Jay Coggins

Professor
316G Ruttan Hall
Department of Applied Economics
1994 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
jcoggins@umn.edu
+1 612 625 9732

Subject Areas

Agricultural Policy
Environmental Economics
Poverty and Welfare
Water Economics

Education

Ph.D. in Agr and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1989
M.S. in Agr and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 1985
B.S. in Animal Science, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1983

Areas of Interest

Agricultural Policy, Air and Water Pollution, Common Property Resources, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy and Regulation, Poverty and Welfare, Water Economics

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Teaching

ApEc 5151, Applied Microeconomics: Firm and Household, Fall 2013 syllabus, Spring 2014 syllabus
ApEc 8004, Applied Microeconomic Analysis of Social Choice and Welfare, syllabus
ApEc 8203, Applied Welfare Economics and Public Policy, syllabus
ApEc 8602, Economics of the Environment, syllabus

Research

Professor Coggins works in environmental economics, with emphasis in the areas of air and water policy, air pollution and human health, and market-based approaches to environmental protection.  Other areas of interest include welfare economics, the use of insurance and financial tools to address natural disasters, economic inequality, and policy analysis.

Awards

Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, University of Minnesota, 2014
Graduate Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota, 2013
Taylor-Hibbard Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin, 1992

Select Publications

Goodkind, Andrew L., Jay S. Coggins, and Julian D. Marshall,  "A Spatial Model of Air Pollution: the Impact of the Concentration-Response Function," forthcoming, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2014.

Konishi, Yoshifumi, Jay S. Coggins, Bin Wang, "Water Quality Trading: Can We Get the Prices of Pollution Right?" in review, Water Resources Research, 2014 (working paper available).

Goychuk, Denys, Michael A. Kilgore, Charles R. Blinn, Jay Coggins, and Randall K. Kolka, "The Effect of Timber Harvesting Guidelines on Felling and Skidding Productivity in Minnesota," Forest Science, 57 (2011), 393-407.

Dadaser-Celik, Filiz, Jay S. Coggins, Patrick L. Brezonik, and Heinz G. Stefan, "The Projected Costs and Benefits of Water Diversion From and to the Sultan Marshes (Turkey)," Ecological Economics, 68 (2009), 1496-1506.

Atella, Vincenzo, Perali, Federico, and Jay Coggins, "Aversion to Inequality in Italy and its Determinants," Journal of Economic Inequality, 2 (2004), 117-144.

"The projected costs and benefits of water diversion from and to the Sultan Marshes (Turkey)" , Dadaser-Celik, Filiz, Jay S. Coggins, Patrick L. Brezonik, and Heinz G. Stefan, Ecological Economics, 68 (2009), 1496--1506

"Environmental Risk and Welfare Valuation Under Imperfect Information" , Konishi, Yoshifumi and Jay S. Coggins, Resource and Energy Economics, 30 (2008), 150--169

"On Fairness and Welfare Analysis Under Uncertainty", Chavas, Jean-Paul and Jay S. Coggins, Social Choice and Welfare, 20, (2003), 203--228 ====no pdf available====

"Dynamic Environmental Policy with Strategic Firms: Prices versus Quantities" , Moledina, Amyaz, Jay S. Coggins, Steven Polasky, and Christopher Costello, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 45 (March 2003), 356--376

"Tradable Permits for Controlling Nitrates in Groundwater at the Farm Level: A Conceptual Model" , Morgan, Cynthia L., Jay S. Coggins, and Vernon R. Eidman, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 32, (August 2000), 249--258

"64%-Majority Rule in Ducal Venice: Voting for the Doge" , Coggins, Jay S. and C. Federico Perali, Public Choice, 97: 709--723, 1998

"An Arbitrage-Free Approach to Quasi-Option Value" , Coggins, Jay S. and Cyrus Ramezani, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 34: 103--125, March 1998

"The Price of Pollution: A Dual Approach to Valuing SO2 Allowances" , Coggins, Jay S. and John R. Swinton, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 30: 58--72, January 1996

"Rent Dissipation and the Social Cost of Price Policy", Coggins, Jay S., ====no pdf available====

"Some Welfare Effects of Emission Allowance Trading in a Twice-Regulated Industry" , Coggins, Jay S. and Vincent H. Smith, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 25:275--297, November 1993

"Existence of Equilibrium in a Lobbying Economy", Coggins, Jay S., Theodore Graham-Tomasi, and Terry L. Roe, International Economic Review, 32:533--550, August 1991