Research

Many of these links contain the data; some contain versions of the paper.

• Natural Resource Prices:  Will They Ever Turn Up. 
  Unit root properties of natural resource prices.  No evidence that prices will go up.  Data and program for a cointegration study.
• Hotelling's Theory and the Taking of the Redwood National Park
  The taking of the land for the park raised redwood prices by a large amount and made the owners
  of the remaining redwood considerably more wealthy.  In effect the public paid for the park nearly
  twice.
• Does Timber Harvest Cause County Growth or Reduce Poverty? 
  Timber employment does not lead to very much higher county employment in this study of California's timber
  counties.  The method is cointegrated time series analysis.  Powerpoint presentation of the same. Dataset and sample RATS program
• Why are the Uses Multiple?  (A powerpoint presentation on multiple use forestry to be given Aug. 1998)
  This talk contains the history of the spotted owl controversy and it is argued that planning for the long run in
  the face of a vacillating policy goals is nonsensical. and MS word paper based on the presentation

• The Dynamic Revenue Allocation Model (A CGE of the State of California, applied to Tax policy)
  This is a link to the model and the write-up at the Department of Finance.  Code for the environmental version of DRAM (EDRAM).
• EDRAM03A.  The FY2003 100 industrial sector model.  As of 5/9/05. 
• Estimation of Household Demand for Goods and Services... with P. Hess and B. Smith.  1997.  LA AIDS estimation of demand for western consumers.
• A test of  the hypothesis of square isoquants for agricultural production.  A test of the hypothesis, free of parametric form, is presented. 
• An exploration of the relationship between a principal and an agent when the agent can be replaced.  Endgame behavior results from poor managers taking unreasonable risks to save their reputations.  (This is the working paper version with the appendices)
• Spatial Variation in Benefits and Costs, or Why Pollution Isn't Always for Sale.  Paper presented at the 1999 AERE summer workshop.
• The Regulated, Captured, and Ruined Open Access Fishery.  Just like the title says:  Fisherman capture the regulator and do not regulate the use of gear in anything like an optimal fashion.
• Recycling Study. Study of the California "Bottle Bill,"  prepared for the Legislature.
• Economy-wide Effects of Fuel Saving and Alternative Fuel Technologies.  Report to CAL ARB and California Energy Commission.  Chapter 6 is the CGE analysis. (word version)  Full report
• Assessing the Economic Impact of Large Scale Environmental Regulations in California 2002.
• The importance of economics and land use change in reserve site selection on private lands.  2004.  Newburn, Reed, Berck and Merenlender.
• Contested Trade in Logs and Lumber.  2004.
• The Overdevelopment of Water Resources.  2009 Nova Publishers. book chapter
• A Note on the Environmental Costs of Aggregates.  2005
• Link to the Alternative Fuels EDRAM work and latest EDRAM 2003
• Alternative Fuels.  A report to the California Energy Commission
• A Comparison of Calif and Swedish Pollution Policy.  book chapter 2009.

Berck, Peter, and Helfand, Gloria E.  “The Case of Markets versus Standards for Pollution Policy.”  Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 345-368.

Newburn, David; Reed, Sarah; Berck, Peter; and Merenlender, Adina.  “Economics and Land-Use Change in Prioritizing Private Land Conservation.”  Conservation Biology, Vol. 19, No. 5 (October, 2005), pp. 1411-1420.

Berck, Peter.  “Forestry in a New Era.”  Journal of Forest Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2006), pp. 1-3.

Berck, Peter; Lipow, Jonathan; and Steinhauser, Ralf.  “Tax Smoothing and the Cross-Country Pattern of Privatization.”  World Development, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2006), pp. 238-246.

Newburn, David; Berck, Peter; and Merenlender, Adina.  “Habitat and Open Space at Risk of Land-Use Conversion:  Targeting Strategies for Land Conservation.”  American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 88, No 1 (2006), pp. 28-42.

Beatty, Timothy K.M.; Berck, Peter; and Shimshack, Jay P.  “Curbside Recycling in the Presence of Alternatives.”  Economic Inquiry, Vol. 45, No. 4 (2007), pp. 739-755.

Berck, Peter, and Newburn, David A.  “The Importance of Sewer Extension Costs for Determining the Value of Future Development on Agricultural Lands.”  Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 29, No. 3 (2007), pp. 510-517.

Berck, Peter; Brown, Jennifer; Perloff, Jeffrey M.; and Berto Villas-Boas, Sofia.  “Sales:  Tests of Theories on Causality and Timing.”  International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 26, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages 1257-1273.

Newburn, David A., and Berck, Peter.  “Modeling Suburban and Rural Residential Development Beyond the Urban Fringe.”  Land Economics, 82(4):481-499 (2006).

Lipow, Jonathan, Plessner, Yakir; and Berck, Peter.  “Defense Planning and Fiscal Strategy.” Applied Economics. In press.