Staff

Harry M. Kaiser

Olan D. Forker

Yuqing Zheng

Lan Li

Anita S. Vogel

View Full Vita

Department of Applied Economics and Management
Cornell University 350 Warren Hall Ithaca, NY 14853	(607) 255-1598 (phone) (607) 254-4335 (fax) hmk2@cornell.edu

Harry M. Kaiser, a professor of agricultural economics, joined Cornell's faculty in 1985. His two main areas of research are commodity promotion economics and agricultural policy analysis. Since 1994, professor Kaiser has been the director of the Cornell Commodity Promotion Research Program. In 1987, Kaiser was a co-recipient of the Distinguished Group Extension Award given by the American Agricultural Economics Association , and in 1990 he was a co-recipient of the Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics Article of the Year. Professor Kaiser is the editor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Review; associate editor of Agribusiness: An International Journal; and associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. The three classes Professor Kaiser teaches are Price Analysis, Mathematical Programming, and Dairy Markets and Policy.

For many agricultural commodities, government price intervention has led to excess production relative to commercial market needs with the result being costly acquisitions by the federal government. Much of my research has focused on the market impacts of demand and supply management alternatives aimed at reducing excess production. On the demand side, I have examined the economic impacts of producer-financed promotion programs on raising sales and prices and reducing government purchases of commodities. On the supply side, I have looked at the welfare effects on producers, processors, consumers, and tax payers of a variety of supply management policies including complete and partial deregulation, mandatory and voluntary supply control, target price-deficiency payments, and price supports. While most of my research has been applied to the dairy industry, I have examined many other commodities as well, including eggs, corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, and red meat. As director of CCPRP, my goal is to conduct high quality research that has practical importance for both policy makers and commodity promotion organizations.