Econ 594ER

Environmental and Resource Economics Field Workshop

Spring, 2008: North Hall 2212, Fri. 1:00-2:00

Instructor: Robert Deacon

This workshop is intended to help PhD students seeking to develop dissertation topics or advance their dissertation research.

Students may sign up (first come-first served) for either of two kinds of presentations:

1. An hour long session in which the student presents a relatively advanced research paper. The presentation should take no more than 40 minutes, leaving time for discussion. Priority will be given to students nearing completion of dissertation research and expecting to enter the job market soon. Students making these presentations should send a paper to deacon@econ.ucsb.edu on Wednesday the week of the presentation so I can post in on the website.
2. A ‘brainstorming session’ (with ~2 scheduled for a single meeting) in which students sketch research ideas, with outlines for models, datasets, experiments, etc., with the intention of getting feedback. Students making these presentations may wish to have the group read a particular background paper. If so, send it to deacon@econ.ucsb.edu so it can be posted on the website. This type of presentation could also consist of a student’s presentation of a high quality published paper written by someone else, but centrally relevant to the student’s own research program.

Meeting schedule (Student presentations in NH 2212; EES speakers at times and locations indicated)

Date	Speaker	Meeting place/time	Paper
11-Apr	OPEN
18-Apr	Libby Ashley (30 min.) John Lynham (30 min.)	NH 2212 1:00-2:00	“Valuation of Temporary Environmental Closures” “Research on sustainable fisheries”
25-Apr	Ed Barbier (U. Wyo.) EES	4:00-5:30, Bren 1424	“Corruption, Trade and the Political Economy of Resource-Based Development: A Comparison of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa”
2-May	Jonah Busch	NH 2212 1:00-2:00	“Do Surfers Respond to Health Risk Warnings?”
9-May	Mark Jacobsen (UCSD) EES	4:00-5:30, Bren 1424	TBA
16-May	Scott Taylor (U. Calgary) EES	4:00-5:30, Bren 1424	“Buffalo Hunt: International trade and the virtual extinction of the North American Bison”
23-May	Nick Parker	NH 2212 1:00-2:00	TBA
30 May	Grant Jacobsen	NH 2212 1:00-2:00	TBA
6-Jun	Laura Grant Corbett Grainger	NH 2212 1:00-2:00 NH 2212 1:00-2:00	TBA TBA