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Gregory PoeAssociate Professor Areas of ExpertiseEnvironmental Policy, Agricultural Policy
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Economics is the study of how people and society choose to allocate scarce resources. Within this broad field my interests lie in empirically investigating factors that affect individual decisions to participate in public programs and incorporating this information into environmental policy design. The focus of my research has been on both the demand and supply side of environmental resources.
On the demand side, much of my research has centered on developing and testing the contingent valuation method (a leading, but controversial technique of eliciting social values for environmental and other public goods), with particular applications to groundwater quality, pollution of remote mountain lakes, agricultural environmental programs, and “green” electricity. Through a series of NSF, EPA and USDA grants I also been active in using experimental economic methods to empirically explore single-shot public goods funding mechanisms. These two separate thrusts have been brought together in efforts to develop improved methods for comparing hypothetical contingent values with actual contributions to public goods.
On the supply side I have had longstanding interests in the design of environmental programs related to water quality, with particular interest in non-point source pollution and land use. Over the last decade my attention in this area has largely been directed toward evaluating voluntary pollution control policies. More recently, with funding from the EPA STAR program, I am using experimental economic methods to test the efficacy of ambient-based incentive policies to examine voluntary and regulatory approaches to control non-point source pollution. With colleagues from Cornell and Rutgers, I am also working on a project an EPA and USDA funded project to develop a pollution trading program in the non-tidal portion of the Passaic River in New Jersey.
Prior to graduate school, I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer, working on capture fisheries management in northern Cameroun.
Teaching
AEM 2500: Environmental and Resource Economics
AEM 4510: Environmental Economics and Policy
AEM 6510: Environmental and Resource Economics
Selected Publications
Nonmarket Valuation and Public Goods
Bateman, I.J., A. Munro, and G.L. Poe. 2008. Asymmetric Dominance Effects in Choice Experiments and Contingent Valuation. Land Economics 84(1):115-127.
Messer, K.D., H.M. Kaiser, and G.L. Poe. 2007. Voluntary Funding for Generic Advertising Using a Provision Point Mechanism: An Experimental Analysis of Option Assurance. Review of Agricultural Economics 29(3):612-31.
Vossler, C.A., G.L. Poe, W.D. Schulze, and K. Segerson. 2006. Communication and Incentive Mechanisms Based on Group Performance: An Experimental Study of Nonpoint Source Pollution Control. Economic Inquiry 44(4):599-613. (Awarded Editor’s Choice Article, 2006).
Rondeau, D., G.L. Poe, and W.D. Schulze. 2005. PPM or VCM?: A Comparison of the Marginal Effects and Efficiency of the Provision Point and Voluntary Contributions Mechanisms. Journal of Public Economics 89:1581-92.
Poe, G.L., K.L. Giraud, and J.B. Loomis. 2005. Computational Methods for Measuring the Difference of Empirical Distributions. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(2):353-66.
Land Use and Water Quality Policy
Sado, Y., R.N. Boisvert and G.L. Poe, forthcoming. “Potential Cost Savings from Discharge Permit Trading: A Case Study and Implications for Water Quality Trading.” Water Resources Research.
Suter, J.F., C.A. Vossler, and G.L. Poe, 2009. “Ambient-Based Pollution Mechanisms: A Comparison of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Groups of Emitters”, Ecological Economics 68:1883-1892.
Suter, J.F., G.L. Poe and N.L. Bills, 2008. Do Landowners Respond to Land Retirement Incentives? Evidence from the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program? Land Economics 84(1):17-30.
Suter, J.F., C.A. Vossler, G.L. Poe and K. Segerson, 2008. “Experiments in Damage-Based Ambient Taxes for Non-Point Source Polluters.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90(1):86-102.
Bateman, I. J., P. Cooper, S. Georgiou, S. Navrud, G. L. Poe, R. Ready, P. Riera, M. Ryan, and C. A. Vossler. 2005. Economic valuation of policies for managing acidity in remote mountain lakes: Examining validity through scope sensitivity testing. Aquatic Sciences 67:274-291.
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988
B.A., Pomona College, 1983
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