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Glenn Sheriff
International Affairs Building, Room 1405
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-0027
gs2096@columbia.edu
Biography:
Glenn Sheriff is an assistant professor in the Department of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a member of the Earth Institute's Center for Economy, Environment, and Society.
He joined the Columbia faculty in 2002 and teaches Microeconomics for Policy Analysis I and II and Economics of Sustainable Development. He is interested in research topics covering environment, agriculture, productivity analysis, contracts, and regulation. Recent publications include "Optimal Environmental Regulation of Politically Influential Sectors with Asymmetric Information" which is forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, "Rational Waste? Why Farmers Over-Apply Nutrients and the Implications for Policy Design," in the Review of Agricultural Economics (Winter 2005 and "Measuring Profit Efficiency with McFadden's Gauge Function," in Economics Letters (August 2005).
Prior to Columbia, he conducted research at the World Bank (2002), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Toulouse, France 2001), USDA Economic Research Service (2000–2001), Inter-American Investment Corporation (1997), and Inter-American Development Bank (1994–97).
Professor Sheriff earned his BS in foreign service from Georgetown University (1993), and both his MS and PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Maryland (2000 and 2004, respectively).
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Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Trade, Game Theory, Agriculture / Agricultural Economics, Environment