Graduate Research Symposium
Departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Economics
Since 2009 the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics and the Economics Department at Colorado State University have held an annual Graduate Research Symposium. Started and produced by students, the symposium provides graduate students an opportunity to showcase their research with graduate students and faculty in both departments. All graduate students are encouraged to participate regardless of what stage they are in with their research. Topics may be anything related to Economics. Students will gain experience in presenting and are provided an opportunity to receive feedback on their research. Students can compete in one of three categories based on the progress of their work; proposal, in-progress, and near completion (See below for description of categories). Faculty members from both departments volunteer to judge the competition.
There is no registration fee, and the symposium includes access to all sessions for the duration of the day, one lunch, and coffee breaks.
Students interested in participating in this year’s will respond to a call for papers and participation made by a committee made up of graduate students from both departments. To be considered, students will submit an abstract of no more than 200 words by a stated deadline that is usually a few weeks before the symposium. After a deadline has past, the committee will review abstracts and notify their results in a week.
Description of competition categories:
- Proposal stage projects are those upon which a literature review has been conducted and all research questions and hypotheses have been documented
- In Progress projects are those which satisfy all of the requirements of the Proposal stage, but in addition have had data collected (if necessary) and preliminary models and results documented.
- Near Completion projects are those which satisfy all of the requirements of the In-progress stage but in addition have had final models run and results and tentative conclusions documented. Near Completion projects should be nearly ready for submission to a peer-reviewed journal or as a final report.
Winners from the 2012 Symposium
Proposal Category
- 1st Place (tie): Estimating the Economic and Social Impacts of the Drought in Southern Colorado, Allison Gunter, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- 1st Place (tie): Effects of Cooperatives Working Together: Herd Reduction (Buyout) Program on the Dairy Industry, Madilynne McGuire, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- Runner-up: Making Information More Informative: An Experiment on Behavior Under Uncertainty, Liesel Hans, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
In Progress Category
- 1st Place: U.S. Carbon Intensity of Consumption: The Importance of Age Structure and Life-Cycle Consumption in Climate Policy Incidence, Anthony Underwood, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
- Runner-up: An Analysis of Consumer Surplus from Agritourism: Utilizing a Multi-Destination Travel Cost Model of Demand by Region for Colorado Agritourism, Rebecca Goldbach, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
Near Completion Category
- 1st Place: Cointegration Test and Long-Run Purchasing Power Parity Theory: An Empirical Investigation of Tanzania and its Selected Trading Partners, Anthony Mveyange, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
- Runner-up: Hypothetical Bias and Explicit Contract, Maryam Tabatabaei, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
Winners from the 2011 Symposium
Proposal Category
- 1st Place: Peer Effects and Obesity: Do Migrants Adopt the Health Lifestyles of Their Destinations, Ian Breunig, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
- 2nd Place: Environmental Impact of a Product as Product Differentiation Strategy, Oana Deselnicu, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- 3rd Place: U.S. Carbon Intensity of Consumption: Income Inequality and Emulation Effects, Anthony Underwood, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
In Progress Category
- 1st Place: Do Public Outdoor Recreation Opportunities Crowd-Out Private Opportunities? Spatial-Econometric Analysis of the Attraction/Repulsion of Private Recreation Provision to Public Provision, Rebecca Goldbach, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- 2nd Place: A Look at Boundary Discontinuity in a Local School District, Larry Chisesi, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
- 3rd Place (tie): Policies versus Perception: Estimating the Impact of Drought Awareness on Consumer Water Demand, Janine Stone, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- 3rd Place (tie): The U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard: Impacts from Cellulosic Biofuel Production, Sam Evans, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
Near Completion Category
- 1st Place: The Economic Significance of Bioeconomic Feedback Loops: Using the Random Utility Model to Inform a Bioeconomic Model of Fish Stocking, Daniel Deisenroth, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
Winners from the 2010 Symposium
Proposal Category
- 1st Place: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Management for Zebra and Quagga Mussels in Colorado, Cathy Thomas, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- 2nd Place: Weeding the Garden: Provision of An Impure Public Good When Space Matters, Michael Verdone, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- 3rd Place: Localvore Demand: A Consumer Choice Model for Local Beers, Megan Phillips and Drew Moxon, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
In Progress Category
- 1st Place: Willingness to Pay for Decreased Health Effects from the 2009 Station Fire, Leslie Richardson, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- 2nd Place: The Impact of Health on the Entrepreneurial Decision: Three Hypotheses, Ian Breunig, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
- 3rd Place (tie): A Time Series Study of the Relationship Between Energy, Employment, & Personal Income at the State Level, Nate Peach, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
- 3rd Place (tie): Not Your Average Gardening Tool: Managing Invasive Plant Species with Dynamic Programming, Michael Verdone, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
- 3rd Place (tie): A Bioeconomic Approach to Capturing Both the Economic Value and Economic Contribution of Fish Stocking in Colorado Waters, Daniel Deisenroth, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University
Near Completion Category
- 1st Place: The Linkages between Multiple Equilibrium and Intrinsic Chronic Poverty: The Role of Community and Household Structure, Bret Anderson, Department of Economics, Colorado State University
- 2nd Place: Revisiting the Endogenous Human Capital Growth Literature, Kuo-Ting Hua (Albert), Department of Economics, Colorado State University