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John K. Stranlund, Professor

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Most of my current 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

Velez, Maria Alejandra; John K. Stranlund and James J. Murphy. 2008. “What Motivates Common Pool Resource Users? Experimental Evidence from the Field.”  Forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

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.

L. Joe Moffitt, John K. Stranlund and Craig D. Osteen. 2007, “Robust Detection Protocols for Uncertain Introductions of Invasive Species.” Forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Management.

Stranlund, John K. 2007. "Risk Aversion and Compliance in Markets for Pollution Control." Forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Management. Published online April 30, 2007.

Stranlund, John K. and Yakov Ben-Haim. 2007. "Price-Based vs. Quantity-Based Environmental Regulation under Knightian Uncertainty: An Info-Gap Robust Satisficing Perspective." Forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Management. Published online March 2007.

Stranlund, John K. 2007. The Regulatory Choice of Noncompliance in Emissions Trading Programs. Forthcoming in 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

Murphy, James J. and John K. Stranlund. 2006. An Investigation of Voluntary Discovery and Disclosure of Environmental Violations Using Laboratory Experiments. Forthcoming in Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics . Todd Cherry, Jason Shogren and Stephan Kroll (eds.) Routledge Publishing . http://courses.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/resecworkingpaper2005-7.pdf

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 M. and John K. Stranlund, 2008. “Costly Monitoring for Compliance with Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements.” Revised and resubmitted to Environmental and Resource Economics. http://courses.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/resecworkingpaper2006-6.pdf

Stranlund, John K.; Carlos A. Chavez, and Mauricio G. Villena. 2008. “The Optimal Pricing of Pollution When Enforcement is Costly.” Revised and resubmitted to the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. http://courses.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2007-6.pdf

L. Joe Moffitt, John K. Stranlund and Craig D. Osteen. 2008. “Agricultural Quarantine Inspection Monitoring Under Severe Uncertainty.” Under review at Resource and Energy Economics.

Stranlund, John K. and Wei Zhang. 2007. “Bankruptcy Risk and the Performance of Tradable Permit Markets.” Under review at Economics Bulletin. http://courses.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2007-9_001.pdf

Trisha Woolley, Anna Nagurney, and John K. Stranlund. 2007. “Spatially Differentiated Trade of Permits of Multipollutant Electric Power Supply Chains.” Under review at Energy Economics.

McEvoy, David and John K. Stranlund, 2007. “Costly Enforcement of Voluntary Environmental Agreements with Industries.”  http://courses.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/ResEcWorkingPaper2007-11_000.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

McEvoy, David and John K. Stranlund, 2006. "Enforcing "Self-Enforcing" International Environmental Agreements."http://courses.umass.edu/resec/workingpapers/documents/resecworkingpaper2006-6.pdf

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

Chavez, Carlos and John K. Stranlund. "Enforcing Transferable Permit Systems in the Presence of Transaction Costs." Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Working Paper 2004-3 , March 2004. 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.

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Ph.D. University of California-Santa Barbara