Professors
Robert Berrens, Department Chair
Environmental Economics; nonmarket valuation, sustainability and ecological economics, environmental equity, institutional economics, riverine and public lands management, survey research
Alok Bohara
Environmental economics: conservation, community forestry, collective actions, and the econometric modeling of the non-market valuation models. Poverty vulnerability, economic policy, development, and the environment using the partial and general equilibrium modeling approaches (macro-micro links using microsimulations by linking the computable general equilibrium model (CGE) and the household surveys). Political economy of poverty and violence. Social capital, women's empowerment, health, education, and the general welfare of women and children using the large-scale surveys. Methodology: hierarchical modeling, Bayesian MCMC algorithms, spatial mapping and spatial econometrics, panel data modeling, and time series analysis.
David Brookshire
Environmental and Resource Economics; Survey research and experimental methods in the areas of public goods valuation and marketable permit systems, policy issues associated with endangered species, natural hazards and water resources
Janie Chermak
Environmental Economics and Natural Resources, Applied Microeconomics; empirical testing of the theory of exhaustible resources, exhaustible resource production and markets, inter- and intra-generational valuations of environmental resources, and incentive economics, with applications to foreign investment, U.S. forfeiture laws, and pricing options for transportation and distribution of natural gas
Don Coes
Macroeconomics, International Economics
Philip Ganderton
Public Finance, Microeconomics; tax reform, risk and insurance, college choice, educational investments
Richard Santos
Labor, Education, and Health Economics; economic well-being and educational attainment of Hispanics, availability/financing of private and public health insurance, and health care economics
Christine Sauer
Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Trade and Finance; empirical analysis of exchange rate volatility, economic growth, underdevelopment traps, and monetary integration

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