Frontiers-of-Environmental-Economics



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Phil Sharp	Paul Portney	Alan Krupnick


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Biographies:

Phil Sharp, President, Resources for the Future Phil Sharp is president of RFF. His career in public service over the last 35 years includes 10 terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana and a lengthy tenure on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University. He served as director of the IOP from 1995 to 1998 and again from 2004 until August 2005. Sharp is co-chair of the Energy Board of the Keystone Center and a member of the National Research Council's Board of Energy and Environmental Systems. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Energy Foundation, the Cinergy Corporation, and the Electric Power Research Institute. He received his Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University.

Paul Portney, Dean, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona Paul R. Portney is dean of the Eller College of Management. From 1972 through 2005, he was with RFF. From 1986 to 1989 he headed two of its research divisions, in 1989 became its vice president, and was named president and CEO in 1995. From 1979 to 1980, He served as chief economist for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He has held visiting teaching positions at the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University. He is the author or co-author of 10 books, including Public Policies for Environmental Protection, and was recently named one of the 100 most-cited researchers in economics and business. Portney received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and his B.A. from Alma College.

Alan Krupnick, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future Alan Krupnick is a senior fellow and director of the Quality of the Environment division at RFF. He works extensively on valuing benefits of environmental policies. He has studied the value that New York residents place on ecological benefits in the Adirondacks, the valuation of children's health in the context of lead abatement in U.S. homes, and the willingness of Canadians to pay for improvements in the quality of their drinking water. Krupnick also conducts significant research in China, tracking the health effects of Taiyuan's sulfur dioxide permit trading program and examining whether emissions reductions are leading to measurable health improvements. He also has conducted surveys worldwide that elicit willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions. Krupnick received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in finance from Pennsylvania State University.

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Paper 1: Using Biomedical technologies to inform economic modeling: Challenges an opportunities for improving analysis of environmental policies

Brian Roe Timothy Haab



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Brian Roe	Trudy Ann Cameron	Q & A

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Brian Roe, Author, Ohio State University Brian Roe is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University. Prior to his employment at Ohio State, Roe worked on food safety and health information disclosure policy issues as a staff fellow at the FDA. His research focuses on issues ranging from information disclosure policies to livestock economics to behavioral contracting. His most recent work employs a mix of behavioral and biomedical methodologies to explore the heterogeneity and stability of individual response to economic risk. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Maryland and a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Timothy Haab, Author, Ohio State University Tim Haab is a professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University, where his research and teaching focuses on environmental economics, experimental economics, and applied econometrics. Recent research has looked at the impacts of social norms on common-pool resource management, measurement of individual discount rates for environmental projects, the consistent modeling of individual welfare across value elicitation methods, and the stability of individual preferences in the presence of external stimuli. Haab is a graduate of Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at the University of Maryland. He joined Ohio State University in 2000 after five years on faculty at East Carolina University

Trudy Ann Cameron, Discussant, University of Oregon Trudy Ann Cameron is the Raymond F. Mikesell Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Oregon. She has served in multiple capacities on the Science Advisory Board of EPA. Cameron is the current president of AERE and has served as a member of the association's Board of Directors and as vice president. She has been an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Prior to joining the University of Oregon faculty in 2001, she was a professor of economics at UCLA. She has research interests in the valuation of non-market goods - in particular, the empirical measurement of the social benefits of environmental policies, including individuals' willingness to pay to reduce environmental risks to human life and health. She received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton.

John List, Chair, University of Chicago John List is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on such topics as discrimination in markets, market institutions, charitable giving, the environment and ways in which people determine value. List is best known for pioneering the use of field experiments in economics. His work has stimulated a new area of study that explores economic behavior in naturally occurring environments with controlled experimental methods. List is an RFF university fellow and received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wyoming.

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Paper 2: What drives long-term biodiversity change? New insight from combining economic, paleo-ecology, and environmental history

Nicholas Hanley Konstantinos Angelopoulos Dugald Tinch Althea Davis Fiona Watson Edward Barbier



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Nicholas Hanley	Spencer Banzhaf	Q & A

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Nicholas Hanley, Author, University of Stirling Nick Hanley is professor of environmental economics at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Prior to taking up this appointment, he was professor of natural resource economics at the University of Edinburgh and professor of economics at the University of Glasgow. At Stirling, he heads the Environmental Economics Research Group. Most of Hanley's work is the area of environmental cost-benefit analysis, but he also works on diffuse pollution, tradable permit markets, sustainable development indicators, and CGE modeling. He is a member of the Department of Environment's Academic Advisory Panel and the author of three textbooks in environmental economics.

Spencer Banzhaf, Discussant, Georgia State University Spencer Banzhaf is an associate professor of economics in the Department of Economics, Georgia State University. His work focuses on the interactions among local environmental amenities, local real estate markets, and demographic composition and structure of cities. He applies these and other tools of benefit-cost analysis to the evaluation and design of environmental policy and to the creation of "green" index numbers and accounts. He also studies the history of welfare economics. Prior to joining Georgia State in the fall of 2006, he was a fellow at RFF. He received a Ph.D. and B.A. in economics from Duke University.

Alan Krupnick, Chair, Resources for the Future Alan Krupnick is a senior fellow and director of the Quality of the Environment division at RFF. He works extensively on valuing benefits of environmental policies. He has studied the value that New York residents place on ecological benefits in the Adirondacks, the valuation of children's health in the context of lead abatement in U.S. homes, and the willingness of Canadians to pay for improvements in the quality of their drinking water. Krupnick also conducts significant research in China, tracking the health effects of Taiyuan's sulfur dioxide permit trading program and examining whether emissions reductions are leading to measurable health improvements. He also has conducted surveys worldwide that elicit willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions. Krupnick received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in finance from Pennsylvania State University.

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Paper 3: Virtual experiments and environmental policy

Stephen Fiore Glenn Harrison Charles Hughes E. Elisabeth Rutström



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Glenn Harrison, Author, University of Central Florida Glenn Harrison is a professor of economics at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include experimental economics, law and economics, international trade policy, and environmental policy. His work in experimental economics has included the study of bidding behavior in auctions, market contestability and regulation, bargaining behavior, and the elicitation of risk and time preferences. His work in environmental economics has included modeling the effects of alternative policies to mitigate global warming, critiquing casual applications of the contingent valuation method, and improving methods of damage assessment. He received a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. He is a Pisces and loves red wine and one Swedish woman.

John Graham, Discussant, RAND Graduate School John Graham is dean of the Frederick Pardee RAND Graduate School at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. He also holds a chair in Policy Analysis, which supports his research activities. Graham joined the Harvard School of Public Health as a post-doctoral fellow in 1983 and became an assistant professor in 1985. From 1990 to 2001, Graham founded and led the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. In 1995, Graham was elected president of the Society for Risk Analysis. He is a former administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget. Graham earned a Ph.D. at Carnegie-Mellon University, an M.A. in public policy at Duke University, and a B.A. in politics and economics at Wake Forest University.

Paul Portney, Chair, University of Arizona Paul R. Portney is dean of the Eller College of Management. From 1972 through 2005, he was with RFF. From 1986 to 1989 he headed two of its research divisions, in 1989 became its vice president, and was named president and CEO in 1995. From 1979 to 1980, He served as chief economist for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He has held visiting teaching positions at the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University. He is the author or co-author of 10 books, including Public Policies for Environmental Protection, and was recently named one of the 100 most-cited researchers in economics and business. Portney received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and his B.A. from Alma College.

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Paper 4: The economics of spatial-dynamic processes: applications to renewable resources

Martin Smith James Sanchirico James Wilen



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Martin Smith, Author, Duke University Martin Smith is an assistant professor of environmental economics in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and in the Duke economics department. He studies marine resources, including fisheries, marine ecosystems, and beaches. His research combines micro-econometrics with bioeconomic modeling to analyze fisheries management. His work has appeared in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Natural Resource Modeling, and Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. He is an associate editor for Marine Resource Economics and a member of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management' editorial council.

James Sanchirico, Author, Resources for the Future Jim Sanchirico is a senior fellow at RFF. His research focuses on the economic analysis of managing living biological resources, such as fisheries, biodiversity, and invasive species, with an emphasis on marine issues. His studies range from investigation of the effects of closing off areas of the ocean to commercial fishing to the design, implementation, and performance of market-based instruments, such as individual fishing quotas. Other research investigates how to design markets for the provision of ecosystem services and goods and how to manage and control invasive cheatgrass in the Great Basin of the United States. He is a past associate editor of Marine Resource Economics. He received a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from University of California, Davis, and a B.A. from Boston University.

Stephen Polasky, Discussant, University of Minnesota Stephen Polasky, an RFF university fellow, holds the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Ecological/Environmental Economics at the University of Minnesota. He has served as a senior economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers and is serving on EPA's Science Advisory Board. He was associate editor and co-editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. His research focuses on biodiversity conservation, endangered species policy, integrating ecological and economic analysis, ecosystem services, renewable energy, and common-property resources and has appeared in Ecological Applications, Journal of Economics Perspectives, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, International Economic Review, Land Economics, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and other journals. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.

Alan Krupnick, Chair, Resources for the Future Alan Krupnick is a senior fellow and director of the Quality of the Environment division at RFF. He works extensively on valuing benefits of environmental policies. He has studied the value that New York residents place on ecological benefits in the Adirondacks, the valuation of children's health in the context of lead abatement in U.S. homes, and the willingness of Canadians to pay for improvements in the quality of their drinking water. Krupnick also conducts significant research in China, tracking the health effects of Taiyuan's sulfur dioxide permit trading program and examining whether emissions reductions are leading to measurable health improvements. He also has conducted surveys worldwide that elicit willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions. Krupnick received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in finance from Pennsylvania State University.

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Paper 5: A dynamic model of household location, regional growth and endogenous natural amenities with cross-scale interactions

Elena Irwin Ciriyam Jayaprakash Yong Chen



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Elena Irwin	Amy Ando	Q and A


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Elena Irwin, Author, Ohio State University Elena Irwin is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University. Her research interests include spatial models of urbanization and land-use change and dynamic models of human-environment interactions. She is the co-director of the Exurban Change Project at Ohio State and co-leader of the university's Biocomplexity Project on coupled natural-human interactions in large lake ecosystems, which is supported by NSF. She received a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Maryland and a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.

Ciriyam Jayaprakash, Author, Ohio State University Ciriyam Jayaprakash is a professor in the Department of Physics at Ohio State University. His research interests include quantum many-body systems, statistical mechanics, and nonlinear dynamics. He is currently working on modeling the initial response of the immune system to viruses and also on coupled natural-human interactions in large lake ecosystems. He was a Sloan Fellow and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He received Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, an M.S. from the California Institute of Technology, and his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpu.

Yong Chen, Author, Ohio State University Yong Chen is a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University. His primary research interest is in computational economics with applications to macroeconomics and environmental economics. He has an M.A. in economics from Peking University, China and a B.A. in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Amy Ando, Discussant, University of Illinois Amy Whritenour Ando is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She spent three years as a fellow at RFF before moving to Illinois in 1999. She works on problems of species and land conservation, with publications in outlets such as Science, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. She has also conducted research on the enforcement of natural resource damage liability statutes and the determinants of household recycling behavior. She serves on the editorial boards of three journals, including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from MIT and her B.A. from Williams College.

Joseph Aldy, Chair, Resources for the Future Joe Aldy is a fellow at RFF. His research focuses on climate change policy, mortality risk valuation, and energy policy, and has been published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Land Economics, Energy Journal, and Environmental and Resource Economics. From 1997 to 2000, Aldy served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he was responsible for climate change policy and other environmental issues. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, a Master of Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, and a B.A. from Duke.

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Paper 6: Non-price Equilibria for Non-Marketed Goods

Daniel Phaneuf Jared Carbone Joseph Herriges



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