GORDON C. RAUSSER

Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Research Areas

Agricultural economics, Applied econometrics, Futures and options markets, Industrial organization and antitrust analysis, Natural resource and environmental economics, Public policy and economic regulation, Statistical decision theory

Academic Appointments

• 1986– Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley
  
• 1979– Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  
• 1972–93 Visiting Faculty Appointments
  
• Hebrew University, Israel (1993)
  
• Australian National University (1987)
  
• Monash University, Australia (1987)
  
• Ben Gurion University, Israel (1980)
  
• Hebrew University, Israel (1978)
  
• University of Illinois (1974)
  
• University of Chicago (1972–73)
  
• 1975–78 Professor of Managerial Economics and Statistics, Harvard University
  
• 1974–75 Professor of Economics and Statistics, Iowa State University
  
• 1971–74 Professor (offered) Associate Professor, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis (1974)

Degrees

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1972–73, Departments of Economics and Statistics
  
• Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1971, Highest Honors, Agricultural Economics
  
• M.S., University of California, Davis, 1968, Highest Honors, Agricultural Economics

Selected Awards

• Career Achievement Award, College of Natural Resources, University of Berkeley, 2010
• Selected as Editor of Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2007-2011
• Round Table Group member, 2009-
• California State University, “Award for Top Dog” Alumni of the Year 2009
• Business Advisory Board, Mendel Biotechnology, 2008-
• Editorial Council, Strategic Behavior and the Environment, Now Publishing
• Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1986–
• College of Natural Resources Citation, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
• Galbraith Forum Lecture, 2003
• Senior Economic Consultant and Founder, OnPoint Analytics, 2006-2009
• Research Fellow and Member of Research Council, Rural Development Research Consortium, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
• AAAS, Chair of the Electorate Nominating Committee for the Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences, 2001–2002
• AAEA Quality of Research Discovery Award, 2001
• USDA Secretary of Agriculture Award for outstanding accomplishments in the areas of agricultural public policy research and formulation, 2000
• Senior Economic Consultant, Charles River Associates, 2000-2005
• Cofounder and Principle, LECG, Inc., 1990–2000
• UC Berkeley, Board of Trustees, 1994-2001
• AAEA Fellows Address, 1999

Courses Taught Past Five Years

• EEP 141, Agricultural and Environmental Policy
  
• Econ 101A, Economic Theory—Micro
  
• ARE 241, Agricultural and Environmental Policies
  
• ARE 242, Quantitative Policy Analysis
  
• ARE 202, Industrial Organization

Selected Publications

• “Property Rights and Water Transfers: Bargaining Among Multiple Stakeholders” (with Susan Stratton Sayre and Leo K. Simon). Forthcoming in Strategic Behavior and the Environment.
  
• “Complementarities and Spillovers in Mergers: An Empirical Investigation Using Patent Data” (with Alan Marco). Forthcoming in Economics of Innovation and New Technology.
  
• “Political Institutions, Governance Structures, and Food Policy” (with Johan Swinnen). Forthcoming in American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
• “Public-Private Partnerships: Goods and the Structure of Contracts” (with Reid Stevens), Annual Review of Resource Economics 1, 75-98, 2009.
• “Unintended Consequences:  The Spillover Effects of Common Property Regulations” (with Marty Kovach, Ryan Stifter and Stephen Hamilton). Marine Policy, 33(1), 24-39, 2009.
• “Pollution and Land Use: Optimum and Decentralization” (with Richard Arnott and Oded Hochman), Journal of Urban Economics, 64(2), 390-407, 2008.
• “Ownership and Control in Mexico’s Community Forestry Sector” (with C. Antinori). Economic Development and Cultural Change, 57(1), 101-136, 2008.
  
• “The Role of Patent Rights in Mergers: Consolidation in Plant Biotechnology” (with Alan Marco), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90 (1), 133–151, 2008.
  
• “Negotiating over the Allocation of Water Resources: The Strategic Importance of Bargaining Structure” (with Rachael Goodhue, Leo Simon and Sophie Thoyer), Game Theory and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environment, Ariel Dinar, Jose Albiac and Joaquin Sanchez-Soriano, editors. Routledge Press, forthcoming.
  
• “General Equilibrium in Vertical Market Structures: Overselling versus Overbuying” (with Richard Just), Research in Law and Economics, 23: 149-181, 2007.
  
• Structure and Power in Multilateral Negotiations: An Application to French Water Policy (with Leo K. Simon, Rachael E. Goodhue, Sophie Thoyer, Sylvie Morardet, and Patrick Rio), Giannini Foundation Research Monograph 47, June 2007.
  
• Social Costs of an MTBE Ban in California (with Gregory D. Adams, W. David Montgomery, and Anne E. Smith), University of California, Giannini Foundation Report, December 2004.
  
• “Agricultural Biotechnology’s Complementary Intellectual Assets” (with Gregg Graff and Arthur Small), Review of Economics and Statistics 85 (2):349–63, May 2003.
  
• “Stigmatized Asset Value: Is it Temporary or Long-term?” (with Jill J. McCluskey), Review of Economics and Statistics 85 (2):276–85, May 2003.
  
• “Public Policy: Its Many Analytical Dimensions” (with R. Goodhue). In: Handbook of Agricultural Resource Economics, Volume 2, Chapter 39, Bruce L. Gardner and Gordon C. Rausser (editors). (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, North Holland, 2002, pp. 2058–2102).
  
• Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 4 Volumes, Bruce L. Gardner and Gordon C. Rausser (editors), Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, North-Holland, 2001-2002.
  
• “Collective Choice in Water Resource Systems.” In: The Political Economy of Water Pricing Implementation.” The World Bank, Washington, DC. Chapter 3, Ariel Dinar, editor. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 49–78).
  
• “Regulating Multiple Polluters: Deterrence and Liability Allocation” (with Charles Hyde and Leo K. Simon), International Economic Review 41(2):495–521, May 2000.
  
• “Valuing Research Leads: Bioprospecting and the Conservation of Genetic Resources” (with Arthur A. Small). Journal of Political Economy 108(1):173-206, February 2000.
  
• “Information Asymmetries, Uncertainties, and Cleanup Delays at Superfund Sites” (with Leo K. Simon and Jinhua Zhao), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 35(1):48–68, January 1998.
  
• “Modeling Multilateral Negotiations: An Application to California Water Policy” (with Gregory D. Adams and Leo K. Simon), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 30(1):97–111, June 1996.
  
• “Governance Structures and the Durability of Reforms: Evidence from Inflation Stabilizations” (with Richard Ball). World Development, 23(6):897–912, 1995.
  
• “Intraorganizational Influence Relations and the Optimality of Collective Action” (with Pinhas Zusman), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 24(1):1–22, June 1994.
  
• “Price Distorting Compensation Serving the Consumer and Taxpayer Interest” (with William E. Foster), Public Choice 77(2):275–91, October 1993.
  
• “Predatory Versus Productive Government: The Case of U.S. Agricultural Policy” Journal of Economic Perspectives 6(3):133–57, Summer 1992.
  
• “Public Policy and Constitutional Prescription” (with Pinhas Zusman). American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74(2):247–57, May 1992.
  
• “Linkages Among Commodity Futures Markets and Dynamic Welfare Analysis” (with Nicholas Walraven), Review of Economics and Statistics 72(4):631–9, November, 1990.
  
• “Incomplete Markets and Government Agricultural Policy” (with Robert D. Innes), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 7l(4):915–31, November 1989.
  
• “Macroeconomic Linkages, Taxes, and Subsidies in the U.S. Agricultural Sector” (with James A. Chalfant, H. Alan Love, and Kostas G. Stamoulis) American Journal of Agricultural Economics 68(2):399–412, May 1986.
  
• “Efficient Asset Portfolios and a Theory of Normal Backwardation” (with Colin Carter and Andrew Schmitz), Journal of Political Economy 91(2):319–31, April 1983.
  
• “Futures Market Efficiency in the Soybean Complex” (with Colin Carter). Review of Economics and Statistics 65(3):469–78, August 1983.
  
• “Political Economic Markets: PERTs and PESTs in Food and Agriculture,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 64(5):821–33, December 1982.
  
• “Commodity Price Forecasting with Large-Scale Econometric Models and the Futures Market” (with Richard E. Just), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 63(2):197–215, May 1981.
  
• Dynamics of Agricultural Systems: Economic Prediction and Control (with E. Hochman). (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1979).
  
• “Adaptive Control: Survey of Methods and Applications” (with Dov Pekelman). Management Science 9:89–120, 1978.
  
• “An Economic Analysis of Wilderness Area Use” (with Ronald A. Oliveira), Journal of the American Statistical Association 71(354):276–285, June 1976.
  
• “Econometric Policy Model Construction: The Post-Bayesian Approach” (with A. Faden), Annals of Economic and Social Measurement 5:349–62, Spring 1976.
  
• “Temporal Price Behavior in Commodity Futures Markets (with T. F. Cargill), Journal of Finance 30(4):1043–53, September 1975.
  
• “Stochastic Control of Environmental Externalities” (with R. Howitt), Annals of Economic and Social Measurement 4(2):271–92, Spring 1975.
  
• “Technological Change, Production, and Investment in Natural Resource Industries,” American Economic Review 64(6):1049–59, December 1974.
  
• “Estimation of Policy Preference Functions: An Application to U.S. Beef Import Policy” (with J. W. Freebairn), Review of Economics and Statistics 56(4):437 49, November 1974.
  
• “Alternative Econometric Forms,” Journal of Economics 2:27–37, October 1974.
  
• “Approximate Adaptive Control Solutions to U.S. Beef Trade Policy” (with J. W. Freebairn), Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, 3(1):177–203, January 1974.
  
• “Approximate Distribution of Parameters in Distributed Lag Models” (with Theodore P. Lianos), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 67(337):64–67, March 1972.
  
• “Time and Frequency Domain Representations of Future Prices as a Stochastic Process” (with Thomas F. Cargill), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 67(337):23–30, March 1972.

Selected University Service

• Member, Finance Committee, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 2003–
• Dean, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 1994-2000
  
• Chairman, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1994, and 1979-1985
  
• Campus Advisory Board, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1996–
  
• Associate Director, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of California, Berkeley, 1994– 2000
  
• Director, Institute for Natural Resource Systems, University of California, Berkeley, 1994–2000
  
• Chair, Cooperative Extension, 2006-2007
  
• Chair, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources Reorganization Committee, University of California, 2002
  
• Chair, Review Committee for the Dean of the School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
  
• Member, Geographic Information Service Advisory Council, University of California, Berkeley, 2000
  
• Member, Fundraising Workgroup Committee, University of California, Berkeley, 2000
  
• Student Deans’ Council, University of California, Berkeley, 1994–2000
  
• Division Chairs Council, University of California, Berkeley, 1994–2000
  
• Council of Deans, University of California, Berkeley, 1994–2000
  
• Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1994–2000
  
• Executive Committee of Environmental Council, University of California, Berkeley, 1994–2000
  
• Council of Deans and Directors, University of California, Systemwide, 1994–2000
  
• College of Natural Resources Advisory Board, University of California, Berkeley, 1994–2000
  
• College of Natural Resources Development Committee, University of California, Berkeley, 1994–2000
  
• Search Committee for Assistant Vice President, DANR, 1999
  
• Search Committee, Vice Chancellor University Relations, 1999
  
• Search Committee, Vice Chancellor Capital Projects, 1998
  
• Chair, Advisory Committee, Kearney Foundation for Soil Science, Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
  
• UC Berkeley, Board of Trustees, 1994-2001
  
• Executive Committee, International and Area Studies Executive Committee, University of California, Berkeley, 1994–1997
  
• Chair, Search Committee for Chair of Slavic Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1993–94
  
• University of California Systemwide Energy Research Advisory Committee, 1988–94
  
• College of Natural Resources Internal Reorganization Committee, University of California, Berkeley, 1990–1992
  
• Chairman, Search Committee for Director of Soviet Studies, 1991
  
• Agricultural Academy of Science-Soviet Union Delegation, 1990
  
• Chairman, Berkeley Campuswide Committee to Evaluate the Department of Economics and Related Economic Programs, 1988–1989
  
• Chairman, School of Business Administration Planning Committee, University of California, Berkeley, 1986–87
  
• Member, Search and Selection Committee for Vice President of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California Systemwide, 1985–86
  
• Chairman, Strategic Review of Giannini Foundation, 1985–86
  
• Departmental Food and Agricultural Act Symposium Committee, University of California, Berkeley, 1984–1986
  
• Chairman, Executive Committee, Giannini Foundation, 1984–1986
  
• Member, Advisory Committee for the Establishment of the Agricultural Issues Center, University of California Systemwide, 1984–85
  
• Chairman, Executive Committee, Giannini Foundation, University of California, Berkeley, 1982-1984
  
• Joint Land Grant University/U.S. Department of Agriculture Committee on New Research Directions, 1979–1982
  
• Harvard University Executive Education Program Instructor, 1975–1977

Selected Service to the Profession

• Selected as Editor of Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2007-2011
  
• Member, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR/USDA) advisory committee on WTO negotiations, 2005–2007
  
• The World Bank Conference on Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Developing Countries, 2006.
  
• The Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics 75th Anniversary Symposium, 2006.
  
• Presentation at the Milken Institute, 2003.
  
• Member, Finance Committee, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 2003–
  
• Member, Committee to increase student enrollment, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2002– 2005
  
• Chair, Finance Committee, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 2002–03
  
• Annual Distinguished Speaker, Michigan State University, 2002.
  
• Annual Tweeten Distinguished Speaker, Ohio State University, 2002.
  
• CSHE 2001–2002 Grant Recipients Colloquium, Berkeley, 2002.
  
• AAAS, Chair of the Electorate Nominating Committee for the Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences, 2001–2002
  
• Cofounder and Principle, LECG, Inc., 1990–2000
  
• Meeting of the Boards of Governors IDB/IIC at the Conference: Development of the Rural Economy and Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2000.
  
• Member, Board of Visitors, Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, 2000–
  
• Member, Board of Trustees, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 1999–
  
• GIAT Conference, Costa Rica, 1999.
  
• Presentation at USDA, ERS, Washington, DC, 1999.
  
• National Development Council, California State University, Fresno, 1998–
  
• Member, Board of Directors, Lawrence Hall of Science, 1998–2002
  
• Joint Policy Council on Agriculture and Higher Education, Committee on Cooperation in Education, 1997– 2001
  
• Columbia University, Columbia Earth Institute (CEI) Advisory Board, 1997– 1998
  
• Member, Board for International Development Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 1992–94
  
• Member of Advisory Board, International Center for Self-Governance, 1991–1994
  
• Founder of the Agency for International Development Research Fellow Program, 1989
  
• Board of Directors, Universitywide Energy Research Center, 1988–1992
  
• Editor, Agricultural Management and Economics, Springer-Verlag, 1988–92
  
• Chief Economist, Agency for International Development, 1988–1990
  
• Member, Economic Discipline Board, Fulbright Scholarship Awards, 1989–96
  
• Cofounder and President of the Institute for Policy Reform, Washington, DC, 1989-1994
  
• Chairman, Intergovernmental Consultative Group on Indonesia, The Hague, June, 1989
  
• Founder of the IPR Fellow Program, 1990
  
• U.S. Government Task Force on U.S. Agricultural Policy and Position in GATT Negotiations, 1987–89
  
• Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors, 1986–87
  
• United States Senate Panel on “1985 Farm Bill Revisited: Competitive Views,” March, 1987
  
• Council for Foreign Relations Task Force on Trade Policy Options for the United States, 1987
  
• General Accounting Office Task Force on Alternative Public/Private Marketing Mechanisms for U.S. Food and Agriculture, 1987
  
• U.S. Government Task Force on the Farm Credit System, 1987
  
• American Agricultural Economics Association Committee on Journal Publishing, 1986
  
• Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1983–1986
  
• Member, Agricultural Policy Planning Committee, American Agricultural Economics Association, 1984–1986
  
• The American Agricultural Economics Association Board of Directors, ex officio, 1984–1986
  
• Chairman, American Agricultural Economics Association, Outstanding Journal Article Committee, 1983–1986
  
• Senior Resident Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1984–85
  
• Chairman, Western Agricultural Economics Research Council, 1982–83
  
• AAEA Publication of Enduring Quality Award Committee, 1981–83
  
• Secretary, Western Agricultural Economics Research Council, 1980–81
  
• Arab-American Council for Cultural and Economic Exchange, Egyptian Agricultural Development Committee, 1979–80
  
• Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1978–1982
  
• Associate Book Review Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1974–1982
  
• Editorial Board, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1977–1980
  
• Chairman, Joint University-Governmental Symposium on Agricultural Sector Forecasting and Policy Evaluations, Washington, DC, 1979
  
• National Bureau of Economic Research Workshop on Stochastic Control Committee, 1974–1979
  
• Chairman, Research Evaluation Committee for Desert Research Institute, Israel, 1978
  
• Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1973–1977
  
• Academic Representative to U.S.-U.S.S.R. Agreement on Cooperation in Agricultural Economic Research and Information, 1977
  
• Member, World Bank Committee on Research Quality Control, 1976–1977
  
• Member, Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, American Agricultural Economics Association, 1974–1976
  
• Commissioned by the AAEA to prepare a monograph, “Systems Analysis and Simulation Techniques,” 1973
  
• Ford Foundation Visiting Scholar, Argentina, 1972