John A List

Dr. John A. List's research has brought tremendous visibility to the University of Maryland and the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Some his research deals with the relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth, the effect of environmental regulations on economic activity, and environmental policy on business location. Other areas or research include the nature of auctions and trading and the valuation of public goods such as environmental goods and services. Some examples of national governments design environmental regulations and tests of whether differing state environmental regulations affect the level of investment by foreign companies.

Dr. List employs field experimental economics in his work. Experimental economics has particular relevance to environmental economics and to agriculture as it deals with decision-making in an uncertain climate and the mechanisms of auctions and trading markets. For example, in agriculture, risk management strategies are dependent on futures and options markets, the functioning of which depends on participants behavior in the face of risk. Together with an experimental paper in the Journal of Finance that addressed such issues. Dr. List has also been widely published in the American Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Finance that addressed such issues. Dr. List has also been widely published in the American Economics Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Economic Literature, to name a few. He has also published in European journals of environmental economics and in Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In addition to Dr. List being known as the leading young scholar in environmental economics, he has spent a year as Senior Economist for Environmental and Natural Resources on the President's Council of Economic Advisors. He serves on the editorial boards of leading national and international publications. He edited a special issue for the Journal of Public Economics. He has also served as a member of the EPA's Science Advisory Board since 2001. Last year he accepted a position of Deputy Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a group that has been interested in Dr. List's experimental work on small probability/high-loss events. Dr. List's enthusiasm has had a profound effect on students, his department, and the university as a whole.