College of Forestry
Kuusela, Olli-Pekka
Position Type:
Faculty
Job Title:
Assistant Professor
Department:
Forest Engineering, Resources & Management
Office Location:
313 Snell Hall
Phone Number:
(541) 737-0454
Education:
Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2013
M.A., Virginia Tech, 2010
B.S., University of Helsinki, 2008
Research Areas:
- Forest Policy Analysis and Economics
Research Interests:
- Environmental Economics
- Forest Economics
- Natural Resources
Forest economics, environmental and natural resource economics, policy design, sustainable development
Bio:
Prospective Students: If the economic analysis of natural resources policy and management is something that gets you excited, and you think that you have the skills that it takes, I am very much interested in hearing from you.
Advising
Graduate Major Advisor
Graduate Students:
Courses Taught:
FOR330
Forest Resource Economics I
Selected Publications:
- Kuusela, O.-P., Bowman, M. S., Amacher, G. S., Howarth, R. B., and Laporte, N. T. “Does infrastructure and resource access matter for technical efficiency? An empirical analysis of fishing and fuelwood collection in Mozambique.” To appear in Environment, Development and Sustainability.
- Rossi, D., and Kuusela, O.-P. “Cost plus net value change (C+NVC) revisited: A sequential formulation of the wildfire economics model.” To appear in Forest Science.
- Lintunen, J., and O.-P. Kuusela. In Press. "Business Cycles and Emission Trading with Banking." European Economic Review.101:397-417.
- Kuusela, O.-P., G.S. Amacher, and K. Moeltner. 2017. "Enforcing the rules in timber concessions: Performance bonding in the presence of corruption risk." Forest Policy and Economics 85:52-64.
- Kuusela, O.-P., and G.S. Amacher. 2016. "A Review of Performance Bonding in Forest Policy Settings." Current Forestry Reports 2 (3):189-200.
- Kuusela, O.-P., and G.S. Amacher. 2016. "Changing political regimes and tropical deforestation." Environmental and Resource Economics 64 (3):445-463.