Xiaoli Etienne

Professor of Applied Economics and Idaho Wheat Commission Bill Flory Endowed Chair in Risk Management, University of Idaho

Xiaoli Etienne

Professor of Applied Economics and Idaho Wheat Commission Bill Flory Endowed Chair in Risk Management

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho

email: xetienne at uidaho dot edu· +1 208 885 0133·

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Xiaoli Etienne

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I am a Professor of Applied Economics and the Idaho Wheat Commission Bill Flory Endowed Chair in Risk Management at the University of Idaho. My research focuses on risk management, price analysis and forecasting, and futures and options markets, with additional work in applied econometrics, consumer marketing, and policy analysis.

I earned my Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013, with a dissertation on bubbles in agricultural futures markets under the direction of Dr. Scott Irwin and Dr. Phil Garcia.

My work has appeared in journals including Nature Communications, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Food Policy, World Development, Energy Economics, and the Journal of Futures Markets, and has been covered by various media outlets. As principal or co-principal investigator I have received over $4.4 million in funded research, including support from USDA NIFA, USDA ERS, and the National Science Foundation.

Before joining the University of Idaho in 2021, I was on the faculty at West Virginia University and worked as a consultant for the World Bank Group. I hold adjunct appointments at Washington State University and West Virginia University. In 2025 I was named an Idaho 500 honoree by the Idaho Business Review.

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