John K. Stranlund,
Professor
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Most of my research focuses on the theory and experimental evaluation of environmental and natural resource management. I am primarily interested in two areas: 1) compliance behavior and enforcement of environmental and natural resource policies, and 2) the local governance of communal natural resources in the developing world. This latter work is through a collaborative partnership with Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. See Colombia Partnerships.
Journal Articles
Chavez, Carlos A., Mauricio G. Villena, and John K. Stranlund. 2009. “The Choice of Policy Instruments to Control Pollution under Costly Enforcement and Incomplete Information.” Forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Economics.
Chavez, Carlos A., and John K. Stranlund. 2009. “A Note on Emissions Taxes and Incomplete Information.” Environmental and Resource Economics 44(1), 137-144.
Stranlund, John K.; Carlos A. Chavez, and Mauricio G. Villena. 2009. “The Optimal Pricing of Pollution When Enforcement is Costly.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 58(2), 183–191.
Velez, Maria Alejandra; John K. Stranlund and James J. Murphy. 2009. “What Motivates Common Pool Resource Users? Experimental Evidence from the Field.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 70(3), 485-497.
McEvoy, David M. and John K. Stranlund, 2009. “Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements with Costly Monitoring for Compliance.” Environmental and Resource Economics 42(4), 491-508.
Velez, Maria Alejandra; James J. Murphy, and John K. Stranlund. 2008. “Centralized and Decentralized Management of Local Common Pool Resources in the Developing World: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia.” Forthcoming in Economic Inquiry. Published online April 17, 2008.
L. Joe Moffitt, John K. Stranlund and Craig D. Osteen. 2008. “Robust Detection Protocols for Uncertain Introductions of Invasive Species.” Journal of Environmental Management 89(4), 293–299.
Stranlund, John K. and Wei Zhang. 2008. “Bankruptcy Risk and the Performance of Tradable Permit Markets." Economics Bulletin 17(9), 1-9.
Stranlund, John K. 2008. “Risk Aversion and Compliance in Markets for Pollution Control.” Journal of Environmental Management 88, 203-210.
Stranlund, John K. and Yakov Ben-Haim. 2008. “Price-Based vs. Quantity-Based Environmental Regulation under Knightian Uncertainty: An Info-Gap Robust Satisficing Perspective.” Journal of Environmental Management 87, 443–449.
Stranlund, John K. 2007. "The Regulatory Choice of Noncompliance in Emissions Trading Programs." Environmental and Resource Economics 38(1), 99-117.
Murphy, James J. and John K. Stranlund. 2007. "A Laboratory Investigation of Compliance Behavior under Tradable Emissions Rights: Implications for Targeted Enforcement." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 53(2), 196-212.
Murphy, James J. and John K. Stranlund. 2006. "Direct and Market Effects of Enforcing Emissions Trading Programs: An Experimental Analysis." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 61(2), 217-233.
Wu, Kai; Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and John K. Stranlund. 2006. Modeling Generator Power Plant Portfolios and Pollution Taxes In Electric Power Supply Chain Networks: A Transportation Network Equilibrium Transformation. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 11(3), 171-190.
Moffitt, L. Joe; John K. Stranlund and Barry C. Field. 2005. Inspections to Avert Terrorism: Robustness under Severe Uncertainty.Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 2(3), Article 3 . http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol2/iss3/3 .
Stranlund, John K.; Christopher Costello and Carlos A. Chavez. 2005. Enforcing Emissions Trading When Emissions Permits are Bankable. Journal of Regulatory Economics 28(2), 181-204.
Auffhammer, Maximilian; Bernard Morzuch and John K. Stranlund. 2005. Production of Chlorofluorocarbons in Anticipation of the Montreal Protocol.Environmental and Resource Economics 30(4), 377-391.
Chavez, Carlos A. and John K. Stranlund. 2003. Enforcing Transferable Permit Systems in the Presence of Market Power. Environmental and Resource Economics 25 (1), 65-78, May.
Stranlund, John K.; Carlos A. Chavez and Barry Field. 2002. Enforcing Emissions Trading Programs: Theory, Practice and Performance.Policy Studies Journal 30(3), 343-361. Reprinted in Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance and Sustainable Development, Volume II . 2005. Durwood Zaelke, Donald Kaniaru and Eva Kruzikova (eds.), Cameron May Ltd., London.
Cardenas, Juan-Camilo, John K. Stranlund and Cleve Willis. 2002. Economic Inequality and Burden-Sharing in the Provision of Local Environmental Quality. Ecological Economics 40(3), 379-395.
Cardenas, Juan-Camilo, John K. Stranlund and Cleve Willis. 2000. Local Environmental Control and Institutional Crowding-Out. World Development 28(10), 1719-1733.
Stranlund, John K. and Carlos Chavez. 2000. Effective Enforcement of a Transferable Emissions Permit System with a Self-Reporting Requirement. Journal of Regulatory Economics 18(2), 113-131.
Stranlund, John K. 1999. Bargaining to Preserve a Unique Eco-System: The Role of Anticipatory Investments to Establish Stronger Bargaining Positions. Ecological Economics 31 (3), 425 – 437.
Stranlund, John K. and Kathy Dhanda. 1999. Endogenous Monitoring and Enforcement of a Transferable Emissions Permit System. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 38(3), 267-282.
Stranlund, John K. 1999. Sunk Capital and Negotiated Resolutions of Environmental Conflicts. Land Economics 75(1), 142-155.
Stranlund, John K. 1997. Public Technological Aid to Support Compliance to Environmental Standards. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 34(3), 228-239.
Richer, Jerrell and John K. Stranlund. 1997. Threat Positions and the Resolution of Environmental Conflicts. Land Economics 73(1), 58-71.
Nagurney, Anna, Kathy Dhanda and John K. Stranlund. 1997. General Multiproduct, Multipollutant Market Pollution Permit Model: A Variational Inequality Approach. Energy Economics 19, 57 76.
Stranlund, John K. 1996. On the Strategic Potential of Technological Aid in International Environmental Relations. Journal of Economics-Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie 64(1), 1-22.
Stranlund, John K. 1995. Public Mechanisms to Support Compliance to an Environmental Norm. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 28, 205-222. Reprinted in The Economics and Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement. 2003. Clifford Russell (ed.), Ashgate Publishing.
Book Chapters
Moeltner, Klaus; James J. Murphy, John K. Stranlund, and Maria Alejandra Velez. 2009. “Institutional Heterogeneity in Social Dilemma Games: A Bayesian Examination.” Forthcoming in the Handbook on Experimental Economics and the Environment, John List and Michael Price (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing.
Stranlund, John K., James J. Murphy and John M. Spraggon. 2009. “Imperfect Enforcement of Emissions Trading and Industry Welfare: A Laboratory Investigation.” Forthcoming in the Handbook on Experimental Economics and the Environment, John List and Michael Price (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing.
http://people.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2008-1.pdf
Lopez, Maria Claudia; James J. Murphy, John M. Spraggon and John K. Stranlund. 2009. “Does Government Regulation Complement Existing Community Efforts to Support Cooperation? Evidence from Field Experiments in Colombia.” Forthcoming in the Handbook on Experimental Economics and the Environment, John List and Michael Price (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing.
http://people.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2008-4.pdf
Woolley, Trisha; Anna Nagurney, and John Stranlund. 2009. “Spatially Differentiated Trade of Permits of Multipollutant Electric Power Supply Chains.” In Optimization in the Energy Industry. J. Kallrath, P. Pardalos, S. Rebennack, and M. Schei (eds.). Springer.
Murphy, James J. and John K. Stranlund. 2008. “An Investigation of Voluntary Discovery and Disclosure of Environmental Violations Using Laboratory Experiments.” Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics. Todd Cherry, Jason Shogren and Stephan Kroll (eds.) Routledge Publishing.
Moffitt L. Joe, John K. Stranlund, Barry C. Field, and Craig D. Osteen. 2007. "Robust Inspection for Invasive Species with a Limited Budget." In New Approaches to the Economics of Plant Health . Alfons Oude Lansink (ed.). Springer.
Stranlund, John K.; Carlos A. Chavez and Barry Field. 2005. "Enforcing Emissions Trading Programs: Theory, Practice and Performance." In Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance and Sustainable Development, Volume II . 2005. Durwood Zaelke, Donald Kaniaru and Eva Kruzikova (eds.). Cameron May Ltd., London . Reprinted from article in Policy Studies Journal 30(3), 343-361, 2002.
Stranlund, John K. 2003. "Public Mechanisms to Support Compliance to an Environmental Norm." In The Economics of Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement . 2003. Clifford Russell (ed.), Ashgate Publishing. Reprinted from article in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 28(2) , 205-222, 1995.
Cardenas , Juan-Camilo; John K. Stranlund and Cleve E. Willis. 2001. "Should the State Regulate the Local Commons? Lessons from Economic Experiments in the Field." In Integrated Conservation and Development in Tropical America : Experiences and Lessons in Linking Communities, Projects, and Policies, Robert E. Rhoades and Jody Stallings (eds.). SANREM CRSP, Athens , Georgia and CARE SUBIR, Ecuador.
Working Papers
McEvoy, David and John K. Stranlund, 2009. “Costly Enforcement of Voluntary Environmental Agreements with Industries.” Revised and resubmitted to Environmental and Resource Economics.
http://people.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2007-11_000.pdf
Stranlund, John K. 2009. “A Safety Valve for Emissions Trading.” Under review at Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. http://people.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2009-4.pdf
L. Joe Moffitt, John K. Stranlund and Craig D. Osteen. 2009. “Securing the Border from Invasives: Robust Inspections under Severe Uncertainty.” Under review at American Journal of Agricultural Economics. http://people.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2009-6.pdf
Stranlund, John K. and Wei Zhang. 2009. “Bankruptcy Risk and Imperfectly Enforced Emissions Taxes.” Under review at Economics Bulletin.
http://people.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2008-3.pdf
McEvoy, David; James J. Murphy, John M. Spraggon and John K. Stranlund. 2009. “The Problem of Maintaining Compliance in Stable Coalitions.” Under review at Oxford Economic Papers.http://people.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2008-2.pdf
Lopez, Maria Claudia; James J. Murphy, John M. Spraggon and John K. Stranlund. 2009. “Comparing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Pro-Social Emotions to Enhance Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia.” Under review at Economic Inquiry. http://people.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2009-5.pdf
Moeltner, Klaus; James J. Murphy, John K. Stranlund, and Maria Alejandra Velez. 2008. “Analyzing Data from Social Dilemma Experiments: A Bayesian Comparison of Parametric Estimators.”
Stranlund, John K. 2008. “Should Emissions Taxes be Implemented so that Firms Evade Them? The Effects of Noncompliance, Risk Aversion, and Uncertain Punishment on Monitoring Effort.”
Stranlund, John K. and Barry C. Field. 2006. “On the Production of Homeland Security under True Uncertainty.” http://courses.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/resecworkingpaper2006-5.pdf
Velez, Maria Alejandra; James J. Murphy, and John K. Stranlund. 2006. "Within and Between Group Variation of Individual Strategies in Common Pool Resources: Evidence from Field Experiments.”
http://courses.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/resecworkingpaper2006-4.pdf
Chavez, Carlos and John K. Stranlund. 2004. “Enforcing Transferable Permit Systems in the Presence of Transaction Costs.” http://courses.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/resecworkingpaper2004-3.pdf
Teaching
I currently teach courses in two fields; natural resource and environmental economics, and microeconomic theory. In our undergraduate program I currently teach Environmental Economics and co-teach Advanced Topics in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics with Sylvia Brandt, Barry Field and Tom Stevens. In our graduate program I teach Applied Microeconomic Theory II, and co-teach Environmental and Resource Economics with Sylvia Brandt and Tom Stevens, and Advanced Natural Resource and Environmental Economics with Sylvia Brandt.
I have also taught several short courses, here and abroad:
The Design of Environmental Policies under Asymmetric Information. Programa Magister en Economia de Recursos Naturales y del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Concepcion , Chile , January 2004.
The Design of Environmental Policies Using Economic Incentives. Programa Magister en Economia de Recursos Naturales y del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Concepcion , Chile , June 2001.
Benefit-Cost Analysis. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Boston . With Julie Caswell, Barry Field, John Hird, Tom Stevens and Cleve Willis. Summer 1998.
Workshop on the Economics of Preserving Biodiversity. VonHumbolt Institute for Biodiversity, Villa de Leyva, Colombia . With Juan Camilo Cardenas and Cleve Willis. June 1998.
Economics of Environmental Policy Design. Pskov Polytechnical Institute and Academy of Agriculture-Velikie Luki, Russia . June 1996.
