Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Winners

1998-1999

Lilliana Botcheva, Harvard University's Department of Government. Her dissertation is titled, Regional Integration and Domestic Politics: The Influence of the EU on the Environmental Policies of East European Countries.

Andrew Miller, Cornell University's Department of Economics. His thesis consists of four essays concerning environmental externalities, including an essay on common property biomass use; a principal-agent model of environmental lawsuits against firms from the EPA over the past fifteen years; a positive political economy study of strategic behavior between regulated firms and EPA; and an endogenous growth model as a means of explaining the environmental Kuznets curve.

Stephen Holland, University of Michigan's Department of Economics. His research focuses on Set-Up Costs and Capacity Constraints in the Theory of Natural Resource Extraction.

Michael Taylor, Ohio State University. His thesis is titled, Point-Nonpoint Permit Trading Mechanisms to Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency in Water Pollution Control.

Nancy Bergeron, University of Maryland's Agriculture and Resources Economics Department. Her dissertation is titled, Wanted Dead or Alive: An Economic Analysis of the Black Market for Endangered Species.

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