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Research and Extension Seminars

Dyson School Distinguished Seminar Series

The Dyson School Distinguished Seminar Series provides seven School-wide seminars a year, bringing distinguished academics and practitioners nominated by the faculty to speak on contemporary topics related to the four program areas of the Dyson School: Food and Agricultural Economics, Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, and International and Development Economics. The seminars are targeted toward a graduate-level audience, addressing contemporary research and policy issues.

Related Seminar Series

Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development (CIIFAD)

Cornell System Dynamics Network (CSDNet)

David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Economics Department Seminar Series

Applied Microeconomics Workshop

2013 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Topic
2/15	Robert Ready Univ. of Rochester	Oil Prices and the Stock Market
2/18	Sofia Kotsiri North Carolina State Univ.	Farmers' Perceptions about Spatial Yield Variability and Precision Technology Adoption
2/20	Shady Atallah Cornell Univ.	An Agent-Based Computational Bioeconomic Model of Plant Disease Diffusion and Control: Grapevine Leafroll Disease
2/21	Deborah Prentice Howard Univ.	Explanation of Two Topics in the Accounting Vocabulary: Depreciation and Product Margin
2/25	Anton Bekkerman Montana State Univ.	A Semi-Parametric Approach to Analyzing Differentiated Agricultural Products
2/26	Donald May Northeastern Univ.	Allocating Indirect Costs
3/1	Travis Lybbert University of California, Davis	Leveling with Friends: Social Networks and Indian Farmers' Demand for Agricultural Custom Hire Services
3/6	Thomas Maloney Cornell Univ.	Prospects for Immigration Reform and the Implications for Agriculture
4/3	Brad Rickard Cornell Univ.	University Licensing of Patents for Varietal Innovations in Agriculture
4/19	Andrew Levin Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund	Labor Force Participation and Monetary Policy in the Wake of the Great Recession
5/1	Gerald B. White Cornell Univ.	Development of the Grape and Wine Industry in New York, 1975-2012
5/8	Joachim Henkel TU Munich School of Management and Harvard Business School	Productive Assets or Quality Signals? The Role of Patents and Alliances in Venture-Capital Financing
5/14	Jura Liaukonyte Cornell Univ.	Television Advertising Content and Internet Traffic
5/20	Laura Taylor North Carolina State University	Randomized Safety Inspections and Risk Exposure on the Job: Quasi-experimental Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life
5/23	Y. Peter Chung A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California	Is Herding Priced in the Market? An Analysis of Systematic Order Imbalances of Stocks
5/29	David Lee Cornell Univ.	Agriculture, Development and Environment

2012 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Topic
2/1	Shady S. Atallah Cornell Univ.	Economic Impact of Grapevine Leafroll Disease on Vitis vinifera cv. Cabernet franc in Finger Lakes Vineyards of New York
2/17	Shanta Devarajan World Bank	Avoiding the Fragility Trap in Africa
2/23	Charles H. Cuykendall Cornell Univ.	Federal and New York State Income Tax Updates
3/9	Christian A. Vossler University of Tennessee	Truth in Consequentiality: Theory and Field Evidence on Discrete Choice Experiments
3/13	Jubo Yan Cornell Univ.	How do People Insure Against Hazard: Public or Private
3/13	Yu Qin Cornell Univ.	Counties Left Behind: The Distributional Impact of High-Speed Rail Upgrade in China
3/14	Brian M. Henehan Cornell Univ.	The Role of Cooperative Businesses in Transferring Technology
3/14	Leah Bevis Cornell Univ.	Decomposing Intergenerational Income Elasticity: The Contribution of Capital Transmission in the Philippines
3/14	Lin Sun Cornell Univ.	Distribution Channel Choice of Start-Up Wineries in Cool Climate Regions
3/14	Yiwei Wang Cornell Univ.	Production Possibility Frontier of Automobile Attributes and the Trade-Offs in the U.S. Automobile Industry
3/14	Soumya Gupta Cornell Univ.	Interactions Between National and International Rice Prices in Select Asian Countries: 2000-2011
3/15	Teevrat Garg Cornell Univ.	Market Prices and Food Aid Local and Regional Procurement: A Multi-Country Analysis
3/15	Yan Qu Cornell Univ.	Self-selection and Distribution of Wages
3/30	Aaron K. Chatterji Duke Univ.	Do the Costs of Cooperation Drive the Gale of Creative Destruction?: Commercialization Strategies in the Medical Device Industry
4/16	Aija Leiponen Cornell Univ.	Innovating Standards Through Informal Industry Consortia: The Case of Wireless Telecommunications
4/20	Jonathan Zinman Dartmouth College, NBER	Borrowing High vs. Borrowing Higher: Sources and Consequences of Dispersion in Individual Borrowing Costs
4/25	Jonathan Dressler Cornell Univ.	An Estimate of Socioemotional Wealth in the Family Business
5/3	Peter Cappers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	The Potential Role of Demand Response in the Management of Variable Generation from Wind and Solar Sources
5/16	Gerald White Cornell Univ.	Trends in the Production Costs and Marketing of Vinifera Grapes in the Finger Lakes
6/12	Hasim Ozudogru Gazi University, Turkey	An Introduction to the Agricultural Economy and Agricultural Cooperative Structures in Turkey
9/17	Christopher Timmins Duke Univ.	Do People Really Come to the Nuisance? Environmental Justice and the Role of Residential Mobility
10/4	Roberta Severson Cooperative Enterprise Program	Cooperatives: Democracy and Economy in Action, Celebrating the International Year of the Cooperative
10/5	Sir Partha Dasgupta St. Johns College, Univ. of Cambridge	Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth
10/22	Yasushi Taira Cornell Univ.	Effect of World Bank's Traffic Light System on International Financial Flow to Low Income Countries
11/7	Daniel L. Welch Cornell Univ.	Ensuring NY FarmLink Can Meeting the Challenge of Farm Asset and Management Transfers
11/16	Julian Alston University of California, Davis	Agricultural R&D, Productivity, and Poverty: Recent Global Trends and Emerging Implications

2011 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Topic
1/17	Koichiro Ito Univ. of California, Berkeley	Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing
1/19	Chirantan Chatterjee Carnegie Mellon Univ.	Regulation and Welfare: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry
1/20	Khin Mar Cho & Donald Tobias Cornell Univ.	Food Industry Direct Marketing: Electronic Infrastructure New York MarketMaker
1/20	Shanjun Li Resources for the Future	Evaluating "Cash-for-Clunkers": Program Effect on Auto Sales, Jobs and the Environment
1/21	Joel Blit George Washington Univ.	Learning Remotely: R&D Satellites, Intra-Firm Networks, and Knowledge Sourcing
1/25	Sharon Poczter Univ. of California, Berkeley	The Long-Term Effects of a Bank Bailout Program: Evidence from an Emerging Market
2/3	Martin Kanz Harvard Univ.	Bank Structure and Entrepreneurial Finance
2/7	Dhruv N. Sharma Stanford Univ.	Raising U.S. Residential Insulation Levels: Incentives or Regulation?
3/4	Maureen Cropper Univ. of Maryland	Getting Cars off the Road: The Cost-Effectiveness of an Episodic Pollution Control Program
3/10	Mark Constas Cornell Univ.	Randomized Field Trials in Applied Settings: The Identification of Causal Mechanisms and the Importance of Productive Counterfactuals
3/11	Paul Ferraro Georgia State Univ.	Conservation Without Prices: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment Testing Norm-Based Strategies
3/16	Miguel Gomez Cornell Univ.	Localization of Food Supply Chains: Lessons, Issues and Research Needs
4/1	James Foster George Washington Univ.	Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
4/6	Todd Schmit Cornell Univ.	Impact of Canopy Management Practices on Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Riesling Wines
4/22	Michael Anderson Univ. of California, Berkeley	Vehicle Weight, Highway Safety, and Energy Policy
4/27	Andrew Novakovic Cornell Univ.	Lessons in Market Analysis and Policy Development from Research on Milk Price Volatility
4/29	Jonathan Morduch New York Univ.	Microfinance and Social Investment
5/2	Dawn Schrader Cornell Univ.	The Psychological Cost of Privacy
9/8	Michal Moore Univ. of Calgary	Competitive Integration of Renewable Energy in Electric Grid Operation
9/16	Carol Graham Univ. of Maryland	Does More Money Make You Happier? Why So Much Debate?
9/21	Thomas Maloney Cornell Univ.	Hispanic Workers in the Dairy Industry: Addressing Immigration Enforcement and Policy Changes
10/14	Xi Chen Cornell Univ.	Identification of Stigma Behavior through Social Networks: Blood Plasma Donation, Peer Effects and Status Seeking
10/21	Chris Barrett, Ravi Kanbur, Steve Kyle Cornell Univ.	Dyson Research on Africa
10/26	Deborah Streeter Cornell Univ.	Sharing Best Practices Through Digital Stories
11/18	Alan Krupnick Resources for the Future	Shale Gas Promises and Challenges
11/22	Reed Walker Columbia Univ.	The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce
11/29	Nicholas J. Sanders Stanford University	Toxic Assets: How the Housing Market Responds to Environmental Information Shocks
12/2	John Taber Cornell Univ.	Mapping Energy Futures: An Integrated Economic, Engineering and Environmental Approach to Electric Power
12/6	Jill McCluskey Washington State Univ.	Reputations and Neighbors: Understanding Markets for Wine

2010 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Topic
1/19	Daniel Egel Univ. of California-Berkeley	Tribal Diversity, Political Patronage and the Yemeni Decentralization Experiment
1/29	Michael Roberts North Carolina State Univ.	Econometric Analysis of the Demand and Supply of Calories
2/1	Nishith Prakash Dartmouth College	The Impact of Employment Quotas on the Economic Lives of Disadvantaged Minorities in India
2/4	Scott Yonker Ohio State Univ.	Geography and the Market for CEOs
2/9	Andrew Novakovic Cornell Univ.	Assessing Price Volatility in Dairy Markets
2/9	Jan de Leeuw International Livestock Research Institute	A Review of Options to Reduce Vulnerability in Pastoral Systems
2/11	Edith Liu Univ. of Pennsylvania	Diversifying Credit Risk with International Corporate Bonds
2/16	Sara Holland Univ. of California-Berkeley	Health Capital, Firm Investment, and Shareholder Value
2/18	Michael Michaux Univ. of Pennsylvania	Pass-through, Exposure, and the Currency Composition of Debt
2/19	Ian Parry Resources for the Future	Do Energy Efficiency Standards Increase Social Welfare?
2/26	Scott Rozelle Stanford Univ.	Nutrition and Education in Rural China: Explaining the Human Capital Gap Between Rural and Urban Students
3/2	Scott Rozelle Stanford Univ.	Technology, Markets and Battling Unemployment: Can China Survive and Thrive in the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond?
3/3	Robert Boynton Cornell Univ.	Industry-Land Grant University Interface: What’s Changed, What’s Not and So What? A Dairy Perspective
3/12	James Hansen Columbia Univ.	The CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Challenge Program: Adaptation Pathways Based on Managing Current Climate Risk
3/19	Brent Hueth Univ. of Wisconsin	The Producer Cooperative as Monitored Credit
3/31	Chunchi Wu Univ. of Missouri-Columbia	Price Discovery in the U.S. Treasury Market: Automation versus Intermediation
4/2	Meredith Fowlie Univ. of California-Berkeley	Allocating Emissions Permits in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Theory and Evidence
4/7	Todd Schmit Cornell Univ.	Assessing Food and Beverage Manufacturing Growth in New York State
4/7	Hans Walter Chua William Tomek Cornell Univ.	On the Relationship of Expected Supply and Demand to Future Prices
4/28	Shinoj Parappurathu	Overview of Biofuel Development in India
4/30	Hugo De Groote	Pro-Poor Market Segmentation: A Randomized Experiment with Maize Seed Vouchers in Kenya
5/26	Catherine McNally, Emi Uchidabb, Arthur Golda Univ. of Rhode Island	Sustaining Mangrove Ecosystem Services Through a Protected Area: Can Giving Up Short-Run Gains from Natural Capital Avoid a Long-Run Poverty Trap?
9/15	Brad Rickard Cornell Univ.	Using Experimental Economics to Better Understand Consumer Response to Commodity-Specific and Broad-Based Promotion Programs for Fruits and Vegetables
9/22	Thomas Hertel Purdue Univ.	Climate Change, Agriculture and Poverty
9/23	Xiaobo Zhang International Food Policy Research Inst. (IFPRI)	The Sexual Foundations of Economic Growth: Evidence from China
10/27	Charles F. Nicholson California Polytechnic State Univ.	Impacts of Proposed Programs to Mitigate Price Volatility in the US Dairy Industry
11/9	Abdoul Sam Ohio State Univ.	Impact of Pension Privatization on Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America
11/10	Jonah Busch Conservation International	Climate and Revenue Benefits of Policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation in Indonesia
11/11	Joshua Woodard Texas A&M Univ	Impacts of Weather and Time Horizon Selection on Crop Insurance Ratemaking: A Conditional Distribution Approach
11/16	Ashok Mishrad Louisiana State University and LSUAg Center	Asset Value, Rents, and Policy Benefits: The Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies
11/19	Ravi Kanbur, Cornell Univ. Nishith Prakash, Cornell Univ. Rod Hawkes, Cornell Univ. Annemie Maertens	India Symposium
12/1	Brian Henehan Cornell Univ.	eXtension: Innovative Online Outreach
12/8	Maria Tereza Alexandre Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Cultural Aspects of International Marketing
12/20	Sudha Narayanan Cornell Univ.	Contract Farming as Frictional Equilibria: An Empirical Investigation of Select Schemes in Southern India

2009 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Topic
1/23	Jayson Lusk Oklahoma State Univ.	Bridging the Gap Between Laboratory Experiments and Naturally Occurring Markets: An Inferred Valuation Method
2/10	Ankur Pareek Yale School of Mgmt.	Information Networks: Implications for Mutual Fund Trading Behavior and Stock Returns
2/11	Todd Schmit Cornell Univ.	Extension Seminar: Real Option Analysis of Ethanol Plant Development
2/11	Yan Li Cornell Univ.	Underconditioning and Overconditioning: Testing the Conditional CAPM and the Conditional Fama-French Three-Factor Model
2/12	Bo Sun Univ. of Virginia	Asset Returns with Earnings Management
2/17	Darwin Choi Yale School of Mgmt.	Omitted Markets, Idiosyncratic Risk, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
2/27	William Horrace Syracuse Univ.	The Value of Statistical Life: Pursuing the Deadliest Catch
3/27	David Levine Univ. of California-Berkeley	Choose and Use: Preliminary Results on How Behavioral Decision-Making and Experience Affect Households' Preferences for and Use of Safe Water Products
4/8	NY FarmNet & NY FarmLink Team Cornell Univ.	Extension Seminar: Putting Non-Production Practices to Work at NY FarmNet
4/10	Daniel Kaffine Colorado School of Mines	The Windy Commons?
4/24	Lucas Davis Univ. of Michigan	International Trade in Used Durable Goods: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA
5/6	Andrew Feltenstein National Science Foundation	High Growth and Low Consumption in East Asia: How to Improve Welfare While Avoiding Financial Failures
5/15	James Choi Yale School of Management	The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions
6/26	Chandra Shekhar Kumar Cornell Univ.	Credit Rationing and the Economics of Informal Lending: Theoretical Results and Econometric Inferences Using the Household Surveys of China and India
9/04	Roberton C. Williams III Univ. of Maryland	Distribution, Distortionary Taxation, and the Evaluation of Public Goods
09/17	Elinor Ostrom Indiana Univ.	Collective Action and the Commons: What Have We Learned? (University Lecture Co-Sponsored by AEM)
09/18	Ravi Kanbur, Calum Turvey, & Nancy Chau Cornell University Xiaobo Zhan IFPRI	China Symposium
10/2	A. Mushfiq Mobarak Yale Univ.	Development Effects of Electrification: Evidence from the Geologic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil
10/14	David Lee Cornell Univ.	Building Response Strategies to Climate Change in Agricultural Systems in Latin America
10/20	Brent Gloy Cornell Univ.	The Potential for Adoption of Anaerobic Digestion on U.S. Dairy Farms
10/21	David Colman Univ. of Manchester	Agriculture’s Terms of Trade: Issues and Implications
11/6	Peter Sandøe Univ. of Copenhagen	What Economists Can Do For Animal Welfare
11/18	Brian Henehan Cornell Univ.	Assessing the Educational Needs of Priority Extension Audiences
11/20	Betty Daniel Univ. of Albany-SUNY	Private Sector Risk and Financial Crisis in Emerging Markets
12/16	Brad Rickard Cornell Univ.	Distributional Effects of Introducing Wine into Grocery Stores