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Dr Anke Leroux Title: Lecturer Department: Economics and Finance Location: Donald Whitehead Building Room 308 Tel: +61 3 9479 1708 Email: a.leroux@latrobe.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9479 1654

Anke Leroux, PhD and MPhil Cambridge University (UK), BA/BCom(hons) Melbourne University

Anke joined the Department of Economics and Finance as a Lecturer in May 2006 after completing her PhD at Cambridge University, where she was also a Gates Scholar. Prior to that Anke worked as a senior strategy and management consultant, based in Paris and Melbourne.

Anke's area of research is environmental, ecological and natural resource economics. Her interests include continuous time, dynamic optimisation models of natural resources, for example modelling optimal land use and biodiversity conservation under uncertainty. Other interests include quasi-environmental option values, the design of water options as well as optimal trade policy, given the risk of importing pests and pathogens. Anke has also worked with exogenous and endogenous growth models to model dynamic ecological constraints to economic growth.

• Anke’s CV

Teaching: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Research Interests: Environmental, ecological and natural resource economics, real option theory

Recent Publications in Refereed Journals

A.D. Leroux and J. Creedy. Optimal land conversion and growth with uncertain biodiversity costs, Ecological Economics, in press, available online Jul 2006.

J. Creedy and A.D. Wurzbacher. The economic value of a forested catchment with timber, water and carbon sequestration benefits; Ecological Economics 38, 2001, 71-83.

Other Publications

A.D. Wurzbacher. Optimal conservation under ecological risk and uncertainty: A dynamic analysis. PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, UK, 2006.

A.D. Leroux and J. Creedy. Optimal land conversion and growth with uncertain biodiversity costs, Research Paper No 957 (2005), Dept. of Economics, Melbourne University.

A.D. Wurzbacher. Dynamic ecological constraints to economic growth. Research Paper No 909, (2004) Dept. of Economics, Melbourne University.

J.Creedy and A.D. Wurzbacher. The economic value of a forested catchment with timber, water and carbon sequestration benefits, Research Paper No 753 (2000), Dept. of Economics, Melbourne University.

Current Research Projects

A.D. Leroux, V. Martin and Timo Goeschl. Real options in biodiversity conservation. (submitted)

A.D. Leroux and D. MacLaren. Assessing the economic consequences of removing quarantine restrictions under uncertainty: the case of Australian bananas.

Options contracts for managing inter-sectoral water trade: the case of the Ovens catchment (with L. Crase).

A.D. Leroux. Dynamic option values in biodiversity conservation.

A.D. Leroux. Species-area relationships and economic growth.