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Dr Marcela Tarazona Gomez

Marcela Tarazona Gomez
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Research Associate  M dot Tarazona-Gomez at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 1865   		Arts Building 1.66 
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Biography

 I am an economist specializing in experimental and environmental economics. I am particularly interested in individual and household decision making with its implications for development policies. I joined DEVco in October 2008 as part of a team investigating allocation norms across contexts and the implications for household models and development policies. This study combines experiments, household survey and ethnographic data for three developing countries (Ethiopia, India and Nigeria).
 
I have a MA in Environmental Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Toulouse (and EHESS). During my MA I studied the relationship between economic growth and pollution of greenhouse gases, and analyzed the economic implications of the market mechanisms introduced by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. In my PhD I used experiments to study how individuals deal with risks, with a particular interest in the case of environmental risks.
 
Prior to my appointment at DEVco I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Universities of Georgetown (Washington DC, USA) and Los Andes (Colombia). I also worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank where I provided analytical and technical support in matters related to disaster risk management and financing for countries in Latin America.

Career

My CV in pdf format

Key Research Interests

Publications

 Refereed Journals:

·         ‘El Cambio Climático en el Desarrollo Económico: Revisión de la Hipótesis de Kuznets’, Desarrollo y Sociedad, Centro de Estudios de Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Universidad de los Andes, No.43, Marzo 1999.


Submitted Papers and Work in Progress:

·         ‘Are Individuals Prudent? An Experimental Approach Using Lottery Choices’, working paper Laboratoire d’Economie des Ressources Naturelles (LERNA), No. 05.13.177, September 2004, submitted.

·         ‘Social Preferences over Risk’, Working Paper 05-06, Department of Economics, University of Central Florida. Joint work with Glenn Harrison (UC Florida), Morten Lau (Durham University) and Lisa Rustrom (UC Florida). September 2007, submitted.

·         ‘Risk Preferences and Contribution to a Public Good Experiment under Uncertainty’, Joint work with Nicolas Treich (U de Toulouse).

·         ‘Testing Cooperation under Random Matching – An Experimental Approach”, Joint with Lucia Quesada and Lucia Moscoso (in progress).


Applied and Policy Oriented:

·         The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility, Book Chapter prepared for Natural Catastrophe Risk Insurance Cover – A diversity of Systems, joint work with Francis Ghesquiere.

·         A Review of Political Economy Obstacles to Implementing a Forward Looking Disaster Risk Management (July 2006), Report prepared for IADB.

·         ‘Optimal Regulation for the Emission of Greenhouse Gases: Revision of the Kyoto Protocol’, Mimeo, August 2000.

·         La Convención Marco Climático y la Industria Colombiana del Carbón (March 1999), Report prepared for Ecocarbon

·         Lloró: un lugar donde convergen la solidaridad y el compromiso (January 1998), Report prepared for Red de Solidaridad Social




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