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Robert Chambers

 
 Robert Chambers Robert  Chambers
Professor
Phone: 301-405-1266         Office: 3212 Symons Hall
E-mail: rchambers@arec.umd.edu Personal Web Page
Education:

B.S.F.S. 1972, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University: International Relations
M.S. 1975, University of Maryland at College Park: Agricultural and Resource Economics
Ph.D. 1979, University of California at Berkeley: Agricultural and Resource Economics
Research:

Production Theory, Public Economics, Uncertainty, Financial Economics, Trade, Microeconomic Theory
Courses:

AREC405 - Economics of Agricultural Production

AREC632 - Agricultural Policy Analysis

AREC832 - Advanced Agricultural Policy Analysis

AREC869C - Advanced Topics in Agricultural and Resource Economics: Information and Institutions in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Development  

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Selected

Publications:

   “Buy Low, Sell High: Price Gaps and Neoclassical Theory”. Robert G. Chambers and Tigran Melkonyan, (forthcoming Journal of Mathematical Economics).

“Separability of Stochastic Production Decisions from Producer Risk Preferences in the Presence of Financial Markets”. Robert G. Chambers and John Quiggin (forthcoming Journal of Mathematical Economics).

“Cost Minimization and the Stochastic Discount Factor”. Robert G. Chambers and John Quiggin (forthcoming Annals of Operations Research).

“A ‘Calculus’ for DEA Models”. Robert G. Chambers and Rolf Färe. Journal of Productivity Analysis 30 (2008): 169-175 (lead article).

“Stochastic Productivity Measurement”. Robert G. Chambers. Journal of Productivity Analysis 30 (2008): 107-120.

“Narrowing the No-Arbitrage Bounds”. Robert G. Chambers and John Quiggin. Journal of Mathematical Economics 44 (2008): 1-14 (lead article).

“Valuing Agricultural Insurance”. Robert G. Chambers American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89 (2007): 596-606.

“Pareto Optimal Trade in an Uncertain World: GMOs and the Precautionary Principle”.  Robert G. Chambers and Tigran Melkonyan. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89 (2007): 520-532.

“Degree of Imprecision: Geometric and Algorithmic Approaches.” Robert G. Chambers  and Tigran Melkonyan.  International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 45(2007): 106-122.

“Dual Approaches to the Analysis of Risk Aversion”. Robert G. Chambers and John Quiggin, Economica 74 (2007): 189-213 (lead article).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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