Prof. Dr. Nancy Chau

Research themes

Science Policy
Renewable energy
Agriculture, land use, climate change
Innovation and science policy

Additional Information:

Professor - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (US)

Additional information

Cornell University; dyson.cornell.edu/people/profiles/chau.php

2014

Randall Akee, Arnab Basu, Arjun Bedi and Nancy Chau. 2014. Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement, and Victim Protection: A Middleman Traffickers' Perspective. Journal of Law and Economics, 57 : 349-386 .

2013

Nancy Chau and Ravi Kanbur. 2013. On Footloose Industries and Labor Disputes with Endogenous Information Asymmetry. Review of Development Economics, 17 : 319-341 .

Nancy Chau, Rolf Fare and Shawna Grosskopf. 2013. Trade Restrictiveness and Polllution -- A Directional Distance Function Approach. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 15 : 25-52 .

2012

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Zahra Siddique. 2012. Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality. Research in Labor Economics, 34 : 1-53 .

2011

Nancy Chau and Rolf Fare. 2011. Shadow Pricing Market Access: A Trade Benefit Function Approach. Journal of Economic Theory, 146 : 1631-1663 .

Nancy Chau and Weiwen Zhang. 2011. Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion: The Public Economics of Land Development Allowance. Land Economics, 87 : 488-507 .

2010

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Ravi Kanbur. 2010. Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws. Economic Journal, 120 : 244-269 .

2009

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau, Ravi Kanbur. 2009. A Theory of Employment Gaurantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns. Journal of Public Economics, 93 : 482-497 .

Randall Akee, Arnab Basu, Arjun Bedi, and Nancy Chau. 2009. Combating Trafficking in Women and Children: A Review of International and National Legislation, Co-ordination Failures and Perverse Economic Incentives. The Protection Project Journal of Human Rights and Civil Society, 2 : 1-24 .

2007

Chau, N. and A. Basu. 2007. An Exploration of the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Is Redemption a Viable Option?. In: K. Anthony Appiah and M. Brunzl (eds.): Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption. Princeton University Press. 37-77. Further Information

2006

Chau, N., Basu, A. and Grote, U.. 2006. Eco-labeling and Strategic Rivalry in Export Markets. In: Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau and Ulrike Grote (eds.) (eds.): New Frontiers in Environmental and Social Labeling. New York: Physica Verlag. 111- 132.

Chau, N., Basu, A. and Grote, U.. 2006. New Frontiers in Environmental and Social Labeling. Phsyica Verlag, Heidelberg.

2004

Chau, N. and A. Basu. 2004. Exploitation of Child Labor and the Dynamics of Debt Bondage. Journal of Economic Growth, 9 : 209-238 .

2003

Chau, N. and A. Basu. 2003. Eco-Labeling and Stages of Development. Review of Development Economics, 7(2) : 228-247 .

Chau, N. and A. Basu. 2003. Targeting Child Labor in Debt Bondage: Evidence, Theory and Policy. World Bank Economic Review, 17 : 255-281 .

2002

Chau, N., Baus, A. and Grote, U.. 2002. Labor Standards, Social Labels and the Post-Uruguay Round of the WTO. In: Ramesh Adhikari, Prema-Chandra (eds.): Developing Countries in the World Trading System - The Uruguay Round and Beyond. The Asian Development Bank, Manila.

Forthcoming

Arnab Basu, Nancy Chau, Ravi Kanbur. Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality. Economic Journal, .

Additionals, Curriculum Vitae
and Downloads

CV_Chau__Nancy_2017.pdf [PDF | 171.80KB]

Private website:
http://www.dyson.cornell.edu/people/profiles/chau.php

Division/Group:
Economic and Technological Change

E-Mail:
hyc3(at)cornell.edu