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Richard BoisvertProfessor Areas of ExpertiseProduction Economics, Resource Economics
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Since joining the Cornell faculty in 1971, Professor Boisvert has taught graduate courses in production economics, mathematical programming, research methods, and resource and environmental economics. From 1974 through 1977, he has served as associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and has served as a member of the National Academy of Science Panel to evaluate methodologies for earthquake loss estimation. At two different times, he has served as Director of Graduate Studies (a total of 14 years). He is a member of the graduate fields of Applied Economics and Management and Regional Science. In 1995-96, he taught in a master’s program funded by the Mellon Foundation at the University of Agriculture at Nitra, Institute for Economic Studies, Slovakia. He has taken sabbatical leaves as a special assistant to the Federal Insurance Administration, as a visiting scholar with the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, and as an Academic Associate with Neenan Associates. He has served as consultant to numerous public agencies and private corporations.
Many of Dr. Boisvert’s research and outreach activities have been in the areas of agricultural production and risk, rural economic impact analysis and the effects of policy on income distribution. He is also involved in environmental policy analysis, with particular emphasis on land use, and the interface between agriculture and the environment. He has evaluated the effects of electricity conservation and demand side management programs and time-differentiated rates on electricity demand by agricultural, manufacturing and commercial firms. Much of his research has focused on domestic issues, but other research has had a significant international dimension.
He has received professional recognition for his research, his graduate-level teaching and his thesis advising.
• 2007 MARUYAMA Prize for published research, International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering (with Hung-Hao Chang)
• 2007 SATO Prize for published research, International Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering (with David Blandford)
• 2006 Annual Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching by the American Agricultural Economics Association
• 2005 Journal Article of the Year in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (with Jeffery Peterson)
• 2006 and 2002 Journal Articles of the Year in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
• Committee Chair for 8 graduate students who received thesis or dissertation awards from the American Agricultural Economics Association and/or the Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association
• 1974 AAEA Published Research Award (honorable mention).
Current Teaching
AEM 6080: Production Economics
AEM 7010: Applied Microeconomics I
Other Teaching Experience
AEM 7080: Advanced Production Economics
AEM 7120: Quantitative Methods I
AEM 7170: Research Methods in Agricultural Economics
AEM 7510: Environmental Economics
Selected Journal Articles
“Potential Cost Savings from Discharge Allowance Trading: A Case Study and Implications for Water Quality Trading” Water Resources Research, Forthcoming (with Yukako Sado and Greg Poe).
“Optimal Dairy Farm Adjustments to Increased Utilization of Corn Distillers Dried Grains,” Journal of Dairy Science, Forthcoming (with Todd Schmit, Dolapo. Enahoro, Larry Chase).
“Distinguishing between Whole-Farm vs. Partial-Farm Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program,” Land Economics. 85:144-161, 2009 (with Hung-Hao Chang).
“Are Farmers’ Decisions to Work Off the Farm Related to the Their Decisions to Participate in the Conservation Reserve Program?” Applied Economics, 41:71-85, 2009 (with Hung-Hao Chang).
“Infrastructure and Rural Development: US and EU Perspectives”, EuroChoices. 7: 52-58, 2008 (with David Blandford and Sophia Davidova).
“Customer Response to RTP in Competitive Markets: A Study of Niagara Mohawk’s Standard Offer Tariff”, The Energy Journal, 28: 53-73, 2007 (with Peter Cappers, Charles Goldman, Bernie Neenan, and Nichole Hopper).
“Non-trade Concerns: Reconciling Domestic Policy Objectives with Trade Liberalization”, International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 4: 277-91, 2005 (with David Blandford).
“An Incentive Compatible Self-Compliant Pollution Policy under Asymmetric Information on Both Risk Attitudes and Technology”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86: 291-306, 2004 (with Jeffrey Peterson).
“Achieving Efficiency and Equity in Irrigation Management: An Optimization Model of the El Angel Watershed, Carchi, Ecuador”, Agricultural Systems, 77: 1-22, 2003 (with Elizabeth Evans, David Lee, et al.).
“Non-Trade Concerns: Reconciling Domestic Policy Objectives with Freer Trade in Agricultural Products”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 85: 668-673, 2003 (with David Blandford and Linda Fulponi).
“Environmental Policies for a Multifunctional Agricultural Sector in Open Economies”, European Review of Agricultural Economics, 29(2002): 423-443, 2002 (with Jeffery Peterson and Harry de Gorter).
“Spatial, Productivity, and Environmental Determinants of Farmland Values”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (1997):1657-64. (with Todd M. Schmit and Anita Regmi).
“Control in a Dynamic Village Economy: The Reforms and Unbalanced Development in China's Rural Economy”, Journal of Development Economics, 46(1995):233-252. (with Scott Rozelle).
“An Optimization Model of the Dual-purpose Cattle Production System in the Humid Lowlands of Venezuela”, Agricultural Systems, 46(1994):311-334. (with C. Nicholson, D. Lee, R. Blake and C.I. Urbina).
“Grain Policies in Chinese Villages: Yield Response to Pricing, Procurement and Loan Policies”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 75(1993):339-349. (with Scott Rozelle).
“Dual Second and Third-order Translog Models of Production”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73(1991):1146-1160. (with Paul Driscoll).
Recent Selected Working Papers, Presentations, etc.
“Open Markets” v. “Structured Bilateral Trades”: Results of Economic Modeling of Point-to-Point Source Water Quality Trading in the Non-Tidal Passaic River Basin”, Presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) annual meetings, Milwaukee, Jul. 2009 (with Tianli Zhao, Yukako Sado, and Greg Poe).
“Potential Cost Savings from Discharge Allowance Trading: A Case Study and Implications for Water Quality Trading” Presented at Preconference on Water Economics, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, VU University Amsterdam, June 24, 2009 (with Yukako Sado and Greg Poe).
“Selected Economic Aspects of Water Quality Trading: A Primer and Interpretive Literature Review”, EB 07-02, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2007 (with Gregory L. Poe, and Yukako Sado).
“U.S. Policy for Agricultural Adjustment”, in D. Blandford and B. Hill (Eds.). Policy Reform and Adjustment in the Agricultural Sectors of Developed Countries. Wallingford, Oxfordshire: CABI Publishing 2006 (with David Blandford).
“Macroeconomic Impact Analysis of the New York Energy $martSM Program: An Analysis of Short-term and Longer-term Impacts”, Final Report to NYSERDA, 2004 (with David Kay, Jim Doane, and Ed Smyth).
Professional Activities and Sabbatical Leaves
• Director of Graduate Studies, field of Agricultural Economics
• Associate editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
• Member, National Academy of Science
Panel (earthquake economic issues and insurance)
• Sabbatical leaves: Federal Insurance Administration; Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1971
B.S., Montana State University, 1966
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