CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop 2001
Final Schedule

Monday, July 16

7:45 - 8:45

BREAKFAST

8:30 - 9:00

Forest Land Conversion over Time: Implications for the Faustmann Formula  - J.C. Burgess (University of Wyoming) and D. Ulph

9:00 - 9:30

Detection and Mitigation of Hypothetical Bias in Contingent Valuation with an Application to Curbside Recycling - David Aadland and Arthur J. Caplan (Utah State University)

9:30 - 10:00

Information and Effort in Contingent Valuation Surveys: Application to Global Warming Using National Internet Sample - Robert P. Berrens, Alok Bohara, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Carol Silva and David W. Weimer (University of New Mexico)

10:00 - 10:15

BREAK

10:15 - 10:45

Neighborhood Effects on Children's Health - Stefanos A. Nastis (University of Wyoming)

10:45 - 11:15

Smoking Parents' Valuations of Own and Children's Health - Mark D. Agee (Pennsylvania State University) and Thomas D. Crocker (University of Wyoming)

11:15 - 11:45

Obtaining Unbiased Contingent Values: Further Tests of Entreaties to Avoid Hypothetical Bias - Thomas Brown (USDA Forest Service), Icek Aizen, and Dan Hrubes

11:45 - 1:15

LUNCH

1:15 - 1:45

Testing the Effects of Regulatory Policy on the Willingness of Firms to Invest in Pollution Abatement  -  Michael Gallaher (Research Triangle Institute) and Randall Walsh (Duke University & University of Colorado)

1:45 - 2:15

Optimal Monitoring and Enforcement Systems with Finite Budget  - Julio Videras (University of Colorado)

2:15 - 2:45

Estimating the Sensitivity of Commercial and Industrial Property Values to Localized Environmental Contamination  - Laura Taylor, Keith Ilhanfeldt and Peter Grigelis (Georgia State University)

2:45 - 3:00

BREAK

3:00 - 3:30

Chemical Releases, Growth, and Responsiveness to Toxicity in the United States: A Study using TRI Data - Tisha Nakao (Baylor University) and Linwood Pendleton (University of Southern California)

3:30 - 4:00

A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Modeling WTP from Multiple-Bounded Data - Kevin Boyle (University of Maine), Mary F. Evans (University of Colorado), Nicholas Flores (University of Colorado, Boulder)
 

4:00 - 5:00

Keynote Address: Public Policy and Experimental Economics - Jason Shogren (University of Wyoming)

5:00

Cocktail Party


Tuesday, July 17

7:45 - 8:45

BREAKFAST

8:30 - 9:00

Dynamic Survey Design: A Simulation Exercise - Jennifer Thacher (University of Colorado)

9:00 - 9:30

Habitat-Fishery Linkages and Mangrove Loss in Thailand - Edward B. Barbier (University of Wyoming)

9:30 - 10:00

Stand Interactions within a Forest Setting  - J.C. Burgess and D. Ulph (University of Wyoming)

10:00 - 10:15

BREAK

10:15 - 10:45

Resource Compensation among Plants: From Optimizing Individuals to Community Structure - John Tschirhart (University of Wyoming)

10:45 - 11:15

The Link Between Hedonic Pricing Methods and the Double-Dividend Hypothesis -
Antonio M. Bento and Sofia Franco (University of California, Santa Barbara)

11:15 - 11:45

Integrated Economics and Ecology Through General Equilibrium - David Finnoff and John Tschirhart (University of Wyoming)

11:45 - 1:15

LUNCH

1:15 - 1:45

Temporal Closures in Marine Fisheries: Unintended Consequences  - Linwood Pendleton and Deqin Cai (University of Southern California)

1:45 - 2:15

The Valuation of Public Goods: why do we work? - Nicholas Flores and Philip Graves (University of Colorado)

2:15 - 2:45

The Effects of Economic and Social Conditions on the Functioning of Water Markets  - Charles Howe and Chris Goemans (University of Colorado, Boulder)

2:45 - 3:00

BREAK

3:00 - 3:30

Market Transactions Evidence on Environmental Values of Water in the West: A Public Hedonic Model - John Loomis and Katherine Quattlebaum (Colorado State University)

3:30 - 4:00

Kuhn-Tucker Recreation Demand Models with Large Choice Sets: An Application to Beach Recreation - Dan Phaneuf, Roger von Haefen and George Parsons

4:00 - 4:15

WRAP UP