Marc F Bellemare, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics  

Office Location: 110 Rubenstein Hall
Email Address: marc.bellemare@duke.edu
Web Page:http://sites.google.com/site/marcfbellemare/
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.
  2. M.F. Bellemare and C.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). [papers.cfm]  [abs]
  5. M.F. Bellemare. "Insecure Land Rights and Reverse Share Tenancy in Madagascar."   (2008). [papers.cfm]  [abs]
  6. Marc F. Bellemare. "Agricultural Extension and Imperfect Supervision in Contract Farming: Evidence from Madagascar."   (January, 2009). [papers.cfm]  [abs]
  7. M.F. Bellemare. "The (Im)possibility of Reverse Share Tenancy."   (2008). [papers.cfm]  [abs]

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
Marc F. Bellemare was born in Montreal in 1976. After obtaining a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. 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., during which time he spent eight months collecting data in Madagascar and where he wrote a dissertation entitled "Three Essays on Agrarian Contracts", which won him the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2007. His fields of interest are development economics and law and economics, and he has conducted research on market participation, agrarian contracts, land use and land rights as well as risk management in developing countries, and on music piracy among college students in the United States.

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