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Assoc/Prof Atakelty Hailu
Associate Professor
Contact details
| Address | School of Agricultural and Resource Economics The University of Western Australia (M089) 35 Stirling Highway CRAWLEY WA 6009 Australia |
|---|---|
| Phone | 6488 2538 |
| Fax | 6488 1098 |
| ahailu@cyllene.uwa.edu.au |
Key research
- My primary research interests include:
- Environmental policy design through integrated economic and biophysical modelling:
- Incorporating the dynamic interdependence of resource conditions and economic behaviour in the design of spatially differentiated and flexible combination of regulatory and incentive-based policy instruments for point and non-point source pollution control and sustainable resource management. Currently developing an integrated agent-based economic and hydrologic model to provide a platform for the simulation of policy instruments aimed at water quality and dryland salinity management.
- Environmentally sensitive analysis of productivity:
- Efficiency, technical change and productivity measurement in Agriculture and other resource-based industries; Incorporation
- of environmental effects in productivity measurement to provide a balanced evaluation of the benefits of R&D activities and the sustainability change of production technologies (including new crop verities, new production practices, etc.).
- Soil quality indicator development:
- Using production-theoretic approaches to guide the development of quality indicators for the assessment of soil health and the effects of alternative production technologies.
- Agent-based modelling of economic behaviour and learning:
- Relaxing the standard assumptions of rational (and hyper-rational) economic agents to allow for bounded rationality, local interaction, heterogeneity and learning in the study of responses to policy measures.
Major research interests
- Agent-based modelling
- Agricultural policy
- Bioeconomic modelling
- Environmental policy
- Forest-based industries and sustainability
- Productivity and efficiency analysis
- Water management and policy
Qualifications
BSc Alemaya PhD Alta.
Publications
Only Refereed Journal Article Publications
“Pollution Abatement and Productivity Performance of Regional Canadian Pulp and Paper Industries,” Journal of Forest Economics, 2003, in press.
"Comparative Analysis of Efficiency and Productivity Growth in Canadian Regional Boreal Logging Industries," Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2003, in press. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Alternative Methods for Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Analysis,” Agricultural Economics 25 (2001): 211-218. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Nonparametric Productivity Analysis with Undesirable Outputs: An Application to the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 83 (2001): 605-616. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Analysis of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry, 1959-1994: An Input Distance Function Approach," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 40(2000):251-274. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Output scale, technical change and productivity in the Canadian pulp and paper industry," Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 30 (2000): 1041-1050. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Complements, Substitutes, and Budget Constraints and Valuation: Application of a Multi-Program Environmental Valuation Method," Environmental and Resource Economics, 16 (May 2000): 51-68. (with W.L. Adamowicz and P. Boxall)
"A Dynamic Economic Model of Sustainable Agriculture and the Ecosphere," Applied Mathematics and Computation 84 (July 1997): 221-246. (with Solomonovich, M., L. P. Apedaile, H. I. Freedman, S. G. M. Schilizzi, and L. Belostotski)
“Pollution Abatement and Productivity Performance of Regional Canadian Pulp and Paper Industries,” Journal of Forest Economics, 2003, in press.
"Comparative Analysis of Efficiency and Productivity Growth in Canadian Regional Boreal Logging Industries," Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2003, in press. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Alternative Methods for Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Analysis,” Agricultural Economics 25 (2001): 211-218. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Nonparametric Productivity Analysis with Undesirable Outputs: An Application to the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 83 (2001): 605-616. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Analysis of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry, 1959-1994: An Input Distance Function Approach," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 40(2000):251-274. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Output scale, technical change and productivity in the Canadian pulp and paper industry," Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 30 (2000): 1041-1050. (with T. S. Veeman)
"Complements, Substitutes, and Budget Constraints and Valuation: Application of a Multi-Program Environmental Valuation Method," Environmental and Resource Economics, 16 (May 2000): 51-68. (with W.L. Adamowicz and P. Boxall)
"A Dynamic Economic Model of Sustainable Agriculture and the Ecosphere," Applied Mathematics and Computation 84 (July 1997): 221-246. (with Solomonovich, M., L. P. Apedaile, H. I. Freedman, S. G. M. Schilizzi, and L. Belostotski)
Languages
English, Tigriyna (Tigrigna) and Amharic
Memberships
American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA), Australian Agricultural and Resouce Economics (AARES)
Honours and awards
- Going North Award, AARES, 2005
- Best Doctoral Thesis Award for 1996-1998, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, July 1999
- Chancellor's Gold Medal, Alemaya University, July 1990
- Several fellowships: Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alberta, Sep.1996-Aug.1997; University of Alberta Ph.D. Scholarship, Sep.1994-Aug.1996; University of Alberta/CIDA Scholarship, Sep.1992-Aug.1994
- Prizes and honors for outstanding academic achievements
- Best Doctoral Thesis Award for 1996-1998, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, July 1999
- Chancellor's Gold Medal, Alemaya University, July 1990
- Several fellowships: Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alberta, Sep.1996-Aug.1997; University of Alberta Ph.D. Scholarship, Sep.1994-Aug.1996; University of Alberta/CIDA Scholarship, Sep.1992-Aug.1994
- Prizes and honors for outstanding academic achievements
Previous positions
1) Invited Professor, ENSAM/INRA, France, January - July 2005
2) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainable Forest Management Network (SFMN), University of Alberta, Canada, July 1998-Nov. 2001
3) Academic Faculty Member, Alemaya University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Ethiopia, Sep.1990-Aug.1992
2) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainable Forest Management Network (SFMN), University of Alberta, Canada, July 1998-Nov. 2001
3) Academic Faculty Member, Alemaya University, Department of Agricultural Economics, Ethiopia, Sep.1990-Aug.1992
Teaching
Undergraduate teaching:
- Natural Resource Economcs
- Agricultural Economics and Marketing
- Economics of Water Management and Policy
- Honors Theses
- Natural Resource Economcs
- Agricultural Economics and Marketing
- Economics of Water Management and Policy
- Honors Theses
Useful links
http://www.are.uwa.edu.au/hailu_cv
New and noteworthy
Coordinator, AARES web site (http://www.aares.info/), 2005-
Manager, AARES web site (http://www.aares.info/), 2003-2005
Manager, AARES web site (http://www.aares.info/), 2003-2005
Current projects
FNAS start-up funds, 2007, $10,000
Project Title: Pushing the frontiers of conservation auction design: outcome-based combinatorial auctions for buying nature
Wealth from Oceans Ningaloo Cluster Funding, 2006, $539,243 (Atakelty Hailu, Michael Burton and Ben White)
Project Title: Socio-economic integration and management
strategy evaluation
ARC Discovery, 2006, $81,000 (A Hailu (PI) and Robert G. Chambers)
Project Title: Designing better soil quality indexes to improve land and environmental management
National Market-Based Instruments Pilot Program (MBI2), 2006, $457,000 (John Rolfe, Jill Windle, Romy Greiner and Atakelty Hailu)
Project Title: Incentives for water quality improvements across pastoral and farming activities
RIRDC, 2006-2008, $120,000 (with Tom Norblom and others; Hailu PI for UWA portion $50,000)
Project Title: Developing environmental service policy for salinity
Project Title: Pushing the frontiers of conservation auction design: outcome-based combinatorial auctions for buying nature
Wealth from Oceans Ningaloo Cluster Funding, 2006, $539,243 (Atakelty Hailu, Michael Burton and Ben White)
Project Title: Socio-economic integration and management
strategy evaluation
ARC Discovery, 2006, $81,000 (A Hailu (PI) and Robert G. Chambers)
Project Title: Designing better soil quality indexes to improve land and environmental management
National Market-Based Instruments Pilot Program (MBI2), 2006, $457,000 (John Rolfe, Jill Windle, Romy Greiner and Atakelty Hailu)
Project Title: Incentives for water quality improvements across pastoral and farming activities
RIRDC, 2006-2008, $120,000 (with Tom Norblom and others; Hailu PI for UWA portion $50,000)
Project Title: Developing environmental service policy for salinity
Research profile
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