Lars Olson

 
Lars OlsonLars Olson  Lars Olson
Professor
Phone: 301-405-7180          Office: 2222b Symons Hall
E-mail: lolson@arec.umd.edu Personal Web Page
Education:

B.A. 1981, Eckerd College: Mathematics and Economics
M.A. 1985, Cornell University: Economics
Ph.D. 1988, Cornell University: Economics

Research: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty
Courses: AREC240 - Introduction to Economics and the Environment
AREC250 - Elements of Agricultural and Resource Economics
AREC620 - Optimization in Agricultural and Resource Economics
ECON785 - Advanced Economics of Natural Resources
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 Recent 
 Publications:

Olson, L.J. and S. Roy. in press (available free online). Controlling a Biological Invasion: A Non-Classical Dynamic Economic Model, Economic Theory.

Olson, L.J. 2006. The Economics of Terrestrial Invasive Species: A Review of the Literature. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 35(1), 178-194.

Olson, L.J. and S. Roy. 2006. Theory of Stochastic Optimal Economic Growth, in Handbook of Economic Growth - Volume 1: The Discrete Time Case (ed. by. C. Le Van, R. Dana, T. Mitra and K. Nishimura). Springer. 297-335.

Olson, L.J. and S. Roy. 2005. On Prevention and Control of an Uncertain Biological Invasion, Review of Agricultural Economics, 27(3), 491-97.

Bramoulle, Y. and L.J. Olson. 2005. Allocation of Pollution Abatement Under Learning by Doing, Journal of Public Economics, 89(9-10), 1935-60.

Just, R.E., S. Netanyahu and L.J. Olson. 2005. Depletion of Natural Resources, Technological Uncertainty, and the Adoption of Technological Substitutes. Resource and Energy Economics, 27(2), 91-108.

Olson, L.J. and S. Roy. 2002. The Economics of Controlling a Stochastic Biological Invasion, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84(5), 1311-1316.

Larson, C.E., L.J. Olson, and S. Sharma.  2001.  Optimal Inventory Policies When the Distribution of Demand is Not Known, Journal of Economic Theory, 101, 281-300.

Olson, L.J. and S. Roy.  2000.  Dynamic Efficiency of Conservation of Renewable Resources Under Uncertainty, Journal of Economic Theory, 95(2), 186-214.

Olson, L.J. and K.C. Knapp. 1997. Exhaustible Resource Allocation in an Overlapping Generations Economy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 32(3):277-292.

   
   
   

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