Publications & Papers

Land conservation

Private Land Conservation and Public Policy: Land Trusts, Land Owners, and Conservation Easements,” with Nick Parker, prepared for the Annual Review of Resource & Environmental Economics (2019).

Tax Incentives and the Price of Conservation,” with Nick Parker, J. of the Assoc. of Environmental and Resource Economics (2018)

The Effect of Conservation Priority Areas on Bidding Behavior in the Conservation Reserve Program,” with Keri Jacobs and Michele Marra, Land Economics (2014)

Crowding Out Open Space: The Effects of Federal Land Programs on Private Land Trust Conservation,” with Nick Parker, Land Economics (2011)

Bees and pollination

Colony Collapse and The Economic Consequences of Bee Disease: Adaptation to Environmental Change,” with Randy Rucker and Mike Burgett, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 6(2019): 927-960.

Honey Bee Pollination Markets and the Inernalization of Reciprocal Benefits,” with Randy Rucker and Mike Burgett, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (July 2012)

Wally Thurman on Bees, Beekeeping, and Coase,” link to a podcast on EconTalk (December 16, 2013)

Review articles in the American Bee Journal:

U.S. Pollination Markets: Recent Changes and Historical Perspective,” with Mike Burgett, Stan Daberkow, Randy Rucker (January 2010).
U.S. Honey Markets: Recent Changes and Historical Perspective,” with Stan Daberkow, Randy Rucker, Mike Burgett (December 2009)
Honey Bee Colony Mortality in the Pacific Northwest: Winter 2007/2008,” with Mike Burgett and Randy Rucker (June 2009)

Futures markets

Price Discovery and the Basis Effects of Failures to Converge in Wheat Futures Markets,” with Berna Karali and Kevin McNew (2015)

Review of The Futures by Emily Lambert,” Agribusiness (Fall 2011)

Components of Grain Futures Price Volatility,” with Berna Karali, Journal of Agricultural and Resource  Economics (2010)

Delivery Horizon and Grain Market Volatility,” with Berna Karali and Jeff Dorfman, Journal of Futures Markets (2010)

Do Volatility Determinants Vary Across Futures Contracts?  Insights from a Smoothed Bayesian Estimator,” with Berna Karali and Jeff Dorfman, Journal of Futures Markets (2010)

Announcement Effects and the Theory of Storage: An Empirical Study of Lumber Futures,” with Berna Karali, Agricultural Economics (2009)

Other

Contests, Grand Prizes, and the Hot Hand,” with Todd McFAll and Chuck Knoeber, Journal of Sports Economics (2009)