College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

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Selected Publication

Melstrom, R.T., and R.D. Horan (2013), “Interspecies Management and Land Use Strategies to Protect Endangered Species” Environmental and Resource Economics DOI: 10.1007/s10640-013-9699-y.

Melstrom, R.T., and R.D. Horan (2013), “Managing Excessive Predation in a Predator-Endangered Prey Setting” Ecological Economics 90: 85-93.

Bulte, E.H. and R.D. Horan (2011). “Intergenerational Transmission of Preferences” Economics Letters 112: 85-87.

Shortle, J.S., M.O. Ribaudo, R.D. Horan, and D. Blandford (2012) “Reforming Agricultural Nonpoint Pollution Policy in an Increasingly Budget-Constrained Environment” Environmental Science & Technology 46(3): 1316-1325.

Horan, R.D. and R.T. Melstrom (2011). “No Sympathy for the Devil” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 62(3): 367-385.

Horan, R.D., E.P. Fenichel, K. Drury, and D.M. Lodge (2011). “Managing Ecological Thresholds in Coupled Environmental-Human Systems” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 7333-7338.

Fenichel, E.P., C. Castillo-Chavez, M.G. Ceddia, G. Chowell-Puente, P.A. Gonzalez-Parra, G.J. Hickling, G. Holloway, R.D. Horan, B. Morrin, C. Perrings, M. Springborn, L. Velazquez, and C. Villalobos (2011). “Adaptive Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 6306-6311. 

Horan, R.D., E.P. Fenichel, C.A. Wolf, and B.M. Gramig (2010). “Managing Infectious Animal Disease Systems” Annual Review of Resource Economics 2: 101-124.

Bulte, E.H., and R.D. Horan. (2010). Identities in the Commons: Dynamics and Norms of Social Capital. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 10 (1): Article 13 (Topics).

Fenichel, E.P., R.D. Horan, and J.R. Bence. (2010). Indirect Management of Invasive Species Through Bio-Controls: A Bioeconomic Model of Salmon and Alewife in Lake Michigan. Resource and Energy Economics 32 500-518.

Gramig, B.M., R.D. Horan, and C.A. Wolf. (2009). Livestock Disease Indemnity Design when Moral Hazard is Followed by Adverse Selection. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91 627-641.

Horan, R.D., E.H. Bulte, and J.F. Shogren. (2008). Coevolution of Human Speech and Trade. Journal of Economic Growth 13 293-313.

Horan, R.D. and E.P. Fenichel (2007). “Economics and Ecology of Managing Emerging Infectious Animal Diseases” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89: 1232-1238.

Fenichel, E.P., and R.D. Horan. (2007). Gender-Based Harvesting in Wildlife Disease Management. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89: 904-920.

Horan, R.D., E.H. Bulte, and J.F. Shogren (2005). “How Trade Saved Humanity from Biological Exclusion: An Economic Theory of Neanderthal Extinction”  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 58: 1-29.

Horan, R.D. and C.A. Wolf (2005). “The Economics of Managing Infectious Wildlife Disease” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87: 537-551.

Horan, R.D. and J.S. Shortle (2005). “When Two Wrongs Make a Right: Second-Best Point-Nonpoint Trading Ratios” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(2): 340-352.

Bulte, E.H., R.D. Horan, and J.F. Shogren (2003). “Elephants: Comment” American Economic Review 93(4): 1437‑1445.

Bulte, E.H. and R.D. Horan (2003).  “Habitat Conservation, Wildlife Extraction, and Agricultural Expansion” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45: 109-127.

Horan, R.D., J.S. Shortle, and D.G. Abler (1998).  “Ambient Taxes when Polluters Have Multiple Choices” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 36: 186-199.