program in Environmental and Resource Economics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alumni

Recent pERE alumni and their current positions.

Name Dissertation Title Current Position
Farzad Taheripour

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2006

Welfare impacts of alternative public policies for environmental protection in agriculture in an open economy: a general equilibrium framework Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
Wallapak Polasub

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2005

Natural resource damage policy: political economy and optimal assessment accuracy Department of Economics, Kasetsart University (Thailand)
Keith Brouhle

Ph.D. Economics, 2005

Information and Markets for Credence Goods Department of Economics, Grinnell College

Donna Theresa Juan Ramirez

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics 2004

Voluntary environmental initiatives, pollution prevention and product quality : the role of strategic competition, consumer information and regulation Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, University of Guelph (Canada)

Arianto A. Patunru

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2004

Three essays on choice-based estimations of the economic benefits of contaminated site cleanup Department Economics, University of Indonesia

Rogério C. Pereira Araújo

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2001

Joint hedonic travel cost method--combining revealed and stated preference data to estimate demand for attribute quality of sport fishing in Illinois Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ceara (Brazil)

Chao-Ning Liao

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2001

Dissertation Title "An Economic Analysis of the Emission Reduction Market System (ERMS) in Chicago" Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, Taipei.
Ariaster Chimeli

Ph.D. Economics, 2001

Environmental Quality and Economic Development Department of Economics, Ohio University
Mursaleena Islam

Ph.D. Economics, 2001

Floodplain Resource Management: An Economic Analysis of Policy Issues in Bangladesh Abt Associates, Bethesda, MD
Wilma Rose Q. Anton

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2001

Environmental Management Systems: The Motivations for Adoption and Implications for Toxic Releases and Economic Performance Department of Economics, University of Central Florida

Chokri Dridi

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2004

Essay on Water Allocation and Trading: Adverse Selection and Technology Adoption Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta  (Canada)
Roderick Rejesus

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2001

Towards a Behavioral Theory of Farmer Decision-Making: The Value of Site-Specific Information in Agricultural Production Department of
Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Technological University
Murat Isik

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2000

Incentives for Adoption of Site-Specific Technologies Under Uncertainty: Economic and Environmental Implications Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho
Wanhong Yang

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 2000

Cost Effective Targeting of Land Retirement Programs to Improve Water Quality
Department of Geography
University of Guelph (Canada)
Sang-Min Lee,

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics , 2000

Implicit Environmental Value of Old Growth on the U.S. National Forests in Western Washington Konkuk University (Korea)
Varunthat Dulyapurk

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 1999

An Economic Analysis of Effort Trading in Fishery Management Under Open Access

Kasetsart University

(Bangkok)

Rick Hirschi

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics,1999

An Economic Analysis of Flood Easements: The Case of the Illinois River Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Idaho
Bhavani Shankar

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 1998

Stochastic Technology, Risk Preferences, and the Use of Polluting Inputs U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, Bangkok, Thailand
Melvin Jeffrey Wagner

Ph.D. Economics, 1998.

Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Management Department of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology 
Darci Westergard

M.S. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 1998

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of A Proposed Multifamily Curbside Recycling Program in Champaign and Urbana, Illinois Burns & McDonnell Engineering, Kansas City, Missouri
Jurgen Wiesmann

Ph.D. Economics, 1998

Regulating China's Enterprises: Environmental Policy as a Bargaining Game Caterpillar Corporation, Peoria, IL
Gregg Ibendahl

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 1998

The Effects of Environmental Hazards
and Asymmetric Information on Agricultural Mortgages
Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University
Richard Benjamin

Ph.D. Economics, 1997

The Effects of Fixed Factors on product in Optimal Growth Models Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 
Sudip Chattopadhyay

Ph.D. Economics, 1997

Hedonic Valuation of Environmental Amenities and Issues of Model Selection  Department of Economics, San Francisco State University
David Gerard

Ph.D. Economics, 1997

Institutions, Property Rights, and Transaction Costs in the Hardrock Mining Industry, 1866-1996

Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation (CSIR)

Carnegie-Mellon University
Claire E. Miller

Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning, 1997

Managing Local Sustainability: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Natural Resource Conservation  
Changjin Sun

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 1997

An Economic Analysis of Tropical Timber Concessions Center of Ecological and Environmental , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Dora Bojilova

M.S. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 1996

Toxic Release Information and Environmental Protection Ph.D. Student, University of Quebec 
Ki-Ju Han

Ph.D. Economics, 1996 

Environmental Regulation and International Competitiveness: Cross-Industry and Cross-Country Analyses  Korea Institute for Industrial Organization and Trade
(Korea) 
Jaideep Mukherjee

Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning, 1996

Environment and Development: A Study of North-South Conflict Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Houston, TX 
Vijay Muralidaran

Ph.D. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 1996

A Hierarchical Decision Making Approach to Resource Management and Valuation: The Case of Conjunctive Water Use American Express 
Randall Schillinger

M.S. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 1996

Risk Averse Timber Harvesting with Planting Incentives and Price Fluctuations  Weyerhouser Corp., Tacoma, Washington
Oliver Fritz 

Ph.D. Economics, 1995

Essays on Industrial Pollution Generation and Structural Change in a Regional Economy Institute of Technology and Regional Policy, Joanneum Research ( Austria) 
Maria Cunhaesa 

Ph.D. Economics, 1994 

Essays in Environmental Economics: An Application to the Case of the Accumulation of Pollution New University of Lisbon (Portugal) 
Bernardo Mueller

Ph.D. Economics, 1994

The Economic History, Political Economy and Frontier Settlement of Land in Brazil Universidad de Brasilia (Brazil) 
Daniel Holland

M.S. Agricultural Economics, 1993

Managing Fisheries without Restricting Catch or Effort: The Use of Marine Reserves for Inshore Fisheries Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Wilson K. Yabaan

Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, 1993

The Productivity Trap in Kenya's Highland Agriculture:  A Bi-Level Programming Analysis of Capital and Wage Constraints Department of Environmental Sciences, Moi University (Kenya) 
Cosimo Ascente 

M.S. Agricultural Economics, 1992

A Consumer Tax vs. a Producer Tax to Correct an Externality:  Some Experimental Results Instituto Professionale Alberghiero (Italy) 
Roxanna Barrantes

Ph.D. Economics, 1992

Land Tenure Security and Resource Use in Peruvian Amazonia: A Case Study of the Ucayali Region Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru 
Noelwah Netusil

Ph.D. Economics, 1992 

Market and Bargaining Approaches to Nonpoint Source Pollution Abatement Problems Department of Economics, Reed College, Portland, OR 
Matthias Ruth

Ph.D. Geography, 1992

Economic Processes and Environmental Repercussions:  Synthesizing Economics, Ecology and Thermodynamics  School of Public Policy,
University of Maryland
David E. Evans

M.S. Agricultural and Consumer Economics, 1991

An Analysis of the Emissions Reduction Market System University of Maryland and Resources for the Future, Inc.  
Khalid Abdul-Rahim

Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, 1989 

Trade and Welfare Effects of Unilateral Environmental Regulation: The Case of Malaysian Palm Oil Department of Hospitality and Recreation, Faculty of Economics and Management University of Putra Malaysia

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