Today I received my copy of Volume 2 of the Handbook of the Economics of Wine, edited by Orley Ashenfelter, Olivier Gergaud, Karl Storchmann and William Ziemba. Volume 2 contains chapters (essay, papers) regarding re
putation, regulation, and market organization issues in the global wine industry. It includes a paper I published with a former MS/JD student, Gina Riekhof, on “Politics, Economics, and the Regulation of Direct Interstate Shipping in the Wine Industry“, which originally appeared in the May 2005 issue of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
The Handbook of the Economics of Wine is actually Volume 6 of the “World Scientific Handbook in Financial Economics Series”, and includes two volumes of its own. Volume 1, a copy of which I did not receive, is focused on issues of price, financing, and expert opinions. Not sure I’m going to shell out the cost to have Volume 1 on the shelf. But it does look like an interesting collection of articles. The Handbook has been a long time in the making. It’s nice to see it finally in print. Nice work, editors all.