Macro: Christopher Costello & Andrew Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara

Speaker

Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa Barbara

Biography

Christopher Costello is a professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara. His research concerns natural resource management and property rights under uncertainty, with a particular emphasis on information, its value, and its effect on management decisions. His work combines theoretical work from Economics with empirical analysis, often to inform policy. His topical interests include fisheries management, biological diversity, introduced species, regulation of polluting industries, and marine policy, and he frequently collaborates with researchers outside of Economics such as Statistics, Ecology, Biogeography, and Mathematics.

Speaker

Andrew Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara

Biography

Dr. Andrew Plantinga is Professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before coming to UCSB in 2012, Dr. Plantinga had faculty appointments at Oregon State University (2001-2012) and the University of Maine (1995-2000). Dr. Plantinga is a Lead Scientist with the Environmental Markets Solution Lab at UCSB. He received a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995, an M.S. in Forestry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1988, and a B.A. from Grinnell College in 1986.