Rate My Professor Laura Meriluoto

Laura Meriluoto is an Associate Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics and Finance in the University of Canterbury Business School. She has served on the faculty at the University of Canterbury since 2000. Meriluoto obtained her PhD in Economics from Simon Fraser University, where she studied from September 1994 to December 1999. Her academic career focuses on applied economics, with contributions across diverse areas including environmental and agricultural economics, international trade, technological adoption and market structures, blockchain applications, and policy analysis.

Meriluoto has authored or co-authored 22 publications, garnering 128 citations. Her research outputs include working papers and journal articles published in outlets such as New Zealand Economic Papers, Journal of Wine Research, and Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal. Key publications encompass 'Too Cold for Comfort: A Theoretical Analysis of Index-Based Insurance for Frost Damage to Crops' (2024, with A. P. Kumar and R. Watt), 'New Evidence on Using Expert Ratings to Proxy for Wine Quality in Climate Change Research' (2023, with A. P. Kumar and R. Watt), 'Internationalization and the Wine Industry: An Entrepreneurial Marketing Approach' (2022), 'Export Tax and Import-Tariff Avoidance: Evidence from the Trade Data Discrepancy in the China-New Zealand Trade' (2020, with K. K. Das and W. R. Reed), 'A Replication of "The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade"' (2020), 'Spillovers and Exports: A Meta-Analysis' (2019, with J. Duan, K. K. Das and W. R. Reed), 'Public Implementation of Blockchain Technology' (2018, with D. Franklet, G. Ross, C. Scott and P. Williams), 'Determinants of Households\' Recycling Behaviour' (2017, with Z. Chu, K. Das, Y. Li and B. Chen), 'Safety in the New Zealand Sex Industry' (2015), 'Filtering and Email Pricing as Solutions to Spam' (2013), 'The Impact of Agricultural Technology Adoption on Income Inequality in Rural China' (2011), and 'Spam - Solutions and Their Problems' (2008). She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses such as FINC101, FINC390, and MBAD671, and supervises Master's and Doctoral students, including research on climate change and the wine industry. As department head, she oversees academic programs, research initiatives, and student prizes in economics and finance.