CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop 2003
Final Schedule

Thursday, July 17

8:00 - 8:30:  Breakfast & Introductions

8:30 - 9:00:  "Making the Hard Choices Easier: Designing Choice Sets around Our Heuristics" J.R. DeShazo (UCLA)

9:00 - 9:30:  "Provision Rules and the Incentive Compatibility of Conjoint Surveys" Laura Taylor (Georgia State University)

9:30 - 10:00:  "Stated Preference Analysis of Public Goods and the Role of Opportunity Costs" Aaron Strong (University of Colorado)

10:00 - 10:15: Break

10:15 - 10:45:  "Animal Liberation Through Constitutional Change: The Politcal Economy of Animal Rights" Julio Videras (Hamilton College)

10:45 - 11:15:  ""Dilemmas in Water Pricing: Crocodile Catchment Area, South Africa. " Neelakshi Medhi (Syracuse University)

11:15 - 11:45:  "Ricardian Rents, Environmental Policy and the 'Double Dividend' Hypothesis" Mark Jacobsen (Stanford University)

11:45 - 1:30 Lunch & Keynote Address:  "Issues in Environment and Trade" Brian Copeland (University of British Columbia)

1:30 - 2:00:  "Influence of Wildfire Risk Information on Willingness to Pay for Insurance and Risk Reduction Activities: Combining Experimental and Survey Evidence" John Talberth (University of New Mexico)

2:00 - 2:30:  "Assessing Willingness to Pay for Forest Amenities Using Discrete Choice" Aaron R. Wells (University of Tennesee)

2:30 - 3:00:  "Does Graham’s Ex Ante Welfare Framework Accommodate Subjective Risk Assessment?" Douglass Shaw (Colorado School of Mines)

3:00 - 3:15: Break

3:14 - 3:45:  "Hedonic and Capitalization Approximations for the Value of Spatial Amenities: Evidence from Simulated Experiments" H. Spencer Banzhaf (Resources for the Future)

3:45 - 4:15:  "The Economic Value of Beach Based Recreation at Southern California Beaches: A Latent Segmentation Approach" James Hilger (University of California, Berkeley)

4:15 - 4:45:  "Modeling Fishing Behavior Under Spatial Regulation: A Discrete/Continuous Expected Profit Model" David F. Layton (University of Washington)

5:00 - 6:30: Cocktail Party, Koenig Alumni Center


Friday, July 18

8:00 - 8:30:  Breakfast & Introductions

8:30 - 9:00: "Export, Technology, and Environmental Damage in U.S. Agriculture" Shunsuke Managi (South Carolina State University)

9:00 - 9:30: "Is More Output and Less Waste Necessarily Suboptimal?" Yoko Nagase (Lawrence University)

9:30 - 10:00: "Individual Adaptation and Adjustment to Climate Change" Leopoldo Esteban Soto Arriagada (University of California, Santa Barbara)

10:00 - 10:15: Break

10:15 - 10:45: "Explaining Cooperation in Municipal Solid Waste Management" Paul Jakus (Utah State University)

10:45 - 11:15: "The Cost Effectiveness of Alternative Instruments to Control Urban Sprawl" Sofia Franco and Daniel Kaffine (University of California, Santa Barbara)

11:15 - 11:45: "A Model of Land Use with Imperfectly Competitive Developers" Randall Walsh (University of Colorado)

11:45 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:30:  "The Environment as a Factor of Production" Timothy J. Considine (Pennsylvania State University)

1:30 - 2:00:  "Multiple Pollutant Efficiency Standards for Electricity Production " Peter M. Schwarz (UNC Charlotte)

2:00 - 2:30:  "Discovery vs. Disclosure: EPA's Audit Policy and Hazardous Waste Compliance" Sarah L. Stafford (The College of William & Mary)

2:30 - 3:00: "Induced Technical Change and the Cost of Climate Policy" Ian Sue Wing (Boston University)

3:00 - 3:15: Break

3:14 - 3:45:  "Household Income and Pollution: Implications for the Debate about the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis" Neha Khanna (State University of New York at Binghamton)

3:45 - 4:15:  "Voting, Punishment and Public Goods: An Experimental Investigation" Stephan Kroll (St. Lawrence University and California State University, Sacramento)

4:15 - 4:45: "Testing for Budget Constraint Effects in Contingent Valuation: An Application of the Beta Model" Hui Li (University of New Mexico)

4:45 - 5:15: "Exploring Hypothetical Bias with Induced Value Experiments: Case of an Open Referenda and Public Good" Pallab Mozumder (University of New Mexico)