WESTERN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL (WEAI)

87th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 

June 29-July 3, 2012

San Francisco, California

 

AERE sessions will be held during June 30 and July 1. Sessions are listed by their session numbers from the WEAI preliminary program. There will be no formal discussants. We will plan to post papers as they become available. At the end of each session, we will reserve time for audience (or presenter/coauthor) questions and dialog about each of the papers in the session. ( URL: http://pages.uoregon.edu/cameron/WEAI-AERE-2012/WEAI_main.html )

 

[61]  10:15 a.m.–12:00 noon, June 30, 2012

AGRICULTURE, RURAL, FORESTS AND PROTECTED AREAS

Chair: Steven Renzetti, Brock University

Shamma A. ALAM, University of Washington, Seattle, and Claus Portner, Seattle University

·       Agricultural Shocks and Family Planning

Elaine F. FREY, California State University, Long Beach, and Jill L. Caviglia-Harris,

·       Rural Infrastructure, Market Participation, and Welfare in Developing Regions

Merlin HANAUER, Sonoma State University, and Paul J. Ferraro, Georgia State University

·       Causal Mechanisms of Protected Area Impacts

Alice FAVERO, Yale University, and Emanuele Massetti, Yale University

·       Forest-based Mitigation in the European Climate Policy Framework

 

[82]  12:30–2:15 p.m., June 30, 2012

ECONOMICS OF WATER ISSUES

Chair: Diane Dupont, Brock University

Wenchao XU, Boise State University, Kelly Cobourn, Boise State University, and Scott E. Lowe, Boise State University

·       Land Allocation Decisions under Natural and Institutional Risks of Water Shortage on an Irrigated Landscape

Jason K. HANSEN, Naval Postgraduate School, and Janie Chermak, University of New Mexico

·       Within Our Means: Growth and Development under Water Scarcity

Steven RENZETTI, Brock University, and Joel Bruneau, University of Saskatchewan

·       A Longitudinal Study of Water Recycling in Manufacturing Plants

Diane DUPONT, Brock University

·       Reclaimed Wasterwater, WTP, and Endogenous Free-Riding Beliefs

 

[83]  12:30–2:15 p.m., June 30, 2012

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

Chair: Jeffery Zabel, Tufts University

Diego ALVAREZ, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

·       Environmental and Cost Efficiency Analysis of the Electricity Production Industry in Nebraska: An Application of the Materials Balance Principle

Louis-Gaetan GIRAUDET, Stanford University

·       Industrial Organization and the Energy Efficiency Paradox

Mario SAMANO, University of Arizona

·       Gasoline Taxes and Fuel Economy: A Preference Heterogeneity Approach

 

[102]  2:30–4:15 p.m., June 30, 2012

ENVIRONMENT & BEHAVIOR

Chair: Glenn Sheriff, US EPA

Gregory PARKHURST, Weber State University, and Clifford Nowell, Weber State University

·       The Role of Confidence in the Truthful Revelation of Demand

Dana JACKMAN, University of Michigan

·       Climate Change as a Social Dilemma

J. Scott Holladay, University of Tennessee, Kevin R. Cromar, New York University, and Elizabeth F. PIENAAR , New York University

·       Health Effects of Peak Shaving Regulations in New York City: A Natural Experiment

 

[103]  2:30–4:15 p.m., June 30, 2012

ENVIRONMENT, INNOVATION, AND TECHNICAL CHANGE

Chair: Gordon Rausser, University of California, Berkeley

Ramiro PARRADO, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, and Sebastian Voigt, Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschafsforschung GmbH

·       Climate Policy: Effects of Knowledge Stocks in a CGE Framework

Gordon RAUSSER, University of California, Berkeley, Thijs Vandemoortele, Catholic University of Leuven, and Huayong Zhi, University of California, Berkeley

·       Policy Pathways to a Viable Renewable Energy Sector

Wei ZHANG, University of California, Davis, and Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis

·       Substitution with Biased Technological Change: The Dairy Product Industry in the United States

 

AERE RECEPTION (CASH BAR)

 

[147]  8:15–10:00 a.m., July 1, 2012

EXTREME WEATHER AND NATURAL DISASTERS

Chair: Trudy Ann Cameron, University of Oregon

Trudy Ann CAMERON, University of Oregon, Eric Duquette, USDA Economic Research Service, and Raisa Saif, University of Oregon

·       Extreme Weather Events and Rural-to-Urban Migration

Qin FAN, Pennsylvania State University, H. Allen Klaiber, Ohio State University, Karen Fisher-Vanden, Pennsylvania State University

·       Climate Change Impacts on Household Location Choice in the U.S.

Sebastian MILLER, Inter-American Development Bank, Paula Bastos, InterAmerican Development Bank, Matias Busso, Inter-American Development Bank, and Sian Mooney, Boise State University

·       The Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Extreme Weather Events: Evidence from Brazil

 

[156]  10:15 a.m.–12:00 noon, July 1, 2012

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY DESIGN

Chair: William Shobe, University of Virginia

Noah C. DORMADY, University of Southern California

·       Emissions Markets, Power Markets and Market Power: An Experimental Analysis

Kelly Maguire, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Glenn SHERIFF, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

·       Inequality Indices and Regulatory Environmental Justice Analysis

Charles A. Holt, University of Virginia, and William SHOBE, University of Virginia

·       Investigating Common-Value Allowance Auctions with Price Triggers

 

 [157]  10:15 a.m.–12:00 noon, July 1, 2012

AGRICULTURE, AQUACULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Chair: Eric Duquette, ERS/USDA

 

Eric DUQUETTE, Nathaniel Higgins, and John Horowitz, Economic Research Service, USDA

·       Do Late Adopters of Best Management Practices in Agriculture Have Higher Discount Rates?

Shamma ALAM and Hendrik Wolff, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

·       Information and Agricultural Health: The Role of Information in Reducing Farmer's Pesticide Exposure

Winnie YIP, Duncan Knowler and Wolfgang Haider, Simon Fraser University, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Burnaby, BC, Canada

·       Assessing the Willingness to Pay for More Sustainably Farmed Atlantic Salmon in the Pacific Northwest: Combining Discrete Choice Experiments and Latent Class Analysis

 

[161]  12:30 PM–2:15 PM, July 1, 2012

NON-MARKET AND INDIRECT MARKET VALUATION

Chair: Noelwah R. Netusil, Reed College

Sahan T.M. DISSANAYAKE, Portland State University, and Amy W. Ando, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

·       Valuing Ecosystem Restoration: Tradeoffs, Experience and Design

German M. IZON, Eastern Washington University, Michael S. Hand, USDA Economic Research Service, and Jennifer Thacher, University of New Mexico, Daniel McCollum, US Forest Service, Robert Berrens, University of New Mexico

·       The Role of Forests as Natural Amenitites: A Seemingly Unrelated Regression Model with Two Spatial Processes

Noelwah R. NETUSIL, Reed College, Michael Kincaid, Reed College, and Heejun Chang, Portland State University

·       Valuing Water Quality in an Urban Watershed

N. Edward Coulson, Pennsylvania State University, and Jeffery ZABEL, Tufts University

·       What Can We Learn from Hedonic Models Where Markets Are Dominated by Foreclosures?

 

[162]  12:30–2:15 p.m. , July 1, 2012

NATURAL RESOURCES

Chair: Duncan Knowler, Simon Fraser University

Andrew BALTHROP, Georgia State University

·       Races to Extract Oil and Natural Gas Production

Craig A. BOND, Colorado State University

·       Learning about Regime Shifts in Resource Management

Neil Fletcher, Simon Fraser University, and Duncan KNOWLER, Simon Fraser University

·       Conserving Musk Deer in the Wild: A Comparison of Direct Payment and Community Wildlife Management Strategies

 

NOTE: “Stand-by” papers— If you plan to attend the WEAI meetings and did not submit an abstract, there is a possibility that we may be able to accommodate additional presentations (especially if any session drops below three papers). If you would like your abstract to be considered as a potential substitute, please send it to Trudy Cameron at cameron@uoregon.edu. The selection committee will also consider potential fourth papers that may be a good fit for existing three-paper sessions.