GABRIEL A LOZADA portrait
  • Associate Professor, Economics Department

Publications

  • Darren Bush, Mark Glick & Gabriel A. Lozada (2023). Antitrust Enforcement in the Crosshairs. [Website/Blog] URL https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/antitrust-enforcement-in-the-crosshairs-post-chicago-economists-vs-new-brandeisians-on-the-new-merger-guidelines. Published, 10/06/2023.
    https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/an...
  • Mark Glick, Gabriel A. Lozada, Pavitra Govindan & Darren Bush (2023). The Horizontal Merger Efficiency Fallacy. Temple Law Review. Vol. 96. Accepted, 09/18/2023.
  • Mark Glick, Gabriel A. Lozada & Darren Bush (2023). Postscript: A Further Look at ProMarket’s Economics . [Website/Blog] URL https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/postscript-a-further-look-at-promarkets-economics. Published, 09/08/2023.
    https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/po...
  • Gabriel A. Lozada, Jesús Ramon Martin, Editor & Emilio Padilla, Editor (2023). The Laws of Thermodynamics. (pp. 349-356). Edward Elgar. Published, 09/2023.
    https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elgar-encyclopedi...
  • Mark Glick, Gabriel A. Lozada, Pavitra Govindan & Darren Bush (2023). The Mythology of Horizontal Merger Efficiencies . [Website/Blog] URL https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/the-mythology-of-horizontal-merger-efficiencies. Published, 08/31/2023.
    https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/th...
  • Darren Bush, Mark Glick & Gabriel A. Lozada (2023). Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Antitrust Arguments “Chicago Style” . [Website/Blog] URL https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont-antitrust-arguments-chicago-style. Published, 08/17/2023.
    https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/no...
  • Darren Bush, Mark Glick & Gabriel A. Lozada (2023). Creating a Modern Antitrust Welfare Standard that Integrates Post-Chicago and Neo-Brandeisian Goals. [Website/Blog] URL https://www.promarket.org/2023/05/26/creating-a-modern-antitrust-welfare-standard-that-integrates-post-chicago-and-neo-brandesian-goals/. Published, 05/26/2023.
    https://www.promarket.org/2023/05/26/creating-a-mo...
  • Gabriel A. Lozada (2023). Merger Tests in Practice: A Critical Analysis. [Website/Blog] URL https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/merger-tests-in-practice-a-critical-analysis. Published, 05/08/2023.
    https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/me...
  • Gabriel A. Lozada, Brent M. Haddad, editor & Barry D. Solomon, editor (2023). Hotelling Model. (pp. 270-271). Edward Elgar. Published, 02/2023.
    https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/dictionary-of-eco...
  • Mark Glick, Gabriel A. Lozada & Darren Bush (2022). Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals. [Website/Blog] URL https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/why-economists-should-support-populist-antitrust-goals. Published, 12/13/2022.
    https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/wh...
  • Mark Glick, Gabriel A. Lozada & Darren Bush (2022). Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals. Utah Law Review. Vol. 2023, 769-812. Published, 11/01/2022.
    https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2023/iss4/3
  • Gabriel A. Lozada (2022). A Critique of Antitrust Econometrics: Aggregation, the Representative Consumer, and the Broader Concerns of the New Brandeis School. The Antitrust Bulletin. Vol. 67, 69-99. Published, 01/26/2022.
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003...
  • Lozada, Gabriel A. (2023), "Hotelling Rule." In Brent M. Haddad and Barry D. Solomon, editors, Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Edward Elgar Publishing. Published, 01/01/2022.
    https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/dictionary-of-eco...
  • Mark Glick & Gabriel A. Lozada (2021). The Erroneous Foundations of Law and Economics. [Website/Blog] URL https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/research-papers/the-erroneous-foundations-of-law-and-economics. Published, 02/2021.
    https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/research-pa...
  • Gabriel A. Lozada (2020). Fixed Income for Retirement Saving: TIAA Traditional’s Lessons on Quality, Duration, Risk, and Gradual Withdrawals. The Journal of Retirement. Vol. 7, 39-59. Published, 02/2020.
    https://jor.pm-research.com/content/7/4/39
  • Gabriel A. Lozada (2019). Debt Repayment Obligations Created by the Proposed Bear River Development. Economic Evaluation Unit, Dept. of Economics, University of Utah. Published, 09/2019.
    http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/Research/USMa...

Research Statement

My general field is microeconomic theory/mathematical economics. My area of specialization is the theory of exhaustible resource extraction and sustainability. "Theory" here means that I don't use empirical data in my research, just mathematical explorations of exploiting an abstract resource "x". Another interest of mine is the application of the Second Law of Thermodymanics (the "Entropy Law") to Economics (I have a BS in physics). I teach environmental economics (pollution), cost/benefit analysis, non-market valuation techniques, and renewable resource economics at the undergraduate and PhD levels.  I also critique cost/benefit analysis and the Kaldor-Hicks criteria which form its basis, challenging the theoretical basis of environmental economics but also of Law and Economics.

I have done applied work on oil and gas severance taxes, on water pricing and water infrastructure in Utah, and on retirement planning in personal finance.

Research Keywords

  • Water Resources, Management or Planning
  • Personal Finance
  • Mineral Resources
  • Law and Economics
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Environmental Economics
  • Economic Development

Presentations

  • "Economic Implications of a Shrinking Lake." The University of Utah College of Law Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, 28th Annual Symposium, The Future of the Great Salt Lake. Panel, Presented, 03/16/2023.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohszCII9_Y
  • "Solving Utah's Growing Water Crisis," sponsored by the Utah Valley Earth Forum (on Zoom). Panel, Presented, 10/27/2022.
    https://www.facebook.com/theUVEF/videos/5021273831...
  • "Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals" Lee E. Teitelbaum Utah Law Review Symposium, "The New Roaring Twenties: The Progressive Agenda for Antitrust and Consumer Protection Law," Salt Lake City, UT. Conference Paper, Presented, 10/21/2022.
    https://sjquinney.utah.edu/event/the-new-roaring-t...
  • Debt Repayment Obligations Created by the Proposed Bear River Development Project. CAKE Talk, U of U Dept. of Economics. Presentation, Presented, 02/14/2020.
    https://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/Research/BRD...
  • Debt Repayment Obligations Created by the Proposed Bear River Development Project A Presentation to the 13th Annual Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium. Presentation, Presented, 11/21/2019.
    http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/Research/BRD_...
  • Debt Repayment Obligations Created by the Proposed Bear River Development Project A Presentation to the Water Conservatives Conference. Presentation, Presented, 09/05/2019.
    http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/Research/BRD_...
  • Is the Lake Powell Pipeline Affordable? A Presentation to the Kiwanis Club of Sugarhouse. Presentation, Presented, 05/14/2019.
    http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/Research/LPP_...
  • "The Lake Powell Pipeline: Affordable? Desirable?" Presented to the Executive Water Finance Board, Governor's Office of Management and Budget. The agenda is at https://www.utah.gov/pmn/sitemap/notice/467413.html . Presentation, Presented, 06/13/2018.
    https://www.utah.gov/pmn/files/404727.pdf
  • "Is the Lake Powell Pipeline Affordable?" (a revised version of the presentation of 9/2016). Venue: 2016 Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, West Valley City, UT. Presentation, Presented, 11/16/2016.
    http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/LPP_Nov2016ta...
  • "Is the Lake Powell Pipeline Affordable?" University of Utah venue: Moot Courtroom, Law School. Presentation, Presented, 09/21/2016.
    http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/LPP_Sept2016t...
  • A Simple Approach to Choice of a Parameter when Stochastic-Decision-Making Errors have Asymmetric Costs. Presentation, Presented, 04/10/2015.
    http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/Research/SDT_...
  • Initial Yield as a Forecast of Constant-Duration or Constant-Maturity Bond Portfolio Return near Twice Duration. Presentation, Presented, 09/26/2014.
  • Relicts in Economics (& elsewhere). Presentation, Presented, 09/18/2014.
    https://utah.instructure.com/courses/306131/files/...
  • Testimony for the Utah House Revenue and Taxation Standing Committee supporting HB 98 (Rep. Brian King), "Severance Tax Revisions." I presented my research on the effects of severance tax increases on revenue and oil & gas drilling in Utah. Presentation, Presented, 03/01/2013.
    http://le.utah.gov/~2013/minutes/HREV0301.pdf
  • "Sustainability, Economic Decision-Making, and the Cult Of Optimality: Considering Pragmatic Methodological Diversity." The University of Utah College of Law Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, 15th Annual Symposium, The Challenge of Sustainability. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/12/2010.
    http://www.ulaw.tv/videos/sustainability-economic-...

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

  • Horizontal Merger Reviews. PI: Pavitra Govindan. Co-PI(s): Gabriel A. Lozada; Mark Glick. Institute for New Economic Thinking, 01/2023 - 06/2023. Total project budget to date: $39,900.00
  • Econometrics. PI: Gabriel A. Lozada. Institute for New Economic Thinking, 01/2022 - 01/2023. Total project budget to date: $22,000.00
  • The Erroneous Foundations of Law and Economics . PI: Mark Glick. Co-PI(s): Gabriel A. Lozada. https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/research-pa... Institute for New Economic Thinking, 01/01/2020 - 02/26/2021. Total project budget to date: $47,800.00
  • Debt Repayment Obligations Created by the Proposed Bear River Development Project. PI: Gabriel A. Lozada. http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/Research/USMa... U.S. Magnesium, 04/2019 - 09/2019. Total project budget to date: $5,000.00

Research/Scholarship Projects

  • Beyond Consumer Welfare and Profit Maximization: New Frontiers in Antitrust Economics. PI: Gabriel A. Lozada. 04/2023 - 04/2023.
  • The Perils of Antitrust Econometrics: Unrealistic Engel Curves, Inadequate Data, and Aggregation Bias. PI: Gabriel A. Lozada. 03/2023 - 03/2023.

Software Titles

  • JAMTimes_newtxmath. A LaTeX macro file modifying the JAMTimes package (expanded (widened) Times-Roman-like fonts for LaTeX used by the Jour­nal d'Anal­yse Mathé­ma­tique) in various ways, among them making the width of plus and minus signs equal to each other, as is standard in Mathematical typesetting. Available at http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~lozada/Research/JAMTimes_newtxmath.tex. Release Date: 08/02/2015. Inventors: Gabriel A. Lozada (building on the existing JAMTimes and newtexmath LaTeX packages).