William M. Shobe, Director, Center of Economic and Policy Studies

William M. Shobe, Director

Center for Economic and Policy Studies

A unit of:

The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
University of Virginia
PO Box 400206
2400 Old Ivy Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4206
Phone: (434) 982-5376
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EDUCATION
B.A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
J.D., Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland OR
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

EXPERTISE
Environmental economics
Climate change, greenhouse gas markets, and auction design
Regulatory economics
Forecasting
Economic impact analysis

MAJOR PROJECTS
Auction design for allocating tradable emission allowances
Environmental federalism and climate change
Developing an improved model for forecasting the Virginia economy
Enhancing access to Virginia state government data using the semantic web
Annual tax rates survey for Virginia localities
Policy innovation and design
Economic analysis of regulations

EXPERIENCE
Director, Center for Economic and Policy Studies
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia
Associate Director for Economic & Regulatory Analysis
Virginia Department of Planning and Budget
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Adjunct Professor of Agricultural & Applied Economics
Virginia Tech
Fulbright Fellow in Environmental Economics
University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic


 COMMISSIONS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS
2010 - 2011; STAR research grant, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2009 - Present; Member, Virginia State Advisory Board on Air Pollution
2008 - Present; National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Occupational Information Network (O*NET)
2004 - Present member, Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Advisory Committee,
Virginia Unemployment Commission
1999 - 2005 Chair, Virginia Public Safety Technical Forecasting Committee
2001 Public Sector Freedom of Information Award Virginia Council for Open Government.
For work developing the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall web site.
2000 Fulbright Fellowship in Environmental Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
1994 Summer Excellence Research Award, UNC-Greensboro
For research on rights-based regulation of coastal fisheries.
1985 - 1986 Conservation Fellowship, National Wildlife Federation
1982 - 1990 Licensed Attorney, State of Minnesota
1978 - 1979 Law Review, Lewis & Clark Law School
1978 Oral Advocacy Award, Moot Court Competition, Lewis & Clark Law School

 PUBLICATIONS
  • An Experimental Analysis of Auctions versus Grandfathering to Assign Pollution Permits, with Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Jacob Goeree, and Karen Palmer. European Journal of Economics (Currently under revision for resubmission, 2009).
  • An Experimental Analysis of Auctioning Emissions Allowances under a Loose Cap, with Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Jacob Goeree, Karen Palmer and Erica Myer. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (Under revision, provisionally accepted, 2009).
  • State and Local Climate Policy under a National Emissions Floor, with Dallas Burtraw, prepared for France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and presented at the international conference Climate Change Policy: Insights from the U.S. and Europe, Paris, (March 2009).
  • "An Experimental Basis for Public Policy Initiatives," with Charles A. Holt and Angela K. Smith, in Promoting the General Welfare: American Democracy and the Political Economy of Government Performance, Gerber and Patashnik, eds. Brookings (2006).
  • Trading Programs for Environmental Management: Reflections on the Air and Water Experiences, with Leonard Shabman and Kurt Stephenson of Virginia Tech, Environmental Practice, Vol. 4, pp. 153-162 (2002). Reprinted as Reprint Series Number 166 by the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Forecasting AFDC Recipients for the Virginia State Budget, with Mark A. Prell. Virginia Economic Journal, Vol. 2, pp. 67-84 (1997).
  • Economic Impact Assessment of Virginia Regulations, Virginia Department of Planning and Budget, September (1995).
  • Pollution Fees and Charges in North Carolina, a report to the Regulatory Committee of the North Carolina Pollution Prevention Advisory Council, May 26, 1994.
  • The Use of Panel Data in the Analysis of the Behavioral Response to Taxation, with Joel B. Slemrod, in Simulation Models in Tax and Transfer Policy, Johann Brunner and Hans-Georg Peterson eds., Campus Verlag, New York 1990.
  • The Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains Realizations: Evidence from a Panel of Taxpayers, with Joel B. Slemrod. NBER Working Papers, No. 3237 (1990). 
  • Who Realizes Capital Gains? with Joel B. Slemrod and Laura Kalambokidis Tax Notes (October 23, 1989): 494-495.
  • Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Environmental Law 9: 653-705 (1979).
 
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