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Harry KaiserGellert Family Professor of Applied Economics and Management Areas of ExpertiseMarketing, Policy, Quantitative Methods
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Harry M. Kaiser is the Gellert Family Professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of price analysis, marketing, industrial organization, policy, and quantitative methods. Professor Kaiser has written 110 journal articles, four books, 17 book chapters, and over 200 research bulletins in these areas. He has received over $8 million in research grants from such agencies as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets.
Since 1994, Professor Kaiser has been the director of the Cornell Commodity Promotion Research Program. Much of his research focuses on the market-wide economic effects of commodity advertising and promotion programs. Currently, Professor Kaiser and his staff annually conduct the economic analysis required by the U.S. Congress for the national dairy and fluid milk processor advertising programs. Professor Kaiser was involved with some of the first research that investigated the economic impacts of climate change on the U.S. agricultural sector. More recently, Professor Kaiser has worked extensively in the area of behavioral and experimental economics, examining such issues as making the voluntary contributions mechanism more efficient and the impact of food safety on demand. Professor Kaiser served as editor of Agricultural and Resource Economics Review from 1999-2001, associate editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics from 1999-2001, and has been the associate editor of Agribusiness: An International Journal since 1999.
He was the President of the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association from 2006-2008, and was on the executive board of directors of the American Agricultural Economics Association from 2003-2005. He is currently on the executive board of directors of the Council on Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics. Professor Kaiser was co-recipient of the outstanding journal article of the year from the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association in 1991, and from the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society in 2009. In 2006, Professor Kaiser received the Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. In 2009, he received the highest non-degree honor bestowed on an alumnus of the University of Minnesota, the Outstanding Achievement Award. He also received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the Department of Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2009.
Teaching
AEM 4150: Price Analysis
AEM 6400: Analysis of Agricultural Markets
Selected Publications
Promotion Studies
Kaiser, Harry M., Julian M. Alston, John M. Crespi, and Richard J. Sexton. 2005. Commodity Promotion: Lessons from California. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
Rusmevichientong, Pimbucha and Harry M. Kaiser. 2009. “Are There Halo Effects of U.S. Grain Export Promotion?” Applied Economics. 41:1466-83.
Dong, Diansheng and Harry M. Kaiser. 2005. Coupon Redemption and Its Effect on Household Cheese Purchases. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87:689-702.
Schmit, Todd M. and Harry M. Kaiser. 2004. Decomposing the Variation in Generic Advertising Response Over Time. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 86:139-53.
Chung, Chanjin, and Harry M. Kaiser. 2002. Advertising Evaluation and Cross-Sectional Data Aggregation. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84:800-07.
Chung, Chanjin, and Harry M. Kaiser. 2000. Distribution of Generic Advertising Across Participating Firms. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82:659-64.
Van de Kamp, Philip R., and Harry M. Kaiser. 2000. Optimal Temporal Policies in Fluid Milk Advertising. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82:274-86.
Van de Kamp, Philip R., and Harry M. Kaiser. 1999. Irreversibility in Advertising-Demand Response Functions: An Application to Milk. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81:385-96.
Experimental Economics Studies
Kanter, Christopher, Kent Messer, and Harry M. Kaiser. 2009. “Does Production Labeling Stigmatize Conventional Milk?” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 91:1097-1109.
Messer, Kent, Harry M. Kaiser, Collin Payne, and Brian Wansink. 2009. “Can Advertising Alleviate Consumer Concerns About Mad Cow Disease?” Applied Economics. 41:1466-83.
Messer, Kent, Harry M. Kaiser, William Schulze. 2008. “The Problem with Generic Advertising: Parallelism and Possible Solutions from the Lab.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 90:540-52.
Messer, Kent, Homa Zarghamee, Harry M. Kaiser, and William Schulze. 2007. New Hope for the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism: The Effects of Framing and Context. Journal of Public Economics. 91:1783-99.
Messer, Kent, Todd Schmit, and Harry M. Kaiser. 2005. Optimal Institutional Mechanisms for Funding Generic Advertising: An Experimental Analysis. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87:1046-60.
Doyon, Maurice, L.D. Tamini, V. Simard, Kent Messer and Harry M. Kaiser. 2008. “An Analysis of Modifications to the Centralized Milk Quota Exchange System in Quebec using Experimental Economics.” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 56:295-312 (outstanding article of the year).
Climate Change Studies 2
Kaiser, Harry M. 1999. Assessing Research on the Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture. In Global Environmental Change and Agriculture: Assessing the Impacts.
Kaiser, Harry M., and Pierre Crosson. 1995. Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77:734-40.
Kaiser, H.M., and T. Drennen. 1993. Agricultural Dimensions of Global Climate Change. St. Lucie: St. Lucie Press.
Kaiser, Harry M., Susan J. Riha, Daniel S. Wilks, David G. Rossiter, and Radha Raman. 1993. A Farm-Level Analysis of the Economic and Agronomic Impacts of Gradual Climate Change. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 75:387-98.
Kaiser, Harry M. 1991. Climate Change and Agriculture. Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 20:151-63.
Quantitative Methods
Zheng, Yuqing, Talia Bar, and Harry M. Kaiser. Forthcoming, 2010. “Distribution of Generic Advertising Benefits by Firm Size in an Asymmetric Cournot Oligopoly.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Kaiser, Harry M. and Kent D. Messer. Forthcoming, 2010. Mathematical Programming Models for Agricultural, Environmental and Resource Economics. Blackwell Press, Inc.
Zheng, Yuqing, Henry Kinnucan, and Harry M. Kaiser. 2008. “Measuring and Testing Advertising-Induced Rotation in the Demand Curve.” Applied Economics. 40:1629-35.
Kaiser, Harry M. and Nobuhiro Suzuki. 2006. New Empirical Industrial Organization and the Food System. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
Dong, Diansheng and Harry M. Kaiser. 2008. “Studying Household Purchasing and Non-Purchasing Behavior for a Frequently Consumed Commodity: Two Models.” Applied Economics. 40:1941-51.
Dong, Diansheng , Brian W. Gould, and Harry M. Kaiser. 2004. Food Demand in Mexico: An Application of the Amemiya-Tobin Approach to the Estimation of a Censored System. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 86:1094-1107.
Tomek, William G., and Harry M. Kaiser. 1999. On Improving Economic Analyses of Generic Advertising Impacts. Agribusiness: An International Journal. 15:485-500.
Agricultural Policy Analysis
Kaiser, Harry M., Deborah H. Streeter, and Donald J. Liu. 1988. Welfare Comparisons of U.S. Dairy Policies With and Without Mandatory Supply Control. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 70:848-58.
Kaiser, Harry M., and Loren W. Tauer. 1989. Impact of bovine Somatotropin on U.S. Dairy Markets Under Alternative Policy Options. North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics 11:59-73.
Kawaguchi, Tsunemasa, Nobuhiro Suzuki, and Harry M. Kaiser. 1997. A Spatial Equilibrium Model for Imperfectly Competitive Milk Markets. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 79:851-59.
Awards
• University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award, 2009
• Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota Outstanding Alumni Award, 2009
• Co-recipient of the Outstanding Journal Article, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, 2009
• University of Wisconsin Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, 2006
• Distinguished Member Award, Northeastern Association of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009
• Distinguished Member Award, Northeastern Association of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003
• Annual Jerome Johnson Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2000
• Co-recipient of the Outstanding Journal Article, Northeastern Association of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1991
• Co-recipient of the American Association of Agricultural Economics Group Extension Award, 1986
Professional Activities
• President, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, 2005-08
• Board of Directors, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2002-05
• Editor, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1999-2001
• Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998-2000
• Associate Editor, Agribusiness: An International Journal, 1998-present
• Editorial Board, Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1992-94
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1985
M.S., University of Minnesota, 1981
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1979
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