Environmental Economics, Applied Spatial Econometrics and Regional Economics.

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1 FERNANDO CARRIAZO Assistant Professor Department of Economics Universidad de Los Andes Cra 1 A. No 18 A-10. Of W-822 Bogotá-Colombia +57 (1) Ext 2461 FIELDS OF INTEREST Environmental Economics, Applied Spatial Econometrics and Regional Economics. EDUCATION Ph.D. Agricultural, Environmental, and Regional Economics. The Pennsylvania State University. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. Dissertation: Valuing Urban Amenities and Disamenities: a Spatial Hedonic Analysis in Bogota- Colombia. (Thesis Advisors: Professors Richard Ready and Jim Shortle) M.A. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia B.A. Economics Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Professional Training 2009 Summer program in Applied Econometrics: Discrete Choice Models. American University, Washington, D.C. Professor: William Greene 2008 SAS Training in Statistics: Introduction to ANOVA, Regression and Logistic Regression SAS Institute. Rockville, Maryland. Instructor: Liza Nirelli PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2010-present Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia- Department of Economics. Assistant Professor USDA-Economic Research Service. RRED, RESP. Posdoct- Research Economist. Project: Grassland to Cropland Conversion: The Role of Markets, Technology, and Policy

2 The Pennsylvania State University. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Environment and Natural Resources Institute. Project: Nutrient Initiative 2006 Research Assistant. Project: The Well-being of Youth and Migrant or Seasonal Farmworker Families. Professors Jill Findeis, Anastasia Snyder and Leif Jensen Project: Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment. (CARA). Land Use-Land Cover Module. Professors Jim Shortle and Richard Ready Universidad de Los Andes. Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Economico (CEDE) 2003 Consulting project with EAAB (Bogotá s Water Utility Company). Research on economic valuation of urban wetlands, urban parks and natural reservoirs. Training module on non-market ` valuation techniques for EAAB staff. With Eduardo Uribe Consulting project with PNNC (Colombian agency for the protection of natural parks). Research on Benefits-Transfer technique to value national and global environmental services provided by the system of natural parks (SPN) in Colombia. With Ana Maria Ibanez and Marcela Garcia Consulting project with CAQ (Regional Environmental Authority). Research on methodologies for the valuation of services provided by Andean ecosystems. With Eduardo Uribe Universidad de Los Andes - University of Maryland and Federación Nacional de Cafeteros (Colombian Coffee Growers Association). Research on labor supply for Colombia s main coffee harvest. With Eduardo Uribe and Darrell Hueth Universidad de Los Andes - University of Maryland. Research Assistant. "The Role of Agricultural Prices in the Asymmetry of Aggregate Price Changes." Main Researchers: Darrell Hueth and Carlos Felipe Jaramillo. Teaching Instructor in the Master s Program in Environmental and Natural Resources Economics at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Course taught: Economic Development and the Environment. Supervised 4 master theses in the same program Instructor in the Specialization in Evaluation of Projects at Universidad de Los Andes. Course module: Economic Valuation of Non Marketable Goods Teaching Assistant at the Specialization in Evaluation of Projects at Universidad de Los Andes. Courses taught: Evaluation of Projects for Latin American Teachers. T.A. Econometrics.

3 Other professional activities Referee for the following Academic Journals: 1) Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2) Environmental and Resource Economics, 3) Land Economics, y 4) Real Estate Economics. Referee for the Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP) scholarship program Member of ITS Departmental Committee. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. The Pennsylvania State University Academic Coordinator of the Master s Program in Environmental and Natural Resources Economics at Universidad de Los Andes. ACTIVITIES AND HONORS 2008 American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Outstanding Dissertation Award. (Honorable Mention) -National Research Council Associateship Programs: NRC Research Associateship Award 2007 AAEA Foundation Endowment. Graduate Student Travel Grant award Member of ITS Departmental Committee. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. The Pennsylvania State University Fulbright Grantee Scholarship holder for academic merits to study the Master in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at Universidad de Los Andes. (IDB-CAF-Uniandes) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 2007 American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Latin-American and the Caribbean Association of Environmental and Natural Resources Economists (ALEAR). PUBLICATIONS / WORKING PAPERS Crop Insurance, Disaster Payments and Land Use Change: The Effect of Sodsaver on Incentives for Grassland Conversion. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (Forthcoming) (With Roger Claassen and Joseph Cooper)

4 A note on testing for spatial error components. Regional Science and Urban Economics. Volume 40, Issue 5,September 2010, Pages Advances in Spatial Econometrics. (With Edward Coulson) Grassland Conversion for Crop Production in the United States: Defining Indicators for Policy Analysis. Working Paper prepared for OECD Agri-environmental Indicators: Lessons Learned and Future Directios (With Roger Claassen y Kohei Ueda) Crop Insurance, Disaster Payments, and Incentives for Land Use Change in Agriculture: A Preliminary Assessment. Selected Paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting. Milwaukee, WI, Julio 26-28, (With Roger Claassen y Joseph Cooper) A Comparison of Three Methods of Estimation in the Context of Spatial Modeling. FCN Working Paper 9/2009. (With Gaurav Ghosh) Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches to Hedonic Modeling in a Geostatistical Framework. Selected Paper presented at American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, Juio 29 Agosto 1, (With Gaurav Ghosh) Valoración de los beneficios económicos provistos por el Sistema de Parques Nacionales Naturales: una aplicación del análisis de transferencia de beneficios Documento CEDE ( With Ana María Ibáñez and Marcela García) Un modelo de auto- selección para la migración de trabajadores hacia la región central cafetera de Colombia. Documento CEDE (With Eduardo Uribe and Darrell Hueth) WORK IN PROGRESS Using Frontier Models To Mitigate Omitted Variable Bias in Hedonic Pricing Models: A Case Study for Air Quality in Bogota, Colombia. ( With Richard Ready and Jim Shortle) Estimating Benefits from Changes in Accessibility to Employment Centers and Air Quality, Evidence from a Housing Rental Market in Bogota-Colombia. (With Richard Ready and Jim Shortle) Directional Effects in Nonparametric Hedonic Price Functions (With Ed Coulson) CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS -Seminario CEDE-Facultad de Economía Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia (2010). -Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado ( 2010). -American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee (2009). -U.S Environmental Protection Agency, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy y Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy, University of Maryland. The Economics of Land Use Change: Advancing the Frontiers. Washington, DC. Mathematical Association of America. Carriage House. (2009). - II World Conference-Spatial Econometrics Association (SEA). New York, (2008).

5 -AERS Seminar- The Pennsylvania State University. (2008). -U.S. EPA National Risk Management Research Laboratory -Sustainable Technology Division Sustainable Environments Branch. Cincinnati, OH, (2008). -Urban Research Symposium 2007: Urban Land Use and Land Markets. The World Bank, Washington, D.C. (2007). -AERS Seminar-The Pennsylvania State University (2007). -Seminario CEDE-Facultad de Economía Universidad de Los Andes (2001). -2nd Workshop on Population, Economy, and the Environment: Modeling and Simulating their Complex Interaction at the Max Plank Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany (2001). COMPUTER SKILLS SAS, STATA, E-VIEWS, LIMDEP, GEODA. Arcview GIS 9.0. MATLAB REFERENCES Distinguished Professor James Shortle. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University. Phone: Professor Richard Ready. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University. Phone: Dr. Roger Claassen. Senior Economist. USDA-Economic Research Service. Phone: