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Faculty Profile

Kieran Donaghy

Title

Professor
Department Chair

Department

City & Regional Planning

Address

106B W. Sibley Hall

Phone

(607) 255-4613

Email

kpd23@cornell.edu
Kieran Donaghy’s teaching and research has involved nonlinear dynamic systems modeling of issues in housing, transportation, land use, the physical environment, employment, public finance, climate change, migration, and neighborhood ecology.

 

Donaghy has also maintained an active interest in environmental and development ethics. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission, and other international and state and federal agencies, and was the executive director of the Regional Science Association International from 1997 to 2003. 

 

Donaghy received a B.A. from the State University at Albany in sociology and philosophy prior to receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. in regional science from Cornell.

Courses (selected)

  • CRP 3210 Intro to Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Public Policy
  • CRP 3011 / 6011 Ethics, Development, and Globalization
  • CRP 5250 Intro to Methods of Planning Analysis
  • CRP 8010 Advanced Seminar in Urban and Regional Theory II (Location Theory)
  • CRP 8300 Seminar in Regional Science, Planning, and Policy Analysis

Publications (selected)

  • “Modeling Unexpected Events in Temporally Disaggregated Econometric Input-Output Models of Regional Economies,” with N. Balta and G. Hewings, Economic Systems Review (2007)
  • Globalization and Regional Economic Modeling , with R. Cooper and G. Hewings (2007)
  • "Climate Change and Planning: Responding to the Challenge," Town Planning Review, (2007)

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (selected)

  • Hirotada Kohno Award for Outstanding Service to the RSAI (2007)
  • David E. Boyce Award in Recognition of Distinguished Service to the Field of Regional Science (2003)

Exhibitions and Presentations (selected)

  • Continuous-Time Estimation of a Spatial Endogenous Growth Model with Spatial Panel Data, North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Francisco (2009)
  • Resource-Based Sustainable Development: An Energy Planning Model for Nigeria, North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Brooklyn (2008)
  • Models of Travel Demand with Endogenous Preference Change and Heterogeneous Agents, invited lecture to the Department of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology (2008)

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