August 21, 2015
The department is pleased to welcome John Crespi to the staff. John comes from the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University and will join our department as a tenured full professor.
John's research interests focus on industrial organization and product differentiation issues in food and agriculture, including such specific topics as commodity promotion and advertising, food safety regulations, food labeling, and the competitive structure of markets. He will teach our senior-level agricultural finance course.
His wife, Tracy Turner, also an economist, will come to Iowa State as an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance.
Contact John at 369 Heady Hall, 294-1699, jcrespi@iastate.edu.