DRAFT AGENDA 2011
(Presenters indicated with *)
Saturday October 22:
10:30-11:30 Registration and check in at IHotel (Illinois Ballroom)
11:30 – 1:00 Luncheon and keynote talk:
“Water’s Four Horsemen; Nutrients, Hypoxia, Climate Change and Us”
Otto Doering (Purdue U.)
1:20 – 3:00 First session: Environmental Issues in Fields and Yards
Land use consequences of crop insurance subsidies
Ruiqing Miao,* David Hennessy, and Hongli Feng (Iowa State)
The impact of ad-hoc disaster programs on the use of conservation practices
Karina Schoengold* (U. of Nebraska), Ya Ding (UESTC, China), and Russell Headlee (U. of Nebraska)
Farmers’ preferences for the design of carbon offset programs and willingness-to-change tillage practices
Benjamin Gramig* (Purdue U.)
Green with lawn envy: Spatial variation of water demand in Kelowna, British Columbia
Johannus Janmaat* (U. of British Columbia – Okanagan)
3:00 – 3:20 Break: coffee/tea and snacks
3:20 – 5:00 Second session: Corporations, Industries, and the Environment
OPEC: Market failure or power failure?
Robert Cairns* and Enrique Calfucura (McGill U.)
Hitting the violators where it hurts? Stock market reaction to USEPA press releases
Elisabeth Newcomb Sinha* (U. of MD), Lucija Muehlenbachs (RFF), and Nitish R. Sinha (UI – Chicago)
Corporate incentives and nuclear safety
Catie Hausman* (UC Berkeley)
Innovation under the Climate Wise program
Keith Brouhle* (Grinnell), Brad Graham (Grinnell), and Donna Ramirez Harrington (U. of Vermont)
6:00 – 10:00 Dinner Reception: ACES Library, Heritage Room
Sunday October 23:
7:30 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast with Poster Displays, IHotel
8:30 – 10:10 Third session: Climate Change Economics and Policy
Economic impacts of climate variability and climate change: Evidence from a quasi-experiment with Great Lakes levels
Hsing-Hsiang Huang* and Michael Moore (U. of Michigan)
Crop choices in the United States: Land quality, climate, and cultivar characteristics
Soren Anderson*(Michigan State and NBER), Chenguang Wang, and Jinhua Zhao (Michigan State)
On climate jumps and fat tails
Charles Mason* (U. of Wyoming) and Neil Wilmot (U. of Minnesota – Duluth)
Did high gas prices cause the housing crisis that caused the Great Recession? Theory and empirical evidence
David Zilberman (UC Berkeley), JunJie Wu (Oregon State), and Steven Sexton* (UC Berkeley)
10:10 – 10:30 Break: coffee/tea and snacks
10:30 – 11:30 Fourth session: Short papers
Household fuel use and negative externalities in rural Bolivia
Debra Israel* (Indiana State – Terra Haute)
Evaluating the impact of protected areas on ecosystem services in Indonesia: In search of spatial complementaries
Daniela Miteva*, Brian Murray, and Subhrendu Pattanayak (Duke U.)
State parks as public goods: Public funding or user fees?
Brian Vander Naald* and Trudy Ann Cameron (U. of Oregon)
Social networks and non-market valuations
Bruno Wichmann* (U. of Tennessee)
Would emissions taxes smooth state government revenues over the business cycle?
Michael Madowitz* (UC San Diego)
Information disclosure and strategic behaviors: Analysis from Mexican gas stations
Andrea Martens*, Barrett Kirwan*, and Xian Liu (U. of Illinois)
11:30 – 1:00 Luncheon and panel discussion
“Corporate Environmental Strategies in Developing and Transition Economies”
Dietrich Earnhart (U. of Kansas)
Madhu Khanna (U. of Illinois)
Thomas Lyon (U. of Michigan)
1:10 – 2:50 Fifth session: Development and Conservation
Does open space conservation increase neighboring development?
Kate Zipp* (U. of Wisconsin), David Lewis (U. of Puget Sound), and Bill Provencher (U. of Wisconsin)
Time is money: An empirical examination of the dynamic effects of uncertainty on residential subdivision development
Doug Wrenn* and Elena Irwin (Ohio State)
Decentralization and governance given environment-development tradeoffs
Alex Pfaff* (Duke U.), Juan Robalino (EfD Initiative/CATIE), and Diego Herrera (Duke U.)
Causal mechanisms of protected area impacts
Merlin Hanauer* (Sonoma State) and Paul Ferraro (Georgia State)
2:50 – 3:10 Break: coffee/tea and snacks
3:10 – 4:50 Sixth session: Advances in Nonmarket Valuation
Incorporating dynamic behavior into the hedonic model
Kelly Bishop* and Alvin Murphy (Washington U.)
Partial identification of hedonic demand functions
Congwen Zhang* (Virginia Tech.), Nicolai Kuminoff (Arizona State), and Kevin Boyle (Virginia Tech.)
Evaluating mitigation techniques for hypothetical bias in choice experiments
Craig Broadbent* (IL-Wesleyan U.)
4:50 – 5:00 Wrap up and farewell