Refereed Publications | Book Chapters | Non-Refereed Publications
Manuscripts

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“Incremental and Average Control Costs in a Model of Water Quality  Trading with Discrete Abatement Units,” forthcoming in Environmental and Resource Economics.

“Does ‘Free Sampling’ Enhance the Value of Public Goods?” forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters, with Douglas Jackson-Smith, and Sandra Marquart-Pyatt .

“A Bayesian Examination of Information and Uncertainty in Contingent Valuation,” forthcoming in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, with David Aadland and Owen R. Phillips.

"D is For Dillydally?" forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters, with John Gilbert.

“Estimating the Effectiveness of a Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax in Reducing Particulate Matter Emissions,” forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, with Jordan Larson.

"An Equitable, Efficient, and Implementable Scheme to Control Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions," forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance, with Emilson C.D. Silva.

“The Effect of Experience and Quantity-Based Pricing on the Valuation of a Curbside Recycling Recycling,” forthcoming in Ecological Economics, with Alok K. Bohara and Therese Grijalva.

"Matching Heterogeneous Traders in Quantity-Regulated Markets," forthcoming in Computational Economics, with Yuya Sasaki.

"Using Choice Question Formats to Determine Compensable Values:  The Case of a Landfill Siting Process," Ecological Economics, 60(4), 2007, 834-846, with Therese Grijalva and Douglas Jackson-Smith.

"A Comparison of Emissions Taxes and Permit Markets for Controlling Correlated Externalities," Environmental and Resource Economics, 34(4), 2006, 471-492.

"Cheap Talk Reconsidered:  New Evidence from CVM," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60(4), 2006, 562-578, with David Aadland.

"Curbside Recycling:  Waste Resource or Waste of Resources?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25(4), 2006, 855-874, with David Aadland.

"Interactive Geometry for Surplus Sharing in Cooperative Games,"  Journal of Economic Education 37(3), 2006, 382, with Yuya Sasaki.

"Interactive Scenario Analysis of Exhaustible Resource Problems,"  Computers in Higher Education Economics Review, 18, 2006, 4-9, with John Gilbert.

"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 49(1), 2005, 68-82, with Emilson C.D. Silva.

"Seeing is Believing:  Simulating Forest-Harvest Problems with Microsoft Excel in an Intermediate-Level Natural-Resource Economics Course,"  Perspectives on Economics Education Research 1(1), 2005, 44-52.

"Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis of Atrazine in Drinking Water from Agricultural Activities and Policy Implications," Water Resources Research 41(5), 2005, 1-13, with Aklilu A. Tesfamichael and Jagath Kaluarachchi.

"Incentive Incompatibility and Starting-Point Bias in Iterative Valuation Questions:  Comment," Land Economics 80(2), 2004, 312-315, with David Aadland.

"Reputation and the Control of Pollution," Ecological Economics 47, 2-3, 2003, 197-212.

"An 'Ideal Kyoto Protocol':  Emissions Trading, Redistributive Transfers, and Global Participation," Oxford Economic Papers, 55, 2003, 216-234, with Richard C. Cornes and Emilson C.D. Silva.

"Willingness to Pay for Curbside Recycling With Detection and Mitigation of Hypothetical Bias, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85(2), 2003, 492-502, with David M. Aadland.

"Waste Not or Want Not?  A Contingent Ranking Analysis of Curbside Waste Disposal Options," Ecological Economics, 43(2-3), 2002, 185-197, with Therese Grijalva and Paul M. Jakus.

"Pure Public Goods and Income Redistribution in a Federation with Decentralized Leadership and Imperfect Labor Mobility," Journal of Public Economics, 77(2), 2000, 265-284, with Richard C. Cornes and Emilson C.D. Silva.

"Household Valuation of Curbside Recycling," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 42(6), 1999, 781-799, with David M. Aadland.

"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, 48 (1), October 1999, 155-176, with Lonnie E. Brist.

"Federal Acid Rain Games," Journal of Urban Economics, 46(1), July 1999, 25-52, with Emilson C.D. Silva.

"Winners and Losers in a World with Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, and Social Welfare," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 37(3), May 1999, 256-271, with Christopher J. Ellis and Emilson C.D. Silva.

"Transboundary Pollution Control in Federal Systems," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 34(2), October 1997, 173-186, with Emilson C.D. Silva.

 

 

"Poverty and Access to Health Care:  An Academic Service Learning Project in Economics," in Putting the Invisible Hand to Work:  Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Economics, K.M. McGoldrick and A. Ziegert eds., University of Michigan Press, 2002.

"Equitable and Efficient International Schemes to Control Carbon Dioxide Emissions," in The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Essays in Honor of J. Michael Finger, Douglas Nelson ed., Elsevier Inc., The Netherlands, 2005, with Emilson C.D. Silva.

 

 

"Recycling in Utah--Too Little or Too Much?", The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, May 20, 2001, with David Aadland.

"A Testimony for Recycling," The Northern Utah Junction, November 1998, page 5.

"Why 'America Recycles Day' Matters,"  The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, November 11, 2001, with Edwin R. Stafford.

"Pay-as-You-Throw Puts Cost of Waste Removal on Heaviest Users," The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, January 27, 2002, with Edwin R. Stafford.

"Logan Transportation at Crossroad," The Logan Herald Journal, Soapbox Column, December 7, 2002.

"Air Woes Require Deeper Dialogue," The Logan Herald Journal, Soapbox Column, February 20, 2004.

"Musings of a Cache Backpacker," The Logan Herald Journal, Soapbox Column, September 16, 2005.

 

 

“Communalism versus the Incentive to Free-Ride: Experimental Results from Economically Emergent Africa,” with David Aadland and Anthony Macharia. Economic Research Institute Working Paper 2008-01, Utah State University.

“Carbon Sequestration and Permit Trading on the Competitive Fringe.” Economic Research Institute Working Paper 2008-02, Utah State University.

“Seeing is Believing:  Simulating Resource-Extraction Problems with GAMS IDE and Microsoft Excel in an Intermediate-Level Natural-Resource Economics Course.” Economic Research Institute Working Paper 2004-10, Utah State University.

"Impure Public Goods, Imperfect Labor Mobility, and Matching Grants in a Federation with Decentralized Leadership," with Emilson C.D. Silva.  Economic Research Institute Working Paper 2004-11, Utah State University.

"A Bioeconomic Model of the Great Salt Lake Watershed," with David Finnoff.  Economic Research Institute Working Paper 2004-14, Utah State University.

"Failing Students Optimally." Economic Research Institute Working Paper 2004-17, Utah State University.