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| Marc F Bellemare, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics
There are three main axes to my research, all pertaining to developing countries.
The first has to do with the use of contracts in developing countries. More specifically, I am interested in testing the implications of contract theory using microeconomic data. As such, I have worked and am working on sharecropping contracts and on the use of monitoring as a means to reduce information asymmetries in contract farming in Madagascar.
The second has to do with the market participation of households. Agricultural households are both consumption and production units. They can thus be net buyers of given commodities, autarkic with respect to them, or net sellers of them. More specifically, I am interested in what determines the nature and extent of household market participation. As such, I have worked on livestock markets in Eastern Africa and am working on
The third has to do with price risk aversion and the welfare effects of price fluctuations on agricultural households and firms in developing countries. Economic theory states that certain agents will be price risk-averse while others will remain price risk-neutral, and others still will be price risk-loving. As such, I am working on a whole new research agenda pertaining to price risk aversion along with co-authors Chris Barrett and David Just.
- Contact Info:
Teaching (Fall 2012):
- PUBPOL 303D.002, MICROECONOMIC POLICY TOOLS
Synopsis
- Sanford 03, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- PUBPOL 303D.03D, MICROECONOMIC POLICY TOOLS
Synopsis
- Sanford 03, W 12:00 PM-12:50 PM
- PUBPOL 303D.04D, MICROECONOMIC POLICY TOOLS
Synopsis
- Sanford 03, W 04:40 PM-05:30 PM
- PUBPOL 603S.01, MICRO OF INT'L DEV POLICY
Synopsis
- Sanford 224, Tu 04:40 PM-07:10 PM
- (also cross-listed as ECON 503S.01)
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:30-6:00
- Education:
| Ph.D. (Applied Economics) | Cornell University | 2006 |
| M.Sc. (Economics) | Universite de Montreal | 2001 |
| B.Sc. | Universite de Montreal | 1999 |
- Specialties:
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Development Economics
Econometrics
- Research Interests:
Current projects:
Reverse Share Tenancy, Monitoring in Production Contracts, Household Market Participation, Price Risk Aversion I am an agricultural economist whose research focuses on development policy and a development economist whose research focuses on agricultural development.
- Areas of Interest:
- Development Economics
Agricultural Economics
Applied Econometrics
Contract Theory
Applied Micro
- Keywords:
- Development Economics • Agricultural Economics • Applied Econometrics • Contract Theory • Applied Micro
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
- Eva Csaky
- Zachary S. Brown
- Shouyue Yu
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- M.F. Bellemare, Sharecropping, Insecure Land Rights, and Land Titling Policies: A Case Study of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar,
Development Policy Review, vol. 29 no. 1
(2009),
pp. 87-106
- M.F. Bellemare and C.B. Barrett, An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia,
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 88 no. 2
(2006),
pp. 324-337
- Barrett, Christopher B., Marc F. Bellemare, and Sharon M. Osterloh, Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists,
in Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges, edited by John McPeak and Peter D. Little
(2006),
pp. 15-38, Warwickshire, UK: ITDG Publishing
- M.F. Bellemare, C.B. Barrett, and D.R. Just, The Welfare Impacts of Commodity Price Fluctuations: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
(December, 2010) [papers.cfm] [abs]
- M.F. Bellemare, The (Im)possibility of Reverse Share Tenancy
(2008) [papers.cfm] [abs]
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