Camp Resources XX
August 4-6, 2013
We are delighted to announce that Camp Resources XX was held on August 4th-6th at the Blockade Runner Beach Resort in Wrightsville Beach, NC. This year marks Camp Resources’ 20th anniversary and a special event highlighting its important role in training future generations of environmental and resource economists.
This year’s program had 27 full length and research-sketch presentations. Spencer Banzhaf, Professor of Economics, Georgia State University gave a presentation on environmental economics in the history of economic thought; and Al McGartland, Director of the National Center for Environmental Economics, US EPA on the evolution of economics in environmental policy and challenges ahead. There was a tutorial on recent advances in “big data” analysis and its implications for environmental economics research.
Our two mentors this year are J.R. DeShazo, Professor and Director, Luskin Center for Innovation, University of California – Los Angeles, and Nicholas Flores, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Colorado.
Finally to celebrate Camp Resource’s 20th anniversary, we had a special Gala dinner!
Camp Resources Schedule
The complete schedule may be found here. Camp Resources is a workshop designed for graduate students and young professionals to present their research in a relaxed but serious environment. This year’s Camp Resources includes 18 contributed paper presentations as well as 9 short research sketches.
Below you will find links to the presentations and papers (when available) for each of the sessions and proceedings.
Learning Tutorial
“Big Data: tools, applications and challenges for environmental economics research”
“#bigdata” Justin Rao, Microsoft Corporation
“Text as Data” Brandon Stewart, Harvard University
Lee Chau, American Express
Session #1: Experiments
“Household Water and Energy Use: An Experimental Analysis of Decision-making under Uncertainty and Penalty Rate Structures”
Liesel Hans¸ Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Christopher Goemans, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Stephan Kroll, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
“Uncertainty and the WTA-WTP Disparity for Public Goods”
Jens Schubert, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Michael K. Price, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Christian Vossler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
“Electricity Conservation and Consumption Awareness: A Field Experiment”
Chris Goodwin, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Daniel A. Moncayo, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Session #2: Cap-And-Trade
“Dynamic Efficiency Costs of Non-efficiency Objectives in Tradable Permit Programs”
Kailin Kroetz, University of California, Davis, CA
Daniel K. Lewis, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington
James N. Sanchirico, University of California, Davis, CA
“A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Evaluating the Efficacy of the “Rights to Fish”: Evidence from Bering Sea Aleutian Island Pollock and Pacific Coast Hake Fisheries”
Lily Hsueh, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA
“Optimal Compliance with Environmental Policy: How Large are the Cost Savings from Emissions Trading?”
Hei Sing (Ron) Chan, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Session # 3: Firm Response to Environmental Regulations
“The Effects of Improved Water Quality on an Open Access Fishery: Evidence from the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery”
Sarah Ball, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
“Industrial Structure and the Extensive Margin of Carbon Leakage Effects”
Yuan Wen, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
“The Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Agriculture – Benefits from Crop Adaptation”
Chenguang Wang, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Soren Anderson, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Session # 4: Hedonics
“Minimum Lot Size and Segregation in Connecticut”
Ling Huang, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
“The Value of Wetlands for Flood Mitigation: a Hedonic Analysis of Residential and Agricultural Properties in New York’s Hudson River Valley”
Eric Ziemba, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
Allison Borchers, USDA Economic Research Service, Washington, DC
Martin D. Heintzelman, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
“Learning in a Hedonic Framework: Valuing Brownfield Remediation”
Lala Ma, Duke University, Durham, NC
“The Amenity Cost of Traffic Noise”
Kathrine Lausted Veie, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Session #5: Energy and Congestion
“Does Asymmetric Information in Residential Rental Markets Lead to an Energy Efficiency Gap?”
Erica Myers, University of California, Berkeley, CA
“Powering Demand: Solar Photovoltaic Subsidies in California”
Ken Reddix, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
“The Fundamental Law of Congestion Revisited: A Micro-Based Approach to Estimating Commuter Responses to Investments in Public Infrastructure”
Christopher Mothorpe, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Session # 6: Risk
“A Simulation Approach for Evaluating Hedonic Wage Models’ Ability to Recover Marginal Values for Risk Reductions”
Xingyi Puckett, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
“Age-Adjusted Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from Vehicle Choice”
James O’Brien, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
“Does Size Matter: The Effect of Firm Size on Environmental and Human Health Risks from Fracking Operations”
Jonathan Eyer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Steven Sexton, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Research Sketches
Jenny Orgill, Duke University, Durham, NC
Mark Curtis, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Gabriel Chan, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
Steve Dundas, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Johannes Reichl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Trisha Shrum, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
Viola Glenn, RTI International, Durham, NC
Taylor Rhodes, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Michael Philip Craig, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN