Tigran Melkonyan

Associate Professor
Department of Resource Economics
University of Nevada/Mail Stop 204
1664 N. Virginia Street
Reno,  Nevada   89557

 

Office: (775) 784-6434
Fax: 784-1342

Email: tmelkonyan@cabnr.unr.edu
Building: Max Fleischmann Agriculture,  Office 220f
Personal Web: http://www.cabnr.unr.edu/melkonyan/

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EDUCATION

Yerevan State University (Armenia): B.S., Mathematics (Honors)
Yerevan State University (Armenia): M.S., Mathematics (Honors)
Iowa State University: Ph.D., Economics

 

 
COURSES & TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES

RECO 720

RECO 322

 
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

 

Book or Chapter(s) in Books
B. Hueth and T.A. Melkonyan, 2006, "Asset Ownership and Incentives in Agricultural Production." Essays in Honor of Stanley R. Johnson , eds. M. Holt and J.-P. Chavas, Berkeley Electronic Press.   Read More...
S.R. Johnson and T.A. Melkonyan 1999, "State Trading Companies, Time Consistency, Imperfect Enforceability & Reputation." The Economics of World Wheat Markets . Edited by J.M. Antle and V.H. Smith, CABI International  
Proceedings
S.R. Johnson and T.A. Melkonyan, 2000, "Report of the 11th annual meeting of the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council “World Food Security and Sustainability: The Impacts of Biotechnology and Industrial Consolidation”." Policy and Technology as Factors in Industry Consolidations.  
T.A. Melkonyan 1999, "Value of Reputation in Economic Models." Proceedings of the CSIT conference.  
Professional Papers
T.A. Melkonyan and M. Pingle, 2009, "Ambiguity, Pessimism, and Religious Choice." forthcoming in Theory and Decision.   Read More...
R.G. Chambers and T.A. Melkonyan, 2009, "Buy Low, Sell High: Price Gaps and Neoclassical Theory." forthcoming in the Journal of Mathematical Economics.   Read More...
T.A. Melkonyan and J. Schubert, 2009, "Food Safety Regulations under Ambiguity." forthcoming in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  
R.G. Chambers and T.A. Melkonyan 2009, "Regulatory Policy Design in an Uncertain World." Journal of Public Economic Theory, forthcoming.  
T.A. Melkonyan and M. Pingle, 2009, "Religion and Faith: A Decision Theory Perspective." Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, Article 3.   Read More...
R.G. Chambers and T.A. Melkonyan, 2009, "Smoothing Preference Kinks with Information." forthcoming in Mathematical Social Sciences.   Read More...
B. Hueth and T.A. Melkonyan 2009, "Standards in the Regulation of Environmental Risk." forthcoming in the Journal of Regulatory Economics.   Read More...
R.G. Chambers and T.A. Melkonyan 2008, "Eliciting Beliefs." Theory and Decision 65(4), 2008, pp. 271-284.   Read More...
R.G. Chambers and T.A. Melkonyan, 2007, "Degree of Imprecision: Geometric and Algorithmic Approaches." International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 45, pp. 106–122.   Read More...
R.G. Chambers and T.A. Melkonyan, 2007, "Pareto Optimal Trade in an Uncertain World: GMOs and the Precautionary Principle." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(2), pp. 522-538.   Read More...
T.A. Melkonyan, 2006, "Value of Reputation in the Chain-store Game with Multiple Incumbents." International Journal of Industrial Organization 24(2), pp. 425-448.   Read More...
R.G. Chambers and T.A. Melkonyan 2005, "Eliciting the Core of a Supermodular Capacity." Economic Theory 26 (1), pp. 203-210.   Read More...
T.A. Melkonyan and H. Lapan, 2005, "Tariffs, Quotas and Forward Contracts under Asymmetric Information." Review of International Economics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 311-329.   Read More...
B. Hueth and T.A. Melkonyan, 2004, "Multi-Tasking, Identity Preservation, and Contract Design in Agriculture." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86 (3), pp. 842-847.   Read More...
B. Hueth and T.A. Melkonyan, 2004, "Quality Measurement and Contract Design: Evidence from the North American Sugar Beet Industry." Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 52, pp. 165-181.   Read More...
S.R. Johnson and T.A. Melkonyan, 2003, "Strategic Behavior and Consolidation in the Agricultural Biotechnology Industry." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(1), pp. 218–235.   Read More...
B. Hueth and T.A. Melkonyan, 2003, "Voting over Efficient Decision Rules in Balanced Budget Organizations." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Vol. 51, pp. 279–301.   Read More...
M. Kilkenny and T.A. Melkonyan, 2002, "Local Fiscal Strategy to Retain Heterogeneous Firms." Journal of Regional Science , vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 753-771.   Read More...