Session Chairs:

Jill L. Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury University

Papers:

"Measuring the Disamenity Value of Communication Towers: A Hedonic Housing Market Analysis"
Stephen Locke, University of Kentucky
Glenn C. Blomquist, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)

"Implicit Prices in Simultaneous Capital and Rental Markets: Amenity Valuation in Hedonic Property Markets with Second Home Ownership"
Craig E. Landry, East Carolina University (Contact Author)

"New Evidence of Behavioral Change and the Air Quality Index"
Carol Mansfield, RTI International (Contact Author)
Brooks Depro, Research Triangle Institute International
Stephen Graham, Environmental Protection Agency
Kristin Isaacs, Environmental Protection Agency
Thomas McCurdy, Environmental Protection Agency
Zachary Pekar, Environmental Protection Agency
Susan Stone, Environmental Protection Agency

"Are Clean-Ups a Waste? Exploring Heterogeneous and Inconsistent Price Effects of the Superfund Program"
Douglas S. Noonan, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

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Session Chairs:

Glenn C. Blomquist, University of Kentucky

Papers:

"A Gasoline Tax or Fuel Efficiency Standards? A Heterogeneous Household Gasoline Demand Analysis"
Weiwei Liu, Saginaw Valley State University (Contact Author)

"Neighbor Effects and Installing Energy-Efficient Residential Heating and Air-Conditioning Systems"
Douglas S. Noonan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lin-Han Chiang Hsieh, Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel Matisoff, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

"Informing Averting Behavior: Effects of Ozone Alerts Across U.S. Cities"
Douglas S. Noonan, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

"Park Visitation and Climate Change"
Derek Wolfson, University of Oregon (Contact Author)
Toni Sipic, Central Washington University

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Session Chairs:

Daniel Petrolia, Mississippi State University

Papers:

"Willingness to Pay for Anadromous Fisheries Restoration:  Distance Decay and River Reputation"
Lynne Lewis, Bates College (Contact Author)
Guillermo Herrera, Bowdoin College
Ursula Sandstrom, Bates College
Lindsay Thompson, Johns Hopkins University

"Valuing a Real (and Controversial) Proposal Through a Stated-Preference Survey"
Carol Mansfield, RTI International (Contact Author)
George Van Houtven, RTI International
Vesall Nourani, RTI International
Vik Kilambi, RTI International
Benjamin Simon, U.S. Department of Interior
Peter Grigelis, U.S. Department of Interior
Cindy Thomson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

"Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) for Environmental Quality Improvements and Risk-Preferences of Individuals"
Afif Naeem, The Ohio State University (Contact Author)
Timothy C. Haab, The Ohio State University

"A Comparative Analysis of the Multi-Mode Chesapeake Bay Menhaden Survey"
Todd Hartman, Appalachian State University
James Kirkley, University of Maryland
Kenneth Mcconnell, University of Maryland
Tanga McDaniel, Appalachian State University
John C. Whitehead, Appalachian State University (Contact Author)

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Session Chairs:

Matthew G. Interis, Mississippi State University

Papers:

"Improving Aggregate WTP: Sample Bias Correction via Bootstrapping"
Catherine M. Chambers, University of Central Missouri (Contact Author)
Christopher Azevedo, University of Central Missouri
John R. Crooker, University of Central Missouri

"Not Choosing Is a Choice: Accounting for 'Would Not Vote' Choices in Models of WTP"
Daniel Petrolia, Mississippi State University (Contact Author)

"Mapping the WTP Distribution from Individual Level Parameter Estimation"
Matthew Winden, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater (Contact Author)
H. Allen Klaiber, North Carolina State University
Timothy C. Haab, The Ohio State University

"(Almost) Everybody Wins: A True Pareto Justification for Practical Welfare Economics and Benefit-Cost Analysis"
Richard Zerbe, University of Washington School of Law (Contact Author)
Tyler A. Scott, University of Washington School of Public Affairs

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Session Chairs:

Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona

Papers:

"Carbon Taxes and the Trade of Bio-Energy"
Alice Favero, Yale University (Contact Author)
Emanuele Massetti, Yale University

"The Effectiveness of Renewable Portfolio Standards in Reducing Carbon Emissions in the US Electricity Sector"
Suman Gautam, Pennsylvania State University (Contact Author)
R.J. Briggs, Pennsylvania State University

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Session Chairs:

Matthew A. Freeman, Mississippi State University

Papers:

"Charter Fishing Growth and Fishing Regulations in California"
Elaine F. Frey, California State University, Long Beach (Contact Author)
Kristen Monaco, California State University, Long Beach
Chen Feng Ng, California State University, Long Beach

"Lessons from Meta-Analysis: Assessing the Impacts of Sampling Strategy on Recreation Site Choice Models"
Paul R. Hindsley, Eckerd College (Contact Author)
Craig E. Landry, East Carolina University

"Accounting for Taste: Consumer Valuations for Food-Safety Technologies"
David M. Bruner, Appalachian State University
William L. Huth, University of West Florida
David M. McEvoy, Appalachian State University
Ash Morgan, Appalachian State University (Contact Author)

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Session Chairs:

Carol Mansfield, RTI International

Papers:

"Cycles in Natural-Resource Commodity Prices - A Reinvestigation Using Rolling Sample Windows"
Marc Gronwald, Ifo Institute for Economic Research (Contact Author)

"Optimal Timing of Environmental Cleanups"
Jacob LaRiviere, The University of Tennessee
Matt J McMahon, The University of Tennessee (Contact Author)
Justin Roush, The University of Tennessee

"Carbon Labeling for Consumer Food Goods"
Sharon Shewmake, Vanderbilt University (Contact Author)
Abigail Okrent, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Lanka Thabrew, Vanderbilt University

"The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Dry Cleaning Firm Exits"
Brian Vander Naald, University of Alaska Southeast
Trudy Ann Cameron, University of Oregon

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Session Chairs:

Rachel Cleetus, Union of Concerned Scientists

Papers:

"Busting the Boom-Bust Theory: Amazonia, Frontiers, and Economic Development"
Jill L. Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury University (Contact Author)
Erin Sills, North Carolina State University
Dar Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dan Harris, Salisbury University
Katrina Mullan, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Bell, Columbia University
Michael Toomey, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Environmental Aid with Heterogeneous Agents: An Experimental Investigation"
Paul Chambers, University of Central Missouri (Contact Author)
Glenn Dutcher, University of Innsbruck
R. Mark Isaac, Florida State University

"Is There International Competition in the Global Groundwater Commons?"
Todd Guilfoos, Binghamton University (Contact Author)

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Session Chairs:

Afif Naeem, The Ohio State University

Papers:

"Efficiency of Viable Groundwater Management Policies"
Todd Guilfoos, Binghamton University (Contact Author)
Neha Khanna, Binghamton University
Jeffrey Peterson, Kansas State University

"Climate Change Impacts and Ambiguity"
Stergios Athanassoglou, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Emanuele Massetti, Yale University (Contact Author)

"A Bioeconomic Model of Interspecies Disease Transmission and On-Farm Decision Making"
Brian Enchelmeyer, University of Wyoming
Shana M. McDermott, University of New Mexico (Contact Author)

"The Effect of the El Niῆo Southern Oscillation on Crop Production in the Southeastern U.S."
Jesse Tack, Mississippi State University (Contact Author)
David Ubilava, Mississippi State University

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Session Chairs:

Johnson Kakeu, Georgia Tech

Papers:

"Energy Subsidies in the United States: Do They Contribute to Pollution Abatement in the Electricity Market?"
Karen Maguire, Oklahoma State University (Contact Author)

"Political Economy of Climate Change: Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Data"
Toni Sipic, Central Washington University (Contact Author)

"The Impact of Social Capital on Environmental Behavior: A North Carolina Case Study"
Daniel T. Hall, High Point University (Contact Author)
Michael McCully, High Point University
Christine Cugliari, High Point University

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Session Chairs:

Todd Guilfoos, Binghamton University

Papers:

"EPA Regulations as a Catalyst for Modernizing the U.S. Power Sector"
Rachel Cleetus, Union of Concerned Scientists (Contact Author)

"The Impact of Energy Price Changes on Cropping Patterns in Iowa"
Luba Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University (Contact Author)
Stephen Randall, North Carolina A&T State University
Silvia Secchi, Southern Illinois University

"Ethanol and Energy Security"
Peter Maniloff, Duke University (Contact Author)

"Electric Utility Responses to Changes in Fuel Price"
Daniel Matisoff, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)
Emilson Silva, Georgia Institute of Technology
Douglas S. Noonan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jinshu Cui, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fanny Guezennec, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Session Chairs:

Luba Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University

Papers:

"Strategic Information Sharing in the Problem of the Commons"
Johnson Kakeu, Georgia Tech (Contact Author)

"Optimal Ratings-Based Intensity Policies: Assigning Emission Factors in Low-Carbon Fuel Standards"
Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona (Contact Author)

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