Applied Economics and Management

Field Description

The M.S. and Ph.D. programs are research oriented, and each requires a thesis or dissertation. Students are normally expected to obtain the M.S. or equivalent degree before entering the Ph.D. program. The Ph.D. student must take at least one minor in another field, such as Economics. The Master of Professional Studies (Agriculture) is a terminal degree for persons with experience who want additional training pertinent to their profession.

If you are applying for the MPS program, your application will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please see the program website for more information on the admissions rounds.

Those interested in this field may also want to investigate the related fields listed under Economics in "Opportunities for Study" in the Graduate School Catalog. 

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Data and Statistics

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• Doctoral Program Statistics

Field Manual

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Subject and Degrees

Applied Economics and Management

• Applied Economics and Management (M.P.S.) (Ithaca)
• Applied Economics and Management (M.S.) (Ithaca)
• Applied Economics and Management (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)

Concentrations by Subject

Applied Economics and Management

• behavioral finance (M.P.S. only)
• behavioral marketing (M.P.S. only)
• business of food (M.P.S. only)
• environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)
• food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• sustainable business and economic policy (M.P.S. only)

Faculty

Mathew Abraham

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: Agriculture, food and nutrition, agricultural market

Aaron Ashok Adalja

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: food and agriculture economics, consumer theory, industrial organization, agricultural marketing, food and safety

Jawad Mohmad Addoum

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: portfolio choice, empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, household finance

Jenny Carson Aker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.); food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: Development Economics, Applied Econometrics

Christopher Brendan Barrett

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.); food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D); international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: agricultural, development, environmental, resource, and international economics

Kaushik Basu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)

Arnab Basu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Development Economics, International Trade and Labor Economics

Michele Belot

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics, Health Economics

Garrick Blalock

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: economics of development; public policy analysis

Julieta Caunedo

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Macro-Development

Ho Yan (Nancy) Chau

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: international economics; economics of development; public policy analysis

Ralph Dean Christy

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: economics of development; marketing and food distribution; public policy analysis

Will Cong

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: FinTech, Economic Data Science, Entrepreneurship, Information Economics, Financial Economics

Mark Alexander Constas

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: impact evaluation, measurement, and international development

Ricardo Alvarez Daziano

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: choice modeling, applied econometrics, choice experiments, non-market valuation, transportation economics, energy economics

Harry De Gorter

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.); international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Agriculture and trade policy; applied welfare economics; political economy

Adam Emerson Dearing

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Microeconometrics

Brian Dillon

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: development economics, agricultural economics, and applied economics

Geoffrey W Fisher

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D); management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: behavioral economics neuroeconomics, consumer neuroscience, cognitive psychology

Christopher M Forman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: business strategy; digital industries; information systems; innovation; intellectual property; organizational economics; productivity; technological change; urban economics

Todd Gerarden

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)

Carla P Gomes

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: applied economics and quantitative analysis

Miguel I. Gomez

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: marketing; applied industrial organization

John Frederick Hoddinott

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D); international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: development economics; food security and nutrition

Lawrence J. Jin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Behavioral Finance

Justin P Johnson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: economics and strategy

David R Just

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D); international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: risk; uncertainty; behavioral anomalies; information

Vrinda Kadiyali

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: empirical industrial organization/marketing and public policy, empirical applied microeconomics and public policy

Harry Mason Kaiser

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: marketing and food distribution; public policy analysis

Sanjiv (Ravi) Kanbur

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.); international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: public economics; economics of development; agricultural economics

George Andrew Karolyi

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: investment management, international financial markets

Robert Karpman

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)

Catherine Louise Kling

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)

Kevin M. Kniffin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: teamwork, leadership, interdisciplinary

Lauri Valtteri Kytomaa

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Household Finance, Real Estate, Public Policy

Aija E Leiponen

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: economics of technology and innovation; organizational economics

Eric E Lewis

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.); international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.); management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: business valuation and value theory, executive compensation, electronic and non-fiat currencies, intellectual asset and capital valuation, fraud and risk management, mergers and acquisitions

Benjamin Leyden

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: industrial organization, economics and digitization, innovation, antitrust

Shanjun Li

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: environmental and energy economics; empirical industrial organization; applied microeconomics

Jurate Liaukonyte

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D); management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: advertising; quantitative marketing; empirical industrial organization

C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, industrial organization, applied econometrics, applied microeconomics

Peng Liu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: real estate finance and investment, secularization, commodity pricing, market analysis and operational research in retail, airline, hospitality and recreational industries

Michael F. Lovenheim

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: public economics; labor economics; economics of education

Edward Mabaya

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)

Matthew J MacLachlan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.); food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D); management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Animal health economics, bioeconomics, optimization, and food markets

Matt Marx

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Innovation & Entrepreneurship

John W. McKinley

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: individual taxation, flow-through taxation, real estate taxation, domestic production activities deduction (sec. 199), transfer pricing

Mark B. Milstein

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)

Jose Luis Montiel Olea

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Econometrics

Justin Murfin

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: finance economics

David Tat-Chee Ng

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: empirical asset pricing; international finance

Charles F. Nicholson

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: marketing and food distribution, public policy analysis, food systems, supply chain management

Andrew Milovan Novakovic

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: agricultural markets and policy, with a particular focus on the dairy foods sector

Sheila Marie Olmstead

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: water pollution, water scarcity, climate change adaptation, environmental impacts of fossil fuel development, market-based environmental policy

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.); food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: Agricultural, Development, Environmental and Resource Economics; Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change

Prabhu L. Pingali

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.); food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: International Agricultural Development; Food and Nutrition Policy; Rural Poverty Reduction

Eswar S. Prasad

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: international finance; open economy; macroeconomics of China and India

Vithala Rajeswara Rao

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Quantitative Methods, Marketing Analytics

Imke Reimers

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: strategy, business economics, digital markets, innovation

Bradley J. Rickard

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: agricultural economics, international economics, public policy analysis

Stuart Rosenthal

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Urban Economics, Real Estate, Mortgage Finance, Local Public Finance

Ivan Rudik

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)

David Ezra Sahn

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: applied econometrics and quantitative analysis; economics of development; public policy analysis

Nicholas James Sanders

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: environmental regulation and policy, pollution and health

Seth Sanders

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Labor Economics

Todd M. Schmit

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: agricultural marketing and management; agribusiness development; biofuels renewable energy

Heather Ward Schofield

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Development, behavioral, health

William D Schulze

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: public policy analysis; resource economics; environmental economics; experimental and behavioral economics

Daniela Scur

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: organizational economics and strategy

Suzanne Bliven Shu

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Marketing, Judgment and Decision Making, Behavioral Economics, Consumer Financial Decisions

Elizabeth Jane Tennant

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Disaster risk, Vulnerability and resilience, Sustainable development, Adaptation to climate change

John Tobin

• Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: international finance, sustainability, american institute of biological sciences, international chamber of commerce, international environmental law

Calum G. Turvey

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D); management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: agricultural finance; risk management; agricultural and food policy

Joanna Beth Upton

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: food security, poverty measurement & monitoring, development programming & policy

Leslie Verteramo Chiu

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: Agricultural Finance, Commodity Prices, Risk Analysis, LCA, Bioeconomic models, Management, Production.

Michael Waldman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: wage and promotion practices in international labor markets, operation of durable goods markets, tying and bundling in product markets, optimal copyright policy

Christopher Allen Wolf

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D); management (M.S., Ph.D.)

Sarah E Wolfolds

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: international and development economics (IDE) (M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.); management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: competitive strategy; international business; non-market strategy; non-profit strategy

Nathan Chi-Chung Yang

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Behavioral Analytics, Dynamic Structural Models, Empirical Industrial Organization, (Mobile) Health and Wellness, Retail Strategy

Scott E. Yonker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: management (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: behavioral finance, investments

Wendong Zhang

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: food and agricultural economics (FAE) (M.S., Ph.D)
• Research Interests: Farmland market, Agricultural water conservation, Chinese agriculture

Jinhua Zhao

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Applied Economics and Management: environmental, energy, and resource economics (EERE) (M.S., Ph.D.)
• Research Interests: Environmental and Resource Economics, Global Climate Change, Environmental Regulation, Technology Adoption