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James Roumasset

   

Office: Saunders Hall 514
Office Hours: current semester
Phone: 956 -7496   Fax: 956 -4347
Email: jimr@hawaii.edu
Webpage: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jimr/
Position: Professor

Research Interests: environmental & resource economics, new institutional economics, development microeconomics

Teaching Areas: resource and environmental econ, development policy, public economics

Affiliations: American Economic Association, American Association of Environmental & Resource Economists, American Agricultural Economics Association, Western Economic Association, International Society for New Institutional Economics

Service History: UHM Sustainability Council; UHM Climate Commission; Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Agriculture and Development; Editorial Board for Contemporary Policy Issues; formerly editorial board for American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Selected Publications:

  • "Agricultural Growth and Population Change," forthcoming in New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, MacMillan Publishing Co. viewable via www.dictionaryofeconomics.com
  • "Labor: Decisions, Contracts, and Organization," (w/ Sang Hyop Lee) forthcoming in Evenson and Pingali, Handbook of Agricultural Economics III (Elsevier).
  • "Environmental Resources and Economic Growth," with Hua Wang and Kimberly Burnett, forthcoming in Chinas Economic Transition: Origins, Mechanism, and Consequences.
  • "Optimal Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater with Recharge and Return Flows: Dynamic and Spatial Patterns," (w/ Sittidaj Pongkijvorasin). In press, Review of Agricultural Economics
  • Control of Invasive Species: Lessons from Miconia in Hawaii,with Brooks Kaiser and Kimberly Burnett. In press, Journal of Forest Economics
  • "Specialization and Non-renewable Resources: Ricardo meets Ricardo" (w/ U. Chakravorty and D. Krulce), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 29 (2005) 1517-1545. (available online at ScienceDirect.com).
  • "Sustainable Growth with Environmental Spillovers" (with L. Endress and T. Zhou), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Volume 58, Issue 4 , December 2005, 527-547.
  • "Discontinuous Extraction of a Non-Renewable Resource," (w/ E. Im and U. Chakravorty), Economic Letters, Volume 90 Issue 1, January 2006, 6-11.
  • "Rural Institutions, Agricultural Development, and Pro-Poor Economic Growth," Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, 1, 1, 61-82 (June, 2004).
  • "Risk aversion as effort incentive: A correction and prima-facie test of the canonical theory of share tenancy," (w/M.Deweaver) Economics Bulletin, v15, n4.
  • "Optimal Management of a Renewable and Replaceable Resource: The Case of Coastal Groundwater," (with D. Krulce and T. Wilson), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, November, 1997.
  • "Endogenous Substitution Among Energy Resources and Global Warming," (with U. Chakravorty and K. Tse), Journal of Political Economy, December, 1997; reprinted in Hoel, Recent Developments in Environmental Economics (2004).
  • "The Nature of the Agricultural Firm," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 26, 171-177 (1995).
  • "A Modified Golden Rule for Sustainable Resource Management," (w/L.Endress) Economic Record, Vol. 70, September, 1994.
  • "The Relative Welfare Cost of Industrial and Agricultural Policy Distortions: A Philippine Illustration," (with R. Clarete), Oxford Economics Papers, 1990.
  • Rice and Risk (North-Holland)

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