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Dr. Robert G. Chambers

Professor


2105 Symons Hall 7998 Regents Drive College Park, Maryland 20742-5535

Expertise

  • Production Economics

Biography

Education: 

B.S.F.S. 1972, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University: International Relations
M.S. 1975, University of Maryland at College Park: Agricultural and Resource Economics
Ph.D. 1979, University of California at Berkeley: Agricultural and Resource Economics

Research

Areas of Interest:

  • Production Theory
  • Public Economics
  • Uncertainty
  • Financial Economics
  • Trade
  • Microeconomic Theory

Publications

Selected Publications:

Competitive Agents in Certain and Uncertain Markets. Robert G. Chambers, Oxford
University Press, New York, 2021.

Lectures on Neoclassical Production Economics. Robert G Chambers. (unpublished book-
length manuscript in preparation for submission to publisher, currently available on personal website)

“Production under Uncertainty”. Robert G. Chambers. In Handbook of Production Economics, eds. Subhash Ray, Robert G Chambers, and Subal Kumbhakar. Springer, Singapore https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3450-3_6-1 . 2020.

“Distance Functions”. Robert G. Chambers and Rolf Färe. Handbook of Production Economics, eds. Subhash Ray, Robert G Chambers, and Subal Kumbhakar, Springer, Singapore https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3450-3_14-1. 2020.

“Comparative Risk Aversion for State-Dependent Preferences”. John Quiggin and Robert G Chambers. Mathematical Topics on Representations of Ordered Structures and Utility Theory: Essays in Honor of Professor G.B. Mehta, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 263, G. Bosi, M. Campion, J. C. Candeal, and E.Indurain (eds), Springer Nature, Switzerland 2020.

“Neoclassical Production Economics: An Introduction”. Robert G. Chambers and Subhash Ray. Handbook of Production Economics, eds. Subhash Ray, Robert G Chambers, and Subal Kumbhakar, Springer, Singapore 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3455-8_18.

 “Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: Review of Methodogical Approaches”. Robert G. Chambers and Dimitris Diakosavvas. Insights into the Measurement of Agricultural Total Factor Productivity and the Environment. Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Paris 2022. https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/topics/network-
agricultural-productivity-and-environment/

“Incorporating the Environment in Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Accounting”.
Dimitris Diakosavas, Jean-Christophe Bureau, and Robert G. Chambers. Insights into the Measurement of Agricultural Total Factor Productivity and the Environment Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Paris 2022.https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/topics/network-agricultural-productivity-and-environment/

Annex 3A to “Incorporating the Environment in Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Accounting” entitled “Analytical Framework”. Robert G. Chambers. Insights into the Measurement of Agricultural Total Factor Productivity and the Environment. Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Paris 2022. https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/topics/network-agricultural-productivity-and-environment/

“Weather Indices for Agriculture”. Robert G. Chambers, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, and Simone Pieralli. Insights into the Measurement of Agricultural Total Factor Productivity and the Environment. Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Paris 2022. https://www.oecd.org/agriculture/topics/network-agricultural-productivity-and-
environment/