Jinhua holds appointments in the Department of Economics and the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. His research interests include applied microeconomic theory, environmental and resource economics, energy economics, dynamic decision making under uncertainty, among others. He was a co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2005-07) and is on the editorial council of JEEM and the Review of Development Economics.

Professional Interests

• The economics of global climate change
• International environmental agreements
• Biofuels
• Information and decision making
• Technology adoption and diffusion

Selected Publications

“Welfare Measures When Consumers Can Learn: A Unifying Theory,” (with Cathy Kling,) Economic Journal, forthcoming

“The Dynamic Formation of Willingness to Pay: An Empirical Specification and Test,” (with Jay Corrigan and Catherine Kling,) Environmental and Resource Economics, v 40, 2008, 285-298

“Optimal Use of Correlated Information in Mechanism Design When Full Surplus Extraction May Be Impossible,” (with Subir Bose,) Journal of Economic Theory, v 135, 2007, 357-381

“Green Subsidies in Agriculture: Estimating the Adoption Costs of Conservation Tillage From Observed Behavior,” (with Lyubov A. Kurkalova and Catherine L. Kling), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, v 54, 2006, 247-267  (winner of the Outstand Journal Article Award of the Canadian Ag Econ Association)

“Willingness-to-Pay, Compensating Variation, and the Cost of Commitment,” (with Catherine Kling,) Economic Inquiry, v 42, n 3, July 2004, 503-517

“Irreversible Abatement Investment under Cost Uncertainties: Tradable Emission Permits and Emissions Charges,” Journal of Public Economics, v 87, December 2003, 2765-2789

“The Uncertain Benefits of Environmental Reform in Open Economies,” (with Larry Karp and Sandeep Sacheti,) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, v 45, n 2, March 2003, 246-264

“The Time Path and Implementation of Carbon Sequestration,” (with Hongli Feng and Catherine Kling,) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v 84, n 1, Feb 2002, 134-149

“Common Ground Between Free-Traders and Environmentalists,” (with Larry Karp and Sandeep Sacheti,) International Economic Review, v 42, n 3, August 2001, 617-647

Funded Research Projects

• “Valuing Water Quality in Midwestern Lake Ecosystems: Temporal Stability and the Role of Information in Value Formation,”  NSF/EPA

• “Consortium for Agricultural Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases (CASMGS),”  EPA

• “Information Exchange in Farmers’ Adoption of Conservation Tillage Practices,”
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