Workshops | TREE Seminar Series
TRIANGLE RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL
ECONOMICS SEMINAR SERIES (TREE)
CEnREP has joined with RTI International and Duke University to present the Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Seminar Series. Additional support for the workshops is provided by the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics and the Department of Economics at NC State University, RTI International and Duke University. Prominent speakers are brought in from universities throughout the nation as well as government agencies to speak on topics of current interest. Workshops are held on the campus of RTI International in Research Triangle Park. The workshops are coordinated by Dan Phaneuf and Roger von Haefen, CEnREP’s Associate Directors, Subhrendu Pattanayak of RTI International, and Chris Timmins of Duke University.
Unless otherwise announced, the workshop series meets at RTI International (room and location are announced the week before the workshop) on Thursdays from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. Papers presented at the workshops, when available, are posted on this website. For the Spring Semester 2008 the following speakers will be presenting:
- February 21: Wally Thurman, NC State "Crowding Out Open Space: Federal Land Programs and Their Effects on Land Trust Activity" (seminar will be held in Cox Multi-Purpose Room at RTI)
- February 28: Soren Anderson, University of Michigan, "The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute" (seminar will be held in Building 5, Conference Room 119 (also known as the Cafeteria) at RTI)
- March 6: --CANCELLED--Matt Turner, University of Toronto, "Urban Growth and Transportation" (seminar will be held in Cox Multi-Purpose Room at RTI)
- March 20: Trudy Cameron, University of Oregon, "Differential Attention to Attributes in Utility-theoretic Choice Models" (seminar will be held in Hobbs Ground Floor Conference Room at RTI)
- March 25: Randy Walsh, University of Colorado "Segregation and Tiebolt Sorting: Investigating the Link", (seminar will be held in Room 311, Social Science Building, Duke University campus at 4:15 pm)
- April 3: Alex Pfaff, Duke University (Joint with Agricultural Economics Workshops)(seminar will be held in 4210 Nelson Hall, NC State University campus at 3:00 pm) "Sequenced Road Investments & Clearing of the Mayan Forest" and "Road Investments, Spatial Spillovers, and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon"
- April 17: Frank Asche, Stavanger (Norway) When Will Trade Restrictions Affect Producer Behavior: Oligopsony Power in International Trade
- April 24: Ian Parry, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, "Should Urban Transit Subsidies Be Reduced?" (seminar will be held in Cox Multipurpose Room at RTI)
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