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Y. Hossein Farzin

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Professor

3109 Social Sciences & Humanities

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 4:00-5:00 p.m. and Thursday, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Phone: (530) 752-7610

Fax: (530) 752-5614

farzin@primal.ucdavis.edu

 

External Research Associate

Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre)

Department of Economics,University of Oxford, UK

www.oxcarre.ox.ac.uk

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Selected Publications

  • Farzin, Y.H. "Sustainability, Optimality, and Development Policy." Review of Development Economics 14(2) (2010):262-281.
  • Farzin, Y. H. "The Effect of Non-Pecuniary Motivations on Labor Supply." The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 49 (2009):1236-1259.
  • Gruère, G.P., C.A. Carter, and Y.H. Farzin. "Explaining International Differences in Genetically Modified Food Labeling Policies." Review of International Economics 17(3) (2009):393-408.
  • Gruère, G.P., C.A. Carter, and Y.H. Farzin. "What Labelling Policy For Consumer Choice? The Case of Genetically Modified Food Labeling Policies in Canada and Europe." Canadian Journal of Economics 41(4) (2008):1472-1497.
  • Bond, C. A., and Y.H. Farzin. "Alternative Sustainability Criteria, Externalities, and Welfare in a Simple Agroecosystem Model: A Numerical Analysis." Environmental and Resource Economics 40(3) (2008):383-399.
  • Bond, C. A. and Y.H. Farzin. "Estimating Agricultural Pollution Abatement Costs At The Plot Level Using Experimental Data : A Maximum Entropy Approach." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 32(2)(2007):273-290.
  • Bond, C.A., and Y.H. Farzin. "Agroecosystem Modeling and Optimal Economic Decisions: Implications for Sustainable Agriculture." Optimal Control, Applications and Methods 29(1) (2007).
  • Akao, K., and Y.H. Farzin. "When is It Optimal to Exhaust a Resource in a Finite Time?" Ecological Research 22(3) (2007).
  • Farzin, Y.H. and C.A. Bond. "Democracy and Environmental Quality." Journal of Development Economics 81(1) (2006).
  • Farzin, Y.H. "Conditions for Sustainable Optimal Economic Development." Review of Development Economics 10(3) (2006).
  • Farzin, Y.H. "Can Stricter Environmental Standards Benefit Industry and Enhance Welfare?" Annales D'Economie et de Statistique 75/76 (2004).
  • Farzin, Y.H., and J.D. Kaplan. "Non-Point Source Pollution under Incomplete and Costly Information." Environmental and Resource Economics 28(4) (2004).
  • Farzin, Y.H. "Is an Exhaustible Resource Economy Sustainable?" Review of Development Economics 8(1) (2004).
  • Farzin, Y.H. "The Effects of Emissions Standards on Industry." Journal of Regulatory Economics 24(3) (2003).
  • Kaplan, J.D., R.E. Howitt, and Y.H. Farzin. "An Information-Theoretical Analysis of Budget-Constrained Non-point Source Pollution Control." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 46(1) (2003).
  • Farzin, Y.H. "The Impact of Oil Price on Additions to U.S. Proven Reserves." Energy and Resource Economics 23(3) (2001).
  • Farzin, Y.H., and P. Kort. "Pollution Abatement Investment When Environmental Regulation is Uncertain." Journal of Public Economic Theory 2(2) (2000).
  • Farzin, Y.H. "Optimal Saving Policy for Exhaustible Resource Economies." Journal of Development Economics 58(2) (1999).
  • Farzin, Y.H., K. Huisman, and P. Kort. "Optimal Timing of Technology Adoption." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 72(6) (1998).

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