Kathy Baylis is an assistant professor in Agriculture and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois. She joined the department after several years as an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia where she is still an adjunct. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003, where she specialized in agriculture and trade issues. Kathy has worked in agricultural policy in both Canada and the United States. In 2001/02, she was the staff economist in charge of agriculture for the Council of Economic Advisors in the White House, and in the mid-1990s, she worked as Executive Secretary with the National Farmers Union in Canada. She has published a number of journal articles on agricultural trade and environmental policy and has coauthored a textbook on Canadian-U.S. agricultural policy.
Selected Articles
Participation in the First CDM Project: The role of property rights, social capital and contractual rules (with Yazhen Gong and Gary Bull), Ecological Economics (2010)
Trade Diversion from Tomato Suspension Agreement (with Jeffrey M. Perloff), Canadian Journal of Economics (2010)
What Drives Food Import Refusals? (with Andrea Martens and Lia Nogueira), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2010)
Agri-Environmental Programs and Trade Negotiations in the United States and the European Union (with Stephen Peplow, Gordon Rausser, and Leo Simon), Eurochoices (2009)
Payment for Environmental Services: A Comparison of US and EU Agri-environmental Policies (with Stephen Peplow, Gordon Rausser, and Leo Simon), Ecological Economics (2007)
Books
Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness and Rent-Seeking Behaviour (with Andrew Schmitz and W. Hartley Furtan) (2002)
Book Chapters
Working Papers
The distributional effects of NAFTA in Mexico (with Rafael Garduno-Rivera and Gianfranco Piras) (2009)
The Effect of Antidumping in Agriculture: A Cross-Border Comparison (with Nisha Malhotra and Horatiu Rus) (2009)
Who owns carbon? Property rights issues in a market for greenhouse gas emissions (with Travis Allen) (2005)
Other Publications