Stuart Burness
Professor of Economics		 Department of Economics
MSC05 3060
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Phone: (505) 277-1952, Fax: (505) 277-9445
Email: burness@unm.edu

Ph.D. University of Kansas

Research Interests

Research and teaching interests focus on natural resource and environmental economics in particular as related to water issues and regulatory issues. Other interests include decision making under uncertainty as well as markets for futures and options.

Selected Publications

"On the Role of Separability Assumptions in Determining Impatience Implications",
Econometrica, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 67-78, January 1976.
"On the Taxation of Non-Replenishable Resources", Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management Vol. 3, pp. 289-311, 1976.
"Appropriative Water Rights and the Efficient Allocation of Resources". American Economic
Review, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 25-37, March 1979 (with James P. Quirk)
"The Turnkey Era in Nuclear Power", American Economic Review, Vol. 70,
No. 3, pp. 342-54, Spring 1980 (with David Montgomery and James P. Quirk)
"Optimal Depreciation Payments to Capital and Natural Monopoly Regulation", Journal of
Regulatory Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 35-50, March 1992 (with Robert H. Patrick)


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