adopters of Genetically Engineered Soybeans in Delaware.”  Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 33(2004): 282-292.

Bernard, J.C., J.D. Pesek, Jr., and C. Fan.  “Delaware Farmers’ Adoption of GE Soybeans in a Time of Uncertain U.S. Adoption.”  Agribusiness: An International Journal, 20(2004): 81-94.

 

Contact Information:
John C. Bernard
Food and Resource Economics University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302)831-1380
e-mail:jbernard@udel.edu