Prof. Sayed Saghaian
University of Kentucky, USA

Biography:

I am currently a Professor of Food and Agribusiness Management in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. I teach an Agribusiness Management course to undergraduate seniors. This course is a capstone course for undergraduate students specializing in Agribusiness Management. I also teach an advanced version of the Agribusiness Management course for M.S. and Ph.D. students.  

My current research program concentrates on price determination of agricultural products along the marketing systems as well as the impact of food safety incidents on the food supply chain. My research focuses on market effects of food safety shocks, consumer behavior toward food safety incidents, and producers’ strategic responses to food safety events, in an environment of highly integrated monopolistically competitive agriculture and quality differentiated food industries facing frequent food safety incidents along the supply chain of agricultural products.