Roumasset, James, Kimberly Burnett, and Arsenio Balisacan (eds.). (Forthcoming). Sustainability Science for Watershed Landscapes. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; Los Banos, Philippines: Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture
Pitafi, Basharat and James Roumasset. (2009) "Pareto-Improving Water Management over Space and Time: The Honolulu Case," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 91(1):138-153.
Pongkijvorasin, Sittidaj, James Roumasset, Thomas Kaeío Duarte, and Kimberly Burnett. 2008. "Renewable Resource Management with Stock Externalities: Coastal Aquifers and Submarine Groundwater Discharge," UH WP 08-08R.
Ravago, Majah-Leah, James Roumasset, and Kimberly Burnett. 2008. "Resource management for Sustainable Development of Island Economies," UH WP 08-4.
Burnett, Kimberly, Sean D'Evelyn, Brooks Kaiser, Porntawee Nantamanasikarn and James Roumasset. 2008. "Beyond the Lamppost: Optimal Prevention and Control of the Brown Treesnake in Hawaii," Ecological Economics, 67(1):66-74.
Sean D'Evelyn, Nori Tarui, Kimberly Burnett, and James Roumasset. 2008. "Learning-by-Catching: Uncertain Invasive-Species Populations and the Value of Information," Journal of Environmental Management, 89(4):271-350.
Burnett, Kimberly, Brooks Kaiser, and James Roumasset. 2007. "Invasive Species Control over Space and Time: Miconia calvescens on Oahu, Hawaii," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 39: 125-132.
Burnett, Kimberly, Brooks Kaiser, and James Roumasset. 2007. "Economic Lessons from Control Efforts for an Invasive Species: Miconia calvescens in Hawaii," Journal of Forest Economics, 13 (2-3): 151-167.
Pongkijvorasin, Sittidaj and James Roumasset. 2007. "Optimal Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater with Recharge and Return Flows: Dynamic and Spatial Patterns," Review of Agricultural Economics, 29(3):531-539.
Kaiser, Brooks, Basharat Pitafi, James Roumasset, and Kimberly Burnett. 2007. "The Economic Value of Watershed Conservation," in A. Fares and A. El-Kadi (eds.), Land Management Impacts on Coastal Watershed Hydrology (WIT Press, Southampton, UK).
Roumasset, James, Kimberly Burnett, and Hua Wang. 2007. Environmental Resources and Economic Growth, Chapter 8 in: China's Economic Transition: Origins, Mechanism, and Consequences. Cambridge University Press.
Pongkijvorasin, Sittidaj and James Roumasset. 2007. Discussion of "The Stabilization Value of Groundwater and Conjunctive Water Management under Uncertainty," Review of Agricultural Economics, 29(3):555-556.
Roumasset, James. 2007. "Session Discussion: Dynamic Risk Preferences, Poverty Traps, and Thresholds," Review of Agricultural Economics, 29(3):427-429.
Burnet, Kimberly, James Roumasset, and Yacov Tsur. 2007. "Delaying the Catastrophic Arrival of the Brown Tree Snake to Hawaii," UH WP 07-15.
Burnett, Kimberly, Sean D'Evelyn, Brooks Kaiser, Porntawee Nantamanasikarn and James Roumasset. 2007. "Beyond the Lamppost: Optimal Prevention and Control of the Brown Treesnake in Hawaii," UH WP 07-14.
Pongkijvorasin, Sittidaj, James Roumasset, and Thomas Kaeío Duarte. 2007. "Coastal Groundwater Management with Nearshore Resource Interactions," UH WP 07-13.
Pongkijvorasin, Sittidaj and James Roumasset. 2007. " Confuser Cost ," UH WP 07-12.
Pongkijvorasin, Sittidaj and James Roumasset. 2007. "Optimal Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater with Recharge and Return Flows: Dynamic and Spatial Patterns," UH WP 07-4.
Burnett, Kimberly, Brooks Kaiser, Basharat Pitafi and James Roumasset. 2006. "Prevention, Eradication, and Containment of Invasive Species: Illustrations from Hawaii," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 35(1): 63-77.
Im, Eric, Ujjayant Chakravorty and James Roumasset. 2006 "Discontinuous Extraction of a Non-Renewable Resource," Economic Letters, 90(1):6-11.
Kaiser, Brooks, Kimberly Burnett, and James Roumasset. 2006. "Control of Invasive Species: Lessons from Miconia in Hawaii." UH WP 06-8.
Chakravorty, Ujjayant, James Roumasset, and Darrell Krulce. 2005. "Specialization and Non-renewable Resources: Ricardo meets Ricardo," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 29(9):1517-1545.
Endress, Lee, James Roumasset, and Ting Zhou. 2005. "Sustainable Growth with Environmental Spillovers," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 58(4):527-547.
Chakravorty, Ujjayant and James Roumasset. 2004. "Efficient Spatial Allocation of Irrigation Water," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 73(1): 165-173.
Kaiser, Brooks, Wetinee Matsathit, Basharat Pitafi, and James Roumasset. 2003 "Efficient Water Allocation with Win-Win Conservation Surcharges: The Case of the Ko'olau Watershed," Water Resources Research WP 03-02.
Chakravorty, Ujjayant, James Roumasset, and Kinping Tse. 1997. "Endogenous Substitution Among Energy Resources and Global Warming," Journal of Political Economy, 105(6):1201-1234.; reprinted in M. Hoel (ed.), Recent Developments in Environmental Economics (Edward Elgar), 2004.
Smith, Rodney and James Roumasset. 2000. "Constrained conjunctive use for endogenously separable water markets: managing the Waihole-Waikane Aqueduct," Agricultural Economics 24(1):61-71. Reprinted in W. Easter and M Renwick (eds), Economics of Water Resources, Ashgate, 2004.
Krulce, Darrel, James Roumasset, and Tom Wilson. 1997. "Optimal Management of a Renewable and Replaceable Resource: The Case of Coastal Groundwater," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 79:1218-1228. Reprinted in W. Easter and M Renwick (eds.), Economics of Water Resources, Ashgate, 2004.
“Apples, Bees and Contracts: A Coase-Cheung Theorem for Positive Spillover Effects,” (w/ J. Johansson), World Economic Forum, n6, 2002, 1-11.
“The Yin and Yang of Scarcity and Abundance,” in Xinjingji, Tiaojianxia, De, Shengcun, Huanjing, Yu, Zhonghua, Wenhua (eds.), The New Economy, Living Conditions, and the Chinese Culture, Hangzhou, China, 2002. (ISBN 7-308-02995-6/C-179)
“Valuing Indirect Ecosystem Services: the Case of Tropical Watersheds,” (w/ Brooks Kaiser), Environmental Economics and Development, v7, n4 (2002), 701-14.
Review of Opschoor, J(Hans). B., Kenneth Button, and Peter Nijkamp, eds. Environmental Economics and Development, forthcoming in Environment and Economic Development.
“Inter-district Water Allocation with Conjunctive Use,” (w/ Rodney Smith), Water Resources Update, Jan, 2001.
“Privatizing Public Services with Externalities: Water and Wastewater Systems,” Water Resources Update, No. 117, October 2000
“Constrained conjunctive use for endogenously separable water markets: managing the Waihole-Waikane aqueduct,” (w/ Rodney Smith), Agricultural Economics 1487 (2000), 1-11.
“Trade and the Environment: Commentary on Hahn and Whalley,” forthcoming in Cho and Kim (eds.), Globalization and the New Trade Issues.
"Environmental Valuation and the Hawaiian Economy," (with Brooks Kaiser, and Nancy Krause) UHERO WP (http://www2.hawaii.edu/~uhero/), 1998.
“Optimal Allocation of Ground and Surface Water in Oahu: Water Wars in Paradise,” (with J. Moncur and R. Smith), Just and Netanyahu, Conflict and Cooperation in Water Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
“Designing Institutions for Water Management,” in Douglas D. Parker and Yacov Tsur (eds.), Decentralization and Coordination of Water Resource Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
“Optimal Management of a Renewable and Replaceable Resource: The Case of Coastal Groundwater,” (with D. Krulce and T. Wilson), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, November 1997.
Energy and Economic Growth : Is Sustainable Growth Possible : Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference International Association for Energy Economics. 1997, 3 Volumes, 1004 p., Contents: Vol. I: 22 January 1997
“Sustainable Growth With Environmental Spillovers: A Ramsey-Koopmans Approach” (w/ L. H. Endress & T. Zhou), University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 02-4, 2002.
“Apples, Bees and Contracts: A Coase-Cheung Theorem for Positive Spillover Effects,” w/ Peter Johansson, in World Economic Forum, Shanghai, Dec., 2002.
“Preservationism vs. Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific Region,” University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 97-9R and forthcoming in L. Cho (ed.), Balanced and Sustainable Development, EDAP Secretariat, Seoul, Korea.
“Optimal Allocation of Ground and Surface Water in O`ahu: Water Wars in Paradise” (w/ James Moncur and Rodney Smith), University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 97-7.
“Designing Institutions for Effective Forestry Management,” mimeo, 1997.
“The Yin and Yang of Sustainable Development: A Case for Win-Win Environmentalism,” (with Lee Endress) Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Vol. 1, No. 2, 185-194, (1996).
“Integrating Economic Analysis with Engineering Design: The Case of Water Management,” (with U. Chakravorty), American Society of Civil Engineering Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Vol. 120, November 1994.
“A Modified Golden Rule for Sustainable Resource Management,” Economic Record, Vol. 70, September 1994.
“Optimal Mining of a Renewable Resource: The Case of Groundwater,” (with T. Wilson and J. Moncur), mimeo.
“Natural Resource Management for Sustainable Development in the Philippines,” Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development, January 1991.
“Economic Policy for Sustainable Development,” Development, 1990: 3/4.
“Efficient Spatial Allocation of Irrigation Water,” (with U. Chakravorty), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, February 1991.
“Estimating Efficiency Prices for Oil: The Case of Eventually Declining Scarcity Rents,” (with U. Chakravorty), Resources and Energy, December 1990.
“Exposure Trading: An Approach to More Efficient Air Pollution Control,” (with K. Smith), Journal of Economics and Environmental Management, 18, 276-271, (1990).
“Some advanced topics in resource economics”, with Dingding Wang, Management World, 1992.
“Oil Prices with OPEC: A Walk on the Supply Side,” (with D. Isaak and F. Fesharaki), Energy Economics, July 1983.
"Constrained Conjunctive Use for Endogenously Separable Water Markets: Managing the Waihole-Waikane Aqueduct," (w/ Rodney Smith) prepared for the 1999 International Water and Resource Economics Consortium Meetings.
"Valuation of Nature's Intermediate Products: the Koolau Forest's Contribution to the Pearl Harbor Aquifer," (w/ Brooks Kaiser), prepared for the 1999 International Water and Resource Economics Consortium Meetings.
“Shadow Pricing of Natural Resources for Sustainable Development, (with L. Endress).
“Natural Resource Management in Indonesia: Priorities for Policy Assistance,” (mimeo), May 1989.
“Designing Institutions for Effective Forestry Management,” University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper 1997.
“Economic Depreciation of Natural Resources,” (with L.H. Endress, 1991).
“Efficiency Principles for Water Management,” (with U. Chakravorty, T. Wilson and J. Moncur), East-West Center/Environmental and policy Institute working Paper No. 2, March 1988.
“Natural Resource Management in Indonesia: Priorities for Policy Assistance,” (1989).
“Renewable and Non-Renewable Resource Economics: An Integration,” (with T. Wilson), (1988).
“A Framework for Economics Research on Water Management in Bangladesh,” (with M. Rosegrant, T. Weaver and J. Keller), 1984.
Roumasset, James. (2008) "A New Institutional Approach to Pro-poor Agricultural Development: Lessons from Asia," Journal of Asian Economics, 19(5-6):378-388.
Roumasset, James and Sang Hyop Lee. 2007. "Labor: Decisions, Contracts, and Organization," in R. Evenson and P. Pingali, Handbook of Agricultural Economics III (Elsevier).
Roumasset, James. 2003. Behavior and Organization of Developing Agriculture, Draft Chapters 1-13.
“Labor: Decisions, Contracts, and Organization,” forthcoming in Evenson and Pingali, Handbook of Agricultural Economics III (Elsevier).
“Rural Institutions, Agricultural Development, and Pro-Poor Economic Growth,” Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, 1, 1, 61-82 (June, 2004).
“Risk aversion as effort incentive: A correction and prima-facie test of the canonical theory of share tenancy,” Economics Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp 1 - 16 (2002).
“Dividing the Gains From International Cooperation: Two-Sided Moral Hazard and Heterogenous Human Capital in a Model of Coalitional Bargaining Between Multinational Corporations and Host Country Enterprises”, (w/ M. A. DeWeaver), University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 02-9, 2002.
“The Microeconomics of Agricultural Development in the Philippines”, University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 02-10, 2002 (presented at ANU, Sydney, Jan, 2001).
“Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Organization: An Agency Perspective,” U. Minnesota Ec. Dev Bulletin, 94-3.
“Sole Sourcing, Competitive Sourcing, Parallel Sourcing: Mechanisms for Supplier Performance” (with J. Richardson), Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 16, 71-84 (1995).
Review of Floro and Yotopoulos, Informal Credit Markets and the New Institutional Economics: The Case of Philippine Agriculture, in J. Econ. Lit., December 1992.
“Nature and Fertility Consequences of the Rural Transformation in Thailand (with S. Hutaserani), Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 1991.
Review of G. McNicholl and M. Chain, Rural Development and Populations: Institutions and Policy, Asian and Pacific Population Forum, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 1991.
“Agency Costs and the Agricultural Firm,” (with M. Uy), Land Economics, August 1987.
“Markets, Institutions and Family Size in Rural Philippine Households,” (with R. Evenson), Journal of Philippine Development, 23, pp. 141-162 (1986).
Explaining Patterns in Agricultural Contracts: Abaca, Coconut and Corn in the Philippines,” in Binswanger et al. (eds.), Contractual Arrangements in Rural Asian Labor Markets, Yale University Press (1984).
“Migration and the Evolution of Tenure Contracts in Newly Settled Regions,” (with W. James), Journal of Development Economics, January 1984.
“Village at the Crossroads--A Review,” Book Review in Population and Development Review, March 1983.
“Population, Specialization, and Landless Workers: Explaining Transitions in Agricultural Organization,” (with J. Smith), Population and Development Review, September 1981.
“Piece Rates, Time Rates and Teams: Explaining Patterns in the Employment Relation,” (with M. Uy), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, December 1980.
“Sharecropping, Production Externalities and the Theory of Contracts,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, November 1979.
“Explaining Variations in Share Contracts: Land Quality, Population Pressure and Technological Change,” (with W. James), Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, August 1979.
“Fundamental Explanations of Farmer Behavior and Agricultural Contracts,” in Bellamy and Greenshields (eds.), The Rural Challenge, Gower Publ. Co., Aldershot, England, 1981.
Behavior and Organization of Developing Agriculture, unpublished book manuscript
“Specialization and the Coevolution of Agricultural Markets,” (w/ S. Setboonsarng, U. Wickramasinghe, J. Estudillo, and R. Evenson), Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector WP, University of Maryland, 1995.
“Modernization, Specialization, and the Co-evolution of Agricultural Institutions,” University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper, 1993.
“Contractual Choice in Offshore Oil Exploration and Development: A Principal-Agent Approach,” (w/ T. Doshi) University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper, 1989.
“Agency Theory, Agricultural Firms, and the New Institutional Economics,” University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper #. 88-1, (1988).
Agency Costs and the Agricultural Firm (w/ M. Uy), Yale Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper #501 (1986).
“Labor Markets, Economic Development and the Demise of Exchange Labor,” (with J. Anderson, V. Cordova, G. Dozina and W. James), presented at the Social Organization of Agricultural Production Conference, Los Baños, Philippines, January 1979.
“Land and Labor Contracts in the Philippines: Lessons from the New Institutional Economics,” presented at the Agricultural Organization and Rural Welfare Conference, Philippines, January 1981.
“Agency Theory and Agricultural Organization in Nepal,” (with S. Sharma).
“Institutional Change and the Organization of Agricultural Markets,” (with B. Gardner and S. Simons).
Public Economics: Nature and Consequences of Public Policy
Mason, Geri and James Roumasset. 2009. Review article for Nurul Islam, Reducing Rural Poverty in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Microenterprises and Public Employment Schemes. New York: Haworth Press, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 57(2):418-426.
Roumasset, James. 2008. "Population and Agricultural Growth," in S. Dulauf and L. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, MacMillan Publishing Co.; viewable via www.dictionaryofeconomics.com.
Roumasset, James. 2008. "Agricultural Parastatals and Pro-Poor Economic Growth" in S. Rashid, A. Gulati, and R. Cummings Jr., From Parastatals to Private Trade: Lessons from Asian Agricuture, International Food Policy Research Institute.
Roumasset, James. 2007. "The Economics of Agricultural Development: What Have We learned?" in A.M. Balisacan and N. Fuwa (eds.), Reasserting the Rural Development Agenda: Lessons Learned and Emerging Challenges in Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture. Also appeared in Oléagineux, Corps Gras, Lipides, 13(4):247-55., 2006. http://www.jle.com/fr/revues/agro_biotech/ocl/e-docs/00/04/26/4D/article.md
Roumasset, James. 2007. "Crop Failure," in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford U Press, NY.
Roumasset, James. 2007. "Population and Agricultural Development," UH WP 07-2.
Roumasset, James. 2007. "The Economics of Agricultural Development: What Have We Learned?," UH WP 06-4.
Roumasset, James. 2005. "Thinking about Agricultural Development: Fads, Fancies, Fallacies and Frontiers," presented at SEARCA conference on "Agricultural and Rural Development: Ideas, Paradigms and Policies: Three Decades After," in November.
Roumasset, James and Ari Van Assche. 2003. "Malthus to Solow: A New Classical Approach to Induced Innovation" presented at the Cliometrics Society meetings, June 3-5, 2005, Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, California. http://www.hec.ca/pages/ari.van-assche/papers/malthus2solow.pdf
Roumasset, James. 2003. "Agricultural Parastatals and Pro-Poor Economic Growth," International Workshop on Agribusiness: From Parastatals to Private Trade - Why, When, and How?, presented in New Delhi, Dec 15-16, 2003.
“Crop Failure,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford U Press, NY, 2003.
Review of Balisacan, Arsenio and Shigeaki Fujisaki, eds., Causes of Poverty: Myths, Facts and Policies: A Philippine Study, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, v. 15, n. 1 (May, 2001).
“Agricultural Parastatals and Pro-Poor Economic Growth,” International Workshop on Agribusiness: From Parastatals to Private Trade - Why, When, and How? New Delhi, Dec 15-16, 2003.
“Privatizing Public Services with Externalities: Water and Wastewater Systems”, University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 00-8, 2000.
“Black- Hole Security,” University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 00-5.
“Food Insecurity and Stochastic Aspects of Poverty,” (with Jock R. Anderson) in Asian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 1996.
“Prohibition vs. Taxification: Drug Control Policy in the USA,” (w/ Peter Johansson), University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 96-8.
“Intellectual Property Rights in the Asia Pacific Region: Problems, Patterns, and Policy,” (with D. Konan, S. La Croix and J. Heinrich), Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, Vol. 9, No. 2, (November 1995).
“Rethinking Grain Price Stabilization: Philippine Case,” University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 93-22.
“Investing in Agriculturally-Led Growth: The Philippine Case,” South East Asian Journal of Agricultural Economics, June 1992.
“The Relative Welfare Cost of Industrial and Agricultural Policy Distortions: A Philippine Illustration,” (with R. Clarete), Oxford Economics Papers, 1990.
“Economic Feasibility of Green Manure in Rice-Based Cropping Systems,” (with M.N. Rosegrant), in Green Manure in Rice Farming, International Rice Research Institute (1988).
Book review of “Crop Insurance in Theory and Practice,” Journal of Development Economics, June 1988.
“Second-Best Agricultural Policy: Getting the Price of Thai Rice Right,” (with S. Setboonsarng), Journal of Development Economics, 28, pp. 323-340 (1988).
“National Food Policies of the Asia-Pacific Region and their International Implications,” (with A. Balisacan and C. Lee), in Asia Pacific Economies: Promises and Challenges, Research in International Business and Management, Vol. 6, Part A, pp. 221-241, JAI Press, Inc. (1987).
“A Shoven-Whalley Model of a Small-Open Economy: An Illustration with Philippine Tariffs,” (with R. Clarete), Journal of Public Economics, (1987).
“Low Agricultural Commodity Prices and World Bank Lending,” (w/ Brian Wright), 1987.
“Planning Policy with General Equilibrium Models,” (with M.N. Mendoza and R. Clarete), International Journal of Development Planning, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1986), reprinted in S.B. Dahiya, Theoretical Foundations of Development Planning, 1991.
“Food Policy and the Rice Trade in the Pacific Basin Region,” (with C. Lee), in E. Shuh and J. McCoy (eds.), Food, Agriculture and Development in the Pacific Basin, Westview Press (1986).
“CGE Models and Development Policy Analysis: Problems, Pitfalls, and Challenges,” (with R. Clarete), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, December 1986.
“Technology and Agricultural Policy: An Assessment of Azolla for Philippine Rice Production,” (with A. Balisacan and M. Rosegrant), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 726-732, November 1985.
“Agricultural Development in the Third World,” Book Review in Journal of Development Economics, 19, pp. 201-210, (1985).
“Rice Processing in Peninsular Malaysia: An Economic and Technical Analysis,” (with A. Balisacan), Book Review in Journal of Developing Areas, (1983).
“Calculating General Equilibrium Effects of Taxes and Tariffs in the Philippines,” (with M.N. Mendoza), Philippine Economic Journal, (1982).
“The Case Against Crop Insurance for Developing Countries,” Philippine Review of Business and Economics, March 1978, (also reprinted as an Agricultural Development Council reprint).
“Addicts, Fences and the Market for Stolen Goods,” (with J. Hadreas), Public Finance Quarterly, July 1977.
“Prohibition vs. Taxification: Drug Control Policy in the USA,” (w/ P. Johansson) WP No. 95-1, Drug Research Unit, SSRI, UH, November 1995.
“Development is Letting Go of Fear,” UH Program on Conflict Resolution Working Paper # 1993-3.
“Rational Rip and Run Addiction and the Optimal Control of Drug-Use Externalities,”), University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 93-12, 1993.
“Public Investment Strategy for Agricultural Development in the Philippines,”), University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper # 89-22.
“Welfare Economics and the Minimum Role of Government: An Axiomatic Approach,” (1989).
“The Relative Welfare Cost of Industrial and Agricultural Protection Policies: The Philippine Case,” (with R. Clarete), presented at the International Economic Association Congress, New Delhi, India, December 1-5, 1986.
“Alternative Measures of Deadweight Loss: A Preliminary Analysis of Philippine Tariffs,” (with R. Clarete), presented at the NBER Applied General Equilibrium Conference, Stanford University, February 20-24, 1984.
“Principles of Commodity Price Stabilization,” East-West Center Working Paper WP-83-10 (1983).
“Economic Policy and the Philippine Coconut Industry,” (with R. Clarete), East-West Center WP-82-6 (1982).
“The Welfare Economics of Rural Credit Markets and the Benefits of Land Titles,” World Bank manuscript, 1985.
Political Economy: Causes and Design of Public Policy
Roumasset, James. (Forthcoming). "The Political Economy of Corruption: A Philippine Illustration," National Counter Corruption Comission (NCCC) Journal, Bangkok, Thailand.
Roumasset, James. 2008. "The Political Economy of Corruption: A Philippine Illustration," UH WP 08-05.
Kaiser, Brooks and James Roumasset. 2007. "From Rites to Rights: the Co-evolution of Hawaiian Political, Economic and Social Structures," UH WP 07-3.
“The Role of Government in Economic Cooperation,” Chapter 1 in Roumasset and Barr, eds., The Economics of Cooperation: East Asian Development and the Case for Pro-Market Intervention, Boulder: Westview Press (1992).
“How to Facilitate or Stifle Economic Development: The Role of Agriculture in Indonesia and the Philippines,” (with W. James), Southeast Asian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2, (December 1992).
“Constitutional Management of Free Riders and Common Property Resources,” Osaka Economic Review, (March 1991), reprinted as “Constitutional Management of Free Riders and Common Property Resources,” in Ali El-Agraa, Public and International Economics, St. Martin's Press, N.Y., 1993.
“The Evolution of Private Property in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii,” (with S. La Croix), Journal of Economic History, Vol. 50, No. 4, (December 1990).
“Decentralization and Local Public Goods: Getting the Incentives Right,” Philippine Review of Business and Economics, Vol. 26, No. 1 (June 1989).
“Coevolution of Property Rights and Political Order: An Illustration from Nineteenth-Century Hawaii,” (with S. La Croix), in Ostrom, Feeny and Picht (eds.), Rethinking Institutional Analysis and Development: Issues, Alternatives and Choices, International Center for Economic Growth, (*1988).
“Economic Policy and Agricultural Development in the Philippines: Anatomy of Stagnation,” (with R. Clarete), in L. Rienner (ed.), U.S. Agriculture and Third World Development: The Critical Linkage, (1987).
“Public Choice of Economic Policy: The Growth of Agricultural Protection,” (with A. Balisacan), Weltwirtschaftliches Archives, (1987).
“An Economic Theory of Political Change in Pre-Missionary Hawaii,” (with S. La Croix), Explorations in Economic History, (1983).
“The Political Economy of Corruption,”), University of Hawaii, Department of Economics Working Paper #. 97-10.
“Privilege and Economic Development,” (mimeo), April 1992.
“Markets, Mediation and Governance: A Constitutional Perspective for Commercial Relations,” (with S. Barr), University of Hawaii at Manoa Program on Conflict Resolution Working Paper Series No. 1989-6 (1989).
“Hawaii”s Role in the Pacific Century: Lessons from East Asian Development, (1989).
“The Public Economics of Irrigation Management and Cost Recovery,” World Bank Working Paper, (1987).
“Constitutional Choice for Common Property Management in Developing Countries,” (prepared for National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Common Property Resource Management), March 1985.
“Constitutional Choice for Local Public Goods: The Case of Irrigation Associations,” presented at the Public Choice Meetings, New Orleans, February 1985.
“Organization and Performance of Marketing Systems: An Inductive Approach,” (with S. Simons and B. Gardner), 1985.
“The Causes of Agricultural Policy: The Case of Rice,” (with B. Gardner), 1985.
“Induced Institutional Change, Welfare Economics, and the Science of Public Policy,” Working Paper No. 46, Department of Economics, University of California-Davis, (1974).
“Risk Aversion as Effort Incentive: A Correction and Prima Facie Test of the Moral Hazard Theory of Share Tenancity”, (w/ M. A. DeWeaver), University of Hawaii Working Paper # 02-6, 2002
Review of Hardaker, Huirine, and Anderson, Coping with Risk in Agriculture, AJAE, August 1999, pp. 749-51.
"Lexicographic-Ordering Models for Farmers and Addicts," in de Dios and Fabella, Choice, Growth, and Development: Essays in Honor of Jose Encarnacion, 1999.
“Estimating the Riskiness of Production Inputs” (with Craig Parsons and Jeffrey Brown), in conference volume of the Third Biennial Meeting of the International Financial Econometrics Society (Juneau, Alaska, July 1997).
“Fertilizer and Crop Yield Variability: A Review” (with M. Rosegrant, U. Chakravorty, and J. Anderson), in Anderson and Hazell (eds.), Variability in Cereal Yields and Implications for Agricultural Research and Policy, (1989).
“The Effect of Fertilizers on Risk: A Heteroscedastic Production Function with Measurable Stochastic Inputs” (with M. Rosegrant), Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 107-121, August 1985.
“Explaining the Mechanization Decision: A Policy Oriented Approach” (with G. Thapa), Journal of Development Economics, (1983).
“Rural Food Security,” Chapter 6 in Chisholm, A. and R. Tyers (eds.), Food Security: Theory, Policy, and Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific Rim, Lexington Books, (1982).
“Fundamental Explanations of Farmer Behavior and Agricultural Contracts,” abstracted in Bellamy, M.A. and B.L. Greenshields (eds.), The Rural Challenge: Contributed Papers Read at the 17th International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Hampshire, England, (1981).
“Positive Methods of Agricultural Decision Analysis,” Development Studies Centre, Australian National University Press (1981).
“The Economics of Tractor Ownership and Use in the Nepal Terai,” (with G.B. Thapa), A/D/C Research Paper.
“The Economics of Tractor Ownership and Use in the Nepal Terai,” (with G.B. Thapa), A/D/C Research Paper Series, No. 8, December 1980.
Risk, Uncertainty and Agricultural Development (with J.M. Boussard and I. Singh, eds.), SEARCA and A/D/C, Los Baños, Philippines, (1979).
“Risk Aversion, Agricultural Development, and the Indirect Utility Function,” in Roumasset, J. et al. (eds.), Risk, Uncertainty and Agricultural Development, SEARCA and A/D/C, (1979).
“Unimportance of Risk for Technology Design and Agricultural Development Policy,” in Valdez et al. (eds.), Economics and the Design of Small-Farmer Technology, Iowa State University Press, (1978).
“Risk and Uncertainty in Agricultural Development,” A/D/C Seminar Report, No. 15, October 1977.
Rice and Risk: Decision-Making among Low-Income Farmers in Theory and Practice, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, (1976).
Farm Mana “The Economic Analysis of Experimental Results in Nitrogen Response of Rice” (with R. Barker and V. Cordova), gement Notes, July 1976.
Reply to comment on “Estimating the Risk of Alternate Techniques: Nitrogenous Fertilization of Rice in the Philippines,” Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, September 1975.
“Estimating the Risk of Alternate Techniques: Nitrogenous Fertilization of Rice in the Philippines,” Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, December 1974.
“Optimal Prevention and Control of Invasive Species,” w/ B. Kaiser, Honolulu, June, `04
“A New Institutional Approach to Pro-Poor Agricultural Development,” Lessons from Asian Miracle and Mirages in East-Asian Economic Development, East-West Center, Honolulu, May 21-22, `04
“Pareto-Improving Water Management over Space and Time,” w/ B. Pitafi, AERE 2004 Summer Workshop, Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy, June 13-15
“Watershed Conservation and Efficient Groundwater Pricing: a Question of Timing,” UCOWR, Portland OR and AAEA, Denver, Aug, `04
Annual report, PREISM Workshop, Wash. D.C., Oct 2004.
Environmental Resources, China Volume Author's Conference, Pittsburgh, Nov, `04
“Agricultural Parastatals and Pro-Poor Economic Growth,” International Workshop on Agribusiness: From Parastatals to Private Trade - Why, When, and How? New Delhi, Dec 15-16, 2003.
“The Political Economy of Tax Credits,” UH Center for Public Policy panel with Legislators-in-Residence, Nov, '03
“Optimal environmental taxation with an independent emission instrument,” annual meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, July, 2002.
"Second-best Environmental Taxation: a Generalization," w/ B. Pitafi, annual meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, July, 2002.
Session organizer, “Invasive Species and Biological Terrorism,” International Western Economics Association Conference, Seattle, July, 2002 and co-presenter (w/ Brooks Kaiser) of “Optimal Prevention and Control of Invasives: Snakes in Hawaiian Grass.”
“Optimal environmental pricing with both commodity and emission taxes,” w/ B. Pitafi, 2nd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Monterey, CA, June, 2002.
“The Yin and Yang of Sustainable Development,” Presentation at the International Conference on New Economy, Living Environment, and Chinese Culture,” Hangzhou, China, May, 2002.
Featured speaker on “The Environment, Economics, and the Law,” Lyons College Convocation, Batesville, AR, November, 2001.
“The Microeconomics of Agricultural Development in the Philippines,” Conference on Philippine Economics and the Philippine Economy, Australian National University, Canberra, 2001
“New Frontiers in Resource Economics,” International Western Economics Association Conference, San Francisco, July, 2001, featuring co-authored papers with Lee Endress, Rodney Smith, and Francois Kratz on one-sector growth models with resource use and environmental effects; a general model of water-resource use; and a realization of Hotelling's vision of crops as renewable resources.
Multiple-Resource Use in a Two-Sector Model of Economic Growth (w/ Eric Im), UH Econ. Dept. Seminar, Spring semester, 2001.
"Beyond Stiglitz: A Dynamic Theory of Share Tenancy," UH Econ. Dept. Seminar, Fall semester, 2001.
“Sustainable Growth with Environmental Feedbacks: A Ramsey-Koopmans Approach” (with Lee Endress and Allison Zhou), UH Econ. Dept. Seminar, Nov., 2000.
“Technology, Globalization, and the New Economy,” for the Hawaii Econ. Assn. Conference, 2000.
“Economics of Oahu Water Management and Watershed Valuation,” Water Resources Center, UH, Manoa, Jan. 2000
Panelist, "Can Government Pick Growth Industries," Hawaii Economic Association Annual Conference, 1999.
"Economic Cooperation in the New Millennium: a Sustainable Development, Corruption and the Role of Government," Regional Conference on Asia and the Pacific in the New Millennium: Challenges Opportunities and Responses (hosted by EWCA.-Philippines), Jan. 1999.
“Towards a Market-Friendly Rice Policy in the Philippines," UP School of Economics Seminar, Diliman, Philippines, September, 1999.
“Blackhole Economics,” and session organizer, Int. Western Econ. Assn., July, 1999, San Diego.
Participant and discussant, Workshop on Market-based Instruments for Environmental Protection, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, July, 1999.
"The Resource Economics of Conjunctive Use and the Integrability of Water Districts, (with Rodney Smith) and “Valuation of Nature's Intermediate Products: the Koolau Forest's Contribution to the Pearl Harbor Aquifer” (w/ Brooks Kaiser), Water and Environmental Resource Management: Focus on Asia and the Pacific, International Water and Resource Economics Consortium Biennial Meeting, Summer, 1999.
“Forest Ecology and the Hawaiian Economy,” Western Environmental Economics Meetings, Santa Barbara, California, Oct, 1998.
"Will the Real Coase Theorem Please Stand Up?," "Dynamic Optimization of Interdistrict Water Transfers," and "Sustainable Development without Constraints" (w/ Peter Johansson, Rodney Smith, and Lee Endress repectively), International Western Economics Association, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 1998.
"Patterns of Growth and Environmental Degradation," World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Venice, Italy, June, 1998.
"Principles of Revitalization: Role of the Environment in the Economy," Hawaii Economic Association Conference, April 1998.
"Sustainable Growth with Endogenous Energy Substitution," Stanford University, Jan. 1998.
"Rent-Seeking, Preservationism, or Sustainable Growth?," Oregon State University, Dec., 1997.
"Optimal Energy Use and Sustainable Growth," University of Minnesota, Sept., 1997.
"Rice and Risk Revisited," U.C. Davis, Sept., 1997.
"Optimal Conjunctive Use in the Presence of Interdistrict Water Transfers," International Water and Resource Economics Consortium, Annapolis, April 1997.
“Introduction to Economic Thinking” and “Long-Run Economic Growth,” lectures at Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, October 1996.
“Designing Institutions for Just and Efficient Water Management,” Water Management on Pacific Islands Conference, Honolulu, June 1996.
“Intensification, Specialization, and the Evolution of the Agricultural Firm,” Western Economic Association International Conference, Hong Kong, January 1996.
Participant, PERC's Political Economy Forum on Water Marketing in the Next Generation, Big Sky, Montana, June 1995.
“Planning for the Future: Rent-Seeking, Preservationism, or Win-Win Environmentalism?” Hawaii Environmental Education Association, Fifth Annual Conference, November 1995.
“Garbage In, Garbage Out: A Debreu-Scarf Version of the Coase Theorem,” (with P. Johansson), U.H., October 1995.
“Designing Schemes for Water Quantity and Quality Management,” International Conference on Coordination and Decentralization in Water Resource Management, Hebrew University, October 1994.
“Second-Best Shadow Prices for National Income Accounting in Distorted Economies,” (with Lee Endress), Western Economic Association, Vancouver, Canada, June 1994.
“Is Agricultural Development Still Sexy After All These Years,” Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1994.
“Modernization, Specialization and the Co-evolution of Agricultural Institutions,” Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property Resources, Manila, 1993.
“Rational Rip and Run Addition and the Optimal Management of Drug-Use Externalities,” Western Economic Association Annual Conference, Lake Tahoe, June 1993.
“Economic Policy for Sustainable Agricultural Development,” Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus), September 1992.
“Coevolution of Markets and Governance,” Int. Assoc. for the Study of Common Property Resources, Washington, D.C., September 1992.
“How to Facilitate or Stifle Economic Development: The Role of Agriculture in Indonesia and the Philippines,” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Agricultural Economists, Baltimore, August 1992.
“The Coevolution of Markets and the Constitutional Order,” (with L. Endress), Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics, U. of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus), November 1991.
“Economic Depreciation, National Income Accounting, and Common Property Resource Management,” (with L. Endress), ISCAP Common Property Conference, U. of Manitoba, September 1991.
“The Evolution of Cooperation from a Noncooperative Game with Public Goods,” IASCP Common Property Conference, U. of Manitoba, September 1991.
“Golden Rules for Sustainable Development,” (with L. Endress), Yale University, June 1991.
“Rural Food Security,” Pacific Science Conference, Honolulu, June 1991.
“A Constitutional Approach to Free Riding and Common Property Resource Management,” (with C. Laine), Public Choice Society Meetings, New Orleans, March 1991.
“Designing Buyer-Supplier Relationships: Parallel Sourcing Meets Deming's Point Four,” University of Hawaii College of Business, March 1991.
“Agrarian Conditions in the Philippines: A Search for Common Ground,” (with B. Kerkvliet), University of Hawaii Program on Conflict Resolution, February 1991.
“Managing Environmental Resources for Sustainable Development,” keynote Address to Pacific Regional Conference of the Society for International Development, Djakarta, June 1990.
“Facilitating Financial Deepening in Rural Credit Markets,” Agricultural Credit and Productivity Commission of the Philippines Workshop on Rural Credit Policy, Manila, May 1990.
“Apparent Risk Aversion and Agricultural Contracts,” International Symposium on Risk and Uncertainty, Duke University, June 1990.
