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Environment Resource Group (ERG) Seminars from 2009
Winter Quarter 2009 Seminars:
January 12: Ben Gilbert (UCSD) "Voluntary Fishing Cooperatives vs. Individual Fishing Quotas: Which is the First-Best Solution?"
January 19: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday: No seminar
January 26: Cynthia Lin (UC Davis) An Empirical Dynamic Model of OPEC and Non-OPEC (1 1/2 hours)
February 2: Jacob LaRiviere (UCSD) "The Role of Federal Labs in Research Joint Ventures"
February 9: Joshua Cinner (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies)
"Linking Social and Ecological Systems to Sustain Coral Reef Fisheries"
Joint with Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, SIO.
February 16: President's Day Holiday: No seminar
February 23: Robert Deacon (UC Santa Barbara) The Efficiency Gains from Coordinating Effort in a Fishery: Evidence from the Chignik Salmon Cooperative" (1 1/2 hours)
March 2: Mark Jacobsen (UCSD) "Impacts of State-Level Limits on Greenhouse Gasses per Mile in the Presence of Naitonal CAFE Standards" (abstract)
March 9: Ben Fissel (UCSD) and Anthony Liu (UCSD): graduate student research reports
March 16: Exam Week: No seminar
March 23: Spring Break: No Seminar
Spring Quarter 2009 Seminars:
March 30: Steve Stohs (NMFS) A Kalman Filter for Environmental Risk: Measuring Spatio-temporal Variation in Sea Turtle Bycatch Rates
April 6: Charles Kolstad (UCSB): Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty
April 13: Jeffrey O'Hara (Chicago Climate Exchange) "CCX: The U.S. Carbon and Environmental Derivatives Exchange"
April 20: Jacob LaRiviere (UCSD) "The Influence of Crew Remuneration Regimes on Fleet Capacity and Optimal Fisheries Management" (abstract) and
James Hilger (NMFS) "Objective Measure Perception Discrepancy: Swimming in Sewage"
April 27: James Sanchirico (UCD): "Economically Optimal Management of a Metapopulation" (abstract)
May 4: Jarrod Welch (UCSD) "Measuring the Effects of Temperature on Rice Agriculture in Asia" and
Kevin Novan (UCSD) "Variable Fuel Taxation: An Application to California"
May 11: Christopher Costello (UCSB): "Spatial Property Rights and Efficient Resource Use" (abstract)
May 18: Geir Asheim (Univ of Oslo): "Intergenerational Equity"
Background papers:
Sustainable Recursive Social Welfare Functionsf and
Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism in Models of Economic Growth
May 25: Memorial Day: No Seminar
June 1: Suresh Muthulingam (UCLA, Cornell): Managerial Biases and Energy Savings: AN Empirical Analysis of the Adoption of Process Improvement Recommendations
Joint seminar with Rady School of Management, IR/PS, and Department of Economics
