Harry Kaiser is an economist

Economist

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 and the Gellert Family Professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

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Areas of Research

Kaiser has expertise in price analysis, marketing

Marketing

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, industrial organization

Industrial organization

Industrial organization is the field of economics that builds on the theory of the firm in examining the structure of, and boundaries between, firms and markets....

, policy

Policy

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, agricultural policy analysis and quantitative

Quantitative

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 methods. Kaiser was one of the first economists to investigate the economic impacts of climate change

Climate change

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 on agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

. He is is the director of the Cornell Commodity Promotion Research Program. Additionally, Professor Kaiser conducts the economic analysis required by the U.S. Congress for the national dairy and fluid milk processor advertising

Advertising

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 programs. He has served as the editor of Agriculture and Resource Economics Review, and as the president of the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association. Kaiser has also served on the executive board of directors of the American Agricultural Economics Association.

Awards and honors

• University of Minnesota
  University of Minnesota
  The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
  
   Outstanding Achievement Award, 2009
• Department of Applied Economics
  Applied economics
  Applied economics is a term that refers to the application of economic theory and analysis. While not a field of economics, it is typically characterized by the application of economic theory and econometrics to address practical issues in a range of fields including labour economics, industrial...
  
  , 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

Education

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota
  University of Minnesota
  The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
  
  , 1985

• M.S., University of Minnesota
  University of Minnesota
  The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
  
  , 1981

• B.A., University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  The University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire is a public liberal arts university located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System and has an annual enrollment of more than 10,000 students...
  
  , 1979