AAE Professor Nic Parker, together with his colleague Wally Thurman from NC State University, conduct the first study of its kind on the effect of tax incentives on conservation easements. In addition to exploring whether …
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The importance of NAFTA to Wisconsin dairy farmers
AAE Professor Brian Gould worries about the implications of changes to NAFTA for Wisconsin dairy farmers. Currently nearly half of Wisconsin dairy exports are to Mexico or Canada, and losing those markets could be devastating …
Understanding entrepreneurship in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Public Television and the University of Wisconsin – Madison teamed up for a documentary on entrepreneurship across Wisconsin. AAE’s Steve Deller explains how a slow recovery from the 2007 recession has influenced business owners …
Number of dairy farms continues to decline
Steve Deller talks to WPR about the continuing decline in the number of dairy farms in the state, and what changes in the industry mean for rural economics.
Foundational Environmental Economics Textbook Released
After more than ten years in the making, Dan Phaneuf and his co-author Till Requate have published A Course in Environmental Economics: Theory, Policy and Practice, the first graduate-level textbook that integrates the empirics, theory and policy of this maturing …