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Applied Economics and Policy Area: Recent submissions
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Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries
Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi; Soundararajan, Vidhya (2022-09-02)The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default mod el is usually one of competitive labor markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing ... -
Economic impact assessment of public incentives to support farm-to-school food purchases
Krasnoff, Shayna M.; Schmit, Todd M.; Bilinski, Cheryl B. (2022-09-02)Farm-to-school projects have been widely supported by policy makers with funding provided at both the federal and state levels. Still, many of the outcomes of this inflow of policy and funding remain unclear. In 2018, New ... -
Higher member heterogeneity improves cooperative performance? Evidence from cooperative unions in China
Huang, Bin; Schmit, Todd M; Kong, Xiangzhi (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
Cariou, Pierre; Halim, Ronald A.; Rickard, Bradley J. (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
Cong, Lin William; Mayer, Simon (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
Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andy (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
Schmit, Todd M; Stamm, Richard; Severson, Roberta M. (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.
Schmit, T.M; Tamarkin, F.C.; Seversorn, R.M. (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
Upton, Joanna; Tennant, Elizabeth; Florella, Kathryn J.; Barrett, Christopher B. (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
Upton, Joanna; Tennant, Elizabeth; Florella, Kathryn J.; Barrett, Christopher B. (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 ...