ASSA Meetings
AERE Sessions
January 3-5, 2003
Washington, DC
January 3, 8:00 AM
Non-Market Valuation
Chair: Alan Randall, Ohio State University
Kevin J. Boyle (University of Maine), Mark M. Morrison (Charles Sturt University, Australia), and Laura O. Taylor (Georgia State University), "Provision Rules and the Incentive Compatibility of Conjoint Surveys"
Discussant: Trudy Cameron, University of Oregon
Roger H. von Haefen (Bureau of Labor Statistics), "Consideration Sets and Continuous Demand System Models"
Discussant: Klaus Moeltner, University of Nevada
V. Kerry Smith (North Carolina State University), Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and George Van Houtven (Research Triange Institute), "Preference Calibration for Valuing Reductions in Mortality Risks"
Discussant: Alan Randall, Ohio State University
Vic Adamowicz, Peter Boxall, Michael Haener, Yaoqi Zhang, Donna Dosman, and Juanita Marois (University of Alberta), "Assessing the Impacts of Forest Management on Aboriginal Hunters in Canada: Evidence from Stated and Revealed Preference Data"
Discussant: Chris Leggett, Industrial Economics Incorporated
January 3, 10:15 AM
Global Environmental Issues (AEA/AERE Invited)
Chair: Anthony Fisher, University of California-Berkeley
Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University), "Optimality of Sustainability"
Discussant: [Open]
Urvashi Narain (Resources for the Future) and Klaas van't Veld (University of Michigan), "Achieving 'Meaningful Participation' by Developing Countries: Implications for Long-run Climate Change Policies"
Discussant: Scott Barrett, Johns Hopkins
David Zilberman (University of Califorina-Berkeley), "Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights"
Discussant: Jenny Lanjouw, Brookings
January 3, 2:30 PM
Invited Session to Honor the Memory of Sherwin RosenÊ (AERE Invited)
Chair: Glenn C. Blomquist, University of Kentucky
George S. Tolley (University of Chicago), "Sherwin Rosen as a Scholar and Colleague"
Matthew E. Kahn (Tufts University), "Sherwin Rosen as a Teacher and a Mentor"
Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University), and Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago), "Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of Statistical Life"
Discussant: Philip E. Graves, University of Colorado
W. Kip Viscusi (Harvard University), "The Value of Life: The Current State of the Market Evidence"
Discussant: Jason R. Shogren, University of Wyoming
Mark C. Berger, Glenn C. Blomquist (University of Kentucky), and Klara Z. Sabirianova (University of Michigan), "Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities"
Discussant: Timothy J. Bartik, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
January 4, 8:00 AM
Topics in Environmental Economics
Chair: Tom Tietenberg, Colby College
Juan-Pablo Montero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Testing the Efficiency of a Tradeable Permits Market"
Discussant: Tom Tietenberg, Colby College
Greg Hunter (Tilburg University-The Netherlands), "A Contingent Claims Approach to Assessing the Impact of Regulation of Firm Value: A Refinement of the "Porter" Hypothesis"
Discussant: John Horowitz, University of Maryland
Robert Deacon (University of California-Santa Barbara), "Dictatorship, Democracy, and the Demand for Environmental Quality and Other Public Goods"
Discussant: Ken Koford, University of Delaware
Matthew Doyle and Quinn Weninger (Iowa State University), "Rights-based fisheries management under random stock growth and costly investment reversibility of fishing capital"
Discussant: Lee Anderson, University of Delaware
January 4, 10:15 AM
The Mortality Benefits of Environmental Policies: What Influences the Value of a Statistical Life?
Chair: Nathalie B. Simon, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dan Black and Thomas J. Kniesner (Syracuse University), "On the Measurement of the Price of Risk"
Discussant: W. Kip Viscusi, Harvard University
James K. Hammitt (Harvard University) and Mar’a Eugenia Ibarrar‡n (Universidad de las AmŽricas, Puebla), "Estimating the Economic Value of Reducing Health Risks in Mexico City"
Discussant: V. Kerry Smith, North Carolina State University
Anna Alberini (University of Maryland), "Examining the Econometric Robustness of Estimates of VSL from Contingent Valuation Surveys"
Discussant: Trudy Cameron, University of Oregon
J. R. DeShazo (University of California-Los Angeles) and Trudy A. Cameron (University of Oregon), "Fates Worst than Death? Understanding Individual Preferences for Reductions in Morbidity-Mortality Events"
Discussant: Maureen Cropper, The World Bank and University of Maryland
January 4, 2:30 PM
Health and the Environment: What Can We Learn Using GIS Analysis?
Chair: Nathalie B. Simon, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Marie Lynn Miranda (Duke University), "Using GIS Models to Design Preventive Intervention Programs in Children's Environmental Health"
Discussant: Matthew Neidell, University of Chicago
Daniel Osgood, Daniel Bronson, and Mary Kay O'Rourke (University of Arizona), "Trade-offs in Agriculture and Children's Health: A GIS-based damage function for Pesticide Application and Exposure"
Discussant: Lori Lynch, University of Maryland
Charles Griffiths, Nathalie B. Simon, and Tracey Woodruff, (U. S. Environmental Protection Agency) "A Cross-Sectional Analyses of Asthma and Air Pollution with Correction for Spatial Autocorrelation"
Discussant: Jacqueline Geoghegan, Clark University
Luc Anselin (University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign), James C. Murdoch (University of Texas at Dallas), and Mark A. Thayer (San Diego State University), "The Sensitivity of Concentration-Response Function to the Explicit Modeling of Space-Time Dependence."
Discussant: Kathleen Bell, University of Maine
January 5, 8:30 AM
The Importance of Spatial Modeling to the Design of Environmental Policies
Chair: V. Kerry Smith, North Carolina State University
Randall Wash (University of Colorado), "Analyzing Open Space Policies in Location Equilibrium Models"
Discussant: [Open]
James E. Wilen (University of California-Davis), and James N. Sanchirico (Resources for the Future), "Introducing Space into Renewable Resource Models"
Discussant: Ted McConnell, University of Maryland
Kelly Beddard, Antonio Bento, and Shelly Norman (University of California-Santa Barbara), "Are Urban Growth Boundaries 'Smart' Policies or Does New Development simple Spillover into Neighboring Communities and Agricultural Areas?"
Discussant: Jan Brueckner, University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign
January 5, 10:45 AM
Research Using Data from the Pollution Abatement Cost and Expenditure Survey
Chair: Robert Stavins, Harvard University
Randy Becker (U. S. Bureau of the Census), "Pollution Abatement Expenditure by U.S. Manufacturing Plants: Do Community Characteristics Matter?"
Discussant: Kelly Maguire, U. S. EPA National Center for Environmental Economics
Linda Bui (Boston University), "Plant Level Responses to Disclosure Rules: The Effectiveness of TRI Regulation in Petroleum Refineries"
Discussant: Ann Wolverton, U.S. EPA National Center for Environmental Economics
Wayne Gray (Clark University and NBER) and Ronald Shadbegian (University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and U. S. EPA National Center for Environmental Economics), "When is Enforcement Effective Ð or Necessary?"
Discussant: Amanda Lee, Office of Management and Budget
Albert McGartland (U. S. EPA National Center for Environmental Economics), "Picking Up the PACE at the Environmental Protection Agency: New Challenges and Opportunities"
Discussant: Lori Snyder, Harvard University
January 5, 1:30 PM
Economics of Designing Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Programs
Chair: Richard Newell, Resources for the Future
John Antle, Susan Capalbo, Sian Mooney (Montana State University), and Keith Paustian (Colorado State University), "Economically Optimal Spatial Scale and the Implementation of Soil Carbon Sequestration Contracts in Agriculture"
Discussant: Brian Murray, Research Triangle Institute
Alex Pfaff (Columbia University) and Suzi Kerr (Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust), "What Would Have Happened? Reviewing and Improving Forest Baselines"
Discussant: Andrew Plantinga, Oregon State University
Kenneth Richards (Indiana University), "Instrument Choice for a Domestic Forest Carbon Sequestration Program in the United States"
Discussant: Robert Stavins, Harvard University
Roger Sedjo (Resources for the Future), "Carbon Sequestered in the Terrestrial Biosphere: Renting Off-set Credits for Temporary Sequestration"
Discussant: Jinhua Zhao, Iowa State University
