Faculty Research Interests
A -C
- Gilad Aharonovitz - Growth of open economies, economic development, economic geography and income inequality.
- Raymond Batina- The effects of public Capital, taxation, and public goods.
- Kenneth L. Casavant - Transportation economics, freight mobility, and transportation policy. Heavily funded state and federal projects include transportation planning for all modes of people and product logistics.
- Hayley Chouinard - Consumer demand for differentiated food products, auction and lottery allocation theory, and agricultural and natural resource policy.
D - F
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G - H
- Greg Galinato - Natural resource and environmental economics and issues in development economics.
- Mark Gibson - International trade, development, and the application of general equilibrium models in these areas.
- William Hallagan - Issues in economic development.
- Susan He - Bifurcations in macroeconomic models of economic growth and macroeconomic dynamics.
- Herbert R. Hinman - The economics of crop production systems that include conventional tillage, minimum tillage, and no-till tillage. Also studies comparing conventional production systems with integrated and organic production systems.
- Ray G. Huffaker - Examines economic, ecological, and public policy issues at the interface between agriculture and the environment with mathematical optimization theory to provide the overall modeling framework.
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I - K
- Fred Inaba- Economics of organizations and transportation.
- Eric Jessup - Improving freight transportation efficiency across all modes and the spatial characteristics influencing facility location decisions for inter-modal truck/rail investments.
- Wayne Joerding - Pedagogy.
- Heather Johnson
- Patricia Kuzyk - Pedagogy and the economics of the media.
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L - M
- Jeffrey LaFrance - Agricultural Policy, Econometrics, Microeconomics, and Natural Resource Economics.
- Bidisha Mandal - Empirical applications in the field of health economics.
- Tom Marsh - Econometrics, agricultural commodity markets, and natural resource economics.
- Scott C. Matulich - Individual transferable fishing quotas (ITQs), including unanticipated problems and omitted policy considerations, regulatory expropriation and rights-based fishery management, and the role of uncertainty in ITQ management of Bristol Bay red king crab.
- Jill J. McCluskey - Product differentiation and market power in food industries, including product quality, food safety, and food labeling issues. Second focus is on environmental damage and land use issues.
- Vicki McCracken - Specialization in General Marketing and Price Analysis, Fruit Marketing, Consumption Analysis, Applied Econometrics.
- Ron C. Mittelhammer - Econometric theory with empirical applications in a variety of fields.
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N - Q
- Shannon Neibergs - Production economics of livestock industries, agribusiness and the commodity markets for livestock products.
- Mudziviri Nziramasanga - The economics of transition (changes in growth patterns and the impact of direct foreign investment on firm performance), exchange rates (purchasing power parity and the theory of one price), and self-employment (duration of self-employment).
R - S
- V. Lane Rawlins
- Robert Rosenman - Measuring efficiency and quality of care by health care institutions, and on the economic analysis of early childhood intervention programs, and disease management; statistical properties of latent variables in econometric analysis.
- C. Richard Shumway - Output supply and input demand estimation for multiple‑output producers, testing the applicability of economic theory, and predicting producer response to changes in the economic environment, government policies, and/or technology.
- Trent Smith - Economics of obesity and nutrition utilizing approaches from behavioral economics.
- Jennifer Steele - Applied microeconomics and development economics, in particular aid decisions (mechanism design and efficiency) and information economics.
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T - W
- Mykel Taylor
- Philip R. Wandschneider - Non-market valuation, water economics and policy, the economics of sustainable agriculture.
X - Z
- Jia Yan - Transportation Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics.
- Jonathan K. Yoder - Natural resource and environmental economics, policy design, and econometrics. Current research topics include the economics of wildfire risk mitigation, agricultural land use contracts, and other topics.
- Douglas L. Young - Economics of soil, water, and air quality conservation farming systems; pest control economics; economics of sustainable agriculture; and resource conservation policy.
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