Research Interests:

• Economic Development
• Natural Resources and the Environment 
• International Trade
• Property Rights, Conflict, and Illegal Behavior

Publications:

• Hotte, L (2013) Environmental conflict and natural resources. In: Jason Shogren (ed.) Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics, in press Oxford: Elsevier Science.
• Hottel, L and Winer, SL (2012) Environmental Regulation and Trade Openness in the Presence of Private Mitigation. Journal of Development Economics 97, 46-57 Link to Working Paper
• Hotte L and van Ypersele, T (2008) Inividual Protection Against Property Crime: Decomposing the Effects of Protection Observability. Canadian Journal of Economics 41, 537-563 Link to Working Paper
• Ambec S and Hotte L (2006) On the Redistributive Impact of Privatizing a Resource Under Imperfect Enforcement. Environment and Development Economics 11, 677-696
• Hotte L (2005) Natural-Resource Exploitation with Costly Enforcement of Property Rights. Oxford Economic Papers 57, 497-521 Link to Working Paper
• Hotte L (2001) Conflicts over Property Rights and Natural-Resource Exploitation at the Frontier. Journal of Development Economics 66, 1-21 Link to Working Paper
• Hotte L and Winer SL (2001) Political Influence, Economic Interests and Endogenous Tax Structure in a Computable Equilibrium Framework: With Applications to the United States, 1973 and 1983.  Public Choice 109, 69-99 Link to Working Paper
• Hotte L, Long NV and Tian H (2000) International Trade with Endogenous Enforcement of Property Rights.  Journal of Development Economics 62, 25-54

Current research:

• On the Dual Nature of Weak Property Rights (with Randy McFerrin and Douglas Wills) (2011)
• Democracy and Environmental Regulation in the Presence of Private Mitigation (with Sophie Bernard and Stan Winer) CESIFO Working paper 3241 (2010)
• Property Crime with Private Protection: A Market-for-Offenses Approach (with Fabrice Valognes and Tanguy van Ypersele) CEPR Discussion Paper no. 3782 (2003)
• Banking on the Household: Gender Bargaining and Other Crime Stories (with Paul Kearns) 
• Property rights and mobile capital (with Ronan Congar) 
• Subsistence Consumption, Uncertainty, and Comparative Advantage (with Jingsong Yu)
• Domestic Violence and the Timing of Welfare Payments (with Maxime Cormier and Louis-Philippe Morin)
• Public and private enforcment of property rights and the use of natural resources (with Julius Oloufade)

Research grants:

• The environment, democracy, trade nexus. SSHRC Standard Research Grant 2007-2010 ($44,000). (with Stanley L. Winer as co-investigator)

Field work:

• Household survey, Guanacaste, Costa Rica 2007-2008.

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