Neha Khanna, Ph.D. Associate Professor Binghamton University Department of Economics, Environmental Studies Program Contact Information Department of Economics, LT 1004 P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 Phone: 607-777-2689; Fax: 607-777-2681; Email: nkhanna@binghamton.edu Office Hours Spring 2013: Tuesday, Thursday: 1:00 - 2:30 pm, and by appointment Professional Information Editorial Boards Ecological Economics, 2009 - present Contemporary Economic Policy, 2004 - 2007 Recent and forthcoming conference and seminar presentations Forum on the Future of the Green Climate Fund, Korea Development Institure and Korea Exim Bank, Seoul, South Korea, October 16, 2012. Voluntary Pollution Control Workshop, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 20-21, 2012. American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 6-8, 2012 Teaching Microeconomics: ECON160c: Principles of Microeconomics, ECON500: Microeconomic Theory Environmental & Resource Economics: ECON331: Environmental Economics, ECON433: Natural Resource Economics; ECON683: Ph.D. Seminar in Environmental Economics Applied Econometrics: ECON502: Econometric Methods Research Methods: ECON694: Ph.D. Seminar II Research Areas World oil EKC Voluntary abatement Groundwater Envi. policy Climate change Other The global oil economy and international security An Analysis of Conventional Weapons Trade in the Post-Cold War Era (with Duane Chapman) Economic Inquiry, published online February 6, 2009. DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2008.00203.x. Supplement to Econ. Inq. paper The Persian Gulf, Global Oil Resources, and International Security (with Duane Chapman). Contemporary Economic Policy, 24(4): 507-519, October, 2006. Received Western Economic International Association 2006 Editor's Choice Awardfor articles published in Contemporary Economic Policy. Guns and Oil: An Economic Analysis of Aspects of Petroleum and Military Security in the Persian Gulf (with Duane Chapman) Contemporary Economic Policy, 19(4): 371-381. World Oil: The Growing Case for International Oil Policy (with Duane Chapman) Contemporary Economic Policy, 18(1): 1- 13, January, 2000. Global Oil Resources and the Persian Gulf: Security and Democracy (with Duane Chapman) Working paper WP 2003-40, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University. Weapons Trade and Petroleum Price Stability: Are Measures of Political and Economic Openness and Income Important? (with Duane Chapman). Economics Department Working paper 0408. The Fourth Persian Gulf War: Persian Gulf Oil and Global Security (with Duane Chapman) Economics Department Working Paper WP0501. The Environmental Kuznets Curve Total Factor Productivity and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Comment and Some Intuition (with Florenz Plassmann) Ecological Economics, 63: 54-58, June 2007. A Note on the 'Simple Analytics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve' (with Florenz Plassmann) Environment and Development Economics, 11(6): 697-707, December, 2006. Household Income and Pollution: Implications for the Debate About the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis (with Florenz Plassmann) Journal of Environment and Development, 15(1): 22-41, March, 2006. Technical supplement to paper Preferences, Income and the Environment: Understanding the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis (with Florenz Plassmann) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 88(3): 632-643, August, 2006. The Demand for Environmental Quality and the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis (with Florenz Plassmann) Ecological Economics, 51(3-4):225-236, December, 2004. The Income Elasticity of Non-Point Source Air Pollutants: Revisiting the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Economics Letters, 77(3): 387-392, December, 2002. Voluntary pollution abatement Voluntary Pollution Abatement and Regulation (with Michael Delgado) under review Is Voluntary Pollution Abatement in the Absence of a Carrot or Stick Effective? Evidence from Facility Participation in the EPA's 33/50 Program (with Martina Vidovic) Environmental and Resource Economics, 52(3): 369-393, July 2012. DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9533-3. Supplement: additional sensitivity analyses Can Voluntary Pollution Prevention Programs Fulfill Their Promises? Evidence from the 33/50 Program (with Martina Vidovic) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 53(2): 180-195, March, 2007. Facility Participation in Voluntary Pollution Prevention Programs and the Role of Community Characteristics: Evidence from the 33/50 Program (with Martina Vidovic) Working paper 0103, Economics Department, Binghamton University. Groundwater management Groundwater Management: The Effect of Water Flows on Welfare Gains (with Andreas Pape, Todd Guilfoos and Karen Salvage) revise and resubmit. The Efficiency of Viable Groundwater Policies: Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer in Kansas (with Todd Guilfoos and Jeffrey M. Peterson) in progress Issues in environmental policy Output, Emissions and Technology: Some Thoughts Economics Letters, 118: 284-286, 2013, DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.11.007. Macro- and Micro- perspectives on Economic Development and Biodiversity: Linking the Dialogues (with Dale Rothman) Economics Department Working Paper 0801. Challenge Paper on Air Pollution (with Bjorn Larson, lead author, and Guy Hutton). Prepared for the Copenhagen Consensus 2008. Measuring Environmental Quality: An Index of Pollution Ecological Economics, 35(2000): 191-202. November. Climate change Analyzing the Economic Cost of the Kyoto Protocol Ecological Economics, 38(1): 59-68, July 2001. Energy Efficiency and Petroleum Depletion in Climate Change Policy (with Duane Chapman). In Hall D.C. and R.B. Howarth (editors), The Long-Term Economics of Climate Change: Beyond A Doubling of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations. Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources, Vol. 3. JAI Press. Crying No Wolf: Why Economists Don't Worry About Climate Change and Should. (with Duane Chapman). Editorial. Climatic Change. 46(3): 225-232, 2000. November. Time Preference, Abatement Costs, and International Climate Policy: An Appraisal of IPCC 1995. (with Duane Chapman). Contemporary Economic Policy, XIV: 56-66, 1996. Other issues in environmental and resource economics Conspicuous Consumption and Inequality: Theory and Evidence (with Jessica Harriger, Western Illinois Univeristy, and Andreas Pape) Technical supplement and additional sensitivity analyisis Conspicuous Consumption and the Easterlin Paradox (with Jessica Harriger) in progress The Value of Environmental Status Signaling: The Case of the Toyota Prius (with Jessica Harriger and Michael Delgado) in progress Income Inequality and Mortality: Understanding the differences in Black and White Mortality in the United States (with Martina Vidovic) in progress Assessing the Precision of Turning Point Estimates in Polynomial Regression Models (with Florenz Plassmann) Econometric Reviews, 26(5): 503-528, September, 2007. On the economics of non-renewable resources. UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, 2003. Also, Economics Dept. Working Paper 0102. Graduate Students Todd Guilfoos, expected 2013 (Ph.D committee co-Chairperson) Michael Delgado, Ph.D. 2012, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University (Ph.D. committee co-Chairperson) Winner Binghamton University's Excellence in Research Award, 2011-2012. Jessica Harriger, Ph.D. 2010, Assistant Professor, Economics, Western Illinois Universi ty (Ph.D. committee chairperson) Michael O'Hara, Ph.D. 2007, Assistant Professor of Economics, Colgate University (Ph.D. committee chairperson) Martina Vidovic, Ph.D. 2003, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rollins Collge (Ph.D. committee chairperson)