Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics

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Madhu Khanna

Professor, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Professor, Energy Biosciences Institute, Institute of Genomic Biology
Email: khanna1@illinois.edu
Phone: 217 333-5176

Education

M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1991
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995

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Teaching

ACE 455: International Trade in Food and Agriculture
ACE 411: Environment and Development

Research

Technology adoption and voluntary approaches to pollution control; welfare analysis of alternative policy instruments for environmental protection; economic, land use and environmental implications of biofuels; policies for carbon sequestration.

Highlighted Publications

Harrington, D.T., M. Khanna, and D. Zilberman, “Conservation Capital and Sustainable Economic Growth,” Oxford Economic Papers, April 2005.

Brouhle, K. and M. Khanna, “Information and the Provision of Quality-Differentiated Goods,” Economic Inquiry: 45(2): 377-395, April, 2007

Khanna, M., P. Koss, C. Jones, and D. Ervin. "Motivations for Voluntary Environmental Management", Policy Studies Journal, 35(4) pp 751 – 772, 2007.

Khanna, M., B. Dhungana and J. Clifton-Brown, “Costs of Producing Miscanthus and Switchgrass for Bioenergy in Illinois,” Biomass and Bioenergy, 32: 482 – 493, 2008.

Harrington, D. M. Khanna, G. Deltas, “Striving To Be Green: The Adoption Of Total Quality Environmental Management” Applied Economics, DOI: 10.1080/00036840600994005, First Published on: 27 November 2007

Taheripour, F. M. Khanna And C. H. Nelson, “Welfare Impacts Of Alternative Public Policies For Agricultural Pollution Control In An Open Economy: A General Equilibrium Framework,” American Journal Of Agricultural Economics, 90(3): 701-718, 2008.

Khanna, M., A. Ando and F. Taheripour, “Welfare Effects and Unintended Consequences of Ethanol Subsidies,” Review of Agricultural Economics, Fall, 30 (3), 411-421, 2008.