Resource Degradation and Ecosystem services in Common Pool Resources

 

PUBLICATION LIST 

 

Peer-reviewed

 

[1]  Social dilemmas with public and private insurance against losses. 2019 (with Dutcher, E.G. and Haller, T.) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.02.008

 

[2]  Provision of Environmental Public Goods: Unconditional and Conditional Donations from Outsiders. 2018 (with Haller, T. and Walker, J.M.) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. DOI:10.1016/j.jeem.2017.10.002

 

[3]  Common-pool Resource Appropriation and Conservation: Lessons from Experimental Economics. 2018. (with James M. Walker) In B. Hudson, J. Rosenbloom, and D. Cole, eds., Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons. Routledge. Print ISBN: 9781138060906 (Peer Reviewed Book Chapter)

 

[4]  Externalities in appropriation: Responses to probabilistic losses. 2017. (with Haller, T., and Walker, J.M.) Experimental Economics, 20, pp.793–808.DOI: 10.1007/s10683-017-9511-x

 

[5]  The opportunity cost of conservation with deterministic and probabilistic externalities. 2016. (with Lopez, M.C., and Walker, J.M.) Environmental and Resource Economics, 64, pp. 255-273. DOI: 10.1007/s10640-014-9868-7

 

[6]  The Tension Between Private Benefits and Degradation Externalities from Appropriation in the Commons. 2016. (with Haller, T., Lopez, M.C., and Walker, J.M.) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 125, 136-147. DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2016.02.008

 

Planned Publications

 

[7]  C. Arguedas and E. Blanco. Incentives for Voluntary Practices, Fraud, and Certification. 2014. Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck 2014-18.

 

[8]  McEvoy, D., Blanco, E., and Haller, T. The Role of Non-Binding Pledges in Social Dilemmas with Mitigation and Adaptation. 2019. Working Papers from Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck 2019-04.

 

[9]  Vollan B., Blanco, E. Steimanis, I. Petutschnig, F.I., and Preiger, S. De-facto democratization: Comparing democratic and traditional leaders in rural Namibia. Unpublished manuscript.

 

[10]  Caparos, A., Blanco, E., Buchenauer, P., and Finus, M. Institution Formation in Coordination Games. Unpublished manuscript.

 

[11]  Blanco, E., Kershbamer, R. and Walzl, M. The Economics of Label Credence Goods: An Experiment on the Role of Monitoring, Certification, Reputation and Competition. Work in progress.

 

[12]  Blanco, E., Moros, L., Pfaff, A, Velez, M.A., and Vollan, B., Learning from Past Experiences with PES. Work in progress.

 

[13]  Vollan, B., Steimanis, I., Burger, M., and Blanco, E. Antisocial behavior in the lab and in the field. Work in progress.

 

PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT

 

Habilitation in Economics of Dr. Blanco, 2017

Experimental Studies On The Provision Of Ecosystem Services: Incentives, Fragility, And Institutions.

 

PhD in Economics of Dr. Tobias Haller, 2017

Experiments on Environmental Public Goods: Endogenous Losses and Externalities. Supervisors: Blanco, E. and Balafoutas, L.

 

Ongoing tasks for the PhD in Economics of Mag. Natalie Struwe, since 2018

Supervisor: Blanco, E.

 

Master Theses

 

Ines Ladurner (Spring 2018) -  Institutional Diversity and Outsiders: Impacts on the Provision of Environmental Public Goods. Master in Applied Economics, University of Innsbruck.

Natalie Struwe (Fall 2017) - Pledges, mitigation and adaptation: Experimental evidence. Master in Applied Economics, University of Innsbruck.

Gwendy Steinbauer (Spring/Fall 2017) – Pro-social and anti-social preferences in the lab. Master in Economics, University of Innsbruck. 

Tabea Eichhorn (Fall 2015) - Production and Degradation Externalities in Common-Pool Resources. Master in Applied Economics, University of Innsbruck.

Philipp Buchenauer (Spring 2015) - Coalition formation in weakest link games: An empirical investigation. Master in Applied Economics, University of Innsbruck.

 

INVITED SEMINARS 

 

University of Massachusetts-Lowell, (USA), 2018. 

Dave McEvoy: “The Role of Non-Binding Pledges in Social Dilemmas with Mitigation and Adaptation”

The Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University (USA), 2017.

James M. Walker: "Provision of public goods: Unconditional and conditional donations from outsiders".

University of Girona, (SPAIN), 2017.

Esther Blanco: "Provision of public goods: Unconditional and conditional donations from outsiders".

University of Marburg, (GERMANY), 2017.

Esther Blanco: "Provision of public goods: Unconditional and conditional donations from outsiders".

Toulouse School of Economics (FRANCE) 2016

Carmen Arguedas: “Incentives for Voluntary Practices, Fraud, and Certification”

University of Innsburck (AUSTRIA) 2015

Carmen Arguedas: “Incentives for Voluntary Practices, Fraud, and Certification”

Universidad de Vigo (SPAIN) 2014

Carmen Arguedas: “Incentives for Voluntary Practices, Fraud, and Certification”

Basque Center for Climate Change (SPAIN) 2014

Carmen Arguedas: “Incentives for Voluntary Practices, Fraud, and Certification

 

 

PRESENTATIONS IN CONGRESSES AND WORKSHOPS

 

World Congress in Environmental and Resource Economics, (SWEDEN) 2018;

The Role of Non-Binding Pledges in Social Dilemmas with Mitigation and Adaptation. McEvoy, D., Blanco, E., Haller, T.

Southern Economic Association, Annual Conference, (USA) 2018

The Role of Non-Binding Pledges in Social Dilemmas with Mitigation and Adaptation. McEvoy, D., Blanco, E., Haller, T.

3rd Annual Workshop on Experimental Economics for the Environment (GERMANY), 2018.

Institution Formation in Coordination Games. Caparos, A., Blanco, E., Buchenauer, P., and Finus, M.

VIII Conference of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, (SPAIN) 2018

Institution Formation in Coordination Games. Caparos, A., Blanco, E., Buchenauer, P., and Finus, M.

7th Biennial Conference on Social Dilemmas, Amherst (USA), 2017.

Substitution between mitigation and adaptation along the damage
intensity margin. Blanco, E., Haller, T and Dutcher, G.

Provision of Environmental Public Goods: Unconditional and Conditional Donations from Outsiders. Blanco, E., Haller, T. and Walker, J.M

Second AERNA Workshop on Game Theory and the Environment, (SPAIN) 2017.

Institution Formation in Coordination Games. Caparos, A., Blanco, E., Buchenauer, P., and Finus, M.

42 Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía (SAeE), (SPAIN), 2017.

Provision of Environmental Public Goods: Unconditional and Conditional Donations from Outsiders. Blanco, E., Haller, T. and Walker, J.M.

23rd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), (GREECE), 2017.

Substitution between mitigation and adaptation along the damage intensity margin. Blanco, E., Haller, T. and Dutcher, G.

Provision of environmental public goods: Unconditional and conditional donations from outsiders. Blanco, E., Haller, T. and Dutcher, G.

2nd Annual Workshop on Experimental Economics for the Environment (GERMANY), 2017.

Provision of public goods: Unconditional and conditional donations from outsiders. Blanco, E., Haller, T and Walker, J.M

The Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship (GERMANY), 2017

Incentivizing Democracy: Experimental Evidence from Rural Namibia. Blanco, E., Vollan B., Steinmans I. Petutschnig, F.I., and Prediguer, S.

18th Annual BIOECON Conference (UNITED KINGDOM), 2016

Provision of environmental public goods: Unconditional and conditional donations from outsiders. Blanco, E., Haller, T. and Dutcher, G.

VII Conference of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural Resources and Environmental Economics (PORTUGAL), 2016.

To mitigate or to adapt? Collective action under asymmetries in vulnerability to losses. Blanco, E., Dutcher, G. and Haller, T.

Second Environmental Protection and Sustainability Forum: Towards Global Agreements on Environmental Protection and Sustainability (UNITED KINGDOM), 2015

To mitigate or to adapt? Collective action under asymmetries in vulnerability to losses. Blanco, E., Haller, T. and Walker J.

 

World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE), (TURKEY), 2014.

The opportunity costs of conservation with deterministic and probabilistic degradation externalities. Blanco, E., Lopez, M.C and Walker, J.M.

Incentives for Voluntary Practices, Fraud, and Certification. Arguedas, C. and Blanco, E.

5th Workshop of the Workshop (WOW5) (USA), 2014.

Session organization: Experiments on Destruction of Natural Resources. Coordinator: Blanco, E.

Paper presentation: The opportunity costs of conservation with deterministic and probabilistic degradation externalities. Blanco, E., Lopez, M.C and Walker, J.M.

VI Conference of AERNA, (SPAIN) (2014)

Incentives for Voluntary Practices, Fraud, and Certification. Arguedas, C. and Blanco, E.

 

VISITING STAYS AND SHORT VISITS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK

 

Alejandro Caparros, Institute for Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 2015, 2017, 2018

 

Carmen Arguedas, Autonoma University of Madrid, 2015, 2018

 

Björn Vollan, Marburg University, 2018

 

Dave McEvoy, Appalachian State University, 2016 (LFUI Guest Professorship)

 

Eric Coleman, Florida State University, 2015 

 

FOLLOW-UP PROJECTS 

 

Transnational environmental goods and behavioral models: biodiversity and climate change. 2018-2020. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. 42.300 €. ECO2017-84461-R. PI: Jose Luis Oviedo Pro, Alejandro Caparros Gass. 

 

Providing Ecosystem Services When Outsiders Support Insiders. Under consideration. FWF Stand-Alone Projects. P 32859-G. PI: Esther Blanco.