EDUCATION B.A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
J.D., Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland OR
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
EXPERTISE
Environmental economics
Regulatory economics
Forecasting
Climate change, greenhouse gas markets, and auction design
Economic impact analysis
MAJOR PROJECTS
Auction design for allocating tradable emission allowances
Enhancing access to Virginia state government data using the semantic web
Annual tax rates survey for Virginia localities
Policy innovation and design
Economic analysis of regulations
EXPERIENCE
Director, Center for Economic and Policy Studies
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia
Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics and
Batten School for Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia
Associate Director for Economic & Regulatory Analysis
Virginia Department of Planning and Budget
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Adjunct Professor of Agricultural & Applied Economics
Virginia Tech
Fulbright Fellow in Environmental Economics
University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
COMMISSIONS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS 2009 - Present; Member, State Advisory Board on Air Quality 2008 - Present; National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Occupational Information Network 2004 -Present; Member, Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Advisory Committee, Virginia Unemployment Commission 1999 - 2005; Chair, Virginia Public Safety Technical Forecasting Committee 2002 Patrick Henry Award; For contributions to effective and efficient governance in Virginia.
2001 Public Sector Freedom of Information Award; Virginia Council for Open Government.
For work developing the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall web site.
2000 Fulbright Fellowship in Environmental Economics; Prague, Czech Republic
1994 Summer Excellence Research Award; UNC-Greensboro
For research on rights-based regulation of coastal fisheries.
1985 - 1986; Conservation Fellowship, National Wildlife Federation
1982 - 1990; Licensed Attorney, State of Minnesota
1978 - 1979; Law Review, Lewis & Clark Law School
1978 Oral Advocacy Award; Moot Court Competition, Lewis & Clark Law School PUBLICATIONS
"Going Green?The Inconvenient Truth About U.Va’s
Carbon Neutrality Initiative," Virginia
Policy Review (Vol. 2, No. 1) September-October 2008.
"The Economic Value of Publicly Supported Education and Research," Virginia News Letter (Vol. 84, No. 3) April 2008
"Auction Design for Selling CO2 Emission allowances Under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative," with Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Jacob Goeree, and Karen Palmer. Research sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency, October 2007
"Local Options on Global Stocks: How the States are Affecting the U.S. Debate on Climate Policy," with Dallas Burtraw. Proceedings of the States and Climate Change Conference, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2007
"The Economic Impact of the University of Virginia: How a Major Research University Affects the Local and State Economies," with John Knapp, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia, 2007
“The Design, Testing, and Implementation of
Virginia’s NOx Allowance Auction,” with David Porter, Stephen Rassenti, Vernon
Smith, and Abel Winn. Journal of Economic Behavior &
Organization, 2009.
“An Experimental Basis for Public Policy Initiatives,” with Charles A. Holt and
Angela K. Smith, in Promoting the General Welfare: American Democracy and the
Political Economy of Government Performance, Gerber and Patashnik,
eds. Brookings, (2006).
Book Review of The Political Economy of the Environment by James K. Boyce. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Vol. 23, pp. 482-485 (2002).
Trading Programs for Environmental Management:
Reflections on the Air and Water Experiences, with Leonard Shabman and Kurt
Stephenson of Virginia Tech, Environmental Practice, Vol. 4, pp. 153-162 (2002).
Reprinted as Reprint Series Number 166 by the Center for Energy and
Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Forecasting AFDC Recipients for the Virginia State Budget, with Mark A.
Prell. Virginia Economic Journal, 2 (1997): 67-84.
Economic Impact Assessment of Virginia Regulations, Virginia Department of Planning and Budget,
September 1995.
Pollution Fees and Charges in North Carolina, a report to the Regulatory Committee of the North
Carolina Pollution Prevention Advisory Council, May 26, 1994.
The Use of
Panel Data in the Analysis of the Behavioral Response to Taxation, with Joel B.
Slemrod, in Simulation Models in Tax and Transfer Policy, Johann Brunner and
Hans-Georg Peterson eds., Campus Verlag, New York 1990.
The Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains Realizations: Evidence from a Panel of Taxpayers, with Joel B.
Slemrod. NBER Working Papers, No. 3237 (1990).
Who Realizes Capital Gains? with
Joel B. Slemrod and Laura Kalambokidis Tax Notes (October 23, 1989): 494-495.
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council,
Inc. Environmental Law 9: 653-705 (1979).
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