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Past Seminars
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Below is information on past NCEE Seminars, organized by Series year.
2007-2008 Series
2006-2007 Series
2005-2006 Series
2004-2005 Series
2003-2004 Series
2002-2003 Series
2001-2002 Series
2000-2001 Series
Arik Levinson, Georgetown University
"Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing"
October 23, 2007
Allan R. Hoffman, Department of Energy
"The Role of Renewable Energy in Meeting Future Energy Demand"
November 1, 2007
Scott McDonald (University of Sheffield), Sherman Robinson (University of Sussex), and Karen Thierfelder (U.S. Naval Academy)
"Impact of Switching Production to Bioenergy Crops: The Switchgrass Example"
November 8, 2007
Douglas Noonan, Georgia Institute of Technology,
“Air Quality and Forecasts: The Effects of Ozone Alerts on Driving and Outdoor Recreation Behavior in Atlanta”
November 29, 2006
Terry Dinan, Congressional Budget Office
"Shaping Climate Change Policy in the Face of Uncertainty about Costs and Benefits"
December 18, 2006
Spencer Banzhaf and Eleanor McCormick, Georgia State Univ.
"Moving Beyond Cleanup: Identifying the Crucibles of Environmental Gentrification"
December 12, 2006
Jeffrey Zabel, Tufts Univ.
"The Impact of Imperfect Information on the Cleanup and Reuse of Contaminated Properties"
December 12, 2006:
Marie Howland, Univ. of Maryland-College Park
"Employment Effects of Brownfield Redevelopment: What do we know from the literature?"
January 24, 2007
Scott Farrow, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
"Residual Risk Accounting to Inform Policy Analysis"
May 10, 2007
Kirk Hamilton, World Bank
"Where is the Wealth of Nations?"
June 14, 2007
Deborah Vaughn Aiken and William Zamula, Consumer Product Safety Commission
"Valuation of Quality of Life Losses Associated with Nonfatal Injury: Insights from Jury Verdict Data"
September 20, 2007
Brian Scott, Washington College
"Nitrogen Farming in the Mississippi Watershed: An Environmental Economics Policy Comparison"
September 29, 2005
Sarah L. Stafford, College of William and Mary
“Should You Turn Yourself In? The Consequences of Self-Policing”
October 25, 2005
Randy A. Becker, U.S. Census Bureau, and Ronald J. Shadbegian, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and U.S. EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
“Green Pastures for the Green Industry? An Examination of Environmental Goods Producers”
June 1, 2006
Anna Alberini, University of Maryland-College Park
“Paying for Permanence: Public Preferences for Contaminated Site Cleanup”
June 20, 2006
Richard D. Morgenstern and William A. Pizer, Resources for the Future
“Evaluating Voluntary Climate Programs: The Case of Climate Wise”
September 7, 2004
Allen Greenberg, Federal Highway Administration
Incentives to Reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled: Pay-As-You-Drive-And-You-Save (PAYDAYS) Pricing Strategies
October 14, 2004
Sonja Biorn-Hansen, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Water Quality Trading: Unexpected Challenges, Surprising Successes
November 18, 2004
Andy Manale, USEPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
Waffles Arent Just for Breakfast Anymore: An Economic Analysis of an Alternative to Traditional Approaches to Mitigate Flood Damages
December 16, 2004
David Greene, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Running Out of and Into Oil: Analyzing Global Oil Depletion and Transition Through 2050
January 25, 2005
Tim Bondelid and Amy Volckens, RTI, International
NWPCAM - Current Developments and What the Future Will Hold
February 17, 2005
David Good and Kenneth Richards, Indiana University
Differences in State Taxes and Their Effects on State Hazardous Waste Generation and Treatment
May 5, 2005
W. Kip Viscusi, Harvard University; Joel Huber and Jason Bell, Duke University
The Value of Inland Water Quality
September 4, 2003
Dinah Koehler, Harvard School of Public Health
Rethinking Corporate Environmental Performance from a Public Health Perspective
September 16, 2003
Peter Dixon and Maureen Rimmer, Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University, Australia
USAGE: A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Economy
October 16, 2003
Chris Leggett, Industrial Economics
Social Desirability Bias in Contingent Valuation Surveys Administered Through In-Person Interviews
November 18, 2003
John Horowitz, University of Maryland
Variability and Overcompliance in Point Source Water Pollution Discharges: Evidence and Implications
December 16, 2003
Matt Massey and Steve Newbold, EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
The Effect of Water Quality on Recreational Summer Flounder Fishing
January 15, 2004
Matt Rousu, Research Triangle Institute
How Information Affects Consumer Decisions: Evidence From Experimental Auctions of Genetically Modified Foods
January 26, 2004
Peter Dixon and Maureen Rimmer, Monash University, Australia
Disaggregating Results from a General Equilibrium Model to Regions: Results for the 50 States from USAGE
February 17, 2004
Anna Alberini, University of Maryland
Willingness to Pay for Mortality Risk Reductions: How Robust are the VSL Figures from Contingent Valuation Studies?
February 24, 2004
George Parsons, University of Delaware
Measuring the Benefits of Marine Protected Areas in the Caribbean: A Conjoint Study of Diving in Bonaire
March 18, 2004
Cynthia Manson, Industrial Economics
Progress and Learning Curves: Assessing the Impact on Clean Air Act Compliance Costs and DOE Energy Demand Estimates
April 1, 2004
Rich Iovanna, EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
On the Role of Spatial Externalities in Urban Growth: An Application of a Continuous Time Model Using Discrete Time Satellite Data
April 20, 2004
Jason Didden, University of Delaware
A Random Utility Model of Fishing in the Chesapeake Bay
May 11, 2004
Jorge Rivera, George Mason University
Voluntary Environmental Performance of Western Ski Areas: Are Participants of the Sustainable Slopes Program Greener?
May 27, 2004
Spencer Banzhaf, Dallas Burtraw, David Evans, and Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future
Valuation of Natural Resource Improvements in the Adirondacks
June 3, 2003
Rob Williams, University of Texas, Austin and Brookings Institute
Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second Best Setting
March 26, 2003
Cynthia Morgan (EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics) and Ron Shadbegian (UMass at Dartmouth)
Environmental Justice and Emissions Trading: Evidence from the Electric Utility Industry
March 13, 2003
Dan Black, Syracuse University
How Robust Are Hedonic Wage Estimates of the Price of Risk?
February 25, 2003
Steven Rose, CNA Corporation
The Vicious Cycle of Resource and Welfare Degradation: Insight and Policy Alternatives
January 28, 2003
Brad Genter, NOAA Fisheries (formerly National Marine Fisheries Service)
NOAA Fisheries Recreational Economic Data Collection Program: Collecting Data to Estimate the Value and the Economic Impacts of Marine Angling in the U.S.
January 14, 2003
Mark Landry, Abt Associates and Paul Faeth, World Resources Institute
Taking Water Quality Trading On-Line
January 7, 2003
Vic Adamowicz, University of Alberta
Assessing the Impacts of Resource Management on Aboriginal People in Canada
December 19, 2002
Talbot Page, Brown University
Distortionary and Non-distortionary Properties of Environmental Taxes
December 12, 2002
Mike Roberts, USDA, Economic Research Service
Slippage or Spurious Correlation: An Analysis of the Conservation Reserve Program
November 7, 2002
Dave Lemberg and Rolland Fraser, Western Michigan University
Lakeshore Living and Sustainability in Southwestern Michigan: Perceptions, Issues, and Mitigation
October 24, 2002
Dan Axelrad and Charles Griffiths, EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
Risk Assessment for Benefits Analysis: A Case Study of "Chemical T"
September 10, 2002
Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies?
John List, University of Maryland
May 14, 2002
Electric Power Market Design: Implications for Efficiency and the Environment
Vernon Smith, George Mason University
April 18, 2002
Trade Liberalization and Carbon Emissions: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Liwayway Adkins and Richard Garbaccio, EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
March 19, 2002
Trade and the Environment: Unmasking the Pollution Havens Hypothesis
Arik Levinson, Georgetown University
February 28, 2002
'Optimal' Pollution Abatement: Whose Benefits Matter and How Much?
Ron Shadbegian, EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics and University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
February 21, 2002
Comparing the Environmental Performance of Manufacturing Plants in Mexico and the USA
Ruth Reyna Caamano and Lester Lave, Carnegie Melon University
January 29, 2002
Efficiency in the Iterative Paired Approach to Nonmarket Valuation
Julie Hewitt, EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
December 6, 2001
Modeling Consumer Choice for a Large Number of Quality Differentiated Goods: Estimation and Welfare Results from a Demand Systems Approach
Roger von Haefen, Bureau of Labor Statistics
November 15, 2001
Estimating Pollution Abatement Costs: A Comparison of 'Stated' and 'Revealed' Approaches
Carl Pasurka, EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
October 24, 2001
Clean Energy and Jobs: A Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change and Energy Policy
J. Andrew Hoerner, Center for a Sustainable Economy
September 20, 2001
The Financial Impact of Corporate Environmental Performance: Evidence of the Link Between Environmental and Financial Performance
Dinah Koehler, EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics and Harvard School of Public Health
August 27, 2001
Intake Fraction: Methodology and Applications for Environmental Decision Making
Debbie Bennett, Harvard School of Public Health
July 23, 2001
Recent Results and Near-Term Advances of Environmentally-Extended Input/Output With the Field of Life Cycle Assessment
Greg Norris, Harvard School of Public Health and Sylvatica
May 30, 2001
Flexible Economic Analysis Tool
Tyler Fox, Bryan Hubbell, and Scott Mathias, EPA, Office of Air Quality, Planning and Standards
May 22, 2001
The Economic Impact of Brownfields in an Urban Area
Laura Taylor, Georgia State University
May 7, 2001
Emerging Markets for Environmental Services: An Australian Perspective
Martin van Buren, Centre for International Economics, Canberra, Australia
April 17, 2001
Restoration Scaling Based on Total Value Equivalency: Green Bay Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Bill Breffle, Stratus Consulting
March 8, 2001
Pilot Meta-Analysis of Environmental Valuation: The Value of Clean Water
Sheldon Gen, National Network for Environmental Management Studies Fellow
February 13, 2001
The California Electricity Crisis: Is Deregulation a Colossal and Dangerous Failure?
Gail Cohen and Dennis Zimmerman, Congressional Budget Office
February 2, 2001
Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer, and the Environment
David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley
January 23, 2001
The Lower Boise River Effluent Trading Demonstration Project
Claire Schary, EPA, Region 10
January 18, 2001
Meta Modeling of Potential Nitrate Water Pollution in the Central United States
Bruce Babcock, Iowa State University
December 5, 2000
Auditing and Underwriting Environmental Trades: A Strategy for Preventing the Next Generation of Market Failures
Dennis King and Lisa Wainger, University of Maryland
November 29, 2000
The Industrialization of the Livestock Sector and the Regulation of Animal Waste
David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley
November 9, 2000
An Application of Uncertainty Analysis to a Benefit Assessment of Clean Water Act Regulations
Martin Schultz, Carnegie Mellon University
October 17, 2000
Should Pollution Taxes be Higher or Lower than Marginal Social Damages? A Reappraisal of the Double Dividend Debate
William Jaeger, Williams College
September 28, 2000
The United States Experience with Deposit Refund Systems: A Meta Analysis
Jeff Myrom, Bluestem Solid Waste Agency
September 18, 2000
Methodological Issues in the Application of Quality-Adjusted Life Years to Interventions Regarding Children
David Metzler, University of Chicago and Matt Davis, University of Michigan