Michael Ward
Associate Professor, International and Development Economics, Environmental Management and Development.
Ph.D. Economics, University of Washington
Contact Details
| Telephone: | 61 2 6125 1467 |
| Room: | JGC 2.85 |
| Email: | michael.ward@anu.edu.au |
Research interests/expertise
- Environmental and Resources Economics
- Applied Econometrics
Current projects
- Land use and biodiversity conservation, environmental regulation and enforcement, urban water management
Selected publications
- "Determinants of Residential Water Consumption: Evidence and Analysis from a Ten-country Household Survey [PDF 995KB]", forthcoming in Water Resources Research (2011). With Quentin Grafton, Hang Tho, and Tom Kompas.
- On the fixed-effects vector decomposition, Political Analysis (2011 ) 19(2 ): 123 - 134. With T. Breusch, H. Nguyen, and T. Kompas
- Mercury Advisories and Household Health Trade-offs, Journal of Health Economics 29(5):674-685, Sep. 2010. With Jay Shimshack
- Prices versus Rationing: Marshallian Surplus and Mandatory Water Restrictions. The Economic Record 84: S57-65. With Quentin Grafton.
- Enforcement and Over- compliance. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 55(1):90-105, January 2008. With Jay Shimshack.
- Mercury advisories: Information, education, and fish consumption. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 53(2):158–79 March 2007. With Jay Shimshack and Tim Beatty.
-- Selected as the 2008 "Best Economics Paper" by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association for work in the area of Food Safety and Nutrition. - Search, bioprospecting, and biodiversity conservation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 52(3):615-26, November 2006. With Chris Costello.
- Regulator reputation and environmental compliance. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 50(3):519-40, November 2005. With Jay Shimshack.
- Testing the power law model for discrete size data. American Naturalist, 162(5), November 2003. With Andy Solow and Chris Costello.
- The effects of the private-label invasion in food industries. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84(4):961-73, November 2002. With Jay Shimshack and Jeff Perloff.
Teaching
- IDEC8053 – Environmental Economics
- IDEC8011 – Masters Research Essay.
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