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Applied Economics and Policy Area: Recent submissions
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Higher member heterogeneity improves cooperative performance? Evidence from cooperative unions in China
(2022)This paper constructs a new conceptual framework around the impacts of member heterogeneity on cooperative union (federated cooperative) performance considering both a union’s capital factor structure and its service link ... -
Ship-owner response to carbon taxes: Industry and environmental implications
(2022-05-10)We consider the effects of a maritime bunker levy on ship-owner profits, trade, and emissions. Standard and augmented gravity models are employed using data from 2016 to estimate the impact of a change in transit time ... -
The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies
(2022-03-15)We model the dynamic global competition among national fat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in which the strength of a country and of its currency are mutually reinforcing. The rise ... -
The Global Inequality Boomerang
(2022-03-15)In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a ‘sunshine’ narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be ... -
Engaged Learning: Mutual benefits for course instruction and Extension program delivery
(2022-01-31)Engaged learning projects can effectively complement Extension programming goals and course learning objectives that enrich the outcomes for both components. A cooperative business management class at Cornell University ... -
Differential Economics Impacts for Cooperative Business Structures: Am Application to Farmer-Owned Cooperatives in New York State.
(2021-12)A comprehensive economic impact assessment using input-output methods is developed to account for localized spending activities and distributions of residual earning to member owners by cooperatives. The framework is ... -
A Comparative Assessment of Resilience Measurement Approaches
(2021-09)As development and humanitarian agencies increasingly advance the objective of 'building resilience', three resilience measurement methods have come into especially widespread use: the Resilience Indicators for Measurement ... -
Household Resilience, and Rural Food Systems: Evidence from Southern and Eastern Africa
(2021-09)Resilience offers a useful lens for studying how human well-being and the systems on which it depends can absorb and recover from a range of shocks and stressors, including events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking ... -
Food Security Dynamics in the United States, 2001-2017
(2021-11)This paper studies household food security dynamics in the United States from 2001 to 2017. We introduce a new measure, the probability of food security (PFS), the estimated probability that a household’s food expenditures ... -
The Pro-Trade Bias of Offshoring
(2021-09)Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide, where a typical scene following the supply chain involves developing countries importing finished ...
