Office: RSB 309
Phone: (804) 287-6356
Fax: (804) 289-8878
Email: ayates2@richmond.edu

Teaching:
Environmental Economics
Environmental/Resource Economic Theory
Business Statistics

Research:
Pollution Permit Markets
Risk Assessment/Management

Education:
BS, Washington University
MS, PhD, Stanford University

Selected Publications:
And a Hockey Game Broke Out: Crime and Punishment in the NHL (with J. Heckelman), Economic Inquiry (forthcoming); Optimal Pollution Permit Endowments in Markets with Endogenous Emissions (with S. Smith), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (forthcoming); Decentralization in Pollution Permit Markets, Journal of Public Economic Theory 4: 641-660 (2002); Pollution Permit Markets with Intertemporal Trading and Assymetrical Information (with M. Cronshaw), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 42: 104-118 (2001); On the Separation of Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 44: 509-524 (2001); The Knowledge Problem, Entrepreneurial Discovery, and Austrian Market Process Theory, Journal of Economic Theory 91: 59-85 (2000); Media Coverage and EPA Pesticide Decisions (with R. Stroup), Public Choice 102: 297-312 (2000)

Academic and Professional Activities:
Referee: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Economic Research, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Public Economics