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Chakravorty, Ujjayant

Canada Research Chair
Professor of Economics
Professor of Marketing, Business Economics and Law, School of Business

PhD, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1989
B.S., Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1979

E-mail:  ujjayant@ualberta.ca
Phone:  (780) 492-9567
Fax:  (780) 492-3300  

School of Business webpage:  http://www.business.ualberta.ca/uchakravorty/

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Winter 2010

Econ 567:  Economics of Exhaustible Resources

Field/Research Interests

Resource and Environmental Economics, Energy and Water Resources, Climate Change

Selected Publications

Edited volumes

• "India and Global Climate Change: Perspectives on Economics and Policy from a Developing Country", Washington, D.C.: RFF Press, September 2003, 367 pp. (with Michael Toman and Shreekant Gupta). Published internationally by Oxford University Press. Available on Amazon.com.
• "Environment and Development Economics" Special Issue on The Economics of Water: Environment and Development 7(4), October 2002 (with Timothy Swanson).
• "Agricultural Economics" Special Issue on Management of Water Resources for Agriculture, 24(1), 1-126, December 2000 (with David Zilberman).
• "Monitoring Systems for Managing Natural Resources: Economics, Indicators and Environmental Externalities in a Costa Rican Watershed", Discussion Paper No. 73, The International Food Policy Research Institute and the World Bank, March 2001, 138 pp. (with Peter Hazell, John Dixon and Rafael Celis).
• "Ocean-Scale Management of Pelagic Fisheries: Economic and Regulatory Issues", Joint Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Research Contribution 99-321, 1999, 102 pp. (with John Sibert).

Published Journal Articles and Chapters in Books

• "Fuel vs Food", (with Marie Helene Hubert and Linda Nostbakken), Annual Review of Resource Economics 1(1), Inaugural Issue, October 2009.
• "Water Allocation under Distribution Losses: Comparing Alternative Institutions," (with Eithan Hochman, Chieko Umetsu and David Zilberman), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, February 2009.
• "Ordering the Extraction of Polluting Nonrenewable Resources," American Economic Review 98(3), June 2008 (with Michel Moreaux and Mabel Tidball).
• "A Dynamic Model of Food and Clean Energy," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 32(4), 2008 (with Bertrand Magne and Michel Moreaux).
• "Openness, Lobbying and Provision of Infrastructure," Southern Economic Journal 74(4), 2008 (with Joy Mazumdar).
• "Clean Air Regulation and Heterogeneity in US Gasoline Prices," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 55, 2007 (with Celine Nauges and Alban Thomas).
• "Environmental Effects of Intensification of Agriculture," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 8(4), 2007 (with Donna Fisher and Chieko Umetsu).
• "A Hotelling Model with a Ceiling on the Stock of Pollution," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 30(12), 2006 (with Bertrand Magne and Michel Moreaux).
• "Discontinuous Extraction of a Nonrenewable Resource," Economics Letters (90), 2006 (with Eric Im and James Roumasset).
• "Plafond de Concentration Atmospherique en Carbone et Substitutions Entre Resources Energetiques," Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 81, 2006 (with Bertrand Magne and Michel Moreaux).
• "Efficiency and Technical Change in the Philippine Rice Sector during the Post-Green Revolution Era" Studies in Regional Science, 36(1), 2006 (with Chieko Umetsu and Thamana Lekprichakul).
• "Water Management with Downstream Externalities: The Case of the Ogeechee River Basin," Indian Journal of Environmental Economics 4(1), 2006 (with Donna Fisher).
• "Specialization and Nonrenewable Resources: Ricardo Meets Ricardo," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29(9), 2005 (with Darrell Krulce and James Roumasset).
• "Basinwide Water Management: A Spatial Model," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (45), 2003 (with Chieko Umetsu), Lead Article. Reprinted in J. Geoghegan and W Gray, eds. Spatial Aspects of Environmental Policy, Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
• "Protecting Forests Through Farming: A Dynamic Model of Nontimber Forest Extraction," Environmental and Resource Economics, 24(1), 2003 (with Herath Gunatileke), Lead Article.
• "Efficiency and Technical Change in the Philippine Rice Sector: A Malmquist Total Factor Productivity Analysis," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85(4), 2003 (with Chieko Umetsu and Thamana Lekprichakul).
• "Endogenous Substitution of Energy Resources: Theory and Application to the Indian Energy Sector," in M. Toman et al., eds., India and Global Climate Change: Perspectives on Economics and Policy from a Developing Country, Washington, D.C.: RFF Press, 2003.