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PhD Seminar in Economics and Environmental Science (ESM 595EE) Fall 2007 Instructors Matthew
Kotchen, 4420 Bren Hall, Gary Libecap,
4412 Bren Hall, glibecap@bren.ucsb.edu, 805-893-8661 Class Meetings Thursdays,
4:00 – 5:00 pm, 3526 Bren Hall Objectives This
seminar is intended primarily for first year PhD students studying
environmental and natural resource economics; however, other PhD students may
find parts of the seminar of interest. The seminar is intended to expose
students to research early in their graduate careers. Some meetings will be
based on discussion about the field of environmental and resource economics and
its potential linkages with environmental science, but the majority of
meetings will involve presentations by faculty and students on campus.
Visitors will discuss some of their current research, with an emphasis on how
they came up with their ideas, how they went about executing the project, and
what we can all learn from their example. Schedule (all papers will be posted at least
one-week in advance) October 4: Bob Deacon, “Ownership Risk,
Investment and the Use of Natural Resources,” American Economic Review, 2000, with H. Bohn. October 11: Matthew
Kotchen, “Green
Markets and Private Provision of Public Goods,” Journal of Political Economy, 2006. October 18: Christopher
Costello, “Natural
Resource Use With Limited Tenure Rights,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming,
with Dan Kaffine. October 25: Sarah
Anderson, “Pivots
and Bills: Testing Models of Appropriations,” 2007 November 1: Christina
Tague, “Groundwater
Dynamics Mediate Low Flow Response to Global Warming,” 2007 November 8: Frank Davis, “Modeling habitat
for endangered species: the strange case of fishers (Martes pennanti) in
California." Ecological
Applications, forthcoming with Changwan Seo and William Zielinski. November 15: Mike
Springborn, “Bayesian Profiling with Learning,” 2007. And John Lynham,
“Identifying Information Spillovers: Evidence from November 29: Gary Libecap,
“Small Farms,
Externalities, and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s,” Journal of Political Economy, 2005, with Zeynep Hansen. December 6: Hunter
Lennihan, “How Habitat Structure Helps to Regulate Spatial Variation In Coral
Bleaching,” 2007, with Adjeroud, Kotchen, Hench, and Nakamura. |