Fossil Fuel Subsidies in the Developing World

Hear AAE Professor Ian Coxhead is featured on the Larry Meiller Show on Wisconsin Public Radio. When it comes to international energy production, many developing nations have turned to subsidizing fossil fuel prices in an attempt …

Alumnus is awarded, and gives back to AAE

When Professor Yang Yao (PhD ’96) of Peking University was recently honored with the Ronald Coase Institute (RCI) Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement, he turned right around and donated his monetary prize to  the AAE Forrest …

The effect of subsidies on conservation programs

For many years, the world has been worried about the effects of agriculture and livestock on deforestation. During the last two decades, budgets to protect forests have grown substantially. At the same time, many countries …

Agricultural Subsidies and Deforestation

For many years, the world has been worried about the effects of agriculture and livestock on deforestation. During the last two decades, budgets to protect forests have grown substantially. At the same time, many countries …

Indirect benefits of store ownership

AAE PhD candidate Rachel Frattarola spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama from 2011 to 2013. It was as a Volunteer in Panama that she observed that many small shops found in rural …

Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution

AAE graduate student Austin Williams and his advisor Dan Phaneuf have been working on understanding the role that air pollution plays in expenditures on respiratory ailments. Spending on these ailments totals nearly $75 billion in the …

The cost of too many deer

In Wisconsin, we know all too well the perils of the deer population, especially on country roads at night. An estimated one million deer-vehicle collisions (DVCs) occur every year in the United States, causing 20,000 …

Putting a value on natural assets: the BP Oil Spill

AAE’s Rich Bishop is lead author, with Kevin Boyle (AAE Ph.D. 1985) and others, on a new study published in Science magazine, that values the damages caused by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon drilling explosion, …