Ronald Shadbegian
Professor of Economics

Office: Group I, Room 378

Telephone: (508) 999-8337

E-mail: rshadbegian@umassd.edu

EDUCATION

                                                                                                                                               

Clark University              PhD     Economics            1991   

Assumption College       BA       Economics            1986

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Environmental Economics:

• The cost of environmental regulation.
• The effect of EPA enforcement activity on plant-level environmental and economic performance.
• The spatial distribution of the net benefits from the allocation of environmental regulation across U.S. manufacturing facilities.
• The effect of emissions trading on productivity, efficiency, employment, investment, and environmental justice.

State and Local Public Economics:

• The impact of tax and expenditure limitations on the efficiency of state and local government.
• The impact of tax and expenditure limitations on public school outcomes.

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Intermediate Microeconomics
• Econometrics
• Environmental Economics
• State and Local Public Economics

 

RECENT PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

           

Professor (Assistant 1993-1998; Associate Professor 1998-2004)                      1993-                                                                                                         

 

VisitingScholar, U.S.E.P.A. National Center for Environmental Economics         2001-2002

                                                                                                                      2004-2006

 

Consultant, U.S.E.P.A. National Center for Environmental Economics                 2003-2004

                                                                                                                       2006-

 

Research Fellow, U.S. Census Bureau ASA/NSF/Census Fellowship Program   1991-1993

 

Referee, Chicago Research Data Center; Contemporary Economic Policy; Ecological Economics;  Global Business and Economic Review; Law and Policy; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; Journal of Policy Studies; National Tax Journal; Resource and Energy Economics; The American Economist; U.S.EPA National Center for Environmental Economics

 

Grants Reviewer, National Science Foundation; Economics Directorate; R.I. Sea Grant College

           

GRANTS 

 

            U. S. Environmental Protection Agency STAR Grant: (January 2005-December 2007).  Co-principal Investigator (Wayne

            Gray, Principal Investigator). “Why Do Plants Comply with Environmental Regulations? The Importance of Enforcement

            Activity, Abatement Costs, and Community Pressure.

 

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency STAR Grant: (May 2001-May2004). Co-Principal Investigator (Wayne Gray, Principal Investigator). “Determinants of Environmental Compliance: Plant, Firm, and Enforcement Factors.

 

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency STAR Grant: (May 1998-May2001). Co-Principal Investigator (Wayne Gray, Principal Investigator). “Environmental Regulation and Paper Industry Productivity Benefits.

           

Sloan Foundation (1995). Co-Principal Investigator (Wayne Gray, Principal Investigator). “Environmental Regulation, Investment Timing, and Technology Choice.

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

 “The Environmental Performance of Polluting Plants: A Spatial Analysis": Co-authored with Wayne Gray. Journal of Regional Science (forthcoming vol. 47, 2007, 63-84)

 “Assessing Multi-Dimensional Performance: Environmental and Economic Outcomes": Co-authored with Wayne Gray. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 26, 2006, 213-234.

“Did Proposition 2 ½ Affect Local Public Education in Massachusetts?: Evidence from Panel Data": co-authored with Robert Jones. Global Busines and Economic Review, 7, 2005, 363-380.   

“A Change of PACE: A Comparison of the 1994 and 1999 Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Survey": co-authored Randy A. Becker. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 30, 2005, 63-95

 

“Pollution Abatement Expenditures and Plant-Level Productivity: A Production Function Approach": Co-authored with Wayne Gray.  Ecological Economics, 54, 2005, 196-208.

 

“When and Why do Plants Comply: Paper Mills in the 1980s": Co-authored with Wayne Gray.  Law and Policy 27 (April 2005) pp. 238-261.

 

 “Optimal Pollution Abatement – Whose Benefits Matter and How Much?": Co-authored with Wayne Gray. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 47 (May 2004) pp. 510-534.

 

“What Determines the Environmental Performance of Paper Mills? The Roles of Abatement Spending, Regulation, and Efficiency": Co-authored with Wayne Gray.  Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 3 (2003): http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/topics/vol3/iss1/art15

 

 “Plant Vintage, Technology, and Environmental Regulation": Co-authored with Wayne Gray. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 46 (November 2003) pp. 384-402.

 

“Did the Property Tax Revolt Affect Local Public Education?: Evidence from Panel Data" Public Finance Review – formerly Public Finance Quarterly 31 (January 2003) pp. 91-120.

 

“Do Children Create an Externality in the Provision of Public Education?": co-authored with Attiat F. Ott. Public Finance Review 29 (May 2001) pp. 233-253.

 

“The Effect of Tax and Expenditure Limitations on the Revenue Structure of Local Government, 1962-1987" National Tax Journal 52 (June 1999) pp. 221-37.

 

“Fiscal Federalism, Collusion, and Government Size: Evidence from the States"  Public Finance Review 27 (May 1999) pp.262-81.

 

“Environmental Regulation, Investment Timing, and Technology Choice": Co-authored with Wayne Gray. Journal of Industrial Economics 46 (June 1998) pp. 235-56.

 

“Do Tax and Expenditure Limitations Affect Local Government Budgets? Evidence from Panel Data"  Public Finance Review 26 (March 1998) pp. 218-36.

 

“Do Tax and Expenditure Limitations Affect the Size and Growth of State Government?" Contemporary Economic Policy 14

(January 1996) pp. 22-35.

 

“A Comparison of Alternative Term Premia Estimates": Co-authored with J. Peter Ferderer. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 33 (Summer 1993), pp.179-195.

 

INVITED PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

 

“Did the Property Tax Revolt Affect Local Government Wages and Employment? Evidence from the States" Global Business and Economic Review 2 (June 2000) pp. 104-122.

 

“Fiscally Induced Migration and Public Goods Provision: An Empirical Test of the Buchanan-Goetz Model": Co-authored with Attiat F. Ott. Cahiers d'Economie (Fascicule VII 1993), pp.36-57.

 

 

OTHER PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

 

             "Benefits and Costs from Sulfur Dioxide Trading: A Distributional Analysis," co-authored with Wayne Gray and Cynthia Morgan in

         Acid in the Environment: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects (ed.s Gerald Visgilio and Diana Whitelaw), Springer

         Science+Media, Inc (forthcoming 2006).

 

“How Costly is Environmental Regulation? Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing": Our  Natural Environment: Concepts &

Solutions, Proceedings of the 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment (Kevin Hickey and

Demetrius Kantarelis, Eds.), Fall 1996,  pp. 279-286.

 

 

OTHER INVITED PAPERS

 

“The Seventh Vote: Implications of Multiple Voting for Political Choice": Co-authored with Attiat Ott, in Essays in Honor of James Buchanan's 80th Birthday (Geoffrey Brennan and Hurmut Kliemt, Eds.), 1999.

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

“Pollution Abatement Costs, Regulation, and Plant-Level Productivity": co-authored with Wayne Gray in The Economic Costs and Consequences of Environmental Regulation (Wayne Gray, Ed.), Ashgate Publications (2002).

 

“Environmental Regulation, Investment Timing, and Technology Choice": Co-authored with Wayne Gray in The Economic Costs and Consequences of Environmental Regulation (Wayne Gray, Ed.), Ashgate Publications (2002). Reprinted from the Journal of Industrial Economics 46 (June 1998) pp. 235-56.

 

            “Paper" in Natural Resources (Mark Coyne and Craig Allin, Eds.) Salem Press, Pasadena, CA. (1998) pp.611-16.

 

“The Fiscal Structure of the United States": Co-authored with Attiat F. Ott, in Public Sector Budgets: A Comparative Study (Attiat F. Ott, Ed.), Elgar Publishing, London (October 1993).

         

            “Centralized Versus Decentralized Provision and the Size of Government": Co-authored with Attiat F. Ott, in Public

            Sector Budgets: A Comparative Study (A. F. Ott, Ed.), Elgar Publishing, London (October 1993). 

 

CURRENT WORKING PAPERS

 

 “When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?": Co-authored with Wayne Gray. NBER Working Paper no. 8705, CES Working Paper no. 01-18, and U. S. E.P.A. National Center for Environmental Economics Working Paper no. 2002-02. 

 

 

PAPERS SUBMITTED TO PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

 

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

“Green Pastures for the Green Industry? An Examination of Environmental Goods Producers" with Randy Becker

            "The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments: Who Got Cleaner Air – and Who Paid For It?": with Wayne Gray

             and Cynthia Morgan

            “Spatial Efficiency of Pollution Abatement Expenditures" with Wayne Gray

            “Pollution Abatement Expenditures: Do Community Characteristics Matter?" with Wayne Gray

            “Pollution Abatement Benefits and Productivity Measurement" with Wayne Gray

            “Environmental Performance of Polluting Plants: A Spatial Econometric Approach" with Wayne Gray

            “Environmental Justice and Emission Trading: Evidence from the Electric Utility Industry" with Cynthia Morgan

“Environmental Regulation in the Electric Utility Industry: Are There Productivity Gains from Emissions Trading?" with Cynthia Morgan

            “Environmental Regulation Versus Labor Demand: Does Emission Trading Save Jobs?" with Cynthia Morgan

    

 

 Last Updated On: 1/17/07