Lee, Young*, Horeh, M.*, and L. Elbakidze (2025) “Economic Evaluation of Lettuce Traceability Systems in Mitigating Foodborne Illness Risks” Food Policy, 132, (102855), (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102855)

Xu, Y., L. Elbakidze, P. W. Gassman, H. Yen, Y. Ma, J. Hubbard, J. Arnold, (2025) “US–China agricultural trade and environmental outcomes: The case of nutrient runoff to the Gulf of Mexico,” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 1:20, (https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13501)

Mugabe, D.*, L. Elbakidze, and G. Zaynutdinova (2025) “Real options investments: Lessons from the US shale gas industry,” Financial Review, 1:28, (https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12428) 

Ul Aziz*, M. and L. Elbakidze (2025) “Invisible Barrier: The Impact of Air Quality on Chronic School Absenteeism in the US," Environmental and Resource Economics, 88(3):655-680, (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-024-00943-1)

Akinyemi, T.*,  L. Elbakidze, Xu, Y., P. Gassman, J. Arnold, H. Yen (2024) “Cross-Watershed Leakage and Agricultural Nutrient Runoff Reduction”, Environmental Research Letters, 19(7), (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad4e4a/meta)  

Wang J, S. Yu, L. Elbakidze, Y. Xin, S. Song, Y. Ma, (2024) “US-China trade friction and agricultural nitrogen loss in China: a price endogenous partial equilibrium analysis” Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 106, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107507)  

Khanal, N. B.* and L. Elbakidze (2024)“Peril in the Pipeline: Unraveling the Threads of PFAS Contamination in U.S. Drinking Water Systems,” PLOS One, April:1-22. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299789)

Tavarez, H.*, O. Abelleira, L. Elbakidze, (2024) "Environmental awareness and willingness to pay for biodiversity improvement in Puerto Rico”, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 14:154-166. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13412-023-00869-y)

Tavárez, H.* and L. Elbakidze, (2023) “Willingness to pay for ancillary water service improvements in Puerto Rico”, Water Economics and Policy, 2250010 (https://doi.org/10.1142/S2382624X23500108)
Water Economics and Policy Editor’s Choice for 2023, https://www.worldscientific.com/page/wep/web-editors-choice

Elbakidze, L., (2023) Book Review of Shortle, J., Ollikainen, M, and Iho, A., “Water Quality and Agriculture: Economics and Policy for Nonpoint Source Water Pollution” Water Economics and Policy, 9(3) (https://doi.org/10.1142/S2382624X23800048)

Horeh, M*., L. Elbakidze, and G. Taylor (2023) “Contaminated Water and the Food Safety Modernization Act", Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 52(3):623-653 (https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2023.22)

Anica, S*. and L. Elbakidze, (2023) “Financial assistance and environmental compliance: evidence from the Clean Water Act," Land Economics 99(2):222-244 (https://doi.org/10.3368/le.061121-0060R1)

Xu, Y., L. Elbakidze, X. Etienne (2023) “Unconventional oil and gas development and agricultural land-use in the United States" Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 48(2):219-236 (https://jareonline.org/issue_archives/2023/volume-48-issue-2-may-2023/)

Horeh*, M., L. Elbakidze, A.C. Sant’Anna (2023) “Food-borne illness and product liability in the US” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 52(1):1-42 (https://www.doi.org/10.1017/age.2022.25)

Du, X., L. Elbakidze, L. Lu*, R. G. Taylor (2022) “Climate smart pest management” Sustainability, 14(16), 19832 (https://doi.org/10.3390/su14169832)

Cohen, J. J., Elbakidze, L., & Jackson, R. (2022). “Interstate protectionism: the case of solar renewable energy credits.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 104(2), 717-738. (https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12248)

Xu, Y., L. Elbakidze, P. Gassman, J. Arnold, J. Hubbart, H. Yen, M. Strager, (2022) “Integrated assessment of nitrogen runoff to the Gulf of Mexico” Resource and Energy Economics, 67:1-17 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2021.101279)

Tavárez, H.*, L. Elbakidze, O. J. Abelleira-Martínez, Z. Ramos-Bendaña, N. A. Bosque-Pérez, (2022). “Willingness to pay for gray and green interventions to augment water supply: a case study in Rural Costa Rica.” Environmental Management, 69(4):636-651 (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-021-01476-9)

Elbakidze, L. and Q. Beeson* (2021). “State regulatory heterogeneity and compliance with the Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water Acts”. Water Resources Research, 57:1-13, e2020WR028952. (https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028952)
Featured on AGU Science News Editor Highlight (2% chance), “New Standards Spur Water Utilities to Improve Compliance” by Jim Hall (editor, WRR), available online https://eos.org/editor-highlights/new-standards-spur-water-utilities-to-improve-compliance

Tavarez, H.*, L. Elbakidze, (2021) “Urban forest valuation and environmental disposition: The case of Puerto Rico” Forest Policy and Economics, 131:1-8, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102572)

Mugabe, D.* L. Elbakidze, T. Carr, (2021) “All the DUCs in a row: natural gas production in the US” Energy Journal, 42(3):113-132, (https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.42.3.dmug)

Khurana, R.* L. Elbakidze, J. Hall, (2021) “The political economy of solar initiatives in the sunshine state” Applied Economics Letters, 28(9):717-720, (https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2020.1771269)

Cohen, J. L. Elbakidze, R. Jackson (2020) “Solar bait: How U.S. states attract solar investments from large corporations” Energy Journal, 41(2):167-190, (https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.41.2.jcoh)

Mugabe*, D. L. Elbakidze, and G. Zaynutdinova (2020) “Elasticity of substitution and technical efficiency: evidence from the US electricity generation,” Applied Economics, 52(16):1789-1805, (https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2019.1678733)

Tavárez, H.* and L. Elbakidze (2019). “Valuing recreational enhancements in the San Patricio Urban Forest of Puerto Rico: A choice experiment approach.” Forest Policy and Economics, 109, 102004.( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102004)

Tawfeeq*, M., A. R. Collins, A. R., L. Elbakidze, and G. Zaynutdinova (2019). “Linking crude oil prices and Middle East stock markets”. OPEC Energy Review. 43(2), (https://doi.org/10.1111/opec.12145)

Elbakidze, L., H. Vinson*, K. Cobourn, and G. Taylor (2018), “Efficient groundwater allocation and binding hydrologic externalities,” Resource and Energy Economics, 53:147-16, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2018.05.002)

Elbakidze, L. and R. Nayga (2018) “The adding-up test in an incentivized value elicitation mechanism: the role of the income effect” Environmental and Resource Economics.  71(3): 625-644, (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-017-0177-9)

Elbakidze, L., B. Faannunu*, A. Mamula, G. Taylor (2017) “Evaluating economic efficiency of a water buyback program: The Klamath irrigation project” Resource and Energy Economics, 48:68-82. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2017.02.001)

Elbakidze, L., G Taylor, B. Schiller*, (2017) “Estimation of short and long run derived irrigation water demands and elasticities” Water Economics and Policy, 3(1):1-22, (https://doi.org/10.1142/S2382624X17500011)

Yang*, L., L. Elbakidze, C. McIntosh, T. Marsh, (2016) “Primary and secondary pest management in agriculture: balancing pesticides and natural enemies in potato production” Agricultural Economics, 47:1-11, (https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12259)

Elbakidze, L., and Y. Jin (2015) “Are economic development and education improvement associated with participation in transnational terrorism?” Risk Analysis, 35(8):1520-35, (https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12378)

Ghosh, S., K. M. Cobourn, and L. Elbakidze, (2014) “Water banking, conjunctive administration, and drought: the interaction of water markets and prior appropriation in southeastern Idaho”, Water Resources Research, 50(80):6927–6949, (https://doi.org/10.1002/2014WR015572)

Elbakidze, L, R. M. Nayga Jr., H. Li*, C. McIntosh, (2014) “Value elicitation for multiple quantities of a quasi-public good using open ended choice experiments and uniform price auctions”, Agricultural Economics, 45(2):253-265, (https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12044)

Elbakidze L. and K. M. Cobourn, (2013) “Economic foundations for the interdisciplinary modeling of water resources under climate change”, Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, 152:32-41. (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2013.03165.x)

Egbendewe-Mondzozo, A.*, L. Elbakidze, B. McCarl, M. P. Ward, and J. Carey, (2013) “Partial equilibrium analysis of vaccination as an avian influenza control tool in the U.S. poultry sector”, Agricultural Economics, 44(1):111-123, (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2012.00634.x)

Elbakidze, L R. Nayga, H. Li*, (2013) “Willingness to pay for multiple quantities of animal welfare dairy products: results from random nth, second price, and incremental second price auctions”, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 61(3):417-438, (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7976.2012.01263.x)

Elbakidze, L., X Shen*, G. Taylor, S. Mooney, (2012) “Spatiotemporal analysis of prior appropriations water calls”, Water Resources Research, 48(6):1-13, (https://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR010609)

Elbakidze, L., and Y. Jin, (2012) “Victim countries of transnational terrorism: an empirical characteristics analysis”, Risk Analysis, 32(12):2152-65, (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01815.x)

Elbakidze, L., and R. Nayga, (2012) “The effects of information on the willingness to pay for animal welfare in dairy production: application of non-hypothetical valuation mechanisms”, Journal of Dairy Science, 95(3):1099-1107, (https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2011-4730)

Elbakidze, L., L. Lu*, S. Eigenbrode, (2011) “Evaluating vector-virus-yield interactions for peas and lentils under climatic variability: a limited dependent variable analysis” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 36(3):504-520, (https://www.jstor.org/stable/23243521)

Elbakidze, L., L. Highfield, M. Ward, B. McCarl, and B. Norby, (2009) “Economic analysis of mitigation strategies for FMD introduction in highly concentrated animal feeding regions”, Review of Agricultural Economics,31(4):931-950 , (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9353.2009.01477.x)

Jin, Y., B. McCarl, and L. Elbakidze, (2009) “Risk assessment and management of animal disease-related biosecurity”, International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 12(2/3/4):186-203, (https://doi.org/10.1504/IJRAM.2009.025918)  

Jin, Y., Power, G., and L. Elbakidze, (2008) “The impact of North American BSE events on live cattle futures prices” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (December Proceedings Issue): 1279-1286, (https://www.jstor.org/stable/20492385)

Elbakidze, L., (2008) “Modeling of avian Influenza mitigation policies within the backyard segment of the poultry sector”, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 33(2):195-211. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/41220623)

Elbakidze L., (2007) “Economic benefits of animal tracing in the cattle production sector” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 32(1):169-180, (https://www.jstor.org/stable/40987357)

Elbakidze L. and B. McCarl, (2007) “Sequestration offsets versus direct emission reductions: consideration of environmental co-effects.”  Ecological Economics, 60:564-571, (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.12.014)

Elbakidze L. and B. McCarl, (2006) “Animal disease pre-event preparedness versus post-event response: when is it economic to protect?” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 38(2):327-336, (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1074070800022367) 

Elbakidze L., (2006) "Potential economic impacts of changes in water availability on agriculture in the Truckee and Carson river basins, Nevada, USA," Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 42(4):841-849, (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2006.tb04498.x)

Elbakidze L. and B. McCarl., (2004) “Should we consider the co-benefits of agricultural GHG offsets?” Choices, Fall, (10.22004/ag.econ.94005)

Elbakidze, L., Y. Xu, P. Gassman, J. Arnold, J. Hubbart, H. Yen (2023). “Climate Change and Downstream Water Quality in Agricultural Production: The Case of Nutrient Runoff to the Gulf of Mexico”. In Economic Perspectives on Water Resources, Climate Change, and Agricultural Sustainability, edited by Ariel Dinar and Gary Libecap. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the University of Chicago. https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/american-agriculture-water-resources-and-climate-change  

Hagerman, A., A. Egbendewe-Mondzozo, L. Elbakidze, B. A. McCarl, 2017 “Prevention versus Response: Application in Management of Diseases,” in Risk in Extreme Environments: Preparing, Avoiding, Mitigating, and Managing, Edited by Vicki Bier. Routledge Taylor and Francis.

Cobourn, K.M., L. Elbakidze, and S. Gosh, 2017 “Conjunctive water management in hydraulically connected regions in the western U.S.” in Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe, Eds Ziolkowska, J.R.; Peterson, J.M., Elsevier press., pp.278-297