DavidMcAdams is a Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He is also a Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at Duke. He earned a B.S. in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Business from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before joining the faculty at Duke, he was an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has also worked as a Special Assistant to the Director, the Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission.
McAdams has broad research interests in microeconomic theory and game theory, with particular focus on (i) the epidemiology of information, with applications to infectious disease and misinformation, and (ii) auction theory, with applications to market design. His work has been published in the leading journals of economics, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of Econometrics, as well as leading field journals outside of economics, including PLoS Biology and BMJ Global Health.
Professor Dillenberger received his PhD from Princeton University and has taught at Penn since 2008. His current research focuses on microeconomic theory, and, in particular, on decision theory. He is mostly interested in models of non-expected utility, the economics of risk and time, and social preferences.
I study environmental and natural resource economics. My work spans multiple areas, including land-use change, natural resource management under climate change, non-market valuation, and the design of environmental policy instruments. My research uses applied econometric and microeconomic tools to model private decisions regarding the use and value of land, with applications towards ecosystem service provision, conservation science, natural capital, forestry, and climate change adaptation.
I am in my twenty-third year in the Economics Department at Colorado State University. Over the years here, I have undertaken research in the fields of economic development, regional economics, and health economics. I teach courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. My graduate teaching focuses primarily on econometrics. At the undergraduate level I have taught Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Public Economics, Law and Economics, and Health Economics. Prior to becoming an economist, I was an attorney. My legal work ranged from Corporate Law in Boston to a Legal Services office on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
All of my grandparents immigrated from Ukraine to Canada in the 1920s. My parents grew up in Montreal. They completed high school but never attended a college (or took college courses). We immigrated to the United States as I was entering high school.
David Lagakos conducts research in the fields of macroeconomics and development economics, focusing on the determinants of sectoral productivity levels, human capital accumulation, structural transformation, and cross-country differences in labor market outcomes, among other topics. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and other prominent academic journals. He currently serves as an editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and a co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. Since 2016 he has worked as the lead academic for the International Growth Centre in Ghana, helping to foster policy-relevant academic research on economic growth. Lagakos is a research affiliate at the NBER and is a co-organizer of the annual NBER conferences on Economic Growth and Macroeconomics Across Time and Space. Before joining the faculty of Boston University, Lagakos was an associate professor with tenure at the University of California San Diego, and held previous positions at Arizona State University and the Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis and New York. He received his PhD in 2008 from UCLA and his BA in 2001 from the University of Rochester.
David Laibson is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics and a Faculty Dean of Lowell House. He leads Harvard Universityʼs Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative. Laibsonʼs research focuses on the topic of behavioral economics, with emphasis on intertemporal choice, self-regulation, behavior change, household finance, public finance, macroeconomics, asset pricing, aging, and biosocial science. Laibson is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he directs the National Institute of Aging Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health and Savings, and is a Research Associate in the Aging, Asset Pricing, and Economic Fluctuations Working Groups. Laibson serves on Harvardʼs Pension Investment Committee and on the Board of the Russell Sage Foundation, where he chairs the finance committee. Laibson serves on the advisory boards of the Social Science Genetics Association Consortium and the Consumer Finance Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Laibson has served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at Harvard University and as a member of the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Laibson is a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a two-time recipient of the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security. Laibson holds degrees from Harvard University (AB Economics, summa cum laude), the London School of Economic (MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Economics). He received his PhD in 1994 and has taught at Harvard since then. In recognition of his teaching, he has been awarded Harvardʼs ΦΒΚ Prize and a Harvard College Professorship.
David R. Agrawal is an Assistant Professor in the Martin School of Public Policy & Administration and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and an M.P.P. from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on public economics with an emphasis on taxation, fiscal federalism, and fiscal policy in urban and regional contexts.
My research interests have been wide and varied over the years. I have written papers in the areas of macroeconomics, non-market valuation, applied econometrics, behavioral economics, agricultural economics and statistics. My recent research has focused on interdisciplinary natural resource questions and the intersection of ecology, epidemiology, entomology and economics. In particular, I have been working on projects related to pine beetle epidemics, ecological impacts of energy development, and the economics of chronic wasting disease.
David served as the 2018-19 President of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). He's a fellow of AAEA, AERE, and EAERE, among others, and has published in professional and popular outlets. He has over 400 referenced journal articles ranging from Science to ARE-Update and has edited 30 books. In addition, he has served as a Consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USDA, the World Bank, FAO, MARS, BP, and others. He co-founded the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program and is the academic director of the Berkeley MDP program.
David's research analyzes water, innovation, supply chain, agriculture, energy, and the environment. He has researched the economics and political economy of agricultural biotechnology and the potential of the bioeconomy. In addition, he has been working on water policy programs and the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lipper, Leslie, Nancy McCarthy, David Zilberman, Solomon Asfaw, Branca Giacomo, editors. Climate Smart Agriculture: Building Resilience to Climate Change. Natural Resource Management and Policy. New York: Springer, 2017.
Hochman, Gal, and David Zilberman. "Optimal environmental taxation in response to an environmentally-unfriendly political challenger." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 106 (2021): 102407.
Rajagopal, Deepak, Steven E. Sexton, David Roland-Holst, and David Zilberman. "Challenge of biofuel: filling the tank without emptying the stomach?." Environmental Research Letters 2, no. 4 (2007): 044004.
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