Lone Mountain Fellows 2010

Bart J. Wilson: joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business and Economics and the School of Law at Chapman University.
Topic: Whaler's Rule of Capture
Seminar: "The Ecological and Civil Mainsprings of Property: An Experimental Economic History of Whalers' Rules of Capture" (coauthors: Taylor Jaworski, Karl Schurter, and Andrew Smyth)

Matthew Turner: Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto.
Topic:Urban Travel/Road Congestion
Seminar: "Urban Travel/Road Congestion"

Brian Steed: Researcher and teacher in the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.
Topic: Water Rights
Seminar: "The impact of adjudication on groundwater resources: An over time look at groundwater governance in Los Angeles County, California"

Paul Schwennesen: Double Check Ranch.
Topic: Conservation Easements
Seminar: "When Eminent Domain and Conservation Easements Collide: An Arizona Ranching Family Finds Itself in a Conservation Quagmire"

Kurt Schnier: Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia State University. .
Topic: Fisheries
Seminar: "Regional delivery impacts in rights-based fisheries "

Mark Sagoff: Director and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Topic: Markets for Ecological Services
Seminar: "The Quantification and Valuation of Ecosystem Services"

Matthew Neidell: Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, at Columbia University.
Topic: Impact of environmental conditions on worker productivity
Seminar: Research Results

Robert H. Nelson: Professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland and a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center. .
Topic: Land Forum
Seminar: "The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion "

Jason Johnston: Professor of Law and Director, Program on Law, the Environment, and the Economy, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
Topic: Optimal Degree of Regulatory Deference to Scientific Experts
Seminar: "Profits or Social Networks: What Determines the Bribe Payments Made by Entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe?"

Todd BenDor: Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Topic: Assessing Regulatory and Entrepreneurial Risk in US Wetland and Stream Markets
Seminar: "Forces Promoting U.S. Wetland and Stream Banking"

Larry Chavis, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Topic: Weak Institutions and Ability of American Indians to Become Entrepreneurs
Seminar: "Profits or Social Networks: What Determines the Bribe Payments Made by Entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe?"

Christopher Costello, Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California-Santa Barbara.
Topic: Spatiality
Seminar: "Marine protected areas in spatial property-rights fisheries, Unitization of spatially connected renewable resources "

Anca M. Cotet, Assistant Professor of Economics at Ball State University
Topic:Climate Change Mitigation
Seminar: "Technological Improvement and Climate Change Mitigation: Evidence from the Diffusion of Air Conditioning and Seasonal Mortality in the United States"

Rebecca Goldman, Central Science Division of the Nature Conservancy
Topic:Markets for Ecosystem services in Patagonia
Seminar: "Ecosystem Services: Developing Markets to Help Conserve Patagonia Grasslands Proposal and Work Plan for Advancing Ecosystem Service Contracting "

David Haddock, Professor of Law and Economics at Northwestern University
Topic: CAFE
Seminar: "CAFE - the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandate"