Peer Reviewed Research

An Intersection of Privatization and Public Utility Regulation: The Ohio State University's Energy Concession Agreement

Utilities Policy

2019

Professor Noah Dormady presents a case of a 50-year comprehensive energy concession agreement by The Ohio State University that generated an up-front payment exceeding a billion dollars.

Stakeholder Perspectives on Sustainability in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Frontiers in Environmental Science

2019

Professor Jeff Bielicki shows how stakeholders interact and perceive the food-energy-water nexus and how those perspectives are shaped.

Energy Conversion and Management

2019

Professor Jeff Bielicki investigates the effect of bulk energy storage on CO2 emissions and water requirements.

Economic Resilience of the Firm: A Production Theory Approach

International Journal of Production Economics

2019

Professor Dormady provides a microeconomic foundation for analyzing the comprehensive range of tactics used by firms and other organizations after catastrophic events.

Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition

2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner examines nutrition educators’ experiences with, knowledge of, and beliefs about local foods, and elicits ideas on how to integrate education about and access to local food systems into their current work.

An Attainable Global Vision for Conservation and Human Well-Being

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

2018

Professor Jeff Bielicki explores the possibility of meeting the demands of increased populations and economic growth in 2050 while simultaneously advancing multiple conservation goals.

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner describes fruit and vegetable preferences and other factors that may influence participation in community-supported agriculture.

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Journal

2018

Assistant Professor Jennifer Garner used a customized input-output model to simulate potential economic impacts of programs and policies that enable Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to shift purchases from traditional food retailers to DTC venues in four states.

The Consignment Mechanism in Carbon Markets: A Laboratory Investigation

Journal of Commodity Markets

2018

Professor Dormady details the consignment auction design used in California, in which utilities are allocated a share of emissions permits that they must sell into the uniform-price auction.

Complex Contracting: Management Challenges and Solutions

Public Administration Review

2018

Dean Trevor Brown creates a framework that provides guidance on how managers can harness the upsides of complex contracting while avoiding its pitfalls.