Gordon Rausser

About

Gordon Rausser is the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dean Emeritus of the Rausser College of Natural Resources, and a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. His career includes significant academic achievements, leadership roles, and numerous awards recognizing his groundbreaking research spanning over 300 articles and 19 books. His research interests encompass agricultural economics, applied econometrics, futures and options markets, industrial organization and antitrust analysis, natural resource and environmental economics, and public policy and economic regulation. Professor Rausser has received 40 distinguished research and teaching awards, including the Publication of Enduring Quality Award, Research Discovery Awards, and accolades for Best Journal Articles. He has been honored by external organizations such as the American Antitrust Institute, the USDA, and the U.S. State Department. His editorial leadership includes serving as editor for prominent journals and founding the Annual Review of Resource Economics. He was elected as a fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Statistical Association, and held a Fulbright fellowship. Throughout his tenure at UC Berkeley, he demonstrated transformative leadership by restructuring the Economics Department, serving as Chair of the Department of Agricultural and…

Research topics

• Economics
• Business
• Agricultural economics
• Political science
• Natural resource economics

Selected publications

• Public–private partnerships in fostering outer space innovations

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023-10-16 · 34 citations

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  As public and private institutions recognize the role of space exploration as a catalyst for economic growth, various areas of innovation are expected to emerge as drivers of the space economy. These include space transportation, in-space manufacturing, bioproduction, in-space agriculture, nuclear launch, and propulsion systems, as well as satellite services and their maintenance. However, the current nature of space as an open-access resource and global commons presents a systemic risk for exub…

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• Digital Revolution in the Energy Sector: Effects of Using Digital Twin Technology

  Lecture notes in information systems and organisation · 2022-01-01 · 32 citations

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• Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

  WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks · 2020-02-01 · 30 citations

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• Consumer Attitudes toward Energy Reduction and Changing Energy Consumption Behaviors

  Energies · 2023-02-02 · 22 citations

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  This editorial paper tackles the issue of the consumer attitudes toward energy reduction and changing energy consumption behaviors. This topic is of special relevance today as Europe faces an unprecedented energy crisis as a result of diverting from Russian supplies of oil and gas due to the war in Ukraine. For many years now, Europe has relied upon cheap and affordable Russian oil and gas (in fact, the European Green Deal and the strategy for the decarbonization of the economy by 2030 were indi…

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• Future Development of Renewable Energy in Russia: A Case of Solar Power

  Frontiers in Energy Research · 2022-03-24 · 19 citations

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  Currently, there is a growing number of studies related to assessing the cost-effectiveness of renewable energy projects around the world. This topic is also very relevant for the Russian energy market that is otherwise dominated by oil and gas. The Russian Ministry of Energy forecasts that local power plants running on the renewable energy sources (RES) may not become economically efficient until 2025 or later. However, a research question arises: Is it possible to effectively implement RES pro…

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Frequent coauthors

• David Zilberman

  116 shared

• Leo K. Simon

  77 shared

• Harry de Gorter

  71 shared

• Jill J. McCluskey

  Washington State University

  64 shared

• Richard E. Just

  University of Maryland, College Park

  52 shared

• Johan Swinnen

  International Food Policy Research Institute

  51 shared

• Alberto Garrido

  49 shared

• Renan Goetz

  University of Girona

  49 shared

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Economics and Statistics

  University of Chicago

  1973

• Ph.D., Agricultural Economics

  University of California Davis

  1971

• M.S., Agricultural Economics

  University of California Davis

  1968

• B.S., Agriculture and Statistics

  California State University Fresno

  1965

Awards & honors

• American Antitrust Institute Award (2014)
• Secretary of Agriculture USDA for outstanding service award…
• Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service…
• Superior Unit Citation Award from the U.S. State Department…
• AAEA Distinguished Leadership Award (2020)

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