Jon Conrad Professor Areas of Expertise Resource Economics, Environmental Economics 455 Warren Hall Ph: 607.255.7681 E-mail: jmc16@cornell.edu

Jon M. Conrad is a professor of resource economics. His research focuses on the application of dynamic optimization to resource management.

Teaching

AEM 4500: Resource Economics
AEM 7130: Quantitative Methods II (Dynamic Optimization)
AEM 7500: Resource Economics

Working Papers

Conrad, J. M. 2002. Renewable resource management. To appear in the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, United Nations, UNESCO, Paris. (366KB)

Bosetti, V., J. M. Conrad, and E. Messina. 2003. Ginostra: The value of flexibility. (96KB)

Conrad, J. M. 2003. Open access and extinction of the passenger pigeon in North America. (96KB)

Conrad, J. M., and K. Kotani. 2003. When to Drill? Trigger Prices for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (219KB)

Recent Publications

Rondeau, D., and J. M. Conrad. 2003. Managing urban deer. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(1):266-81.

Azzaino, Z., J. M. Conrad, and P. J. Ferraro. 2002. Optimizing the Riparian buffer: Harold Brook in the Skaneateles Lake watershed, New York. Land Economics 78(4):501-14.

Conrad, J. M., and A. Lopez. 2002. Stochastic water quality: The timing and option value of treatment. Water Resources Research 38(5):2-1, 2-7.

Conrad, J. M. 2000. Wilderness: Options to preserve, extract, or develop. Resource and Energy Economics 22:205-19.

Conrad, J. M. 1999. Resource economics. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Conrad, J. M. 1999. The bioeconomics of marine sanctuaries. Journal of Bioeconomics 1:205-17.

Professional Activities

• President, Resource Modeling Association, 2002-04
• Associate editor, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1988-90
• Board of Governors, Resource Modeling Association, 1988-90
• Board of Directors, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1998-2000
• Senior editor for economics, Natural Resource Modeling, 1998-2001

Visiting Professorships and Sabbaticals

• Visiting Professor, University of California-Berkeley, 1994
• Distinguished Research Professor, Centre for Fisheries Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, 1990-94
• Faculty Fellow, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Summers, 1990 and 1991
• Visiting Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, 1984-85

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1973
M.S., University of Washington, 1970
B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1968

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