Contact

E-mail: ademir.rocha@ufam.edu.br

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Education

• Ph.D.  in Economic Theory, University of São Paulo, BR, 2022.

 Thesis: Climate change, water resources and economic impacts: an analysis for the Brazilian hydrographic regions

Curriculum Vitae 

in Portuguese (CV Lattes)

in English (CV)

Research Fields

• Climate Change, Natural Resources and Economics

• Applied Economics (Input-Output and CGE analysis, Spatial Econometrics) 

• Regional Economics

Lab Affiliate

• The University of São Paulo Regional and Urban Economics Lab (NEREUS) [Link]

• Interdisciplinary Climate Investigation Center (INCLINE) [Link] 

Highlighted Research 

• [NEW!!!] Economic drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon (with Eduardo Haddad, Inácio Araújo, Rafael Barbieri, Fernando Perobelli, Karina Sass, Carlos Nobre), Nature Sustainability, 2024.

Other Publications  (Orcid Link) (Web of Science)

Field 1 - Environmental Economics

• Measuring the causal effect of no-till system adoption on Brazilian natural areas (with Eduardo Gonçalves), Soil and Tillage Research, 2024.

• Water charge and natural areas conservation: An ex-ante assessment of a policy proposal for the Mantiqueira region, Brazil (with Eduardo Haddad, Alan Leal and João Correa), Water Resources Research, 2023.

• New economy for the Brazilian Amazon (with Nobre, C., Feltran-Barbieri, R., Costa, F. A., Haddad, E. and others). World Resources Institute (WRI), 2023. [Report]

• A bad year? Climate variability and the wine industry in Chile (with Eduardo Haddad, Patricio Aroca, Pilar Jano and Bruno Pimenta), Wine Economics and Policy, 9 (2), 23-35, 2020. 

• Agricultural technology adoption and land use: evidence for Brazilian municipalities (with Eduardo Gonçalves and Eduardo Almeida), Journal of Land Use Science, 14(4-6), 320-346, 2020.

Field 2 - Regional Economics

• The geography of manufacturing productivity shocks in Colombia (with Gerson J. Pérez, Carlos Campos and Eduardo Haddad). In: Haddad, E.A., Bonet, J., Hewings, G.J.D. (eds) The Colombian Economy and Its Regional Structural Challenges. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, 2023.

• Input-output analysis of the Ukraine War: A tool for assessing the internal territorial impacts of the conflict (with Eduardo Haddad, Inácio Araújo and Karina Sass), Regional Science Policy & Practice, 2022.

• The key to knowledge: Evaluating the role of gatekeepers on regional inventive performance (with Eduardo Gonçalves and Raquel Reis), Journal of Technology Transfer, 2022.

• The New Economic Geography and labour emigration: Analysing Venezuela's hyperinflation episode (with Cleomar Gomes and Fernando Perobelli), Journal of International Development, 34(1), 175-202, 2022. 

• Spatial distribution of logistics services in Brazil: A potential market analysis (with Fernando Perobelli), Regional Science Policy & Practice, 12(1), 185-217, 2020.

• Modelling the location choice: evidence from an evolutionary game based on regional input–output analysis (with Douglas Sad, Fernando Perobelli and Silvinha Vasconcelos), Regional Studies,  53(12), 1734-1746, 2019.

Working Papers 

• Illegal deforestation in the Amazon: A modest contribution to Brazil’s GDP at the price of an outsized present and future cost (with Philip Fearnside), Draft coming soon.

• Urban floods, business interruption, and economic losses: a methodological framework for impact measurement (with Guilherme Marques), Draft coming soon.

• Climate change, water resources and economic impacts in Brazilian hydrographic regions (with Eduardo Haddad), Economic Systems Research. 

• Economic gains of accessibility: A case study of the Moroccan Tiznit-Dakhla expressway (with Eduardo Haddad, Mahmoud Arbouch and Vinicius Vale), Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science. [Link]

• Multidimensional Analysis of the Sea Economy: A Case Study for the Madeira Island, Portugal (with Felipe Santos, Samuel Bícego and Eduardo Haddad), Marine Policy.

• Region-specific carbon footprints of Brazilian products (with Paula Pereda, Thais Diniz and Ana Duran), Journal of Environmental Management.

Peer Review (Web of Science)

• Regional Studies

• Economic Systems Research

• Journal of International Development

• Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade

• Networks and Spatial Economics

• Water Resources Management 

• Regional Science Policy & Practice 

• Spatial Economic Analysis

• Estudos Econômicos (Brazilian Journal)

• EconomiA (Brazilian Journal)

• Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos (Brazilian Journal)

• Economia Ensaios (Brazilian Journal)

• Economia & Região (Brazilian Journal)

Teaching

• Environmental Economics (Undergraduate, 2025)  - Federal University of Amazonas, BR

• Spatial Econometrics (Postgraduate, 2025)  - Federal University of Amazonas, BR 

• National Accounts (Undergraduate, Summer Course, 2025)  - Federal University of Amazonas, BR 

• Econometrics (Undergraduate,2024) - Federal University of Amazonas, BR 

• Introduction to Money and Banking (Undergraduate,2024) - Federal University of Amazonas, BR 

• Applied General Equilibrium Models I and II (Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, 2018-2024) - University of São Paulo, BR

• Microeconomic Introduction (Undergraduate, 2022-2023) - University of São Paulo, BR

• Macroeconomic Introduction (Undergraduate, 2022-2023) - University of São Paulo, BR

• Macroeconomics (Undergraduate, 2022-2023) - University of São Paulo, BR

• Calculus 1 (Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, 2015)

• Calculus 2 (Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, 2015)