The 17th annual conference will take place on June 9-12, 2010, in Palermo. The call for papers is available at http://www.vdqs.net/2010Palermo/uk. Please submit paper proposals by January 28. For further information, see Gastronometrica (http://www.gastronometrica.org) and the European Association of Wine Economists, http://www.EuAWE.org.

The fourth annual meeting of AAWE took place at UC Davis. Three presentations were awarded the Christopher Baron Prize for outstanding acievements:

The prize was awarded to:
• Jing Cao and Lynne Stokes (Southern Methodist University) for "Evaluation of Wine Judge Performance through Three Characteristics: Bias Discrimination and Variation"
• Magali Delmas (UCLA) for "Consumers' Responses to Wine"
• Bernd Frick (University of Padeborn) for "The Impact of Individual and Collective Reputation on Wine Prices: Empirical Evidence from the Mosel Valley"

The third annual meeting of AAWE took place on June 18-20, 2009 in Reims, France.

The Christophe Baron Prize (six bottles of Cayuse Syrah) for the best paper went (in equal parts) to
• Coco Krumme (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "A Nose by any Other Name: Descriptions as Signals for Wine Price"
• Carlos Ramirez, (George Mason University), "Do Words Add Value? The Effects of Wine Descriptions on Prices: Evidence from Napa"
• Patricia "Alex" Robinson (Whitman College), "Exchange Rate Pass-Through to UJ.S. Import Prices. Evidence from the Wine Market"
Announcing the 2009 Meetings of VDQS

The 16th annual conference will take place on May 21-23, 2009, in Namur. This meeting is organised by the European Association of Wine Economists - EuAWE ( http://www.EuAWE.org), the Vineyard Data Quantification Society - VDQS (http://www. vdqs.net) and Gastronometrica ( http://www.gastronometrica.org ). More information is available at http://www.vdqs.net/2009Namur. For the program, click here.

At the Second Annual Conference of AAWE, the following honors were awarded:
• The Maynard Amerine award for service to the American Association of Wine Economists to Mellie Pullman of Portland State University
• The Christophe Baron award for outstanding research presented at the meeting of the AAWE to Robert Hodgson, Humboldt State University and Peter Roberts, Emory University

The Conference was held in Portland, OR, August 14-16, 2008 in conjunction with the Association of Food Economists..

At the 2008 Meetings of VDQS, the following prizes were awarded for papers
• The Banyuls-Collioure Award was awarded to Matteo Gallizzi and his co-authors for the following papers: "Vines Portfolio Under Uncertainty and Irreversibility"; "Experts, Conformity and Peer Pressure in Food and Wine Tasting: An Experimental Analysis"; "An Identification Problem: Economists at a Wine-Tasting Experiment"; "For a Few Glasses More: An Inquiry Into the Determinants of Quality Awards to Italian Wines."
• The CIVR Award to Krista Duniach for the paper "How Young Consumers Perceive Wine: A French-American Comparison," and to Kim Bok-Rae for the paper "Korean Wine History."
• The Liquid Assets Prize to Pierre Combris and Erick Giraud-Heraud for all the work they have presented in all Oenometrics meetings, and in particular for the paper "Willingness to Pay for Appellation of Origin: Results of an Experiment in France and Germany."

The 2008 Meetings took place in Collioure (France), on May 28-30.

At the 2007 Meetings of VDQS, the following prizes were awarded for papers:
• The Liquid Assets Prize of the AAEW/VDQS was awarded to Peter Roberts (Emory University) for "Critical Exposure and P-Q Relationships for New World Wine in the US Market"
• The AAWE Prize was awarded to Paolo Buonanno (University of Bergamo)and Paolo Vanin (University of Padova) for "Bowling Alone, Drinking Together"
• The VDQS Prize was awarded to Carole Maurel (University of Avignon) for "Determinants of Export Performance in SME's: The Case of the French Wine Industry"
• The François Rabelais Award of SQG was awarded to George E. Johnson (University of Michigan) for "Petit-Déjeuner Compris: Is It Free?"
At the 2006 Meetings of VDQS, the following prize was awarded for papers:
• The Liquid Assets Prize was awarded to Jan Bentzen and Valdemar Smith (Aarhus School of Economics, Denmark) for "Did the U.S. Boycott of French and German Wines Have Any Effects?"
At the 2005 Meetings of VDQS, three prizes were awarded for papers:
• The Vérone d'Oenométrie-Domini Veneti Prize was awarded to Maurizio (Ciasco) Ciaschini (University of Macerata) for "Wine within Interindustry Interactions," to Michele Cincela (Université Libre de Bruxelles) for "Science and Technology Development in the Vineyards: Linking Area of S&T Production to Comparative Advantages in Trade Performance," and to Pierre Combris (INRA, France) for "Willingness to Pay for 'Appellation of Origin' in the World Chardonnay War: An Experimental Study."
• The Local (Macerata) Prize was awarded to Laetitia Garcia (Université d'Avignon) for "Les produits climatiques: de outils de gestion des risques agricoles?"
• The Liquid Assets Prize was awarded to Andrea Morrison (Universitá di Piemonte Orientale) for "Knowledge Dissemination and Informal Contacts in an Italian Wine Local System"

At the 2004 Meetings of VDQS, three prizes were awarded for papers:

• The Vérone d'Oenométrie-Domini Veneti Prize was awarded to Silvia Gatti (University of Bologna) and Frederico Maroni (Italy) for "A profile of wine tourists in some Italian region vineyards: an application of the multiple correspondence analysis"
• The Burgundy Prize was awarded to Gregory W. Jones (Souther Oregon University), Michael White (Utah State University) and Owen Cooper (University of Colorado) for "Climate change and global wine quality and production"
• The Liquid Assets Prize was awarded to Michaël Visser (INRA–France) for "The impact of gurus: Parker grades and en primeur wine prices," with Héla Jadj Ali (INRA) and Sébastien Lecocq (INRA)

At the 2003 Meetings of VDQS, three prizes were awarded for papers:

• The Vérone d'Oenométrie-Domini Veneti Prize was awarded to Carol Doucet (ENITA de Bordeaux and Université de Bordeaux IV) for a paper entitled "Espaces viticoles, espaces ruraux, espaces périphériques? Les dynamiques spatiales de l’économie viticole de Bordeaux" and to Günter Schamel (Humboldt University, Berlin) for "A dynamic analysis of regional and producer reputation for California wine"
• The Liquid Assets Prize was awarded to O. A. Kym Anderson (University of Adelaide) for a paper (jointly with D. Wood) "What determines the future value of an icon wine? Evidence from Australia"
• The Vinum Hungarorum Prize was awarded to Simone Müller (University of Dresden) for the paper "The German wine law from an information economics point of view"

At the 2002 Meetings of VDQS, three prizes were awarded for papers:

• The Vérone d'Oenométrie-Domini Veneti Prize was awarded to Héla Hadj Ali for a paper entitled "Vente en primeur et investissement: une étude sur les grands crus de Bordeaux"
• The Ville de Montpellier Prize was awarded to Florence Livat for a paper entitled "Vins de Bordeaux: où sont les marchés"
• The Liquid Assets Prize was awarded to Karl Storchman for a paper entitled "Asymetric information and markets in transition: vineyard auctions in the Mosel valley after the French Revolution"



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