Ryan Cardwell

Associate Professor
Graduate Student Coordinator

Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics
University of Manitoba
Room 379 Agriculture Building
Winnipeg, MB, R3M 3E9
Telephone 204-474-9609
Fax 204-261-7251
Email: ryan_cardwell@umanitoba.ca

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Cardwell, Ryan and P.L. Ghazalian. "The TRIPS Agreement as a Coercive Threat: Estimating the Effects of Trade Ties on IPR Protection Regimes." Global Economy Journal. Forthcoming.

Cardwell, Ryan, Chad Lawley and Di Xiang. 2015. “Milked and Feathered: The Regressive Welfare Effects of Canada's Supply Management Regime.” Canadian Public Policy 41(1): 1-14.

Cardwell, Ryan and W.A. Kerr. 2014. “Can Export Restrictions be Disciplined Through the WTO?” The World Economy. 37(8): 1186-1196.

Rafajlovic, Juanita and Ryan Cardwell. 2013. "The Effects of a New WTO Agreement on Canada's Chicken Market: A Differentiated Products Modeling Approach." Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 61(4): 487-507.

Cardwell, Ryan and P.L. Ghazalian. 2012. "The Effects of the TRIPS Agreement on International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights." The International Trade Journal 26(1): 19-36.

Ghazalian, P.L. and Ryan Cardwell. 2010. "Did the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture Affect Trade Flows? An Empirical Investigation for Meat Commodities." International Advances in Economic Research 16(4): 331-344.

Ghazalian, P.L. and Ryan Cardwell. 2009. "Liberalisation of Trade in Primary Agricultural Commodities: Expected Effects on Food-Processing FDI." Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 10(1): 209-222.

Cardwell, Ryan and W.A. Kerr. 2009. "How Much Food Aid Is Enough? Insights for WTO Rulemaking." Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 48(3): 191-216.

Cardwell, Ryan. 2008. "Food Aid, Surplus Disposal and Multilateral Trade Agreements: What is the Historical Justification for New WTO Rules?" Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 5(1): 73-92.

Cardwell, Ryan. 2008. "Food Aid and the WTO: Can New Rules Be Effective?" Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 9(1): 74-92.

Cardwell, Ryan and W.A. Kerr. 2008. “Protecting Biotechnology IPRs in Developing Countries: Simple Analytics of a Levy Solution.” Journal of Agricultural Economics 59(2): 217-236.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Cardwell, Ryan. 2014. “International Trade and Food Security,” in Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan, editors, Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer.

Cardwell, Ryan. 2014. “Food Assistance and International Trade,” in Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan, editors, Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Cardwell, Ryan. 2014. “Madly Off in All Directions – The Pursuit of Preferential Trade Agreements by North American Governments.” Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 15(2): 179-186.

Cardwell, Ryan and W.A. Kerr. 2013. "Reforming WTO Rules on Export Restrictions – Is There Any Point?" CATPRN Commissioned Paper #2013-07.

Cardwell, Ryan and P.L. Ghazalian. 2012. "The TRIPS Agreement as a Coercive Threat: Estimating the Effects of Trade Ties on IPR Enforcement." CATPRN Commissioned Paper #2012-07.
• Accompanying Trade Policy Brief #2012-06

Cardwell, Ryan. 2012. “High Food Prices and International Food Assistance.” CATPRN Commissioned Paper #2012-02.

Hink, M., Ryan Cardwell and C. Lawley. 2012. "An Empirical Investigation Into the Determinants of Trade Policy Bias." CATPRN Working Paper #2012-01.

Ghazalian, P.L. and Ryan Cardwell. 2010. "Multilateral Trade Liberalisation and FDI: An Analytical Framework for the Implications for Trading Blocs." Proceedings from CAES Annual Research Workshop. Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 11(1): 192-212.

Rafajlovic, Juanita and Ryan Cardwell. 2010. “The Implications of the WTO Negotiations on the Canadian Chicken Market: Two Representations of Chicken and Stochastic World Prices.” CATPRN Working Paper #2010-07.

Cardwell, Ryan. 2009. “Food Aid: Future Challenges and China’s Evolving Role.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Modernisation and Development in Pastoral Areas. Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. Hohhot, China.

Cardwell, Ryan and R. Barichello. 2009. “High Food Prices and Developing Countries: Policy Responses at Home and Abroad.” CATPRN Commissioned Paper #2009-01.

Cardwell, Ryan and L. Zhang. 2009. "Agricultural Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries: The Economics of Terminator Genes." CAIRN Policy Brief, Number 14.

Cardwell, Ryan, B. Fridfinnson and J. Rude. 2007. “Food Aid as Surplus Disposal? The WTO, Export Competition Disciplines and the Disposition of Food Aid.” CATPRN Commissioned Paper #2007-03.
• Accompanying Trade Policy Brief #2007-01

Cardwell, Ryan. "Does food aid benefit its intended recipients?" Farmers' Independent Weekly, November 10, 2005.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference

Toronto, ON, May 2015

"The Effects of Aid Agency Independence on Aid Allocation Decisions"

International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA, December 2014
"The Effects of Aid Agency Independence on Aid Allocation Decisions"

International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA, December 2012
"Price Effects and Substitutability of Food Assistance Commodities"

International Association of Agricultural Economists Triennial Meeting
Iguaçu Falls, Brazil, August 2012
"An Empirical Investigation into the Determinants of Trade Policy Bias"
• with Matthew J. Hink and Chad Lawley

Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting
Calgary, AB, June 2012
"The TRIPS Agreement as a Coercive Threat: The Importance of Bilateral Trade Ties in Countries’ Stronger Enforcement of IPRs"
• with Pascal L. Ghazalian

Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Annual Meeting
Banff, AB, July 2011
"Impact of Market Access Reforms on the Canadian Dairy Industry"
• with Anastasie Hacault, James Rude and Jared Carlberg

Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Annual Meeting
Banff, AB, June 2011
"An Empirical Investigation into Trade Biases in Agriculture"
• with Matthew Hink and Chad Lawley

Agricultural and Applied Economics Association/Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Joint Meeting
Denver, CO, 2010
"Trade Liberalization and Canada’s Chicken Industry: Welfare Effects under Alternative Modeling Strategies"
• with Juanita Rafajlovic

International Association of Agricultural Economists Triennial Meeting
Beijing, China, August 2009
"Food Aid and Biofuels: The Effects of Biofuel Policies on Procurement and Delivery"

Canadian Economics Association/Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Annual Meeting
Toronto, ON, May 2009
"Has the TRIPs Agreement Strengthened Protection of Intellectual Property Rights? A Dynamic Panel Investigation"

Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Annual Meeting
Quebec, QC, July 2008
"Food Aid and Biofuel Policies: Deconstructing the Effects on Procurement and Delivery"

Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Annual Meeting
Montreal, QC, June 2006
"Will the Doha Round Affect Food Aid Flows? The Effects of WTO Export Competition Disciplines on the Composition and Disposition of Food Aid"

American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting
Denver, CO, August 2004
"Is the Efficacy of Commodity Promotion Programs Overestimated? Applying
Time-series Econometrics to Advertising-augmented Demand Models"

Canadian Economics Association Annual Meeting
Toronto, ON, June 2004
"The Importance of Dynamics in Advertising Demand Models"

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
University of Manitoba, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences Faculty Seminar

Winnipeg, MB, October 2014
“Milked and Feathered: The Regressive Welfare Effects of Canada's Supply Management Regime”

Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Gottingen

Gottingen (Germany), April, 2014

“Can Export Restrictions be Disciplined Through the WTO?”

• with William A. Kerr

Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies

Halle (Germany), April, 2014

“Can Export Restrictions be Disciplined Through the WTO?”

• with William A. Kerr

Department of Economics, Roma Tre University

Roma, April, 2014

“The TRIPS Agreement as a Coercive Threat: The Effects of Trade Ties on IPR Protection Regimes”

• with Pascal L. Ghazalian

Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, DC, November 2013

“Censored Demand Systems”

• with Chad Lawley and Di Xiang

Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Virginia Tech University
Blacksburg, VA, November 2013

“Censored Demand Systems”

• with Chad Lawley and Di Xiang

Department of Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics, University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, November 2012
"High Food Prices and International Food Assistance"

Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy and Competitiveness Research Network Annual Meeting
Toronto, ON, September 2012
"High Food Prices and International Food Assistance"

Department of Economics, Management, and Sociology, University of Sao Paulo
Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2012
“What Happens to Food Aid When Commodities Prices Rise?”

Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, MB, April 2012
“What Happens to Food Aid When Commodity Prices Spike?”

Department of Economics, University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, AB, February 2012
“High Food Prices and International Food Aid”

Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy and Competitiveness Research Network Annual Meeting
Toronto, ON, May 2011
"An Empirical Investigation in Trade Biases in Agriculture"
• with Matthew Hink and Chad Lawley

Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba; "Unfinished Business: Human Rights Issues in the 21st Century"
Winnipeg, MB, May 2010
"The Right to Adequate Food: Policy Options and Obligations"

Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Annual Research Workshop; "Beyond the Three Pillars: The New Agenda in Agri-food Trade"
Quebec, QC, October 2009
"Multilateral Trade Liberalisation and FDI: An Analytical Framework for the Implications on Trading Blocs"
• with Pascal L. Ghazalian

International Symposium on Modernisation and Development in Pastoral Areas; Inner Mongolia Agricultural University
Hohhot, China, August 2009
“Food Aid: Future Challenges and China’s Evolving Role”

Alberta Agricultural Economics Association
Red Deer, AB, April 2009
“Food Aid and Biofuels: The Effects of Biofuel Policies on Procurement and Delivery”

Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, November 2008
"Food Aid and Biofuels: the Effects on Procurement and Delivery"

University of Manitoba, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences Faculty Seminar

Winnipeg, MB, February 2008
“Trade Retaliation, Levies & Terminator Genes: Biotechnology Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries”

Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, MB, November 2007
"Biotechnology IPRs in Developing Countries: GM Crops and the WTO"

University of Manitoba, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences Faculty Seminar

Winnipeg, MB, February 2007
“Food Aid and the WTO: The Effects of Trade Rules on Food Aid Shipments”

International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Annual General Meeting
St. Petersburg, FL, December 2006
"Aid and Surplus Disposal: The Effects of Export Competition Disciplines on the Disposition of Food Aid"

Canadian Agricultural Innovation Research Network
Toronto, ON, December 2005
“Licensing Biotechnology in Developing Countries: A Levy as a Transaction-Cost Reducing Mechanism to Protect IPRs”

Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, February 2005
"A New Perspective on Aid: Optimal Control of Emergency Food Aid"

NEC - 63, The Research Committee on Commodity Promotion Annual Meeting
Lake Louise, AB, September 2004
"Dynamic Processes in Agricultural Demand Systems"

FUNDED RESEARCH
Complications in Enforcing Export Restriction Disciplines in the WTO, 2012-2013
• Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy and Competitiveness Research Network
• with W.A. Kerr

The TRIPs Agreement as a Coercive Threat: The Importance of Bilateral Trade Ties in Countries’ Stronger Enforcement of IPRs, 2011-2012
• Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy and Competitiveness Research Network
• with Pascal L. Ghazalian

The Impacts of High and Volatile Food Prices on Food Aid, 2011-2012
• Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy and Competitiveness Research Network
• with Canadian Foodgrains Bank

An Empirical Investigation into Trade Biases in Agriculture, 2010-2011
• Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy and Competitiveness Research Network

The Welfare Effects of Trade Liberalisation on the Canadian Chicken Industry, 2010
• Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy and Competitiveness Research Network

Predictability in International Poultry Trade, 2009
• Manitoba Rural Adaptation Council

High Food Prices and Developing Countries: Policy Responses, 2008
• Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network
• with Richard Barichello

Genetic Use Restricting Technologies in Developing Countries: An Answer to Market Failures or the Death Knell to Gains from Innovation?, 2006
• Canadian Agricultural Innovation Research Network

Will the Doha Round Affect Food Aid Flows? The Effects of WTO Export Competition Disciplines on the Composition and Disposition of Food Aid, 2006
• Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network
• with James Rude

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
Primary Supervision
Jereme Biney, M.Sc., Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics.
Topic: Canadian Food Aid after Untying. 2014-present.

Lyle Wiens. M.Sc., Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics.
Topic: Food Aid. 2011-2012.

Matthew Hink. M.Sc., Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics.
Topic: Trade Biases in Agriculture. 2009-2011.

Juanita Rafajlovic. M.Sc., Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics.
Topic: Predictability in International Poultry Trade. 2008-2009.

Lixia Zhang. M.Sc., Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics.
Topic: Agricultural Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries: The Economics of Terminator Genes. 2007-2008.

Committee Member

Khan Islam, Ph.D., Department of Economics: Topic: Essays on Micro-credit and Payday Lending. 2014-present.

Di Xiang. Ph.D., Department of Economics. Topic: Censored Food Demand Systems. 2013-present.

Anastasie Hacault. M.Sc., Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics. Topic: Canadian Dairy Trade and WTO Negotiations. 2009-2011.

Joan Lupupa. Ph.D., Department of Economics. Topic: On International Environmental Policy Cooperation and Trade. 2008.

James Young. M.Sc., Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics. Topic: Converging Patterns of Rural Income Growth. 2008.

Ran Wei. M.Sc., Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics. Topic: Dynamic Econometric Models of Wheat Yields Response to Price for Alberta and Saskatchewan. 2006.

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
Canadian Agricultural Economics Society
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
International Association of Agricultural Economists

International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium

Canadian Development Economics Study Group