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Updated 8/19/2008
JOHN K. HOROWITZ
Associate Professor Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742
Phone: 301-405-1273 E-mail: jhorowitz@arec.umd.edu Office: 2104 Symons Hall
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Fence-building in eastern Oregon
THE FOUR SEASONS in American and Canadian Art
George Bellows, My House, Woodstock. Source: Unknown
Elmer Schofield
A.Y. Jackson, Edge of the Maple Wood
George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley. Source: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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SIXTY-TWO REASONS (2008 version) to do your Graduate Study in Agricultural, Environmental, Natural Resource, and Development Economics at the University of Maryland. Congratulations Ted McConnell for being elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (the fourth Fellow from the University of Maryland.). 2009 VERSION COMING SOON. Prospective graduate students (for entry in Fall 2009): Please call or email me if you would like to talk about the program. Admission is determined by the Graduate Committee (Andreas Lange, chair), not by me, so some of your questions may be better directed to him or to the graduate secretary, Barbara Burdick. (Try Ms. Burdick first.) The best (new) reason to come to AREC: We have eliminated the first year Qualifying Exams (also known as Comprehensives) and replaced them with the requirement that all first year students write a submission-worthy journal article. This move changes how students approach their education and coursework. It leads students to adopt, early in their graduate education, a perspective based on becoming a researcher rather than a perspective based on taking exams. This change puts AREC at the forefront of economics education. This change is supremely advantageous to students. It improves how students learn. It greatly improves the chances for student success after graduate school. The purpose of a graduate education is to change students from consumers of knowledge to producers. The change we have made in our program greatly aids students in making this transition. The change reflects the philosophy of University of Maryland's AREC department. We are the first major economics department in the country to undertake this step, to my knowledge. |
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Education: Ph.D. (Economics), University of California, San Diego, 1988, Three Essays in Intertemporal Choice, dissertation, Richard Carson and Mark Machina, advisors.
M.A. (Agricultural Economics), Washington State University, 1984
B.S. (Forestry) summa cum laude, Washington State University, 1982
Positions held: 1988-present -
Associate Professor (appointed 1994), Assistant Professor (apptd. 1988), University of Maryland.
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Research areas: Economics of Climate Change, Land Use Policy, Water Pollution, Environmental Valuation, Discount Rates, Environmental Regulation.
Fundraising opportunity: Participate in survey research - Fundraising is temporarily closed (1/31/2008)
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Awards and Recognition: Associate Editor, Environmental and Resource Economics (Fall 2007-present)
Vice-President, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), 2004-2006
Recent Presentations and Research in the News (updated 8/11/2008): ▪ "'Why are you asking me?': Environmental Decisions without Benefit-Cost Analysis" John Horowitz and John Quiggin (powerpoint presentation). Presentation at the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, Washington DC, June 25, 2008.
▪ "A Tax-Based Approach to Slowing Global Climate Change" (powerpoint presentation). Discussion of paper by Parry, Ley, and Aldy at National Tax Association, May 16, 2008.
▪ "The Value of Maryland Forests." Report by WAMU:
"What is a Forest Worth?" May 13, 2008 - Researchers at the University of Maryland are trying to put a dollar value on some of the intangible benefits of state forests. The goal is to give forest managers more information when they make decisions on land use. After surveying several hundred people, researchers with the Harry Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology concluded day users of state forests valued their experience at $96 per trip, while the average overnight camper valued the trip at $400. Most people surveyed said protecting areas that are critical to maintaining the balance of nature should come before protecting the most popular areas. The survey also looked into the value of forests in absorbing carbon dioxide from the air and how that affects when timber should be harvested. ▪ "Don't Rush to Praise Sugar-Cane Biofuels," Letter to the New York Times, May 3, 2008. (Archived copy here.) ▪ "Creating an Economic Demand for Green" - Presentation at Oxon Hill High School, Maryland, 1/31/2008 ▪ "Econometric Evidence on the Economic Role of Climate." Powerpoint presentation for the IMF (1/15/2008).
Consulting (non-profits): World Resources Institute; Natural Resources Defense Council
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Updated 8/19/2008 PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH Current Projects (Summer 2008) "Basic Economics of the Renewable Fuels Standard" - Joint with Ted Gayer (Georgetown University)
"Climate Change Changes Everything." A non-technical article discussing how climate change affects the discipline of environmental economics.
"Econometric Evidence on the Economic Role of Climate." Technical economic analysis.
"Willingness to Accept: Theory and Evidence." A law-and-economics type of article
"Why do people care about the environment? Existence value vs. environmental services" Analysis of a public survey.
"The Role of Competition in Reducing Costs of Voluntary-Enrollment Preservation Programs" Technical economic analysis.
Horowitz, John, and John Quiggin, "Environmental Decisions without Benefit-Cost Analysis." (pdf) (See presentation for SBCA above.)
"The Role of Green Fees in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed" (Project joint with World Resources Institute)
"Renewable Energy After Corn-Ethanol" Proposed session at the 2009 Winter Meetings.
Recent articles and forthcoming articles (updated 8/19/2008)
Horowitz, John, Kenneth E. McConnell, and James Murphy, "Behavioral
Foundations of Environmental Economics and Valuation
Horowitz, J., “The Income-Temperature Relationship in a Cross-Section of Countries and its Implications for Predicting the Effects of Global Warming." (Submitted version, pdf file) JULY 2008 version.
Horowitz, John, Lori Lynch, and Andy Stocking, "Competition-based Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Farmland Preservation in Maryland" (Submitted version, pdf file) JUNE 2008 version
Horowitz, John, "The Use of a Real-Money Experiment in a Stated Preference Survey," forthcoming in Environmental Experiments, J. List, ed.
Work in progress
Horowitz, J., "Existence Values for Maryland Forests" (September 2007).
Horowitz, J., and R. Wieland, "Survey Strategies for Travel Cost Models: Weather and Date Effects," (August 2006).
Gayer, Ted, and J. Horowitz, "Five Conclusions about U.S. Market-Based Environmental Regulation," (June 2006)
Horowitz, J., "A Review of Valuation under the BDM Mechanism and Vickrey Auction," (pdf file) (May 2006)(HTML version).
Choinière, Conrad, and John Horowitz, "Temperature as a Factor of Production, with Implications for the Economics of Global Warming." (March 2006).
Forest Valuation Survey (February 2006).
Horowitz, J., "What Makes Environmental Economics Different" (Email for current version, 8/1/2006). Horowitz, J., "Environmental Policy and National Security" Horowitz, J., "The Purposes of Economic Theory." Horowitz, J., and H. Gonzalez, "A joint analysis of how far people live from
their jobs and the number of miles they drive per year."
Publications Horowitz, John, John List, and Kenneth E. McConnell, "A Test of Diminishing Marginal Value," Economica (2007) 74: 650-663
Horowitz, John, "The Becker-DeGroot-Marschak Mechanism is not Necessarily Incentive Compatible, even for Non-Random Goods," Economics Letters (October 2006) 93(1): 6-11.
Gayer, Ted, and John Horowitz (2005), "Market-based Approaches to Environmental Regulation (pdf)" Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics 1(4): 201-326. (Actual publication: July 2006).
Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit, and John Horowitz (2006) "Do Plants Overcomply with Water Pollution Regulations? The Role of Discharge Variability," Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 4. (Personal copy)
Gayer, Ted, John Horowitz, and John A. List (2005) "When Economists Dream, They Dream of Clear Skies", The Economists' Voice: Vol. 2: No. 2, Article 7.
Quiggin, J., and J. Horowitz. 2003. Costs of Adjustment to Climate Change, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 47(4): 429-46.
Book Chapters Lynch, L, and J. Horowitz, “Comparison of Farmland Preservation Programs in Maryland,” in The Performance of State Programs for Farmland Retention, L. Libby (ed.)
(Proceedings of a National Conference, September 10-11, 1998, Columbus Ohio.) Book Reviews: Horowitz, J., “Review of Discounting and Intergenerational Equity, edited by P. Portney and J. Weynant, Journal of Economic Literature (June 2000) 38: 424-5.
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