Applied economics & policy

The applied economics and policy (AEP) area unites more than 40 Cornell SC Johnson College of Business faculty who apply rigorous economic theory and analytical methods to pressing public‑policy and business challenges at the local, national and global levels. Building on Cornell’s land‑grant mission and a century of engaged scholarship, AEP faculty are internationally recognized for expertise in food and agricultural economics; environmental, energy and resource economics; international and development economics; and real estate finance.

Faculty from the Nolan School of Hotel Administration and the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management lead undergraduate majors and minors in applied economics and management and real estate, as well as professional degree programs, including MPS programs in real estate and agricultural and life sciences. Students may also pursue M.S. and PhD degrees through the graduate field of applied economics and management, with additional training available through the Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate.

Aaron Adalja
Associate Professor; Grailer Faculty Fellowship, Center for Hospitality Research
Iwan Jaya Azis
Adjunct Professor
Christopher B. Barrett
Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management; Faculty Director of the Cornell Collaboration for International Development Economics Research
Linda Barrington
Senior Extension Associate; Associate Dean for Strategy and Societal Impact; Executive Director of Institute for Compensation Studies
Arnab Basu
Professor
Kaushik Basu
Professor
Allison Gunter Bauman
Senior Research Associate
Garrick Blalock
Associate Professor
Patrick N. Canning
Adjunct Professor
Luisa Cefalà
Assistant Professor
Nancy H. Chau
Professor
Ralph Dean Christy
Professor; Academic Director of the Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Teams/Emerging Markets Program
Jorge Luis Colón
Associate Teaching Professor; Director of Veterinary Business Education
Mark A. Constas
Professor Emeritus
Dragana Cvijanovic (on leave)
HVS Professor of Hotel Finance and Real Estate
Harry de Gorter
Professor
Chris de Mestre
Professor of Practice
Brian Dillon (on leave)
Associate Professor
Frank Ge
Senior Research Associate
Todd Gerarden (on leave)
Ruth and William Morgan Associate Professor in Applied Economics and Management
Matthew Gibson
Adjunct Associate Professor
Miguel I. Gomez
Robert G. Tobin Professor of Food Marketing; Academic Director of the Food Industry Management Program
Benjamin M. Gramig
Associate Professor
Mohammad Mainul Hoque
Research Associate
Becca Jablonski
Visiting Associate Professor
David Just
Susan Eckert Lynch Professor in Science and Business; Senior Director of Programs at the Dyson School
Ravi Kanbur
T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs
Catherine Louise Kling
Tisch University Professor
Lauri Kytömaa
Assistant Professor; Torgalkar Faculty Fellow, SC Johnson College of Business; CHR Grailer Faculty Fellow, Cornell Center for Hospitality Research
Alberto J. Lamadrid
Adjunct Associate Professor
Daniel Lebret
Associate Teaching Professor
David Edward Lee
Professor of Practice; Executive Director of the Center for Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship
Matthew Neil LeRoux
Extension Associate
Jie Li
Senior Research Associate; Director of Programs within the Food Industry Management Program
Jura Liaukonyte
Professor
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell
Associate Professor
Peng (Peter) Liu
Singapore Tourism Board Distinguished Professor in Asian Hospitality Management; Academic Director for Cornell-Peking MMH and MBA; Faculty Research Director, Cornell SC Johnson Center for Real Estate and Finance; Deputy Area Chair of the Applied Economics and Policy Area; Editor, Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management
Matthew MacLachlan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Sisi Meng
Associate Teaching Professor
Daniel Moran
Visiting Lecturer
Karlijn Morsink
Adjunct Associate Professor
Gregory Mruk
Senior Extension Associate; Executive Director of NY FarmNet
Fridah Mubichi-Kut
Professor of Practice; Executive Director of the Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Teams Program
Charles Nicholson
Adjunct Associate Professor
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
Associate Professor
Kristen Park
Senior Extension Associate
Prabhu Pingali (on leave)
Professor; Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition
Eswar Prasad
Nandlal P. Tolani Senior Professor in International Trade Policy
Daniel Quan
Robert C. Baker Professor of Real Estate
Bradley Rickard
Professor; Area Chair for Applied Economics and Policy; Co-Editor, Journal of Wine Economics
Stuart S. Rosenthal
Professor; Chair of the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate
Ivan Rudik
Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy; Director of Graduate Studies for the Cornell Field of Applied Economics and Management, PhD Program
Todd M. Schmit
Professor
Heather Schofield
Assistant Professor
Daniela Scur
Visiting Assistant Professor
Stephen Shu
Professor of Practice; Academic Director for MPS Applied Economics and Management; Academic Director for MPS CEMS Applied Economics and Management
Richard E. Stup
Senior Extension Associate
Alexei Tchistyi (on leave)
Professor
Elizabeth Tennant
Senior Research Associate
Nicole Tommell
Extension Associate
Calum Turvey
William I. Myers Professor of Agricultural Finance; Director of Graduate Studies for the Cornell Field of Applied Economics and Management, MS Program
Joanna Beth Upton
Senior Research Associate
Alex van de Minne
Visiting Assistant Professor
Christopher A. Wolf
E. V. Baker Professor of Agricultural Economics
Sarah Wolfolds
Associate Teaching Professor; Academic Director of the Grand Challenges Program; Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Dyson School
Atlas Wu
Visiting Lecturer
Bobby Yu
Visiting Lecturer
Wendong Zhang
Associate Professor
Jinhua Zhao
Professor; David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Yuqing Zheng
Adjunct Associate Professor

Emeriti

Jon Conrad
Professor Emeritus
Mark A. Constas
Professor Emeritus
Jack Corgel
Professor Emeritus
Jan deRoos
Associate Professor Emeritus
Harry M. Kaiser
Gellert Family Professor of Applied Economics and Management Emeritus
Wayne A. Knoblauch
Professor Emeritus
David R. Lee
Professor Emeritus
Crocker H. Liu
Professor Emeritus
Thomas Maloney
Senior Extension Associate Emeritus
Andrew Novakovic
E. V. Baker Professor of Agricultural Economics Emeritus
William Schulze
Professor Emeritus
Loren Tauer
Professor Emeritus
Cindy Lynn van Es
Professor of Practice Emeritus
Ray Zimmerman
Senior Research Associate Emeritus

Applied economics and policy publications

2026 publications

Shahnawaz Rafi, Joost Santos, Sisi Meng and Pallab Mozumder, “Extreme Weather Events and Critical Infrastructure Resilience: Lessons From Hurricane Irma in Florida,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 265, pt. A (2026): e111471.
Xiaorui Qu, Qinan Lu, Minghao Li and Wendong Zhang, “Broadband Internet Speed Upgrades and the Farmland Market: A Shift-Share Instrumental Variable Approach,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 108, no. 2 (2026): 566–598.

2025 publications

Christopher Barrett and Miguel I. Gómez, “Fostering Healthy, Equitable, Resilient, and Sustainable Agri-Food Value Chains,” Agricultural Economics, vol. 56, no. 3 (2025): 390–400.
Florence Becot, Allison Bauman, Jessica Crowe, Becca Jablonski and Katherine Lim, “Farm Households’ Social and Economic Needs and the Future of Agriculture: Introduction to the Symposium,” Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 42 (2025): 613–623.
Vincenzina Caputo and David Just, “Adjustments, Evidence and Political Tensions in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” Nature Food, vol. 6 (2025): 1115–1123.
Mohammad Asif Hasan Khan, Pallab Mozumder, Nafisa Halim and Sisi Meng, “Understanding Evacuation Behavior During Cyclones: Evidence From Bangladesh,” Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, vol. 9 (2025): 107–133.
Adrian Haws, David Just and Joseph Price, “Who (Actually) Gets the Farm? Intergenerational Farm Succession in the United States,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 107, no. 1 (2025): 3–26.
David Just and Gnel Gabrielyan, “On Nudging and Psychological Reactance,” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 47, no. 4 (2025): 1600–1620.
David Just and Jie Jiao, “Using Multiple Methods to Improve Validity,” European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 52, no. 5 (2025): 1142–1169.
David Just and Kent Messer, “The Behavioral Revolution in Agricultural and Resource Economics: A Perspective on the Past and the Future,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 50, no. 4 (2025): 804–829.
Julius Okello, David Just, Arjan Verschoor, Chalmers Mulwa, Mingcong Xie et al., “Behavioral Interventions in Informal Seed Systems to Nudge Sustainable Demand for Quality Seed of Sweetpotato,” Agricultural Systems, vol. 229 (2025): 104421.
Sergio Pardo-Jaramillo, Álvaro Lleó-de-Nalda, Miguel I. Gómez and Ignacio Osuna Soto, “Enhancing Corporate Sustainability Through Customer Centricity and Corporate Purpose,” Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 34, no. 4 (2025): 4853–4870.
Payal Seth and Prabhu Pingali, “Addressing Information and Credit Barriers to Making India Open Defecation Free and Improving Child Health: Evidence From a Cluster Randomized Trial in Rural India,” PLoS ONE, vol. 20, no. 2 (2025): e0318198.
Payal Seth, Bharath Chandran, Bhaskar Mittra and Prabhu Pingali, “Understanding the Determinants of Farmers’ Adoption of Artificial Insemination in Livestock: A Systematic Review,” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 60, no. 7 (2025): 68–80.
Abdyrakhman Sulaimanov, Maner Shi, Anqi Wang and Sisi Meng, “Environmental Justice Implications of Hydraulic Fracturing: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis in Texas,” Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 380 (2025): e124771.
Jing Yi, Shiyun Jiang, Dianna Tran, Miguel I. Gómez, Patrick Canning et al., “Agrifood Value Chain Employment and Compensation Shift With Structural Transformation,” Nature Food, vol. 6, no. 9 (2025): 868–880.
Li Zhou, Bei Liu, Zongzhi Liu and Jinhua Zhao, “Farmers as Prosumers: Evidence From Cadmium-Contaminated Rice in China,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 107, no. 2 (2025): 635–654.

2024 publications

Panle Barwick, Shanjun Li, Liguo Lin and Eric Zou, “From Fog to Smog: The Value of Pollution Information,” American Economic Review, vol. 114, no. 5 (2024): 1338–1381.
Allison Bauman, Becca Jablonski, D. Yeh, Lauren Chenarides and Dawn Thilmany McFadden, “Federal Economic Data on Local and Regional Food Systems,” Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 3, no. 3 (2024): 445–599.
Christopher Barrett, Miguel I. Gómez and John Hoddinott, “Food Security Dynamics in the United States, 2001–2017,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 106, no. 5 (2024): 1595–1618.
Gloria Blaise, Shorna Allred, Stephen Morreale, Genevieve Meredith, Starry Sprenkle‑Hyppolite et al., “Exploring the Scalability of Community‑Based Agroforestry to Achieve Planetary Health Benefits in Haiti’s Lower Artibonite Valley,” PLoS Climate (2024).
Ke Chen, Yazhen Gong and Jinhua Zhao, “Are Facemasks Effective Against Particulate Matter Pollution? Evidence From the Field,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 125 (2024): 103001.
Nieyan Cheng, Minghao Li, Pengfei Liu, Qianfeng Luo, Chuan Tang and Wendong Zhang, “Pipeline Incidents and Property Values,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 127 (2024): 103041.
Lauren Chenarides, Miguel I. Gómez, Timothy Richards and Koichi Yonezawa, “Retail Markups and Discount‑Store Entry,” Review of Industrial Organization, vol. 64, no. 1 (2024): 147–181.
Sean Flynn, Andra Ghent and Alexei Tchistyi, “The Imitation Game: How Encouraging Renegotiation Makes Good Borrowers Bad,” Review of Financial Studies, vol. 37, no. 12 (2024): 3648–3709.
Houtian Ge, Miguel I. Gómez and Timothy Richards, “The Effect of Price and Assortment of Local Products on Store Performance: An Agent‑Based Modeling Approach,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 75, no. 3 (2024): 981–1003.
Soumya Gupta, Payal Seth, Vidya Vemireddy and Prabhu Pingali, “Women’s Empowerment and Intra‑Household Diet Diversity Across the Urban Continuum: Evidence From India’s DHS,” Food Policy, vol. 128 (2024): 102680.
Gregory Howard, Wendong Zhang, Adriana Valcu‑Lisman and Philip Gassman, “Evaluating the Tradeoff Between Cost Effectiveness and Participation in Agricultural Conservation Programs,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 106, no. 2 (2024): 712–738.
Jie Li, W. Gonzalez, E. Monterrosa, Miguel I. Gómez and C. Nicholson, “Choice Experiments and Value‑Chain Modeling of Attribute Improvements to Increase Vegetable Consumption in Kenya,” Food Policy, vol. 127 (2024): 102682.
Sisi Meng, “Environmental Governance Is Critical for Mitigating Human Displacement Due to Weather‑Related Disasters,” Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 5 (2024): 363.
Sisi Meng, Nafisa Halim, Mahesh Karra and Pallab Mozumder, “Understanding Household Evacuation Preferences During the COVID‑19 Pandemic in Puerto Rico,” Safety Science, vol. 171 (2024): e106405.
Sisi Meng and Zhanaiym Kozybay, “A Spatial‑Temporal Analysis of Income Inequality and Wind Energy Development in the U.S.,” World Development Sustainability, vol. 4 (2024): e100129.
Chandra Nuthalapati, Ashok Mishra, Prabhu Pingali and Thomas Reardon, “Determinants and Income Effects of Small Farmers Selling to Supermarkets Versus Traditional Market Channels in Four Regions of India,” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 59, nos. 44–45 (2024): 60–67.
M. Occelli, R. Mukerjee, C. Miller, J. Porciello, Sergio Puerto et al., “A Scoping Review on Tools and Methods for Trait Prioritization in Crop Breeding Programmes,” Nature Plants, vol. 10 (2024): 402–411.
Raghav Puri and Prabhu Pingali, “Reducing the True Cost of Food‑Based Safety Nets: Evidence From India’s Subsidized Food Program,” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, no. 6 (2024): 064041.
Andaleeb Rahman and Prabhu Pingali, The Future of India’s Social Safety Nets: Focus, Form, and Scope, Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, edited by Christopher Barrett (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Luca Rigotti, Matthew LeRoux and Todd Schmit, “Increasing Customer Purchases at Farmers Markets Using Point‑of‑Sale Scanner Data,” Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 3, no. 1 (2024): 61–77.
Joost Santos, Sisi Meng and Pallab Mozumder, “Integrating Household Survey With Inoperability Input–Output Model of Critical Infrastructure Systems: A Case Study of Hurricane Sandy,” Risk Analysis, vol. 44, no. 7 (2024): 1716–1729.
Payal Seth and Prabhu Pingali, “Did the 2020 COVID‑19 Lockdown Reverse the Nutritional Gains in Children? Evidence From Primary Panel Data in Rural India,” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 59, no. 5 (2024).
Eva Steiner, Alexei Tchistyi, “Distortionary Effects of PPP Loans on Business Competition,” Journal of Financial Intermediation, vol. 59 (2024): e101099.
Emily Urban Cordeiro, Arindam Samaddar, Sugandha Munshi, Anurag Ajay, David Rossiter et al., “Transitions to Crop Residue Burning Have Multiple Antecedents in Eastern India,” Agronomy for Sustainable Development, vol. 44, no. 59 (2024).