8th Occasional California Workshop on
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Made possible by a generous grant from the US EPA
with additional support from
the UCSB Center for Environmental Economics & Policy (CEEP) at
UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Venue: Bren Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara
October 28-29, 2005
Note: All sessions are in BH 1414 with the exception of the Special Tutorial which is in BH 1424. Meals and breaks are in the courtyard of BH (Bren Hall).
PROGRAM
Friday, October 28
10:30-11:30 am Special Event -- Tutorial: CGE Modeling
Prof. Antonio Bento, University of Maryland
11:30-1:30 pm Welcome Lunch (Working)
12:15 pm Welcome Remarks
Charles
Kolstad, UCSB
12:20 pm
Economics at the USEPA
Ian Lange,
Natrional Center for Environmental Economics, USEPA
12:30-2:30 pm I. Environmental Policy I
Chair: Bob Deacon, UCSB
“Enforcement and overcompliance”
Jay Shimshak (presenter), Tufts University
Michael Ward, Resources Policy Research Center
Discussant: Sarani Saha, UCSB
James Murphy (presenter), UCD
John Stranlund, University of Massachusetts
Discussant: Jonah Busch, UCSB
“Emissions trading, electricity industry restructuring, and investment in pollution abatement”
Meredith Fowlie, UCB
Ian Lange (presenter), EPA
Allen Bellas, Metropolitan State University
Bowman Cutter (presenter), UCR
Matthew Neidell, Columbia University
Antonio Bento, University of Maryland
David Herverich (presenter), University of Maryland
Scott Lowe, UCSB
“Delegation of power, lobby formation and the implementation of the 1990 clean air act amendments”
Scott Lowe (presenter), UCSB
Maximilian Auffhammer, UCB
Antonio Bento, University of Maryland
2:35-3:30 pm II. Valuation
Chair: Randall Walsh, University of Colorado
“The effects of health status on WTP for morbidity and Mortality risk reductions”
J.R. DeShazo, UCLA
Trudy Cameron (presenter), University of Oregon
Discussant: Jennifer Brown, UCSB
Greg Hunter (presenter), Cal Poly Pomona
Matthew Roussu, Susquehanna University
“Relating environmental attitudes and contingent values: a comparison of methods”
G. Aldrich, University of New Mexico
K. Grimsrud, University of New Mexico
Jennifer Thacher (presenter), University of New Mexico
Matthew Kotchen, UCSB
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-6:00 pm III. Information/Risk/Uncertainty
Chair: Richard Carson, UCSD
“Spatial bioeconomics under uncertainty”
Christopher Costello (presenter), UCSB
Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Marc Conte, UCSB
“Empirical characterization of optimal contracts under adverse selection: an environmental policy”
Glenn Sheriff, Columbia University
“Advances in evaluating the demand for public risk prevention policies”
Ryan Bosworth (presenter), University of Oregon
Trudy Cameron, University of Oregon
J.R. DeShazo, UCLA
Eric Naeval (presenter), Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University
“Time inconsistent resource conservation contracts”
Sumeet Gulati (presenter), University of British Columbia
James Vercammen, University of British Columbia
“The rationality of EIA forecasts under symmetric and asymmetric loss”
Maximilian Auffhammer, UCB
“Coalition formation and uncertainty: testing theoretical predictions with experimental evidence”
Charles Kolstad, UCSB
Nicholas Burger (presenter), UCSB
“Risk externalities and the problem of wildfire risk”
Aric Shafran (presenter), University of Colorado-Boulder
Nicholas Flores, University of Colorado-Boulder
“On estimating the value of improved information”
Michael Ward (presenter), Resources Policy Research Center
Jay Schimshack, Tufts University
6:00-7:00pm Welcome Reception—sponsored by UCSB’s Center for
Environmental Economics & Policy at the UCSB Bren School.
7:00-9:00 pm Working Dinner
8:00pm “Is there a difference between ecological and environmental economics?”
Guest Speaker: Charles Perrings, Arizona State University
Saturday, October 29
8:00- 8:15 am Buses depart South Coast Inn
8:30-10:10 am IV. Environmental Policy II
Chair: Bevin Ashenmiller, Occidental College
“Towards an understanding of the economics of charity: evidence from a field experiment”
Craig Landry, East Carolina University
Andreas Lange, University of Chicago
John List, University of Maryland
Michael Price (presenter), University of Nevada-Reno
Nicholas Rupp, RFF
Discussant: John Lynham, UCSB
“A positive model of enforcement across policy domains”
Bowman Cutter, UCR
J.R. DeShazo (presenter), UCLA
Discussant: Sofia Franco, UCSB
“Geography shapes resource governance”
James Nachbaur, UCSB
Yuko Onozaka (presenter), UCD
David Bunch, UCD
Douglas Larson, UCD
“Optimal management of an eco-system with an unknown threshold”
Nicholas Brozovic, University of Illinois
Wolfram Schlenker (presenter), Columbia University
10:10-10:40am Break
10:40am-12:40pm V. Renewable Resources
Chair: Chris Costello, UCSB
“Corruption and natural resource depletion”
Susana Ferreira, University College Dublin
Jeff Vincent (presenter), UCSD
Discussant: Nick Burger, UCSB
Paul Ferraro, Georgia State University
Craig McIntosh (presenter), UCSD
Monica Ospina, Georgia State University
Discussant: Allison Huang, UCSB
“Managing multi-species forests to minimize the risk of biodiversity loss”
Matthew Potts, University of Miami
Jeffrey Vincent (presenter), UCSD
Juha Siikamaki (presenter), Resources for the Future
David Layton, University of Washington
“Harvester cooperative, pooling arrangements and market power”
Hirotsugu Uchida (presenter), UCD
James Wilen, UCD
“Spatial choice and fisheries bycatch: the eastern bering sea flatfish fisheries”
Joshua Abbott (presenter), UCD
James Wilen, UCD
“Deforestation is contagious: evidence of spatial interactions from forest clearing in Costa Rica”
Juan Robalino (presenter), Columbia University
Alex Pfaff, Columbia University
12:40-1:40pm Working Lunch
1:10 - 1:15
pm
Opportunities
from UC's Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
Jeff Vincent, UCSD
1:15-2:45 pm VI. Trade
Chair: Carol McAusland, UCSB
“Free trade agreements and the environment with pre-existing subsidies”
Claustre Bajona, University of Miami
David Kelly (presenter), University of Miami
Discussant: Libby Ashley, UCSB
“Democracy and environmental quality”
Hossein Farzin (presenter), UCD
Craig Bond, Colorado State University
Discussant: James Nachbaur, UCSB
“International trade and the risk of biological invasions”
Christopher Costello, UCSB
Carol McAusland, UCSB
Andrew Solow, Marine Policy Center
Michael Springborn (presenter), UCSB
“On the interaction of eco-labeling and trade”
Charles Mason, University of Wyoming
2:45-3:40pm VII. Water and Climate
Chair: Charles Kolstad, UCSB
“Water regulation and drought policy: an empirical study of residential demand”
Erin Mansur, Yale University
Sheila Olmstead (presenter), Yale University
Discussant: Antonio Lloret, UCSB
“Water and growth in an agricultural economy”
Edward Barbier, University of Wyoming
Anita Chaudhry (presenter), University of Wyoming
“A laboratory examination of economic institutions and market structure: an application to California water markets”
Kristiana Hansen (presenter), UCD
Richard Howitt, UCD
Jonathan Kaplan, California State University, Sacramento
Stephan Kroll, California State University, Sacramento
3:40-4:10pm Break
4:15-6:00pm VIII. Land use
Chair: Ian Lange, EPA
“Wet growth: effects of water policies on land use in the American West”
Ellen Hanak (presenter), Public Policy Institute of California
Ada Chen, UCB
Discussant: Mike Springborn, UCSB
“Causes of sprawl: a portrait from space”
Marcy Burchfield, Neptis Foundation
Henry Overman, London School of Economics
Diego Puga, University of Toronto
Matthew Turner (presenter), University of Toronto
Georgina Moreno, Scripps College
“Development patterns and the recreation value of amenities”
Kent Kovacs (presenter), UCD
Douglas Larson, UCD
“Do people vote with their feet? An empirical test of environmental gentrification”
Spencer Banzhaf, RFF
Randall Walsh (presenter), University of Colorado
“Urban decline, suburban sprawl and the double dividend hypothesis”
Antonio Bento, University of Maryland
Sofia Franco, UCSB
Daniel Kaffine (presenter), UCSB
“Explaining the appearance and success of voter referenda for open space conservation”
Matthew Kotchen (presenter), UCSB
Shawn Powers, Williams College
“Municipal Policies and the cost of sprawl in the inland empire”
Randy Bluffstone (presenter), Portland State University
Linda Fernandez, UCR
Tom Scott, UCR
“Determinants of agricultural land use and forest cover in the southern Yucatan of Mexico”
Christopher Busch, UCB
6:15 pm Workshop closes; buses return to hotel
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Program version: October 20, 2005