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Working Papers

2024

1. Rural-Urban Water Transfer and Urban Economic Growth: Chinatown Revisited
   2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2020

2. Land-Use Change at the Peri-Urban Nexus: The Greenbelt Act Study
   2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2010

3. GIS-Based Estimation of Housing Amenities: The Case of High Grounds and Stagnant Streams
   Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article GIS-based estimation of housing amenities: the case of high grounds and stagnant streams, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer (2011) View citations (1) (2011)

2009

4. Carbon Sequestration and Permit Trading on the Competitive Fringe
   Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article Carbon sequestration and permit trading on the competitive fringe, Economic Modelling, Elsevier (2011) (2011)
5. Matching Traders in a Pollution Market: The Case of Cub River, Utah
   Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
6. Parametric and Non-Parametric Tests for Economies-of-Scale in Nonpoint Pollution Control: The Case of Bear River Basin, Utah
   Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
7. Sharing the Surplus Generated from Noncooperative Cost Sharing: The Case of Nonpoint Associations and Water Quality Trading
   Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics

2005

8. A Bayesian Examination of Anchoring Bias and Cheap Talks in Constructed Markets
   2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (2)

2004

9. A Bioeconomic Model of the Great Salt lake Watershed
   Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
10. CURBSIDE RECYCLING: WASTE RESOURCE OR WASTE OF RESOURCES?
    2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
    Also in Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics (2003) View citations (2)
    Others, University Library of Munich, Germany (2003)
    See also Journal Article Curbside recycling: Waste resource or waste of resources?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2006) View citations (24) (2006)
11. Failing Students Optimally
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
12. Seeing is Believing: Simulating Resource-Extraction Problems with GAMS IDE and Microsoft Excel in an Intermediate-Level Natural-Resource Economics Course
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
13. THE FOLLY OF DILLYDALLY
    Economics Research Institute, ERI Series, Utah State University, Economics Department
    Also in Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics (2004)
14. The Effect of Experience and Quantity-Based Pricing of the Valuation of the Curbside Recycling Program
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article The effect of experience and quantity-based pricing on the valuation of a curbside recycling program, Ecological Economics, Elsevier (2007) View citations (8) (2007)

2003

15. A Cautionary Note on Tests for Incentive Incompatibility and Starting-Point Bias
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
16. CHEAP TALK REVISITED: NEW EVIDENCE FROM CVM
    2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (8)
    Also in Others, University Library of Munich, Germany (2003) View citations (5)
17. Prices, Quantities, and Correlated Externalities
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2002

18. An Efficient Mechanism to Control Correlated Externalities: Redistributive Transfers and the Coexistence of Regional and Global Pollution Permit Markets
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article An efficient mechanism to control correlated externalities: redistributive transfers and the coexistence of regional and global pollution permit markets, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier (2005) View citations (42) (2005)
19. An Equitable, Efficient and Implementable Scheme to Control Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article An equitable, efficient and implementable scheme to control global carbon dioxide emissions, International Tax and Public Finance, Springer (2007) View citations (7) (2007)
20. Cheap Talk Reconsidered: New Evidence from CVM
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article Cheap talk reconsidered: New evidence from CVM, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2006) View citations (78) (2006)
21. Household Valuation of a Pilot Curbside Recycling Program: Participants, Non-Participants, and the Non-Targeted
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
22. Reputation and the Control of Pollution
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article Reputation and the control of pollution, Ecological Economics, Elsevier (2003) View citations (5) (2003)

2001

23. Detection and mitigation of hypothetical bias in contingent valuation with an application to curbside recycling
    Working Papers, Utah State University, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2025

1. A Comprehensive Parcel-Level Dataset on Farmland Assessment: Addressing Grid-Cell Data Bias Estimation
   Data, 2025, 10, (1), 1-12
2. Household demand for community- and rooftop-solar electricity: conceptual and numerical assessments
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2025, 14, (1), 105-124

2024

3. Habits and externalities
   Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2024, 26, (4)

2023

4. Missing the Warning Signs? The Case of “Yellow Air Day” Advisories in Northern Utah
   Environmental & Resource Economics, 2023, 85, (2), 479-522 View citations (1)
5. Regulating coopetition in an EV charging market
   Economic Modelling, 2023, 118, (C)

2021

6. Measuring heterogeneous preferences for residential amenities
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021, 87, (C) View citations (8)

2020

7. Optimal investment to control ‘red air day’ episodes: lessons from Northern Utah, USA
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2020, 9, (2), 227-250

2019

8. Optimal vehicle use in the presence of episodic mobile-source air pollution
   Resource and Energy Economics, 2019, 57, (C), 185-204 View citations (1)

2018

9. A note on mitigating the adverse scale effects associated with daily driving restrictions
   Environment and Development Economics, 2018, 23, (1), 63-79 View citations (1)
10. Green competition, hybrid equilibrium, and establishment of a resale market
    International Review of Economics & Finance, 2018, 58, (C), 259-269 View citations (4)
11. Sequestration and the engagement of developing economies in a global carbon market
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2018, 52, (C), 50-63

2016

12. Uncertainty and the Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good in a Two-Moment Decision Model
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18, (6), 910-922

2014

13. Benchmarking an optimal pattern of pollution trading: The case of Cub River, Utah
    Economic Modelling, 2014, 36, (C), 502-510
14. Measuring the environmental cost of hypocrisy
    Ecological Economics, 2014, 108, (C), 124-135
15. Measuring the surplus of superficiality: the case of dented bumper repair
    Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21, (14), 992-996
16. Measuring the value of plastic and reusable grocery bags
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2014, 3, (2), 125-147 View citations (2)

2013

17. Using Field-level Characteristics as Proxy Measures to Test for the Presence of Economies of Scale in Nonpoint Pollution Control
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2013, 42, (2), 22
    Also in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2013, 42, (2), 365-386 (2013)
18. WATER QUALITY TRADING IN THE PRESENCE OF ABATEMENT-COST SHARING
    Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31, (2), 279-290 View citations (2)

2011

19. Carbon sequestration and permit trading on the competitive fringe
    Economic Modelling, 2011, 28, (6), 2803-2810
    See also Working Paper Carbon Sequestration and Permit Trading on the Competitive Fringe, Working Papers (2009) (2009)
20. GIS-based estimation of housing amenities: the case of high grounds and stagnant streams
    Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 2011, 4, (1), 49-61 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper GIS-Based Estimation of Housing Amenities: The Case of High Grounds and Stagnant Streams, Working Papers (2010) (2010)
21. Impure public goods, matching grant rates and income redistribution in a federation with decentralized leadership and imperfect labor mobility
    International Tax and Public Finance, 2011, 18, (3), 322-336 View citations (17)

2010

22. Can fighting grade inflation help the bottom line?
    Applied Economics Letters, 2010, 17, (17), 1663-1667 View citations (3)
23. Does 'free-sampling' enhance the value of public goods?
    Applied Economics Letters, 2010, 17, (4), 335-339 View citations (1)
24. Estimating Hypothetical Bias in Economically Emergent Africa: A Generic Public Good Experiment
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2010, 39, (2), 15 View citations (5)
    Also in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2010, 39, (2), 344-358 (2010) View citations (6)

2009

25. Estimating the effectiveness of a vehicle miles travelled tax in reducing particulate matter emissions
    Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2009, 52, (3), 315-344 View citations (4)

2008

26. 'D' is for dilly-dally?
    Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15, (14), 1085-1088
27. Incremental and Average Control Costs in a Model of Water Quality Trading with Discrete Abatement Units
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2008, 41, (3), 419-435 View citations (6)
28. Matching Heterogeneous Traders in Quantity-Regulated Markets
    Computational Economics, 2008, 31, (4), 341-362 View citations (2)

2007

29. A Bayesian examination of information and uncertainty in contingent valuation
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2007, 35, (2), 149-178 View citations (25)
30. An equitable, efficient and implementable scheme to control global carbon dioxide emissions
    International Tax and Public Finance, 2007, 14, (3), 263-279 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper An Equitable, Efficient and Implementable Scheme to Control Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Working Papers (2002) View citations (1) (2002)
31. The effect of experience and quantity-based pricing on the valuation of a curbside recycling program
    Ecological Economics, 2007, 64, (2), 433-443 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper The Effect of Experience and Quantity-Based Pricing of the Valuation of the Curbside Recycling Program, Working Papers (2004) (2004)
32. Using choice question formats to determine compensable values: The case of a landfill-siting process
    Ecological Economics, 2007, 60, (4), 834-846 View citations (16)

2006

33. A Comparison of Emission Taxes and Permit Markets for Controlling Correlated Externalities
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2006, 34, (4), 471-492 View citations (12)
34. Cheap talk reconsidered: New evidence from CVM
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006, 60, (4), 562-578 View citations (78)
    See also Working Paper Cheap Talk Reconsidered: New Evidence from CVM, Working Papers (2002) (2002)
35. Curbside recycling: Waste resource or waste of resources?
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006, 25, (4), 855-874 View citations (24)
    See also Working Paper CURBSIDE RECYCLING: WASTE RESOURCE OR WASTE OF RESOURCES?, 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO (2004) (2004)
36. Interactive Geometry for Surplus Sharing in Cooperative Games
    The Journal of Economic Education, 2006, 37, (3), 382-382 View citations (1)
37. Interactive Scenario Analysis of Exhaustible Resource Problems
    Computers in Higher Education Economics Review, 2006, 18, (1), 4-9

2005

38. An efficient mechanism to control correlated externalities: redistributive transfers and the coexistence of regional and global pollution permit markets
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2005, 49, (1), 68-82 View citations (42)
    See also Working Paper An Efficient Mechanism to Control Correlated Externalities: Redistributive Transfers and the Coexistence of Regional and Global Pollution Permit Markets, Working Papers (2002) View citations (2) (2002)

2003

39. An ideal Kyoto protocol: emissions trading, redistributive transfers and global participation
    Oxford Economic Papers, 2003, 55, (2), 216-234 View citations (16)
40. Reputation and the control of pollution
    Ecological Economics, 2003, 47, (2-3), 197-212 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Reputation and the Control of Pollution, Working Papers (2002) (2002)
41. Willingness to Pay for Curbside Recycling with Detection and Mitigation of Hypothetical Bias
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85, (2), 492-502 View citations (116)

2002

42. Waste not or want not? A contingent ranking analysis of curbside waste disposal options
    Ecological Economics, 2002, 43, (2-3), 185-197 View citations (21)

2000

43. Pure public goods and income redistribution in a federation with decentralized leadership and imperfect labor mobility
    Journal of Public Economics, 2000, 77, (2), 265-284 View citations (114)

1999

44. Federal Acid Rain Games
    Journal of Urban Economics, 1999, 46, (1), 25-52 View citations (27)
45. Household Valuation of Curbside Recycling
    Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1999, 42, (6), 781-799 View citations (13)
46. More Evidence on the Role of Secondary Education in the Development of Lower-Income Countries: Wishful Thinking or Useful Knowledge?
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1999, 48, (1), 155-75 View citations (2)
47. Winners and Losers in a World with Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, and Social Welfare
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1999, 37, (3), 256-271 View citations (13)

1997

48. Transboundary Pollution Control in Federal Systems
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1997, 34, (2), 173-186 View citations (105)

Chapters

2010

1. Chapter 7 Bioeconomics and International Trade: The Case of the Great Salt Lake, Utah
   A chapter in New Developments in Computable General Equilibrium Analysis for Trade Policy, 2010, pp 189-216

2004

2. Equitable and Efficient International Schemes to Control Carbon Dioxide Emissions
   A chapter in The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Essays in Honor of J. Michael Finger, 2004, pp 59-74