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Ralph ChristyJ. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship & Personal Enterprise Areas of ExpertiseAgricultural Marketing, Public Policy, Economic Development
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Ralph D. Christy joined the Cornell faculty in 1991. In 2000, he was named the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise.
Professor Christy's research and teaching interests are in the areas of agricultural marketing, public policy and economic development. His current research focuses on assessing the impact of structural and organizational changes in domestic agribusiness and value-added industries on the effectiveness of competition at various levels in the food system. An additional research priority is the analysis of key organizational and behavioral decisions that affect the competitive position of firms, marketing institutions, and industries in developing countries.
He has worked as an agricultural economist in Cameroon, Jamaica, Kenya, Slovakia, and Zimbabwe.
Teaching
AEM
4420: Emerging Markets
AEM
4640: Economics of Agricultural Development
Selected Publications
Christy, Ralph D. 1996. Markets or government: Balancing imperfect and complementary alternatives. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Brown, Adell, Ralph D. Christy, and Tesfa G. Gebremedhin. 1995. Structural changes in U.S. agriculture: Implications for African-American farmers. In Blacks in Rural America, edited by James B. Stewart and Joyce E. Allen-Smith. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
Christy, Ralph D. 1994. Private strategies and public policies: The economics of information and the economic organization of markets. In Re-engineering marketing policies for food and agriculture, edited by Daniel I. Padberg. Food and Agricultural Marketing Consortium 94-1, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
Christy, Ralph D. 1993. Economic correctness and agricultural economics. Journal of Applied and Agricultural Economics 25 (1): 1-13.
Allen, Joyce, and Ralph D. Christy. 1992. The African-American in rural society: Needed directions in public policy. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74 (3): 826-33.
Christy, Ralph D., and John Connor. 1989. Economic forces influencing value-added food industries: Implications for southern agriculture. Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 21 (1): 13-22.
Awards
• Kaplan Fellowship
Award, Cornell University Public Service
Center, 2007
• Teacher
of the Year, College of Agriculture, Louisiana
State University, 1988
• Outstanding Faculty Member, Louisiana State University
Professional Activities
• President, American
Agricultural Economics Association, 1995-96
• Director, American Agricultural Economics Association,
1991-94
• Associate Editor,
American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1991-93
• Director, American Agricultural Economics Association
Foundation, 1992-94
• President, Southern Agricultural Economics Association,
1992-93
Education
Ph.D., Michigan State University,
1980
M.S., Michigan State University, 1977
B.S., Southern University, 1975
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