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

AREC404 - Price Analysis

AREC845 - Environment and Development Economics  

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López, R., G. Galinato, and A. Islam.“Fiscal Spending and the environment: Theory and empirics”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62 (2011):180-198.

López, R. “The Economics of Forest Resources” (a review essay), Journal of Economic Literature, 48 (2010):178-83.

López, R. “Sustainable economic development: on the coexistence of resource-dependent and resource-impacting industries”, Environment and Development Economics, 15 (2010):687-705.

López, R. “World economic crises in an era of environmental scarcity and wealth concentration”, CEPAL Review, 102 (2010): 27-47.

Engel, S. and R. López, “Exploiting Common Resources with Capital-Intensive Technologies: The Role of External Forces”, Environment and Development Economics, 13 (2008):565-89. 

Lopez, R. and S. Miller, “Chile: The Unbearable Burden of Inequality”, World Development  36 (2008):2679-95. 

 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.