7:00 – 8:00
Breakfast and Introductions

8:00-10:00
“Policy Choice and Firm Compliance with Imperfectly Revelatory Audits”
Mary Evans* (University of Tennessee), Lirong Liu and Scott Gilpatric

“The Role of Heterogeneous Consumer Preferences in Driving the Speed of Abatement”
Maria Damon* (University of California, San Diego)

“The Role of Private Enforcement in Environmental Regulation: Evidence from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants”
Christian Langpap* (Tulane University)

“Effect of Voluntary Environmental Management Systems on Environmental Performance”
Dietrich Earnhart* (University of Kansas)

10:00 – 10:30
Break

10:30 – 12:00
“Gas Prices, Traffic, and Freeway Speeds in Los Angeles”
Nicholas Burger (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Daniel Kaffine* (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Do People Drive Less on Code Red Days?
Yi Jiang* (University of Maryland)

“Consumer and Market Responses to Mad-Cow Disease – Evidence from Two Natural Experiments”
Wolfram Schlenker* (Columbia University) and Sofia Villas-Boas (University of California, Berkeley)

12:00 – 1:00
Lunch

1:00 – 2:30
“Cost Benefit Analysis vs. Referenda”
Martin Osborne (University of Toronto) and Matthew Turner* (University of Toronto)

“Ex Ante Welfare Measures and Alternative or Non-Expected Utility Models”
Paan Jindapon (Texas A&M University), Douglass Shaw* (Texas A&M University), Mary Riddel (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Paul Jakus (Utah State University)

“Testing Welfare Measurement Gains of Combining Stated and Revealed Preferences Methods Using Count Data Models”
Juan Marcos Gonzalez* (Colorado State University), John Loomis (Colorado State University) and Armando Gonzales-Cabaan (USDA Forest Service)

2:30 – 2:45
Break

2:45-4:15
“Evaluating the Distributional Welfare Impacts of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments in the Los Angeles Area: An Equilibrium Approach”
Constant Tra* (University of Maryland)

“Non-Resident Mobility in the Vacation Home Market”
Erik Johnson* (University of Colorado)

“Housing Prices and TRI Emissions Revisited”
Spencer Banzhaf (Georgia State University), Megan Harrod* (University of Colorado) and Randall Walsh (University of Colorado)

4:15-4:30
Break

4:30-5:30
Keynote Address: Mathew Kahn (Tufts University)
5:30 – 7:00
Reception

7:00
Dinner on your own

Saturday, September 22

8:00 – 9:00
Breakfast

9:00- 10:30
“Cooperation in Environmental Policy: A Spatial Approach”
Helen Naughton* (University of Oregon)

“An Empirical Test of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis with Strategic Environment and Trade Policy”
Derek Kellenberg* (Georgia Tech University)

“National Treatment for Product Standards and its Effect on the Environment”
Sumeet Gulati* (University of British Columbia) and Devesh Roy (University of Maryland)

10:30-10:45
Break

10:45-12:15
“The Optimal Use of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: a Resource Economics Model”
Daiju Narita* (Columbia University) and Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University)

“Specification and Estimation of the Transfer Function in Paleoclimatic Reconstructions”
Maximilian Auffhammer* (University of California, Berkeley), Brian D. Wright (University of California, Berkeley) and Seung Yoo (Korea Energy Economics Institute)

“Enforcing `Self-Enforcing’ International Environmental Agreements”
David McEvoy* (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and John Stranlund (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

12:15-1:15
Lunch

1:15 – 2:45
“The Calumet Area Ecological Management Strategy: Measuring the Non-Market Economic Benefits”
Daniel McGrath* (University of Illinois at Chicago)

“Influence of Subjective Perception on State Preference Heterogeneity”
Yohei Mitani* (Waseda University)

“A Bayesian Examination of Anchoring Bias and Cheap Talk in Contingent Valuation Studies”
David Aadland (University of Wyoming), Arthur Caplan* (Utah State University) and Owen Phillips (University of Wyoming)

2:45-3:00
Break

3:00-4:00
“Revealed Preference Analysis of a Pilot Community Forestry Program: New Mexico’s Collaborative Forest Restoration Program”
Tyler Prante* (University of New Mexico), Jennifer Thatcher (University of New Mexico), Daniel McCollum (USDA Forest Service) and Robert Berrens (University of New Mexico)

“Empirical Calibration of a Least-Cost Conservation Reserve Program”
Glenn Sheriff* (Columbia University)