Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics
Study Group Annual Conference 2012
University of British Columbia at Robson Square
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday, September 28, 2012
18:00
Registration and Cocktail Reception, Room C680
Saturday, September 29, 2012
08:30
Energy
Fish
Chair: Sumeet Gulati (UBC)
Location: C680
Lucija Muehlenbachs (Resources for the Future): The Drill and the Bill: Shale Gas Development and Property Values; Discussant: Robert
Weiner (George Washington University)
Linda Wong (University of Victoria): Generating Electricity in a Carbon Constrained World:
Wind, Gas and Nukes; Discussant: Joel Wood
(Fraser Institute)
Brooks Kaiser (University of Southern Denmark): Bioeconomic factors of natural resource
transitions: The US sperm whale fishery of the 19th
century and the discovery of petroleum; Discussant: Elisheba Spiller (RFF)
Chair: Brian Copeland (UBC)
Location: C400
Jon Conrad (Cornell University): Differential
Games in a Stochastic Fishery; Discussant: Pierre
Lasserre (UQAM)
10:10
10:40
Stephanie McWhinnie (University of Adelaide): Sabotage in a Fishery; Discussant: Laura
Grant (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)
Louis Hotte (Université d’Ottawa): Open Access vs Exclusive Access With Two Variable Factors; Discussant: Brian Copeland (UBC)
Coffee Break
International
Land
Chair: Derek Kellenberg (U Montana)
Location: C680
Robert Weiner (George Washington University): Do International Investment Agreements
Protect Investment? Petroleum Evidence; Discussant: Derek Kellenberg (University of Montana)
Bruno Nkuiya (Université Laval): International
environmental agreements under endogenous uncertainty; Discussant: Louis Hotte (Université
d’Ottawa)
Trevor Tombe (University of Calgary): The Productivity Effect of Energy Taxes: Inter- and IntraIndustry Reallocation with Heterogeneous Firms;
Discussant: Carol McAusland (UBC)
Chair: John Janmaat (UBC Okanagan)
Location: C400
Markus Herrmann (Université Laval): Mangaging Pest Resistance to Bt Crops with Dynamic
Refuge Size Adjustments; Discussant: Michael
Springborn (UC Davis)
12:00
James Vercammen (UBC): The Welfare Impacts
of a Conservation Easement; Discussant: John
Janmaat (UBC Okanagan)
Celine Nauges (University of Queensland,
Australia): Evaluating greening farm policy: a
structural model of agri-environmental subsidies;
Discussant: Ralph Mastromonaco (U Oregon)
Lunch
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13:00
Climate
Bioeconomics
Chair: Werner Antweiler (UBC)
Location: C680
Trudy Ann Cameron (University of Oregon):
Extreme Weather Events and Rural-to-Urban Migration; Discussant: Sebastien Houde (Standford University)
Charles Séguin (UQAM): Optimal Fuel Choice as
a Food-Pollution Trade-of ; Discussant: Jay Coggins (U Minnesota)
Chair: Stephanie McWhinnie (U Adelaide)
Location: C400
Derek Kellenberg (University of Montana):
Crying Wolf? A Spatial Analysis of Wolf Location and Depredations on Calf Weight; Discussant: Lucija Muehlenbachs (RFF)
Michael Springborn (University of California Davis): Adaptive management of ecosystem service provision: a methodology for nontrivial ecological dynamics; Discussant: Linda
Nøstbakken (U Alberta)
Duncan Knowler (Simon Fraser University):
Assessing Willingness To Pay And Consumer Purchasing Implications Associated With Sustainable
Salmon Farming Using A Discrete Choice Experiment And Latent Class Analysis; Discussant:
Daniel Rondeau (U Victoria)
Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph): Cheering Up the Dismal Theorem; Discussant: Robert
Cairns (McGill University)
14:15
14:45
Coffee Break
Keynote Speaker: Trudy Ann Cameron (University of Oregon)
Topic: Demand for Health Risk Reduction
Location: C680
Chair: Brian Copeland (UBC)
16:15
16:30
Pause
Quotas
Forest
Chair: Louis Hotte (Université d’Ottawa)
Location: C680
Andrew Goodkind (University of Minnesota):
Prices vs. Quantities With Increasing Marginal
Benefits; Discussant: Stefan Ambec (Toulouse
School of Economics)
Werner Antweiler (University of British
Columbia): Emission Permit Trading for Air
Pollution Hot Spots; Discussant: Charles Séguin
(UQAM)
Chair: Daniel Gordon (U Calgary)
Location: C400
Robert Cairns (McGill University): Faustmann’s Formulae for Forest Capital; Discussant:
Craig Johnston (University of Victoria)
Stefan Ambec (Toulouse School of Economics):
Prices vs Quantities with Multiple Pollutants;
Discussant: Andrew Goodkind (University of
Minnesota)
G Cornelis van Kooten (University of Victoria): Protecting Timber Supply on Public Land
in Response to Catastrophic Natural Disturbance:
A Principal-Agent Problem; Discussant: John
Boyce (U Calgary)
Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (Paris School of
Economics, University Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne): North-South Contractual Design
through REDD+ scheme; Discussant: James Vercammen (UBC)
Itziar Lazkano (University of WisconsinMilwaukee): The Role of Capacity in Quota Compliance; Discussant: John Livernois (University
of Guelph)
18:10
19:00
Pause
Conference Dinner: Kirin Restaurant, 1182 Alberni Street (betwen Thurlow and Bute)
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
09:00
Energy Efficiency
Water
Chair: Carol McAusland (UBC)
Location: C680
David Ryan (University of Alberta): Catching
on the Rebound: Economic Modelling of Energy
Services and Determining Rebound Effects Resulting from Energy Efficiency Improvements; Discussant: Daniel Gordon (U Calgary)
Elisheba Spiller (Resources for the Future):
The Distributional Concerns of Rising Gasoline
Prices: Why Where We Live Matters; Discussant:
Sumeet Gulati (UBC)
Chair: Werner Antweiler (UBC)
Location: C400
Jay Coggins (University of Minnesota): Water
Quality Trading: Can We Get the Prices of Pollution Right?; Discussant: Werner Antweiler
(UBC)
09:50
10:00
Pause
Rachel Samson (Environment Canada)
Topic: Environment Canada Research Initiatives
Location: C680
Chair: Carol McAusland (UBC)
10:30
11:00
Coffee Break
Voluntary/Emissions
Non-Renewable Resources
Chair: Trudy Ann Cameron (U Oregon)
Location: C680
Linda Nøstbakken (University of Alberta): Optimal renewable energy capital deployment; Discussant: Markus Herrmann (Université Laval)
Chair: Jim Vercammen (UBC)
Location: C400
Daniel Gordon (University of Calgary): Induced Biased Innovation and Exhaustible Resource
Prices; Discussant: Andrew Leach (University
of Alberta)
Margaret Insley (University of Waterloo): On
the timing of non-renewable resource extraction
with regime switching prices; Discussant: Ross
McKitrick (U Guelph)
John R. Boyce (University of Calgary): Recycling of Non-Renewable Resources and the LeastCost-First Principle; Discussant: Jon Conrad
(Cornell University)
Pierre Lasserre (Université du Québec à
Montréal): Non-Renewable Resource Supply:
Substitution Effect, Compensation Effect, and All
That; Discussant: Margaret Insley (U Waterloo)
Andreas Marcel Oestreich (University of
Guelph): Firms’ Emissions and Self-Reporting
under Competitive Audit Mechanisms; Discussant: Emma Hutchinson (U Victoria)
Sebastien Houde (Stanford University): Bunching With the Stars: How Firms Respond to Voluntary Energy Efficiency Standards.; Discussant:
David Ryan (U Alberta)
Katherine Grooms (University of California Santa Barbara): Do nonprofits encourage compliance? Watershed groups and the US Clean Water
Act; Discussant: Trevor Tombe
12:40
John Janmaat (UBC Okanagan): Residential
Water Use and Persuasion in Kelowna: Persistence Pays; Discussant: Joel Bruneau (U
Saskatchewan)
Lunch and Business Meeting
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Our gratitude to Masters of Food and Resource Economics in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and
the Department of Economics at UBC, as well as the Canadian Economics Association for support of this
conference. We are also grateful to CREE’s Institutional and University members, Environment Canada
and the University of Guelph for their general support of the Canadian Resources and Environmental
Economics Study Group.
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