Marc F Bellemare, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics  

Office Location: 110 Rubenstein Hall
Email Address: marc.bellemare@duke.edu
Note:On leave during the 2009-2010 academic year.

Areas of Expertise

  • International, Applied Economics

Education:
Ph.D. (Applied Economics), Cornell University, 2006
M.Sc. (Economics), Universite de Montreal, 2001
B.Sc., Universite de Montreal, 1999

Current projects: Sharecropping, Contract Farming, Price Risk, Applied Contract Theory

Research Description: There are four main axes to my research.

The first axis has to do with agrarian contracts. As such, I am working on land tenancy contracts and the institution of contract farming.

The second axis has to with contract theory per se. As such, I am working at the frontier of contract theory and applied contract theory to develop new empirical tests and estimation methods to study contracts.

The third axis has to do with price risk aversion and the welfare effects of price fluctuations on individuals and households in developing countries. As such, I am working on an entire research agenda pertaining to price risk aversion.

The fourth axis has to do with development economics in general. As such, I am working on issues of market participation and agricultural productivity.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. M.F. Bellemare. "Sharecropping, Insecure Land Rights, and Land Titling Policies: A Case Study of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar." Development Policy Review 29.1 (2009): 87-106. [papers.cfm]  [abs]
  2. Bellemare, Marc F., and Christopher B. Barrett. "An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88.2 (2006): 324-337.
  3. Barrett, Christopher B., Marc F. Bellemare, and Sharon M. Osterloh. "Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists." Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. Ed. John McPeak and Peter D. Little Warwickshire, UK: ITDG Publishing, 2006: 15-38.
  4. M.F. Bellemare, C.B. Barrett, Z.S. Brown, and D.R. Just. "Household Attitudes to Price Risk with Multiple Commodities: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia."   (December, 2008).  [abs]
  5. M.F. Bellemare and Z.S. Brown. "On the (Mis)Use of Wealth as a Proxy for Risk Aversion."   (November, 2008). [papers.cfm]  [abs]
  6. C.B. Barrett, M.F. Bellemare, and J.Y. Hou. "Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship."   (January, 2008). [papers.cfm]  [abs]
  7. M.F. Bellemare. "Insecure Land Rights and Reverse Share Tenancy in Madagascar."   (2008). [papers.cfm]  [abs]
  8. Marc F. Bellemare. "Agricultural Extension and Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar."   (January, 2009). [papers.cfm]  [abs]
  9. Marc F. Bellemare. "Testing between Competing Theories of Reverse Share Tenancy."   (July, 2007).  [abs]
  10. M.F. Bellemare. "The (Im)possibility of Reverse Share Tenancy."   (2008). [papers.cfm]  [abs]

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
Marc F. Bellemare was born in Montréal (Québec), Canada, in 1976. After obtaining a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. (Economics) from the Université de Montréal, he spent four months working at the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a specialized agency of the United Nations in Rome, Italy.

He then attended Cornell University for his Ph.D., where he wrote a dissertation on agrarian contracts. His fields of interest are agricultural economics, development microeconomics, and applied contract theory, and he has conducted research on the market participation of agricultural households, on agrarian contracts, on the price risk preferences of households, and on the econometrics of contracts.

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