People
CEnREP Administration
Laura O. Taylor - Director |
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| Dr. Taylor is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State. Her research focuses on policy evaluation and the valuation of natural resources and the environment. Recent applications include improving benefits estimation for policies designed to reduce human mortality, examining household responses to price and non-price water conservation policies, and evaluating the impact of offshore wind energy on coastal tourism markets. Her research has received funding from a variety of sources including the USDA, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the Science Advisory Board for the US Environmental Protection Agency, the North Carolina Task Force for the Department of Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE), and recently served on the NC Legislative Research Commission Advisory Subcommittee on Offshore Energy Exploration. She is a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Resource and Energy Economics, and the International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental and natural resource economics. |
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Roger von Haefen - Associate Director
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| Dr. von Haefen’s is an Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State. His research focuses on environmental economics and policy. Most of his work has developed methodological tools for the non-market valuation of environmental resources with revealed preference data. He has applied these tools to measure the benefits associated with nonpoint source pollution abatement, outdoor recreation, and transportation services. His more recent research focuses on the effects of gasoline prices on fleet fuel economy as well as the demand for water and biofuels. Dr. von Haefen teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental and natural resource economics and graduate courses in applied econometrics. |  |
CEnREP Affiliated Faculty
| Dr. Fackler is a professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State. His research has focused on agricultural price analysis,futures and options markets, risk assessment and management, and computational economics. Dr. Fackler has published a widely cited book, Applied Computational Economics and Finance, with Mario Miranda which presents a variety of computational methods used to solve dynamic problems in economics and finance. Recently he has shifted his focus to the application of dynamic optimization theory to problems in environmental and resource economics including land use and conservation, control of greenhouse gases and optimal resource extraction and harvesting. Dr. Fackler teaches graduate courses in derivatives and computational methods in economics. |  |
| Dr. Renkow is a Professor of Agricultural & Resource Economics. His research and teaching interests are in international development and regional economics. Dr. Renkow’s international work focuses on poverty alleviation, infrastructure planning, and agricultural technology adoption, with special emphasis on the problems of agricultural development in less-favored agroecological zones. Domestic policy research focuses on community and rural development, rural-urban land use issues, solid waste management and local public finance. Dr. Renkow is currently an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and has served on the editorial boards of Review of Agricultural Economics and Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. He is a Fellow of the Rural Development Research Consortium, and regularly serves as a consultant for the World Bank and various international agricultural research centers. Dr. Renkow teaches graduate level courses in economic development. |  |
Michael J. Roberts, on leave 2012/2013 |
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| Dr. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics. His research and teaching interests are in agricultural and natural resource economics, with recent applications on the evaluation of land conservation policy effectiveness, climate change impacts on agriculture, the effects of agricultural policies on farm sizes and structure. Dr. Roberts has previously held positions as an economist at the US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, as an Adjunct Professor in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and has been a Director of Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association. He teaches undergraduate courses in general economics and graduate courses in microeconometric theory. |  |
Dr. Sexton is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State. His research applies microeconomic theory and employs modern empirical methods to address questions related to sustainability challenges at the intersection of agriculture, energy, and the environment and to identify behaviors that impact society’s ability to meet those challenges. His research has considered the impacts of agricultural biotechnology on farm yields, food security, and the environment, as well as the welfare impacts of alternative fuel policies. He has also analyzed pollution mitigation policies, the relationship between energy prices and housing market outcomes, and residential energy use. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental economics. |
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Dr. Sills is an Associate Professor and Director of International Programs in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at NC State. Her research interests focus on markets and payments for non-timber forest benefits, forest-based livelihoods and economic development, international forest policy and sustainable forest management, deforestation and land use in the tropics, economic assessment of invasive species policies, and program evaluation with matching methods and panel data. 
| Dr. Thurman is a William Neal Reynolds Professor of Agricultural & Resource Economics. His research and teaching interests are in agricultural and natural resource economics. Recent research at the nexus of agricultural and natural resource economics includes the evaluation of land conservation policy effectiveness, analysis of market coordination of pollination services by honeybees, the potential costs of honeybee disease (Colony Collapse Disorder), and analysis of forestry and fishery markets. Dr. Thurman is an editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. He teaches undergraduate courses in agricultural markets and graduate cources in econometrics. |  |
| Dr. Zaeske is a visiting postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State, on leave from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics in Umeå, Sweden. His research combines elements of environmental economics and macroeconomics with a particular goal of quantifying inefficiencies in resource use and existing market structures. His research has provided estimates of national welfare losses in the United States due to inefficient water use, assessed factor use U.S. agricultural production and examined environmental policies in the setting of an international European energy market. His current research is concerned with attempting to identify policies to improve outcomes, particularly in the areas of agricultural water use and cross-border energy markets. |  |
CEnREP Research Affiliates
- Ryan Bosworth, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Kevin Boyle, Head and Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virgnia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Jared Carbone, Associate Professor, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Mary F. Evans, Associate Professor, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California
Upton Hatch, Research Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, NCSU; Emeritus Professor, Auburn University.
Joseph A. Herriges, Professor of Economics, Iowa State University
Jeff Hughes, Director, School of Government Environmental Finance Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
H. Allen Klaiber, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
- Ikuho Kochi, Post-doctoral Researcher, Colorado State University
Darla Hatton MacDonald, Policy and Economic Research Unit, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Adelaide, Australia
Carol Mansfield, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
Mark Morrison, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia
Daniel Phaneuf, Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Cristine Poulos, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
Carol Scotton, Assistant Professor, Knox College, Illinois
V. Kerry Smith, W. P. Carey Professor of Economics, Arizona State University, Professor Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, NCSU, and Founding Director, CEnREP
L. Steven Smutko, Spicer Chair of Colaborative Practice, Ruckelhaus Institute and Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wyoming
George Van Houtven, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
CEnREP Student Affiliates
Current CEnREP Student Affiliates are listed below. Information about academic programs, student placement, and other research projects may be found here.
- Xiaomei (Barbara) Chen, Ph. D Candidate, Department of Economics
Dissertation Title: Natural Resource Economics Confronts CAPM: A Study of Energy Resources
- Steven Dundas, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Project Title: WTP across Time and Space: An Application to Coastal Recreational Fishing along the Atlantic Cost, 1985-2011
- Jonathan Eyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Dissertation Title:
- Sanja
Lutzeyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Project Title: Reputational Capital in Viticulture
- Steven E. Major, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Dissertation Title: A Generalized Expected Utility Model of Labor Market Risk
- Xingyi Puckett, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Economics
Project Title: Measuring Nutrient Reduction Benefits for Policy Analysis Using Non-market valuation and Environmental Assessment Models
- Evan Rogers, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Project Title: Impacts of Environmentally Contaminated Properties on their Communities
- Marwa Salem, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Project Title: Assessing the Welfare Impact of Price and Non-price Policies for Water Conservation
- A. Nam Tran, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Project Title: The US Ethanol Mandate and Its Implications on the World Rice Market
CEnREP Advisory Board
Dr. Charles Safley
Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
Mr. Kevin Brice
President and CEO, Triangle Land Conservancy
Ms. Anne Coan
Environmental Affairs Director, North Carolina Farm Bureau
Dr. Robert K. Koger, PE
President and Executive Director, Advanced Energy
President, NC GreenPower
Dr. Allen K. Miedema (retired)
Vice President of the Health, Social and Economics Research Unit
and Director of the Center for Economics Research, RTI International
Mr. Richard Rogers
Executive Director, North Carolina Clean Water Management Trust Fund
Ms. Robin Smith
Assistant Secretary for the Environment, North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Dr. Jean Spooner
Extension Specialist/Water Quality, Water Quality Group (WQG)
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, NCSU
State Representative Jennifer Weiss
House of Representatives, North Carolina General Assemly
Dr. William E. Winner
Professor, Forestry and Environmental Resources
North Carolina State University
