Welcome to Professor Rob Innes’ Website
Rob outside his home in Tucson, Arizona
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On sabatical in India in the Fall of 2005
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Rob Innes is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the Departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Economics, at the University of Arizona. Professor Innes joined the faculty in 1991 from the University of California–Davis, and teaches environmental economics, economics of law and regulations, and economics of agricultural and environmental policy. He has published research in microeconomic theory, industrial organization, finance, agricultural policy, environmental economics, and law. His work in agricultural and environmental policy has addressed issues ranging from livestock waste management, automobile regulation, soil depletion, the design of crop insurance, and optimal commodity program structure, to endangered species policy, safe drinking water, credit market policy, antitrust regulation and voluntary pollution reduction programs. Recent research focuses on the economics of multi-product retailing, entry deterrence, self-regulation, private politics, innovation in environmental technologies, the economics of child adoption, editorial favoritism, and property law. He is the recipient of the Hicks-Tinbergen Medal for outstanding research from the European Economic Association (1994), is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA, 2005, http://www.aaea.org/Fellows/f05innes.cfm), and has received a number of research honors, including the AAEA’s Quality of Research Discovery (1994, 2000), Outstanding Dissertation (1987) and Publication of Enduring Quality (2007) awards. He was recently ranked 67 among all economists worldwide (first among agricultural, environmental and resource economists) based on the quality and extent of 1990-2000 publications (http://student.ulb.ac.be/~tcoupe/update/top1000p.html). He served on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 1994–1995 where he developed a range of farm policy reforms ultimately proposed by the Clinton Administration for enactment in the 1996 Farm Bill. Professor Innes received his B.A. (1981), M.B.A. (1984) and Ph.D. (1986) from the University of California, Berkeley.
Employment
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
and Department of Economics, University of Arizona 1993-present
Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, Executive
Office of the President, Washington, D.C. 1994-1995
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics,
University of Arizona 1991-1993
Assistant and Associate Professor, University of California, Davis 1986-1991
Education
University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. 1986
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Fields: Finance and Agricultural Policy
University of California, Berkeley M.B.A. 1984
Specialization: Finance
University of California, Berkleley B.A. 1981
Economics, Highest Honors
London School of Economics and Political Science
General Economics Course 1979-80