Recent Publications

The faculty and students of ARE's program in environmental and resource economics are very active in publishing in academic journals. Members of the department are also frequent contributors to books, conferences, professional newsletters, and publications and events geared toward general audiences. The following is a brief list of some recent publications. For a more complete listing, please contact individual faculty members directly.

Michael Kremer and Alix Peterson-Zwane, "Encouraging private sector research in tropical agriculture," World Development, (forthcoming).

Larry Karp. Property Rights, Mobile Capital, and Comparative Advantage. Journal of Development Economics. Forthcoming.

David Zilberman, Xuemei Liu, David Roland-Holst, and David Sunding. 2004. “Climate Change and Environmental Policy.” Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 9(4), pp. 365-382.

Norgaard, Richard B. 2004. Learning and Knowing Collectively. Ecological Economics. 49(2):231-241.

Larry Karp and Christopher Costello. 2004. Dynamic Taxes and Quotas with Learning. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 28(8), pp. 1661-1680.

Matim Qaim and David Zilberman. 2003. “Yield Effects of Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries,” Science, 299, pp. 900-902.

Ann Harrison and Gunnar Eskeland. 2003. "Moving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis"
Journal of Development Economics. 70(1): 1-23 .

Anthony Fisher and Urvashi Narain. 2003. "Global Warming, Endogenous Risk, and Irreversibility." Environmental and Resource Economics. 25(4): 395-416.

Larry Karp and In Ho Lee. 2003. Time-Consistent Policies. Journal of Economic Theory. 112(2), pp. 353-364.

Gordon Rausser, Gregg Graff and Arthur Small. 2003.“Agricultural Biotechnology’s Complementary Intellectual Assets”, Review of Economics and Statistics 85(2):349–63.

Gordon Rausser and Jill J. McCluskey. 2003. “Stigmatized Asset Value: Is it Temporary or Long-term?”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(2):276–85.

Peter Berck and Sandra Hoffman, "Assessing the Employment Impacts of Environmental and Natural Resource Policy," Environnmental and Resource Economics 22 (June 2002): 133-156.

Joseph Cooper, Michael Hanemann and Giovanni Signorello. 2002. "One-and-One-Half-Bound Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation." Review of Economics and Statistics. November. 84(4): 742-50

Current Working Papers

The following is a brief list of some recent research by our faculty.

Àngels Xabadia, Renan U. Goetz, and David Zilberman, “Control of Accumulating Stock Pollution by Heterogeneous Producers.” September 9, 2004.

Renan U. Goetz and David Zilberman, “The Economics of Land-Use Regulation in the Presence of an Externality: A Dynamic Approach.” August 29, 2004.

Alix Peterson-Zwane. "Does poverty constrain deforestation? Econometric evidence from Peru." August 2004.

Maximilian Auffhammer, Richard T. Carson, Teresa Garin-Munoz. Forecasting Chinese Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A Provincial Approach. July 2004.

Larry Karp, In Ho Lee, and Robin Mason. A Global Game with Strategic Substitutes and Complements. January 2003.

Leo Simon, Rachael Goodhue, Gordon Rausser, Sophie Thoyer, Sylvie Morardet and Patrick Rio," Structure and Power in Multilateral Negotiations: An Application to French Water Policy " 2003.

Wolfram Schlenker, W. Michael Hanemann, and Anthony C. Fisher. The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis, 2004.

Viewpoints

Tony Fisher on Important and Emerging Areas in Environmental and Resource Economics.

David Zilberman on the Theory and Practice of Environmental Economics.

Advanced Graduate Students

Graduate students in ARE work on a wide variety of environmental and resource issues. The following is a list of the dissertation titles and research interests of our advanced graduate students in the field. Potential employers should visit our list of job market candidates for more information.

Holly Ameden. Dissertation: "International Trade and Pest Contamination," Gordon Rausser, chair. Interests: Structuring research partnerships, biotechnology, financial contracting, international trade.

Christopher Busch. Dissertation: "Technological Change in Southeastern Mexico: Implications for Land Use, Deforestation, and Climate Change Policy," Michael Hanemann and David Zilberman, co-chairs. Research interests: modeling changes in land use and land cover (esp. as related to tropical deforestation); human dimensions of global climate change; forestry, energy, and water policy.

Claudio Ferraz. Dissertation: "The Effect of Globalization on the Environmental Behavior of Firms in Developing Countries: Evidence from Brazil," Ann Harrison, chair. Interests: international trade and environment, multinational corporations and their environmental behavior, pollution control in developing countries, political economy of environmental regulation.

James Hilger. Dissertation: "Heterogeneous Preferences in Random Utility Models." Michael Hanemann, chair. Reasearch Interests: Non-market Valuation, Beach Choice, Applied Econometrics.

Aya Ogishi. Dissertation: "Contracting and Animal Waste Regulations," David Zilberman, chair. Interests: environmental regulations, recycling issues, contracting.

Recent Dissertations

Camille Antinori, Vertical integration in Mexican common property forests (2000). Gordon Rausser, chair.
Christoper Costello, Renewable resource management with information on a random environment (2000). Peter Berck, chair.
Michael Roberts, Hotelling reconsidered: the implications of asset pricing theory on natural resource price trends (2000). Peter Berck, chair.
Zhihua Shen, Essays of empirical studies in agricultural and resource economics (2000).
Sylvia Brandt, Coase and the clams : constructing markets for property rights in fisheries (2001). Michael Hanemann, chair.
Ming Chen, Development and the environment (2001).
Hayley Chouinard, Repeated auctions, the right of first refusal, and the National Park Service (2001). Jeff Perloff, chair.
Peter Hess, Hedonic estimation and economic geography (2001). Peter Berck, chair.
Marita Laukkanen, Economic insight into fish wars : cooperation and conflicts in the management of shared fishery resources (2001). Larry Karp, chair.
Georgina Moreno, Water supply reliability and adoption of conservation technology : applications to California agriculture (2001). David Zilberman, chair.
Gautam Sethi, Fishery management under uncertainty (2001). Anthony Fisher, chair.
Nick Brozovic, Optimal Regulation under Heterogeneity (2002). David Sunding and David Zilberman, co-chairs.
Jay Shimshack, Case studies in the economics of domestic water quality (2002). Jeff LaFrance, chair.
Jiangfeng Zhang, Essays on dynamic regulation under uncertainty with learning (2002). Larry Karp, chair.
Sean Cash, Health Tradeoffs in Pesticide Regulation (2003). David Sunding and David Zilberman, co-chairs.
Wolfram Schlenker, Three Essays about the Optimal Pricing of Natural Resources (2003). Anthony Fisher, chair.
Anna Gueorguieva, "Agricultural Intensification and Deforestation: Indonesia during the Asian Crisis (2004)". Peter Berck, chair.
Karina Schoengold, Natural Resource Pricing, Allocation, and Capital Investment (2005). David Sunding and David Zilberman, co-chairs.