Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminars are held on Mondays from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. in Room 230 Ruttan Hall unless otherwise noted.

Fall 2019 - there will be no seminars

Spring 2019

  • January 28, David Redish, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota — "The new field of neuroeconomics: What neuroscience means for economics and how using an economic toolbox can help make breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychiatry"
  • February 4
  • February 11
  • February 18, James Stock, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Harvard University — "The Price of Biodiesel Rins and Economic Fundamentals" (co-authors Scott Irwin and Kristen McCormack)
  • February 25
  • March 4, Catie Hausman, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan — "Equity and the Environment:  The Role of Imperfect Information"
  • March 11, Steve Polasky, Regents Professor and Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, University of Minnesota and Justin Johnson, Senior Scientist and Economist, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota — "Connecting economic models to ecosystem service models: new approaches in multi-scale integrated assessment modeling"
  • March 18 — SPRING BREAK
  • March 25
  • April 1
  • April 8
  • April 15
  • April 22, Tamma Carleton, Postdoctoral Scholar, Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago — "Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits"
  • April 29
  • May 6

Fall 2018

  • September 10, Steve Polasky, Regents Professor and Fesler-Lampert Professor of Ecological/Environmental Economics, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Gross Ecosystem Product for Sustainable Development"
  • September 24, Nat Springer, Economist, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota — "India Has Profitable Alternatives to Crop Burning That Can Help Farmers and Reduce Air Pollution"
  • October 15, Steve Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Effects of Heat Waves on Economic Growth" (co-authors Kenn Chua, Jay Coggins, Hamid Mohtadi)
  • NOTE CHANGE: Tuesday, October 30, Severin Borenstein, Faculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas, University of California-Berkeley — "Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right?  Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency" (co-author James Bushnell)
  • November 5, Jeffrey Bloem, PhD Program, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Good Intentions Gone Bad? The Dodd Frank Act and Conflict in Africa's Great Lakes Region"
  • November 12, Adway De, Graduate Instructor, CLA Economics, University of Minnesota — "Estimating Social Cost of Carbon"
  • November 19, Jose Casco Guerra and Julieth Santamaria, PhD Program, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota - "Pollution and Education: The Effect of Power Plant Closures on Student's Test Scores"
  • November 26, David Keiser, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University — "Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan"
  • December 3, Gabriel Chan, Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota and Andrew Fang, PhD Candidate, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota — "Co-Benefits of Cap-and-Trade: How are local air pollution and health benefits distributed in California?"

Spring 2018

  • Februrary 22, Paul Ferraro, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Water and Environmental Economics, Johns Hopkins University — "The Longer-term Impacts of Efficient Technology as a Solution to Environmental Externalities:  Behavioral Economists versus Engineers and Environmental Scientists"  Noon-1:30 pm Note: Day and room changes. Thursday in Room 119 Ruttan Hall
  • February 26, Bixuan Sun, Phd Program, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Heterogeneous Impacts of Residential Solar Rebate Programs in the U.S."
  • March 5, C. Ford Runge, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Collective Action and the Climate Commons:  Global Agricultural Land Use and Geoengineering"
  • April 2, Chris McIntosh, Department Head, Labovitz School of Business and Economics, University of Minnesota, Duluth — "Minnesota – Where Is Your State Sovereign Wealth Fund?"
  • April 23, Steve Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Harvest Responses to Environmental Forecasts"
  • April 30, Haseeb Ali, PhD Program, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Changes in the Perceptions of Risk in the Japanese Housing Market following the Great Tohuku Earthquake & Tsunami"
  • May 7, Bonnie Keeler, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota — "Valuing the Invaluable: Progress and Potential Pitfalls in Articulating the Value of Water"

Fall 2017

  • September 11, Ashwini Sankar, PhD candidate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Estimating the Contribution of Environmental Regulations to Air Pollution and Mortality in India"  (co-authors Jay Coggins and Andrew Goodkind)
  • October 16, Vic Adamowicz, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada — "The Scope for Ecological Infrastructure in the Panama Canal Watershed"
  • October 23, Ian Luby, PhD candidate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Governing the Atmosphere: A Voting Architecture for Climate Geoengineering"
  • October 30, Hamid Mohtadi, Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Does Oil Hinder Transparency?" (co-authors:  Michael L. Ross, Stefan Ruediger and Uchechukwu Jarrett)
  • December 4, Ivan Rudik, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University — "The Costs of Inefficient Regulation:  Evidence from the Bakken"
  • December 11, Ian Luby, PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Optimal Conservation in a Public Agency Framework"

Spring 2017

  • February 20, Daniel Phaneuf, Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison — "Effects of Local Regulation on Neighboring Jurisdictions:  Evidence from Mining Ordinances" (co-authors Alexey Kalinin and Dominic Parker)  Seminar Paper
  • March 6, Ian Luby, PhD Program, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "U.S. Urban Water Prices:  Cheaper When Drier"
  • March 13, Spring Break
  • March 20, No Seminar
  • March 27, No Seminar
  • April 17, Suhyun Jung, Research Fellow, International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI), School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan — "Evidence on the Impacts of Forestry Concessions on Wealth in Liberia"
  • May 1, Matt Reimer, Assistant Professor of Economics and the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska, Anchorage — "Mechanisms Matter for Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Spatial Marine Closures"
  • May 15, Jay Coggins, Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Is There a Climate Policy Dilemma?  Rethinking Abatement Cost for IAMs"   TIME:  9:30-11:00 am  ROOM:  119 Ruttan Hall  (Note time and room change)

Fall 2016

  • October 10, Bixuan Sun, PhD student, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Market Power and the Transition to Clean Energy" (co-author, Steve Miller, Assistant Professor, Applied Economics, U of MN)
  • November 7, Beverly Wang, PhD candidate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Reliable Reduction in Agricultural Runoff under Environmental Uncertainty"
  • November 14, Kyle Meng, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara — "Estimating Path Dependence in Energy Transitions"
  • November 21, Valery Forbes, Dean, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota — "Mechanistic Models for Predicting and Managing Impacts of Toxic Chemicals on Ecosystem Services"
  • December 12, Stephie Fried, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton College — "Climate Policy and Innovation: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis"  Paper available

Spring 2016

  • February 1, David Keiser, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University — "Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality"
  • February 8, Nicholas Muller, Associate Professor of Economics, Middlebury College and NBER — "The Derivation of Discount Rates with an Augmented Measure of Income"
  • February 15, Steve Polasky and Peter Hawthorne, Department of Applied Economics and the Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota — "Hopeful Prospects: How to Achieve Conservation and Development in 2050"
  • February 29, Itziar Lazkano, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee — "From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage"
  • March 7, Steve Polasky, Regents Professor, Department of Applied Economics,University of Minnesota — "Implementing the Optimal Provision of Ecosystem Services under Climate Change"
  • March 14, Spring Break, No Seminar
  • April 11, Beverly Wang, PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Reliable Reduction of Agricultural Runoff: Tradeoffs Involving Variation of Water Quality"
  • April 18, Ram Fishman, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, George Washington University — "When Water Runs Out: Scarcity, Adaptation and Migration in Gujarat"
  • April 25, Friedrich Schneider, Professor of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria — "The Acceptance of Environmental Taxes: An Empirical Public Choice Investigation"  (co-authors Andrea Kollmann, Johannes Reichl) (Draft)     Paper
  • May 2, Steve Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Fish, Meet Trees: Estimating Heterogeneous Effects of Transferable Quota Management in Fisheries Using Machine Learning"

Fall 2015

  • October 5, Sahan Dissanayake, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Preferences for and Opportunity Costs of REDD+ Contracts: Evidence from Choice Experiments in Ethiopia and Nepal"
  • October 19, Gabe Chan, Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota — "The Additionality of Offsets in the Chinese Wind Sector"
  • November 2, Helio Mattar, President and CEO, Akatu Institute for Conscious Consumption, San Paulo, Brazil — "The Role of Consumers in the Sustainability Equation" — Change in Location: R380 Learning & Environmental Sciences Building, Institute on the Environment Seminar Room (St. Paul campus)
  • November 9, Ian Luby, PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "U.S. Urban Water Prices: Cheaper When Drier"
  • November 16, Tracy Boyer, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University — "Ecological and Economic Tradeoffs in Wind Power Location" (co-author Christopher Baker)
  • November 23, Justin Johnson, Institute on the Environment and Ford Runge, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Global Food Demand and Carbon-Preserving Cropland Expansion under Varying Levels of Intensification" (co-authors Ben Senauer and Steve Polasky)
  • November 30, Mark Kanazawa, Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton College — "Climate Change Impacts on Minnesota's North Shore: An Analysis of State Park Visitation Data"  Paper
  • December 7, Corbett Grainger, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison — "Property Rights, Regulatory Capture, and Exploitation of Natural Resources"
  • December 14, Hamid Mohtadi, Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota — "Natural Resources, Taxation and Transparency: Shedding New Light on an Old Question" (co-authors Michael L. Ross and Stefan Ruediger)

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