Dr Ernesto Valenzuela

Biography/ Background

Dr Ernesto Valenzuela holds a joint position as a Lecturer in the School of Economics and Research Fellow to work on CIES-related projects.

Previously, he worked for 3 years as a full time Economist Consultant at The World Bank's Development Research Group (Trade Policy unit) in Washington DC. He was also involved as a Lecturer and Moderator for The World Bank Institute courses on Trade Policy, Export Development and Trade Growth and Poverty. He has also shared responsibilities in projects funded by the IADB, CAN, and ILRI. His research interests include a broad span of quantitative economics, with a special strength in economy-wide modeling using national and global computable general equilibrium models.

He authored in 2009 the book Poverty, Vulnerability and Trade Policy: CGE Modelling Issues, and has co-authored 20 book chapters and journal articles and more than 30 World Bank Working Papers and Trade Notes. He has published in journals as the Economic Development and Cultural Change, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Review of World Economics, The World Economy, World Trade Review, Economic Modeling, and in the working paper series of GTAP, World Bank, and CEPR.

He co-authored the database and documentation of The World Bank project “Distortions to Agricultural Incentives”, which covered 75 countries from 1955 to 2007. This database provides policy intervention indicators in agriculture, with a coverage of more than 70% of the world agricultural value. Available at www.worldbank.org/agdistortions

He obtained his PhD from Purdue. He was a Fulbright Scholar during his Master Studies, and his thesis was awarded as the Southern Illinois University’s Master thesis in 2000.

 

Please see attached CV below

Qualifications

Purdue University (West Lafayette, U.S.): Ph.D. conferred May 2006.

Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, U.S.): M.Sc. conferred Dec 2000.

Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (Guayaquil, Ecuador): Acuicultor conferred Feb 1997.

Teaching Interests

International Trade, agricultural economics, development, CGE modling and quantitative methods.

Publications

Only Refereed Journal Articles (for a full list of his publications, see attached CV below):

Anderson, K., M. Kurzweil, W. Martin, D. Sandri, and E. Valenzuela (2008). Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Revisited. World Trade Review 7(4):1-30.

Valenzuela, E., K. Anderson, and T. Hertel (2008). Impacts of Trade Reform: Sensitivity of Model Results to Key Assumptions. International Economics and Economic Policy 4(4): 395-420.

Anderson, K., and E. Valenzuela (2008). Agricultural Subsidy Cuts, New Biotechnologies, and Developing Countries: the Case of Cotton. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs special issue on agricultural policies Winter/Spring, Vol 9(1):7-15.

Anderson, K., E. Valenzuela, and L. Jackson (2008). Recent and Prospective Adoption of Genetically Modified Cotton: A Global CGE Analysis of Economic Impacts. Economic Development and Cultural Change 56(2):265-296.

Anderson, K., F. de Nicola, E. Jara, M. Kurzweil, D. Sandri and E. Valenzuela (2007). Distortions in farmer prices since the 1950s: South Africa in international perspective. Agrekon: South African Journal of Agricultural Economics 46(4):427-459.

Anderson, K., and E. Valenzuela (2007). The World Trade Organization's Doha Cotton Initiative: A Tale of Two Issues. The World Economy 30(8):1281-1304.

Valenzuela, E., T. Hertel, R. Keeney, and J. Reimer (2007). Assessing Global Computable General Equilibrium Model Validity Using Agricultural Price Volatility. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(2):383-397.

Anderson, K., and E. Valenzuela (2007). Do Global Trade Distortions Still Harm Developing Countries?. Review of World Economics 143(1):108-139 (formerly Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv).

Anderson, K., W. Martin, and E. Valenzuela (2006). The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Market Access. World Trade Review 5(3):1-23.

Hertel, T., J. Reimer, and E. Valenzuela (2005). Incorporating Commodity Stockholding into a General Equilibrium Model of the Global Economy. Economic Modeling 22: 646-664.

Files

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Entry last updated: Tuesday, 30 Jun 2009