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Present	University Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Economics
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Finance and International Economics

International Economics, Microeconomics, and Finance

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Ames, IA 50011-1070

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Can Trade Be Good for the Environment?

Journal of Public Economic Theory (2016)

Harvey E. Lapan and Shiva Sikdar

We analyze the impact of trade in a differentiated good on environmental policy when there is local and transboundary pollution. ...

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Carbon leakage: the role of sequential policy setting

Environment and Development Economics (2012)

Shiva Sikdar and Harvey E. Lapan

We analyze non-cooperative environmental policy when the only strategic interaction between countries is through bilateral transboundary pollution, i.e., countries are ...

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Economics of Biofuels: An Overview of Policies, Impacts and Prospects

Bio-based and Applied Economics (2012)

Giancarlo Moschini, Jingbo Cui and Harvey Lapan

This paper provides an overview of the economics of biofuels. It starts by describing the remarkable growth of the biofuel ...

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Unit versus Ad Valorem Taxes in Multiproduct Cournot Oligopoly

Journal of Public Economic Theory (2011)

Harvey E. Lapan and David A. Hennessy

The welfare dominance of ad valorem taxes over unit taxes in a single-market Cournot oligopoly is well known. This article ...

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Strategic environmental policy under free trade with transboundary pollution

Review of Development Economics (2011)

Harvey E Lapan and Shiva Sikdar

We analyze the effects of trade liberalization on environmental policies in a strategic setting when there is transboundary pollution.Trade liberalization ...

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Welfare Impacts of Alternative Biofuel and Energy Policies

American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2011)

Jingbo Cui, Harvey Lapan, Giancarlo Moschini and Joseph Cooper

An open-economy equilibrium model is derived to investigate the effects of energy policy on the U.S. economy, with emphasis on ...

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Assessing the Welfare Effects of US Biofuel Policies

AgBioForum (2010)

Giancarlo Moschini, Harvey Lapan, Jingbo Cui and Joseph Cooper

This article assesses the main welfare implications of US policies to support biofuels, with an emphasis on corn-based ethanol. The ...

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Tariff-Rate Quotas, Rent-Shifting and the Selling of Domestic Access

Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy (2010)

Bruno Larue, Harvey E. Lapan and Jean-Philippe Gervais

Tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) have replaced quotas at the end of the Uruguay Round. We analyze TRQs when a foreign firm ...

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Heterogeneity of southern countries and southern intellectual property rights policy

Canadian Journal of Economics (2008)

Jeong-Eon Kim and Harvey E. Lapan

We develop a model with one innovating northern firm and heterogeneous southern firms that compete in a final product market. ...

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Statistical moments analysis of production and welfare in multi-product Cournot ...

International Journal of Industrial Organization (2008)

Harvey E. Lapan and David A. Hennessy

Our context involves N Cournot oligopolists producing M products at constant marginal costs when preferences are quasilinear. We identify relationships ...

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Grading, Minimum Quality Standards, and the Labeling of Genetically Modified ...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2007)

Harvey Lapan and Giancarlo Moschini

We relate the labeling of genetically modified (GM) products to the theory of grading and minimum quality standards. The model ...

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Labeling Regulations and Segregation of First- and Second-Generation GM Products ...

Regulating Agricultural Biotechnology: Economics and Policy (2006)

Giancarlo Moschini and Harvey Lapan

We review some of the most significant issues and results on the economic effects of genetically modified (GM) product innovation, ...

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Genetically Modified Crop Innovations and Product Differentiation: Trade and Welfare ...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2005)

Andrei Sobolevsky, Giancarlo Moschini and Harvey Lapan

A partial equilibrium four-region world trade model for the soybean complex is developed in which Roundup Ready (RR) products are ...

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Innovation and Trade with Endogenous Market Failure: The Case of ...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2004)

Harvey E. Lapan and Giancarlo Moschini

A partial-equilibrium, two-country model is developed to analyze implications from the introduction of genetically modified (GM) products. In the model, ...

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The Optimal Tariff, Production Lags, and Time Consistency

The American Economic Review (1988)

Harvey E. Lapan

The optimal tariff for a large country equals the reciprocal of the foreign export elasticity of supply. However, if production ...

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To Bargain or Not To Bargain: That Is The Question

The American Economic Review (1988)

Harvey E. Lapan and Todd Sandler

We use economic analysis in a simple game-theory framework to ascertain under what circumstances a government would want to precommit ...

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Factor-Market Distortions and Dynamic Optimal Intervention: Reply

The American Economic Review (1979)

Harvey E. Lapan

Edward Ray, in his comment on my 1976 paper, analyzes a slightly different model than the one I presented, and ...

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International Trade, Factor-Market Distortions, and the Optimal Dynamic Subsidy: Reply

The American Economic Review (1978)

Harvey E. Lapan

James Cassing and Jack Ochs' comment is, I believe, a very interesting extension of the analysis of my paper. Their ...

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Lags and the Assignment Problem: A Note

The American Economist (1978)

Harvey Lapan and Walter Enders

Mundell [5] has demonstrated that monetary policy should be paired with external balance and fiscal policy with internal balance. This ...

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Devaluation, Wealth Effects, and Relative Prices

The American Economic Review (1978)

Harvey Lapan and Walter Enders

The emergence of the portfolio balance approach 1 has led to a reformulation of the causes of balance-of-trade and payments ...

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Stochastic Disturbances and Exchange Rates

Journal of Economics (1978)

Walter Enders and Harvey E. Lapan

One of the central issues in the ongoing debate concerning fixed versus flexible exchange rates is the comparative stabilizing properties ...

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The Rising Price of Physicians' Services: A Clarification

The Review of Economics and Statistics (1974)

Douglas Brown, Martin Feldstein and Harvey Lapan

Several years ago, one of us presented a model of the market for physicians' services (Feldstein, 1970). In a subsequent ...

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The Rising Price of Physicians’ Services: A Comment

The Review of Economics and Statistics (1972)

Douglas M. Brown and Harvey E. Lapan

In a recent article in this REVIEW, Martin Feldstein (1970) attempted to explain the pricing of physicians' services in ...

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Roundup Ready Soybeans and Welfare Effects in the Soybean Complex

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

GianCarlo Moschini, HARVEY E LAPAN and Andrei Sobolevsky

A stylized three-region world model for the soybean complex is developed to evaluate the welfare effects of Roundup Ready (RR) ...

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Incomplete Adoption of a Superior Innovation

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

HARVEY E LAPAN and GianCarlo Moschini

We consider a model in which an innovating monopolist of a technologically superior intermediate input must sell this product to ...

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