Biography
Loren Tauer joined the faculty of Cornell SC Johnson College of Business after completing his PhD and serving as an instructor at Iowa State University. His appointment at Cornell has involved research, teaching, and extension in the areas of agricultural production and finance. His research has appeared in over 100 journal articles and he has written numerous extension bulletins and articles.
Tauer has taught the graduate course in production economics at Cornell for many years, introducing production economics knowledge to over 900 graduate students. Other courses taught include agriculture finance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, business risk analysis, international agribusiness field trips, and undergraduate econometrics. He served two separate terms as the director of graduate studies, and served as department chair of Applied Economics and Management. He was the first David J. Nolan Director of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell. He served as the editor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Review and as president of the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, where he is an honorary member and fellow.
Education
PhD Iowa State University, 1979 MS South Dakota State University, 1975 BA Southwest Minnesota State University, 1973
Research
- Aparicio, Juan; Fried, Harold; Pastor, Jesus; Tauer, Loren. "Learning to win on the PGA tour"Applied Economics. 53.53 (2021): 6104-6119
- Fried, Harold; Tauer, Loren. "Efficient Wine Pricing Using Stochastic Frontier Models"Journal of Wine Economics. 14.2 (2019): 164-1818
- Mahathanasetha, Itthipong; Tauer, Loren. "Monetary policy transmission through the bank lending channel in Thailand"Journal of Asian Economics. 60 (2019): 14-32
- Tauer, Loren. "Farmer productivity by age in the United States"International Journal of Agricultural Management. 8.2 (2019): 74-80
- Whitt, Christine; Tauer, Loren; Huson, Heather. "Bull efficiency using dairy genetic traits"PLoS ONE. 14.11 (2019): e0223436
- Lhermie, Guillaume; Wernli, Didier; Jorgensen, Peter; Kenkel, Donald; Lin Lawell, C.-Y. Cynthia; et al. "Tradeoffs Between Resistance to Antimicrobials in Public Health and Their Use in Agriculture: Moving Towards Sustainability Assessment"Ecological Economics. 166 (2019): 106427
- Verteramo Chiu, Leslie; Tauer, Loren; Smith, Rebecca; Grohn, Yrjo. "Assessment of the bovine tuberculosis elimination protocol in the United States"Journal of Dairy Science. 102.3 (2019): 2384-2400
- Lhermie, Guillaume; Tauer, Loren; Gröhn, Yrjo. "An assessment of the economic costs to the U.S. dairy market of antimicrobial use restrictions"Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 160 (2018): 63-67
- Dooley, Anne; Shadbolt, Nicola; Khatami, Koohyar; Tauer, Loren. "Application of the Adjusted Weak Axiom of Profit Maximization to New Zealand Dairy Farming"Journal of Applied Farm Economics. 1.2 (2017)
- Dressler, Johnathan; Tauer, Loren. "Estimating Expected and Unexpected Losses for Agricultural Mortgage Portfolios"American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 98.5 (2016): 1470-1485