Parallel Session 09 Wednesday, June 26th 2002 - 8:00 - 10:00 am


Session 9A: Biodiversity 1
(Chair: Arthur Small)

Presenter: Oliver Deke Conserving Biodiversity By Commercialization? A Model Framework For A Market For Genetic Resources (Discussant: Chad Settle)

Presenter: Alexander Pfaff Deforestation Pressure And Biological Reserve Planning: A Conceptual Approach And An Illustrative Application For Costa Rica (Discussant: Oliver Deke)

Presenter: Stephen Polasky Dynamic Reserve Site Selection (Discussant: Arthur Small)


Session 9B: Consumer Choice
(Chair: John Whitehead)

Presenter: J R Deshazo A Test Of Choice Set Misspecification For Discrete Models Of Consumer Choice (Discussant: Tim Haab)

Presenter: Klaus Moeltner Choice Behavior Under Dynamic Quality Changes: State Dependence Versus 'Play-It-By-Ear' In Selecting Ski Resorts (Discussant: Peter Clinch)

Presenter: Roger H Von Haefen Modeling Consumer Demand For A Large Set Of Quality Differentiated Goods: Estimation And Welfare Results From A Systems Approach (Discussant: Andrew Plantinga)

Presenter: J R Deshazo Consumer Demand For Bundled Goods: A Practical Estimation Strategy (Discussant: Kentaro Yoshida)


Session 9C: Emission Permits
(Chair: Dallas Burtraw)

Presenter: Frans P De Vries Emission Permits And Diffusion Of Abatement Technology In A Differentiated Cournot Market (Discussant: Karine Nyborg)

Presenter: Juan Pablo Montero A Puzzle In SO2 Emissions Trading: Temporal Inefficiency Or Higher Prices? (Discussant: Marian Leimbach)

Presenter: Andreas Lange Intertemporal Decisions Under Uncertainty: Combining Expected Utility And Maximin (Discussant: Urs Brandt)

Presenter: Bjorn Carlen Exclusionary Manipulation Of Carbon Permit Markets: A Laboratory Test (Discussant: Carlos A Chavez)


Session 9D: Tax Effects
(Chair: Shelby Gerking)

Presenter: Osmel Manzano Tax Effects Upon Oil Field Development In Venezuela (Discussant: Tom Corringham)

Presenter: Matthieu Glachant The Political Economy Of Environmental Tax Design (Discussant: Cathrine Hagem)

Presenter: Jörg Breitscheidel Taxes Or Subsidies In Self-Financing Environmental Mechanisms? (Discussant: Hilary Sigman)

Presenter: Philippe Bontems Technology Standard, Environmental Taxation And Pollution Monitoring (Discussant: Miguel Bunuel)


Session 9E: Double Dividend Reconsidered
(Chair: Alan Randall)

Presenter: Talbot Page Non-Distortionary Properties Of Environmental Taxes (Discussant: Roberton Williams)

Presenter: William Jaeger Setting Environmental Taxes In A Second-Best World (Discussant: V K Smith)

Presenter: Eban Goodstein Labor Supply And The Double Dividend (Discussant: James Roumasset)


Session 9F: Energy And Markets
(Chair: Richard Morgenstern)

Presenter: Andrea Bigano The Opening Of The European Electricity Market And Environmental Policy: Does The Degree Of Competition Matter? (Discussant: Laurent Franckx)

Presenter: Erin Taochi Mansur Environmental Regulation In Oligopoly Markets: A Study Of Electricity Restructuring (Discussant: Spencer Banzhaf)

Presenter: Karen Palmer Implementing Electricity Restructuring: Policies, Potholes And Prospects (Discussant: Stephen Holland)


Session 9G: Climate Change 5
(Chair: Maximilian Auffhammer)

Presenter: Barbara Buchner Back To Kyoto? U.S. Participation (Discussant: Zhong-Xiang Zhang)

Presenter: Francesco Bosello Can Equity Enhance Efficiency? Lessons From The Kyoto Protocol (Discussant: Parkash Chander)

Presenter: Annegrete Bruvoll Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Do Carbon Taxes Work? (Discussant: William Wheeler)

Presenter: Denise Van Regemorter Is Kyoto Fatally Flawed? An Analysis With MACGEM (Discussant: Brian Wright)


Session 9H: Modeling Risk And Uncertainty In Capture Fisheries
(Chair: Rognvaldur Hannesson)

Presenter: Asgeir Daneilsson Optimal Discarding Of Fish Under Risk

Presenter: Robert Hicks The Random Expected Utility Model: An Investigation Of Risk Properties

Presenter: Daniel Holland Balancing Biological And Financial Risks For The New England Groundfish Complex

Presenter: Linwood Pendleton Managing Risk In A Marine Fishery: Heterogeneous Response

Presenter: Gautam Sethi Fishery Management Under Multiple Uncertainty

Presenter: Martin Smith Correlated Risk Preferences And Behavior Of Commercial Fishermen: The Perfect Storm Dilemma


Session 9I: Water Pollution
(Chair: Linda Fernandez)

Presenter: Shreekant Gupta Enforcement Of Pollution Control Laws And Firm Level Compliance: A Study Of Punjab, India (Discussant: Hirofumi Fukuyama)

Presenter: D N Rao Measuring Productive Efficiency Of Water Polluting Industries In India: A Distance Function Approach (Discussant: Seung-Hoon Yoo)

Presenter: Phoebe Koundouri Irrigation Water Management Under Risk: An Application To Cyprus (Discussant: Jay Shimshack)

Presenter: Helen Pushkarskaya Toward A Performance-Based Policy Instrument For Nonpoint Source Pollution Control: An Exercise In Mechanism Design (Discussant: Robert Hearne)