Maureen Kilkenny

Honorary Professor
Ph.D. Agricultural & Applied Economics University of Minnesota, 1987
M.S. Agricultural & Applied Economics University of Minnesota, 1984
B.A. Studio Art University of California, 1979 Photograph of Maureen Kilkenny.

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Biography

Professional Employment

2007 – to date Professor, Department of Resource Economics, University of Nevada
2005 – 2007 Associate Professor, Department of Resource Economics, University of Nevada
2003 – 2006 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
1997 – 2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
1994 - 1997 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University
1992-1993 Assistant Professor, The Economics Institute/Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
1988-1991 Assistant Professor (fixed term) Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
1987 - 1988 Economist, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Staff Publications

  Journal Articles

  • Calmette, Marie-Francoise and Maureen Kilkenny (2010) “Roads vs. Famines” under review Annals of Regional Science.
  • Monchuk, Daniel, Euan Phimister, and Maureen Kilkenny “Rural Homeownership and Labor Mobility in the U.S.” under revision Review of Regional Studies.   
  • Irwin, Elena, Andrew Isserman, Maureen Kilkenny, and Mark Partridge (2010) “A Century of Research on Rural Development and Regional Issues” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 92(2): 522–553.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (2010) “Urban/Regional Economics and Rural Development” Journal of Regional Science 50(1) 449-470 .
  • Daniel, Karine and Maureen Kilkenny (2009) “Agricultural Subsidies and Rural Development” Journal of Agricultural Economics 60(3):504-529.
  • Ahearn, Mary, Maureen Kilkenny, and Sarah Low (2009) “Trends and Volatility in School Finance” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(5):1201-1208.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Mark Partridge (2009) “Export Sectors and Rural Development” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(4):910-929.
  • Huffman, Sonya and Maureen Kilkenny (2007) “Regional Welfare Program & Labor Force Participation” Papers in Regional Science 86(2):215-239.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen, and Robert Jolly (2005) "Are Rural Credit Markets Competitive? Is there room for competition in rural credit markets?"
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Sonya Huffman (2003) “Rural/Urban Welfare Program and Labor Force Participation” American Journal of Agricultural Economics November, 85(4):914-927.
  • Daniel, Karine and Maureen Kilkenny (2002) “Découplage des aides directes à l’agriculture et localisation des activités”(Decoupled Subsidies and the Localization of Agriculture) Economie Internationale 91(3 trimestre):73-92.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Tigran Melkonyan (2002) “Local Fiscal Strategy to Retain Heterogeneous Firms,” Journal of Regional Science 42(4):753-772.
  • Calmette, Marie-Françoise and Maureen Kilkenny (2002) “International Charity: For the Poor?” Economic Inquiry 40(3):497-507.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (2002) “The New Rural Economy” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84(5):1253-1255.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (2002) “Community Credit” International Regional Science Review 25(3):247-251.
  • Calmette, Marie-Françoise and Maureen Kilkenny (2001) “International Charity under Asymmetric Information” Economics Letters 74:107-111.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Gerald Schluter (2001) “Value Added Agriculture Policies Across the 50 States,” Rural America 16(1):12-18.
  • Gale, Fred and Maureen Kilkenny (2000) “Agriculture’s Role Shrinks as the Service Economy Expands” Rural Conditions and Trends: Rural Industry 10(2)
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (2000) “A Classroom Experiment about Tradable Permits” Review of Agricultural Economics 22(2):586-606.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen , Helen Jensen, Steven Garasky, and Jennifer Olmsted (2000) “Welfare and Food Assistance at the State and Sub-state level: A Framework for Evaluating Economic and Programmatic Changes,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(3) August:649-655.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (1999) “Explicitly Spatial Rural-Urban Computable General Equilibrium,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81(3)August:647-652.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (1999) “Interregional Fiscal Accounting”, Growth and Change 30(4) Fall:567-589.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Jacques Thisse, (1999) “The Economics of Location: A Selective Survey”, Computers and Operations Research 26(14):1369-1394
  • Kilkenny, Maureen, Laura Nalbarte and Terry Besser (1999) “Reciprocated Community Support and Small Town, Small Business Success”, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 11, August:231-246.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (1998) “Transport Costs, The New Economic Geography, and Rural Development”, Growth and Change 29; Fall:259-280.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (1998) “Transport Costs and Rural Development”, Journal of Regional Science, 38(2)May: 293-312.
  • Wohlgemuth, Darin and Maureen Kilkenny (1998) “Firm Relocation Threats and Copy Cat Costs”, International Regional Science Review, 21(2):139-162.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Dan Otto (1994) “A General Equilibrium Perspective on Structural Change in the Rural Economy”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 76(5)December: 1130-37.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (1993) “Rural vs. Urban Effects of Terminating Farm Subsidies”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 75(4) , November: 968-980.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (1993) “Liberalization in Segmented or Integrated Markets, with Scale Economies”, Journal of Economic Integration, 8(2)Autumn:210-218.
  • KilkennyMaureen (1991)”Nonfarm Prospects Under Agricultural Liberalization”, Journal of Agricultural Economics Research, Summer.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Sherman Robinson (1990) “Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural Liberalization: Factor Mobility and Macro Closure”, Journal of Policy Modeling, 12(3)Fall: 527-557.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (1990) “Differential Sectoral Productivity and the Real Exchange Rate: The U.S.” International Trade and Finance 1989 Proceedings:139-152.

Books

  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Laura Nalbarte (2000) Keystone Sector Identification: A Graph Theory-Social Network Analysis Approach, Web Book of Regional Science, http://www.rri.wvu.edu/regscweb.htm, West Virginia: Regional Research Institute.

Book Chapters

  • Kilkenny, Maureen (2008) “New Rural Economics” Chapter 5 in Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics JunJie Wu, Paul W. Barkley, and Bruce Weber, eds; Resources For the Future Press, Washington, D.C.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Monica Haddad (2008) “Rural Human Capital Development” Chapter 9 in Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics JunJie Wu, Paul W. Barkley, and Bruce Weber, editors; Resources For the Future Press, Washington, D.C.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Stanley Johnson, (2007) "Rural Development Policy”: Agricultural Policy for 2007 Farm Bill and Beyond, Bruce Gardner and Dan Sumner, editors; American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (2006) “Linkages between the Agro-Food Sector and the Rural Economy” Chapter 2 in Coherence of Agricultural and Rural Development Policies edited by Dimitris Diakosavvas, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris France.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Robert Jolly (2006) “Are Rural Credit Markets Competitive? Is there Room for Competition in Rural Credit Markets?” reprinted as chapter 10 in Rural Credit: An Introduction edited by Sridhar Krishna. Icfai Books, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Laura Nalbarte (2002) “Keystone Sector Identification” Chapter 16 in Trade, Networks, and Hierarchies: Modeling Regional and Interregional Economies, edited by G.J. D. Hewings, M. Sonis, and D. Boyce New York: Springer-Verlag.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (2000) “Private Co-operation for the Public Good” Chapter 26:207-213 in Small Town and Rural Economic Development, P. Schaeffer and S. Loveridge, editors; Westport, Conn., Praeger Press.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (1995) “Operationalizing a Rural-Urban General Equilibrium Model using a Bi-Regional SAM,” Chapter 9 in Social and Demographic Accounting (festschrift in Honor of Nobel Prize-Winner Sir Richard Stone) edited by Geoff Hewings and Moss Madden; Cambridge University Press.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Adam Rose (1995) “Interregional SAMs and Capital Accounts,” Chapter 3 in Social and Demographic Accounting (festschrift in Honor of Nobel Prize-Winner Sir Richard Stone) edited by Geoff Hewings and Moss Madden; Cambridge University Press.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen (1995) “Teaching Market Economics Without Selfishness” chapter 4.1.2. in Agricultural Economics: Education and Research Agenda for Economies in Transition, edited by G.H. Peters, Agricultural Economics 12(3) September.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Gerald Schluter (1993) “Farm Productivity and Income Support Effects on the Rural Economy,” in Industrial Policy for Agriculture in the Global Economy, S. Johnson and S. Martin, Eds. Iowa State University Press, February.
  • Kilkenny, Maureen and Sherman Robinson 1990. “Modelling the Removal of Production Incentive Distortions in the U.S. Agricultural Sector,” in Agriculture and Governments in an Interdependent World, Allan Maunder and Alberto Valdes, editors; IAAE, Dartmouth Publishing Co.
  • Robinson, Sherman, Maureen Kilkenny and Irma Adelman (1989) “The Effect of Trade Liberalization in Agriculture on the U.S. Economy: Projections to 1991,” in Macroeconomic Consequences of Farm Support Policies, editors A. Stoeckel, D. Vincent, and S. Cuthbertson, Duke University Press.