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Faculty Profile - Murray Fulton

Professor and Graduate Chair, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan

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In addition to being a professor and graduate chair at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School, Murray Fulton is a Fellow in Agricultural Co-operation with the university’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. His research and teaching interests are focused in a number of areas, including industrial organization, agricultural and rural policy, co-operative theory, intellectual property rights and regulatory compliance. He is the co-author of a number of books and reports, including Canadian Agricultural Policy and Prairie Agriculture and Co-operatives and Canadian Society. Fulton has also written many articles and papers on industrial organization, co-operatives and agricultural policy. One important area of research has been an examination of the changes that are occurring in agriculture and the response of organizations – including agricultural co-operatives – to these changes. His current research is focused on executive compensation in the public and quasi-public sectors. He is also interested in governance, and in behavioural economics and its application to business strategy and public policy formation.

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Contact
Email: murray.fulton@usask.ca
Phone: (306) 966-8507
Website: http://www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca/fulton/
Designations
  • PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • BA, Oxford University
  • MSc, Texas A&M University
  • BSA, University of Saskatchewan
Areas of Interest
  • Innovation policy
  • Behavioural economics
  • Climate change policy
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Co-operatives and the social economy
  • Agricultural and resource policy
Recent Grants/Awards

Recent Awards

  • Provost’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, 2012
  • Distinguished Graduate Supervision Award, 2007

Recent Research Funding

  • Principal Investigator (Co-applicant: Michael Atkinson), Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant - Executive Compensation in the Public and Quasi-Public Sectors, April 2010 – March 2013
  • Principal Investigator (Co-applicant: Brett Fairbairn), SSHRC Standard Research Grant - Coordination, Identity and Success in a Federated Marketing System: Retail Co-operatives in Western Canada
  • Co-applicant (Principal Investigator: Brett Fairbairn), SSHRC Standard Research Grant - Cognition and Governance in the Social Economy: Innovation in Multistakeholder Organizations
  • Co-applicant (Principal Investigator: Richard Gray), AAFC Agriculture Innovation Network- Canadian Agriculture Innovation Research Network
Select Publications

Refereed Articles

  • M. Cule and M.E. Fulton. Forthcoming. Corporate governance and subjective well-being. Applied Economics Letters.
  • L. Lamprinakis and M.E. Fulton. 2011. Does acquisition of a cooperative generate profits for the buyer? The Dairyworld Case. Agricultural Economics. 42: 89–100.
  • A. Yiannaka and M.E. Fulton. 2011. Getting Away with Robbery? Patenting Behavior with the Threat of Infringement. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. 20(2): 625–648
  • M.E. Fulton and K. Larson. 2009. Overconfidence and Hubris: The Demise of Agricultural Co-operatives in Western Canada. Journal of Rural Cooperation 37(2): 166-200
  • M.E. Fulton and J. Vercammen. 2009. Optimal Two-Part Pricing in a Carbon Offset Market: A Comparison of Organizational Types", Southern Journal of Economics. 76(2): 513-532
  • P. Bontems and M. Fulton. 2009. Organizational Structure, Redistribution and the Endogeneity of Cost: Cooperatives, Investor-Owned Firms and the Cost of Procurement. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 72(1): 322-343
  • M. Cule and M. Fulton. 2009. Business culture and tax evasion: Why corruption and the unofficial economy can persist. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 72(3): 811-822 
  • M.E. Fulton and K. A. Larson. 2009. The Restructuring of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool: Overconfidence and Agency. Journal of Cooperatives Special Issue. 23:1-19.
  • Yiannaka and M.E. Fulton. Forthcoming. Getting Away with Robbery? Patenting Behavior with the Threat of Infringement. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
  • M.E. Fulton and K. Larson. 2009. Overconfidence and Hubris: The Demise of Agricultural Co-operatives in Western Canada. Journal of Rural Cooperation 37(2): 166-200
  • M. Fulton and J. Vercammen. Forthcoming. Optimal Two-Part Pricing in a Carbon Offset Market: A Comparison of Organizational Types. Southern Economics Journal.
  • M. Cule and M. Fulton. Business Culture and Tax Evasion: Why Corruption and the Unofficial Economy Can Persist. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
  • P. Bontems and M. Fulton. Forthcoming. Organizational Structure, Redistribution and the Endogeneity of Cost: Cooperatives, Investor-Owned Firms and the Cost of Procurement. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
  • M. Fulton and K. Larson. 2009. The Restructuring of the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool: Overconfidence and Agency. Journal of Cooperatives. 23:1-19.
  • L.M. Young, A. Weersink, M.E. Fulton, B.J. Deaton. 2007. 
Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture: EU and US Perspectives. EuroChoices 6(1): 32-37.
  • A. Yiannaka and M. Fulton. 2006. Strategic Patent Breadth and Entry Deterrence with Drastic Product Innovations. International Journal of Industrial Organization. 24:177-202
  • M. Cule and M. Fulton. 2005. Some Implications of the Unofficial Economy-Bureaucratic Corruption Relationship in Transition Countries. Economics Letters. 89: 207-211.
  • K. Giannakas and M. Fulton. 2005. Process Innovation Activity in a Mixed Oligopoly: The Role of Cooperatives. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(2): 406-422.
  • A. Weersink, D. Pannell, M.E. Fulton and A. Meyer-Aurich. 2005. Agriculture's Likely Role in Meeting Canada's Kyoto Commitments. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 53(4): 425-441.
  • M. Fulton and K. Giannakas, 2004. Inserting GM Products into the Food Chain The Market and Welfare Effects of Different Labeling and Regulatory Regimes. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 86(1) February: 42-60.
  • K. Belcher, M. Boehm and M. Fulton, 2004. Agroecosystem Sustainability: A Systems Simulation Model Approach. Agricultural Systems. 79:225-241.
  • K. Belcher, M. Boehm, and M. Fulton, 2003. An Agroecosystem Scale Evaluation of the Sustainability Implications of Carbon Tax and Carbon Credit Policies. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 22 (2):75-97.
  • K. Giannakas and M. Fulton. 2003. Costly (Dis)Agreement: Optimal Intervention, Income Redistribution, and Transfer Efficiency of Output Quotas in the Presence of Cheating. Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization 1(1): Article 11: 1-12.
  • K. Giannakas and M. Fulton. 2003. Tough Love: Optimal Enforcement of Output Quotas in the Presence of Cheating. Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization 1(1): Article 2: 1-17.
  • K. Giannakas and M.E. Fulton, 2002. Consumption Effects of Genetic Modification: What if Consumers are Right? Agricultural Economics. 27:97-109.
  • K. Giannakas and M. Fulton. 2002. The Economics of Decoupled Farm Programs Under Costly and Imperfect Enforcement. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 50(3):297-316.
  • M.E. Fulton, K. Giannaka and X. Yunlai. 2002. Implicit Contracts and the Gray Market for Fertilizer in China. Current Agriculture Food and Resource Issues (CAFRI) (4): 1-15.
  • M.E. Fulton and K. Giannakas, 2001. Agricultural Biotechnology and Industry Structure. AgBioForum, 4(2), 137-151.
  • J. Nolan and M.E. Fulton, 2001. Competitive Access: The Next Step for the Canadian Rail Industry? Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, 40(2) Spring: 81-95.
  • K. Giannakas and M.E. Fulton, 2000. Efficient Redistribution Using Quotas and Subsidies in the Presence of Misrepresentation and Cheating. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 82(2): 347-359.
  • K. Giannakas and M.E. Fulton, 2000. The Economics of Coupled Farm Subsidies Under Costly and Imperfect Enforcement. Agricultural Economics, 22: 75-90.

Book Chapters

  • M.E. Fulton and K. Giannakas. 2007. Agency and Leadership in Cooperatives: Endogenizing Organizational Commitment. (eds) K. Karantininis and J. Nilsson. Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies: The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
  • M.E. Fulton, P. Farnese, B. McGregor, M. Boehm and A. Weersink. 2006. Instritutional and Organizational Change: Biosphere Greenhouse Gas Management in Canadian Great Plains Agriculture. (ed) F. Brouwer and B. McCarl. Rural lands, agriculture and climate beyond 2015: Usage and management responses. Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • M. E. Fulton, M. Boehm, H. Janzen and B. MacGregor. 2006. Biosphere Greenhouse Gas Management: Transformative Change in the Biophysical Landscape and Production Practices of Northern Great Plains Agriculture. (ed) F. Brouwer and B McCarl. Rural lands, agriculture and climate beyond 2015; Usage and management responses. Massachuesetts; Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • M.E. Fulton. 2005. Producer Associations: The International Experience. (eds) Bernard H. Sonntag, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle and John H. Skerritt. China's Agricultural and Rural Development in the Early 21st Century. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
  • M.E. Fulton and J. Gibbings. 2004. Cognitive Processes and Cooperative Business Strategy. (eds) Brett Fairbairn and Nora Russell, Co-operative Membership and Globalization. Saskatoon: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.
  • H. Furtan and M.E. Fulton, 2002. An Alternative Approach to the Resolution of Canada-U.S. Disputes Over the Canadian Wheat Board. In Won W. Koo, William W. Wilson, and D. Demcey Johnson (eds.), Agricultural Trade Under CUSTA. New York, NY: Nova Scientific Publishers.
  • P.W.B. Phillips, M.E. Fulton, Lynette Keyowski, Stavroula T. Malla and Richard S. Gray, 2001. Distributing the Gains: Producers, Consumers and Others. In P.W.B. Phillips and G.G. Khachatourians, The Biotechnology Revolution in Global Agriculture: Invention, Innovation and Investment in the Canola Sector, 297-314, Wallingford UK: CABI Publishing.
  • M.E. Fulton, B. Larue, and M. Veeman, 2000. Competitive Impacts of State Trading Enterprises. In H. Michelman, J. Stabler, and G. Storey (eds.), Globalization and New Agricultural Trade Rules for the 21st Century, Lynn Reimer. 151-167.
  • M. Fulton, 2000. Traditional versus New Generation Cooperatives. In N. Walzer and C. Merrett (eds.), A Cooperative Approach to Local Economic Development. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Non-Refereed Articles

Current Courses
  • JSGS 865 Decisions in Organizations
  • JSGS 862 Political Economy
  • JSGS 898 Industrial Organization
Current Research
  • Public Intervention in Emerging Carbon Offset Markets
  • Optimal Carbon Tax and Subsidization of Hybrid Cars
  • Sources of Institutional Failure and Underinvestment in Levy-Funded Agricultural Research
  • A Cognitive Approach to Conflict of Interest: Policy Responses in the Canadian Sponsorship Scandal
  • Further Thoughts on the Rail Transportation Problem in Western Canada