EDUCATION	EXPERTISE
B.A., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN J.D., Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland OR Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN	Environmental and resource economics Climate change, greenhouse gas markets, and auction design Early childhood language development Regulatory economics Forecasting

MAJOR PROJECTS
Auction design for allocating tradable emission allowances
Early childhood intervention to enhance pre-school readiness
Developing an improved model for forecasting the Virginia economy
Environmental federalism and climate change
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
Associate Director for Economic & Regulatory Analysis
Assistant Professor of Economics
Adjunct Professor of Agricultural & Applied Economics
Fulbright Fellow in Environmental Economics


COMMISSIONS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS
Current;   Member, Joint Advisory Board of Economists (Virginia)
Current;   Member, Virginia State Advisory Board on Air Pollution
2010 - 2011;   U.Va. Bankard Fund grant to improve state-level economic forecasting
2010 - 2011;   STAR research grant, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
2006 - 2010;   Member, Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Advisory Committee,
2008 - 2009;   National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Occupational Information Network (O*NET)
2007;   Auction design research, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
1999 - 2005;   Chair, Virginia Public Safety Technical Forecasting Committee
2001;   Public Sector Freedom of Information Award, Virginia Council for Open Government.
2000;   Fulbright Fellowship in Environmental Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
1994;   Summer Excellence Research Award, UNC-Greensboro
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 AND REPORTS

• Rethinking Environmental Federalism in a Warming World (January 2012), William Shobe and Dallas Burtraw. CEPS Working Papers (wp12-01), Center for Economic and Policy Studies, Charlottesville, VA (Forthcoming in Climate Change Economics).
• Oral Health and the Dental Care Workforce in Southwest Virginia (2011), Tanya Wanchek, Terrence Rephann, and William Shobe, Charlottesville: Center for Economic and Policy Studies.
• Price Discovery in Emissions Permit Auctions (2011), Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Erica Myers, Jacob Goeree, Karen Palmer, and William Shobe, in R. Mark Isaac, Douglas A. Norton (ed.) Experiments on Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability (Research in Experimental Economics, Volume 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.11-36.
• A Database for a Changing Economy: Review of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), Nancy T. Tippins and Margaret L. Hilton, Editors; Panel to Review the Occupational Information Network (O*NET); National Research Council, 2010. [Member of the review panel organized by the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council.]
• An Experimental Analysis of Auctions versus Grandfathering to Assign Pollution Permits, with Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Erica Myers, Jacob Goeree, and Karen Palmer. Journal of the European Economic Association Vol. 8, No. 2-3: 514-525 (April/May 2010).
• An Experimental Analysis of Auctioning Emissions Allowances under a Loose Cap (2010), William Shobe, Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Jacob Goeree, Karen Palmer and Erica Myers. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review Vol. 39, No. 2: 162-175.
• State and Local Climate Policy under a National Emissions Floor, Dallas Burtraw and William Shobe, 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).
• Collusion in Auctions for Emission Permits: An Experimental Analysis, with Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Jacob Goeree, Karen Palmer and Erica Myers. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 28, No. 4: 672-691 (2009).
• The Design, Testing, and Implementation of Virginia's NOx Allowance Auction, with David Porter, Stephen Rassenti, Vernon Smith, and Abel Winn. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 190 - 200 (2009).
• Going Green? The Inconvenient Truth About U.Va's Carbon Neutrality Initiative, Virginia Policy Review, Vol. 2, No. 1 (September-October 2008).
• The Economic Value of Publicly Supported Education and Research, Virginia News Letter, Vol. 84, No. 3 (April 2008).
• Auction Design for Selling CO2 Emission allowances Under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, with Dallas Burtraw, Charlie Holt, Jacob Goeree, and Karen Palmer. Research sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (October 2007).
• Local Options on Global Stocks: How the States are Affecting the U.S. Debate on Climate Policy, with Dallas Burtraw. Proceedings of the States and Climate Change Conference, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (2007).
• The Economic Impact of the University of Virginia: How a Major Research University Affects the Local and State Economies, with John Knapp, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia, 2007
• An Experimental Basis for Public Policy Initiatives," with Charles A. Holt and Angela M. Smith, in Promoting the General Welfare: American Democracy and the Political Economy of Government Performance, Gerber and Patashnik, eds. Brookings (2006).
• Book Review of The Political Economy of the Environment by James K. Boyce, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Vol. 23, pp. 482-485 (2002).
• 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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