Ira Altman
Department Chair
Department of Agribusiness Economics
Southern Illinois University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Altman grew up on a mixed, grain and beef, farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. He attended the University of Saskatchewan and received a BA (Double Honors) in Economics and Political Science and an MSc in Agricultural Economics. He completed his Phd at the University of Missouri in Agricultural Economics in 2005. He is married with two sons.
Research Interest
Dr. Altman specializes in many aspects of agribusiness economics but especially organizational economics and regional economics or rural development of emerging industries. His research includes the application of transaction cost economics, economic impacts and financial feasibility of developing industries such as bioenergy.
Publications
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Altman Ira, Jason Bergtold, Tom Johnson, Dwight Sanders (2015) Willingness to Supply Biomass for Bioenergy Production: A Random Parameter Truncated Analysis. Energy Economics 47(1): 1-10.
