Ramon Lopez

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B.S. 1973, University of Chile: Agricultural Economics
M.A. 1973, University of Chile: Economics
M.Sc. 1977, The University of British Columbia: Agricultural Economics
Ph.D. 1981, The University of British Columbia: Economics

International Trade, Environmental & AG Development in Less Developed Countries

AREC845 - Advanced International Agricultural Development

AREC689L - Special Topics in Agricultural and Resource Economics: Application of Microeconomics to Environmental and Resource Issues          

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Bulte, E., R. Damania and R. López (2007), “On the gains of committing to inefficiency: Corruption, deforestation and low land productivity in Latin America”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 54, pp. 277 - 295.

López, R. and G. Galinato (2007), “Should Governments Stop Subsidies to Private Goods? Evidence from Rural Latin America”, Journal of Public Economics, 91, pp. 1071-94.

Anríquez, G. and R. López (2007), “Agricultural Growth and Poverty in an Archetypical Middle Income Country: Chile 1987-2003”, Agricultural Economics, 36, pp. 191-202.

López, R., G. Anríquez and S. Gulati (2007), “Structural Change and Sustainable Development”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 53, pp307-322.
 
Engel, S., R. López and C. Palmer (2006), “Community-Industry Contracting over Natural Resource Use in a Context of Weak property Rights: The Case of Indonesia”, Environmental and Resource Economics, 33, pp. 73-93.

López, R. and G. Galinato, (2005) “Trade Policy, Economic Growth and the Direct Causes of         Deforestation”, Land Economics, 81, pp. 145-169.

López, R. and G. Galinato,  (2005). “Deforestation and Forest-Induced Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Tropical Countries: How do Governance and Trade Openness Affect the Forest-Income relationship?”, The Journal of Environment and Development, 14, pp., 73-100.

López, R. (2005). “Under-investing in Public Goods: Evidence, Causes and Consequences for Agricultural Development, Equity and the Environment”. Agricultural Economics, 32 (S): 211-224.
 
López, R., (2003): “The Policy Roots of Socioeconomic Stagnation and Environmental Implosion: Latin America 1950-2000”, World Development, 31, pp. 259-79.

López, R. and S. Mitra, (2000). “Corruption, Pollution and the Kuznets Environment Curve,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 40, pp., 137-50.