Senarath Dharmasena
Source: https://agecon.tamu.edu/people/dharmasena-senarath/ Parent: https://agecon.tamu.edu/ms-agricultural-economics-thesis/
: Instructional Associate Professor
Office: : AGLS 214G
Email: : [email protected]
Phone: : (979) 862-2894
Education
Undergraduate Education : B.S. Agriculture, University of Peradeniya
Graduate Education : M.S. Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University : Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
Areas of Expertise
- Consumer Economics
- Applied Demand Analysis
- Agribusiness and Food Market Analysis and Forecasting
- Health and Nutrition Economics Economics of Food Security
- Food Environments and Obesity Causality Modeling and Causal Inference
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Data science
- Market Integration and Price Discovery
- U.S. Energy Demand Analysis
- Macroeconomics of Agriculture Simulation
- Risk Modeling
Professional Summary
Senarath Dharmasena, Ph.D. is an instructional associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics. He also serves as an associate in the Agribusiness, Food and Consumer Economics Research Center (AFCERC), and associate editor for the Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies (JADEE).
Selected Publications
Guo Cheng, Oral Capps, Jr. and Senarath Dharmasena, “Demand Interrelationships of Peanuts and Tree Nuts in the United States” Journal of Agribusiness, Spring 2021, 39(1):15-38.
Christopher S. Rowland, James W. Mjelde, and Senarath Dharmasena “Policy Implications of Considering Pre-commitments in U.S. Aggregate Energy Demand System” Energy Policy, 102: 406-413, 2017
Senarath Dharmasena, David A. Bessler and Oral Capps, Jr., “Food Environment in the United States as a Complex Economic System.” Food Policy, 61: 163-175, 2016
Andres Silva and Senarath Dharmasena, “Considering Seasonal Unit Roots in a Demand System: An Empirical Approach.” Empirical Economics, 51(4):1443-1463, 2016
Senarath Dharmasena and Oral Capps Jr., “Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Proposed National Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Combat the U.S. Obesity Problem” Health Economics, 21(6): 669-694; 2012