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David Sunding
Professor
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
207 Giannini Hall 642-8229

Teaching
Curriculum Vitae
Short Bio
Co-Director of the Berkeley Water Center

Working Papers

Impacts of Hydrological Uncertainty on Management of Water Resources. With Newsha K. Ajami, George M. Hornberger, David N. Yates and David R. Purkey.

On the Spatial Nature of Groundwater Pumping Externality. With Nicholas Brozovic and David Zilberman.

Rationing in the Market for New Housing. With Aaron Swoboda.

Immigration, community composition, and local public goods. With Alix Peterson Zwane.

Taxes vs Quotas or Taxes vs Upper Bounds? With Nicholas Brozovic and David Zilberman

Selected Publications

Sustainable Management of Water Resources under Hydrologic Uncertainty, with Newsha Ajami and George Hornberger. Water Resources Research 44 (November 2008) .

Estimating Business and Residential Water Supply Interruption Losses from Catastrophic Events, with Nicholas Brozovic and David Zilberman.

Price Elasticity Reconsidered: Panel Estimation of an Agricultural Water Demand Function, with Karina Schoengold and Georgina Moreno. Water Resources Research 42 (2006): 411-421.

Consideration of Economics Under the California Porter-Cologne Act, with David Zilberman. West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (2006).

Joint Estimation of Technology Adoption and Land Allocation with Implications for the Design of Conservation Policy, with Georgina Moreno. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87 (2005): 1009-1019.

The Economics of Climate Change in Agriculture, with Xuemei Liu, David Roland-Holst and David Zilberman. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 9(2004): 365-382.

Public Goods and the Value of Product Quality Regulations: The Case of Food Safety, with Stephen Hamilton and David Zilberman. Journal of Public Economics (2003): 799-817.

The Economics of Environmental Regulation by Licensing: Observations on Recent Changes to the Federal Wetland Permitting Program, with David Zilberman. Natural Resources Journal (2002): 59-90.

Cited in U.S. Supreme Court's recent Rapanos decision.

Regulating Pollution with Endogenous Monitoring, with Katrin Millock and David Zilberman. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2002): 221-241.

Measuring the Costs of Reallocating Water from Agriculture: A Multi-Model Approach, with David Zilberman, Richard Howitt, Ariel Dinar and Neal MacDougall. Natural Resource Modeling (2002): 201-225.

The Agricultural Innovation Process: Research and Technology Adoption in a Changing Agricultural Sector, with David Zilberman. In: Bruce Gardner and Gordon Rausser (eds.), Handbook of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Amsterdam: North Holland, 2001, 207-261.

Insect Population Dynamics, Pesticide Use and Farmworker Health, with Joshua Zivin. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2000): 527–540.

Winner of the AAEA Outstanding Journal Article Award

Returns to Public Investment in Agriculture with Imperfect Downstream Competition, with Stephen Hamilton. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80 (November 1998): 830-838.

Measuring the Marginal Cost of Nonuniform Environmental Regulations. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78 (November 1996): 1098-1107.

Explaining Irrigation Technology Choices: A Microparameter Approach, with Gareth Green, David Zilberman and Douglas Parker. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78 (November 1996): 1064-1072.