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.

Spring Semester 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 Semester 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 Semester 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 Semester 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)