Rate My Professor Jason Franken

Franken's research is interdisciplinary, drawing from economics, marketing, and decision sciences to examine how agricultural markets are organized—including through transactions, contracts, and cooperatives—to add value and manage risk, with implications for market performance and policy. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles on topics such as cooperative governance, hedging strategies, and agribusiness organization. Notable publications include 'Why are there fewer and fewer cooperatives in the agricultural sector? A survival analysis within a competing risk framework' (2024), 'Hedging behavior of agribusiness cooperatives and investor-owned firms in Germany' (2023), 'Revisiting biodiesel hedging' (2023), 'New generation cooperatives: what we know and need to learn' (2023), and co-editing the 'Handbook of Research on Cooperatives and Mutuals' (2023). Franken has received awards for teaching excellence and instructs courses such as ABM 3183: The Economics of the Food, Fiber and Fuel Supply Chain and ABM 4972: Agri-Food Business and Cooperative Management. He is currently accepting new graduate advisees.