Robert T. Deacon
Department
of Economics
North
Hall 3040
Phone: (805) 893-3679
Fax: (805) 893-8830
deacon@econ.ucsb.edu
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Professional information Teaching ▪ Natural resource
economics (undergraduate) ▪ Natural
resource economics (graduate) ▪ Microeconomic theory
(graduate) ▪ Environmental and
resource econ workshop Research topics Natural
resource economics, environmental economics, political economy. My recent
research examines the effects that different political systems have on the
use of natural resources, environmental quality, and the provision of public
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Recent
research papers |
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“Encumbering Harvest
Rights to Protect Marine Environments: A Model of Marine Conservation
Easements” (with Dominic P. Parker), January 2008. “Improving Efficiency
by Assigning Harvest Rights to Fishery Cooperatives: Evidence from the Chignik Salmon Co-op” (with Dominic P. Parker and
Christopher Costello). “The
Efficiency Gains from Fully
Delineating Rights in an ITQ Fishery” (with Chris Costello). Marine
Resource Economics Vol. 22
(2007) pp. 347-361. “Strategies for
Enhancing Efficiency in an ITQ Fishery” (with Chris Costello). (Forthcoming
in: Advances in Property Rights Based Fisheries Management, R. Arnason,
ed.). “Regulated
Incomplete Ownership, Capacity Restrictions and Rent Dissipation,” (In progress, with David Finnoff and John Tschirhart, “The Spatial Range of
Public Goods Reveled through Referendum Voting” (with Felix Schlapfer, “Public Good Provision by Dictatorships: A Survey” (with Sarani Saha). In A. F. Ott and R. J. Cebula, eds., The Companion in Public Economics: Empirical Public Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006. |
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“Does the Environmental Kuznets Curve Describe How Individual Countries Behave?” (with Catherine S. Norman), Land Economics, May 2006. |
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“Political Economy and
Natural Resource Use” (with Bernardo Mueller). In R. Lopez and M. Toman, Eds., The Environment and Sustainable
Development, |
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“Is the environmental
Kuznets curve an empirical regularity?” (with Catherine S. Norman). In R.
Halvorsen and D. |
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“Resource Intensity, Institutions, and Development” (with Erwin H. Bulte and Richard Damania), World Development, Vol. 33, No. 5 (July 2005.) |
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“A Note on the Measurement of Bias in Stated Willingness to Pay for Public Goods,” (with Felix Schlapfer and Nick Hanley) Kyklos, Vol. 58 (2005) No. 1, 145-152. |
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“Public Good Provision under Dictatorship and Democracy,” Working paper, UCSB Department of Economics, May 2008. |
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“Economics of Exhaustible Resources,” with Edmund Balsdon. Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier Publishers, 2002. |
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“Ownership Risk, Investment, and the Use of Natural Resources” (with Henning Bohn) American Economic Review Vol. 90, No. 3, (June 2000) 526-550. |
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“Valuing Beach Recreation Lost in Environmental Accidents,” with Charles Kolstad. Journal of Water Resource Planning and Management, Vol. 126 No. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2000) 374-381. |
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Less
recent research papers |
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“Deforestation and Ownership: Evidence from Historical Accounts and Contemporary Data,” Land Economics, 71(3) August 1999. |
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"Research Trends and Opportunities in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics," (with D. S. Brookshire, A. C. Fisher, A. V. Kneese, C. D. Kolstad, D. Scrogin, V. K. Smith, M. Ward, and J. Wilen) Environmental and Resource Economics 11(3-4) 383-97 April 1998.) |
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"The Structure of an Environmental Transaction: The Debt-for-Nature Swap", (with Paul Murphy) Land Economics Vol. 73 (1) (February 1997) 1-25. |
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"Assessing the Relationship Between Government Policy and Deforestation", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 28, 1995, 1-18. |
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"Incomplete Ownership, Rent Dissipation, and the Return to Related Investments", Economic Inquiry, Vol. XXXII, October 1994, 655-683. |
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"Deforestation and the Rule of Law in a Cross Section of Countries", Land Economics, Vol. 70 , No. 4, November 1994, 414-430. |
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"Taxation, Depletion, and Welfare: A Simulation Study of the U. S. Petroleum Resource" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 24, No. 2 (March 1993) 159-187. |
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"Price Controls and Rent Dissipation with Endogenous Transaction Costs" (with Jon Sonstelie) American Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 5 (December 1991) 1361-1373. |
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Personal interests
Skiing, sailing, hiking, bicycling, traveling, nearly anything outdoors.