Well, I made it to San Antonio (for the W-1133 meetings: Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Lands) safely and on time. As you can tell, I'm on-line also and John--it's free! Ok, it's included in the price of the room. I didn't have high hopes when my cab driver--with 13 years experience--had never heard ofthe hotel. But it turns out it's not bad.
As for San Antonio, I don't have much of a feel for the city yet. I went and walked the Riverwalk last night and bought the required souvenirs for my kids. Had dinner at a pretty good barbeque place, but they were out of coleslaw. What's barbeque without coleslaw?
Anyway, today is research presentations from 8 to 5. Here's what's on the agenda. I'll let you know if I learn anything tomorrow.
| 7:30-8:00 | Registration |
| 8:00 – 8:10 | “Presidential Address” and Welcome |
| 8:10 – 10:10 | Session 1: Choices and Policies under Uncertainty Chair: Tom Brown |
| “The Value of Information Provided by Fish Consumption Advisories” Paul Jakus*, Christopher Leggett, Ana Maria Ibanez. Discussant: Douglass Shaw | |
| “An Empirical Investigation of Option Prices for Hunting Permits” To N. Nguyen, W. Douglass Shaw*, Richard T. Woodward, Robert Paterson, Kevin Boyle Discussant: Tim Haab | |
| “Demands for Government-Sponsored Research with Long-term Uncertain Benefits but Near-Term Costs”, Trudy Ann Cameron, Daniel R. Burghart*, Geoffrey R. Gerdes, Discussant: Paul Jakus | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Break with refreshments |
| 10:30 – 12:30 | Session 2: Elicitation and Econometric Issues in Non-market Valuation Chair: Michael Kaplowitz |
| “Do Fishermen Lie? Measuring Hypothetical Bias Across Response Formats” John W. Duffield*, Patricia A. Champ, David A. Patterson, Chris J. Neher Discussant: Laura Taylor | |
| “Respondent Uncertainty in Choice Experiments: A Comparison of Real and Hypothetical Choices”, Richard Ready*, Jennifer Lawton, Patricia A. Champ | |
| “A New Approach to Correct for Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Models: The Orbit Procedure”, John Loomis*, Steve Davies | |
| “Reconsidering the Statistical Gains from Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation with Follow-Up Questions”, Heechan Kang, Timothy C. Haab* , Discussant: Kim Rollins | |
| 12: 30 – 2:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 – 3:30 | Expert panel: “W1133 – A Synthesis of the Past and the Road Ahead” Chair / Moderator: Dan McCollum |
| John Bergstrom, John Hoehn, John Loomis, V. Kerry Smith (15 minutes per panelist, 30 minutes open discussion) | |
| 3:30 – 3:50 | Break with refreshments |
| 3:50 – 5:10 | Session 3: Meta-Analysis, Benefit Transfer and Meta-Questions Chair: Linda Langner |
| “Generalization, Measurement, and Publication: Sources of Error in Benefit Transfer and their Management”, Randall S. Rosenberger*, Tom D. Stanley, Discussant: Rob Johnston | |
| “Sampling Issues and Value Comparison in the Meta Analysis of Ecosystem Benefit Estimates” John P. Hoehn* | |
| “What are Ecosystem Services?” Thomas C. Brown*, John C. Bergstrom, John B. Loomis |
