Research Interests for Marc F Bellemare

I am an agricultural economist whose research focuses on development policy and a development economist whose research focuses on agricultural development.

Keywords:

Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Applied Econometrics, Contract Theory, Applied Micro

Current projects:

Reverse Share Tenancy

Monitoring in Production Contracts

Household Market Participation

Price Risk Aversion

Areas of Interest:

Development Economics
Agricultural Economics
Applied Econometrics
Contract Theory
Applied Micro

Representative Publications

1. 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
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, vol. 88 no. 2 (2006), pp. 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, 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
4. 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]
5. M.F. Bellemare, The (Im)possibility of Reverse Share Tenancy (2008) [papers.cfm] [abs]