Education:

• Ph.D., Resources Economics, Cornell University 2004

Teaching Interests:

• Experimental Economics
• Resource Economics

Activities and Honors:

Recent Publications:

• Kent Messer, H.M. Kaiser and W.D. Schulze. “The Problem of Free Riding in Voluntary Generic Advertising: Parallelism and Possible Solutions from the Lab,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90(2): 540–552, 2008.

• Kent D. Messer, H. Zarghamee, H.M. Kaiser and W.D. Schulze. 2007. “New Hope for the Voluntary Contribution Mechanism: The Effects of Framing and Context.” Journal of Public Economics Vol. 91(9):1783-1799.

• Kent D. Messer, H.M. Kaiser, and G.L. Poe. 2007. “Voluntary Funding for Generic Advertising Using a Provision Point Mechanism: An Experimental Analysis of Option Assurance.” Review of Agricultural Economics Vol. 29(3):612-631.