Dr. PHOEBE KOUNDOURI

School of Business Department of Economics Department of Economics CSERGE/Economics University of Reading University College London Faculty of Letters & Social Sciences Gower Street PO Box 218 Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA, UK London WC1E 6BT, UK Tel.: ++44 - (0)118 - 9875123, ex. 7862 Tel.: ++44 - (0)207 - 6795240 Fax: ++44 - (0)118 – 9750236 Fax: ++44 - (0)207 - 9162772

Email: [email protected]

§ LECTURER IN ECONOMICS (TENURE-TRUCK), DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF READING.

§ SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS/CSERGE (CENTRE FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC RESEARCH ON THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT), UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of birth: 30-05-1974 Nationality: Cypriot Residency: UK Marital Status: Single

EDUCATION

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

June 2000 Ph.D. Economics. Thesis Title: Three Approaches to Measuring Natural Resource Scarcity: Theory and Application to Groundwater. Supervisor: Prof. Paul Seabright Internal Examiner: Prof. David Newbery External Examiner: Prof. Ulph Alistair.

1995-1996 Ph.D. Course Work (MSc in Economics)– Fields: Microeconomic Theory and Applications, Optimal Control Theory and Applications, Econometrics, Environmental & Resource Economics.

June 1995 MPhil Economics (Distinction) – Subjects: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Environmental and Resource Economics. Dissertation: “An Econometric Investigation in the Growth Experience of Malaysia”.

LEICESTER UNIVERSITY

June 1994 BA Economics (1st Class Honors) – Ronald L. Meeks Prize Dissertation: “The Use of Economic Instruments Towards an Efficient Inland Water Management in Cyprus”.

1 HONOURS 2002 University of Reading, Pump-Priming Project Award.

1996 University of Cambridge, Peterhouse Scholarship for Academic Excellence

1996 University of Cambridge, Smuts Memorial Fund Scholarship

1996 Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Society

1995-1997 Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Fees Scholarship

1995-1997 Overseas Research Student Award (ORS)

1994-1995 University of Cambridge, Friends of Peterhouse Bursary

1994 University of Leicester, Ronald L. Meeks Prize in Economics, awarded to the student with highest grades over the time period 1991-1993

1991-1994 Leicester University, Economics Scholarship

1991-1994 Cyprus Government Scholarship for study in British Universities

1991 Development Bank Mathematics Award

MAJOR FIELDS OF INTEREST

· Theoretical Microeconomics and Applied Micro-Econometrics · Environmental and Natural Resource Economics · Ecological and Agricultural Economics · Public Economics · Economics of Regulation · Optimal Control Theory and Applications

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH PAPERS

ARTICLES IN REFERRED JOURNALS

1. Hadjispirou, S., Koundouri, P., and Pashardes, P., 2002. Household Demand and Welfare Implications of Water Pricing in Cyprus. Environment and Development Economics, 7(4): 659-685.

2. Koundouri, P., 2001. Book Review: A Review on Economic Policy for the Environment and Natural Resources: Techniques for the Management and Control of Pollution. Economia, 5(2).

3. Koundouri, P., 2001. Groundwater and Economics. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, EOLSS Publishers Co. Ltd – invited paper. ISBN: 09542-89-0-X (Also downloadable from www.eolss.net)

4. Koundouri, P., 2002. The Potential for Groundwater Management: Gisser-Sanchez's Result Revised and Reconsidered. Water Resource Research (forthcoming).

2 5. Koundouri, P., and Pashardes, P., 2002. Hedonic Price Analysis and Selectivity Bias: Water Salinity and Demand for Land. Environmental and Resource Economics, 23(2).

6. Koundouri, P., and Xepapadeas, A., 2002 Measuring Natural Resource Scarcity: A Distance Function Approach. Water Resource Research (forthcoming).

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

1. Groom, B., Koundouri, P., and Swanson, T., 2003. The Watershed Economics Management Approach: An Application to Cyprus, in “Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries: Problems, Principles and Policies” (eds. P. Koundouri, P. Pashardes, T. Swanson and A. Xepapadeas), Edward-Elgar Publishers. ISBN: 184376122X

2. Howe, C., and Koundouri, P., 2003. The Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries Principles and Policies, in “Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries: Problems, Principles and Policies” (eds. P. Koundouri, P. Pashardes, T. Swanson and A. Xepapadeas), Edward-Elgar Publishers. ISBN: 184376122X

3. Koundouri, P., 2003. Contrasting Different Methodologies to Deriving Natural Resource Scarcity Rents, in “Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries: Problems, Principles and Policies” (eds. P. Koundouri, P. Pashardes, T. Swanson and A. Xepapadeas), Edward-Elgar Publishers. ISBN: 184376122X

4. Koundouri, P., and Pashardes, P., 2002. Hedonic Price Analysis and Selectivity Bias, in “Economics of Water Resources, Theory and Policy” (eds. P. Pasharades, T. Swanson and A. Xepapadeas), Kluwer: The Netherlands. ISBN 1-4020-0542-3

5. Koundouri, P., and Pearce, D., 2002. Policy Options for Controlling Non-Point Agricultural Pollution from Fertilizers and Pesticides, in “Market Based Environmental Policy in the United Kingdom” (eds. D. Helm and D. Pearce, assisted by C. Hepburn and P. Koundouri), , (forthcoming).

6. Koundouri, P., and Xepapadeas, A., 2001. A New Methodology to Measuring Groundwater Scarcity: Theory and Application, in “Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries: Problems, Principles and Policies” (eds. P. Koundouri, P. Pashardes, T. Swanson and A. Xepapadeas), Edward-Elgar Publishers. ISBN: 184376122X

EDITED BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS 1. Groom, B., Koundouri, P., and Swanson, P., 2001. “Integrated Water Management in Cyprus: Economic and Institutional Foundations”. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (forthcoming).

2. Koundouri, P., Pashardes, P., Swanson, T., and Xepapadeas, A., 2003. “Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries: Problems, Principles and Policies”. Edward-Elgar Publishers. ISBN: 184376122X

3 PAPERS UNDER REVISION IN REFERED JOURNALS 1. Koundouri, P., 2001. Current Issues in the Economics of Groundwater Resource Management. Journal of Economic Surveys.

PAPERS SUBMITTED TO REFERED JOURNALS

1. Anshory, A. and P. Koundouri, 2002. Hedonic Price Analysis and Location Bias: Demand for Housing and Willingness to Pay for Domestic Water. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

2. Groom, B., Koundouri, P., Nauges, C., and A. Thomas, 2002. Stochastic Technology and Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Production. Land Economics.

3. Groom, B., Koundouri, P., and T. Swanson, 2002. A Methodology for Integrated Watershed Management. International Journal of Water.

4. Bjorndal, T., Koundouri, P. and S. Pascoe, 2002. Multi-Output Distance Function for the North Sea Beam Trawl Fishery. The American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

5. Koundouri, P., 2002. Production Function Estimation with Risk and Selectivity Considerations: An Application to Crop-Choice. Economics Letters.

6. Koundouri, P., and C. Christou, 2001. Dynamic Adaptation to Resource Scarcity with Backstop Availability. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

WORKING PAPERS

1. Bjorndal, T. and P. Koundouri. The effects of Output Quotas on Production Risk in the North Sea Beam Trawl Fishery.

2. Groom, B., Koundouri, P., D. Pearce. Recent Attempts to Deal with Discounting for Long-Run Environmental Effects.

3. Hamilton, K., Groom, B., and P. Koundouri. and Declining Long-un Interest Rates.

4. Pittis, N., and P. Koundouri. An Econometric Approach to Estimating Long-Run Discount Rates.

5. Koundouri, P., Nauges, C. and V. Tsouvelekas. Technology Adoption Under Risk: An Application to Agricultural Production.

RESEARCH REPORTS

1. Koundouri, P., 2002. The Case for Declining Long-Term Discount Rates. Report to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (with Cameron Hepburn, Ben Groom, David Pearce, Robin Smale).

4 2. Koundouri, P., 2002. European Water Management between Regulation and Competition: The case of Ireland. Report to EU DGXII, 5th Framework Program “Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development” (with Katerina Mantzou and Marianna Mousoulides).

3. Koundouri, P., 2002. Sustainable Management of the South East Kalahari Aquifer System: Background Discussion, Management Options and Policy Recommendations. Report to the Department of Water Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture Water and Rural Development, Government of the Republic of Namibia (with Ben Groom and James Macgregor).

4. Koundouri, P., 2001. The fairness of the finance of the Greek health system. Research Report prepared for WHO (with Ben Groom).

5. Koundouri, P., 2000. Integrated Water Management in Cyprus: Institutional and Economic Foundations. Research Report prepared for the European Commission (with Ben Groom and Timothy Swanson).

WORK EXPERIENCE CURRENT APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF READING

From September 2000 LECTURER IN ECONOMICS, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS.

· TEACHING:

2002-2003 - Environmental Economics (3rd year undergraduates and post-graduates) - Advanced Microeconomic Theory (3rd year undergraduate course) - Quantitative Economics and Econometrics (2nd year undergraduate course)

2001-2002 - Environmental Economics (3rd year undergraduates and post-graduates) - Advance Microeconomics (3rd year undergraduate course) - Microeconomics (1st year undergraduate course) - Quantitative Methods (3rd year Undergraduate course) - Supervisor of post-graduate dissertations

2000-2001 - Environmental Economics (3rd year undergraduates and post-graduates) - Microeconomics (1st year undergraduate course) - Macroeconomics (1st year undergraduates course) - European Studies (part of 3rd year undergraduates course on European - Commission Environmental Policy) - Supervisor of undergraduate dissertations

· SENIOR TUTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

· ECONOMICS PROGRAMME DIRECTOR for joint undergraduate degrees (economics and chemistry; economics and politics, international relations economics; economics and sociology, business economics, organisational studies)

· RESEARCH FELLOW, Centre for Euro-Asia Studies, University of Reading.

· RESEARCH FELLOW, Centre for Research in Industrial Economics, University of Reading.

5 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

From November 2000 SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS/CSERGE.

· CO-ORDINATOR OF THE RESEARCH GROUP FOCUSING ON SOCIOECONOMIC ASPECTS OF WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. (www.cserge.ucl.ac.uk) Aims and Objectives of the Group: To undertake theoretical, empirical and policy-relevant research on the socio-economic aspects of sustainable management of water resources. The focus is on both theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary research and aims to integrate the approaches of the natural and social sciences to address water management issues. Analyses combine with existing and ongoing scientific research to assist in the development of integrated policies directed at the promotion of efficient, equitable and sustainable water resource management and allocation. A range of policy response options is considered including institutional changes, water resource pricing and regulation, to achieve these objectives. (Additional information to be supplied upon request.)

· CO-ORGANISER OF THE SEMINAR SERIES ON “ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS”, WITH PROF. DAVID PEARCE AND PROF. TIMOTHY SWANSON. (www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/Seminars/EnvEconSem/.html)

2001-2002 AFFILIATED LECTURE, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS.

· TEACHING FOR 2001-2002 - Environmental Economics (MSc in Environmental Economics) - Microeconomics for Public Policy (MSc in Public Policy) - PhD Supervisor - Supervisor of MSc Dissertations

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS

1998- Sept. 2000 Research Associate, project “Integrated Water Management in Cyprus: Economic and Institutional Foundations”, funded by the European Commission, DG XII.

1999-2000 Undergraduate dissertation supervisor.

1998-1999 Teaching Fellow in Introductory Microeconomics and Applied Econometrics.

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

1996-1998 Research Assistant to Prof. Terry Barker (Department of Applied Economics and Cambridge Econometrics).

1995-1996 Research Assistant to Prof. Brian Henry (Department of Economics and Center for Economic Forecasting, ).

1995-1997 Teaching Fellow in Economic and Social Statistics (Part II, Paper 5) for St. Catharine’s College, St. Edmonds College, Emmanuel College, Girton College, Jesus College, Magdalane College, New Hall College, Newham College, Peterhouse.

6 RFEREE WORK, CONFERNCE & WORKSHOP ORGANISATION

· Referee in academic journals: - Land Economics; - Environmental and Resource Economics; - Agricultural Economics Review; - Utilities Policy; - Economic Modelling; - Water Resources Research.

· Member of the organizing committee of the Tenth Annual Conference of European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE 2000).

· Organizer of Workshop on “Integrated Water Management”, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, July 1999.

· Organizer of “International Symposium on Water Resource Management – Efficiency, Equity and Policy”, with Centre for Social and Economic Research into the Global Environment (CSERGE), University College London, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, September 2000. (Conference Programme to be supplied upon request).

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & INVITED SEMINARS CONFERENCES

· International Conference: Science in support of European Water Policies: Sustainability of Aquatic Ecosystems, Stresa, Lago Maggiore, Italy, 26-28, November 2002. (Invited Speaker) “Water Resources Use and Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions (ARID CLUSTER).” http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/Units/imw/events/AQUAECO

· Summer School in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, July 1-4, 2002, Crete, Greece: “Irrigation Water Management Under Risk.” http://www.aueb.gr/deos/Summer%20School/SSEET.htm

· Second World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2002, June 24-27, Monterey, California, USA: “Stochastic Technology and Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Production.” http://weber.ucsd.edu/~carsonvs

· Irrigation Water Policies: Micro and Macro Considerations, 2002, June 15-17, Agadir, Morocco: “Stochastic Technology and Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Production”. “A Methodology for Integrated Watershed Management.” http://www.worldbank.org/agadirconference

· 79TH Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE): Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Resource Economics 2002, June 5- 7, Wageningen University, The Netherlands: “Stochastic Technology and Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Production.”

7 · 7TH Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2002, April 18-20, University of Paris 1, Paris: “On the Use of the Stochastic Distance Function to Deriving Resource Scarcity Rents.”

· ASSET EuroConference, October, 2001, Rethymno, Crete: “Stochastic Technology and Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Production.”

· Eleventh Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June, 2001, Department of Economics, University of Southampton, Southampton: “On the Use of the Stochastic Distance Function to Deriving Resource Scarcity Rents.”

· ASSET EuroConference, November, 2000, Lisbon, Portugal: “Measuring Natural Resource Scarcity: A Distance Function Approach.”

· 70th Annual Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, August 2000, University of Thessaloniki: “On the Use of the Stochastic Distance Function to Deriving Resource Scarcity Rents.”

· Tenth Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June, 2000, Department of Economics, University of Crete, Rethymnon: “Dynamic Adaptation to Resource Depletion with Backstop Technology: A Partial Resolution of the Gisser-Sanchez Effect.”

· Mediterranean Conference: “Policies and Strategies for Desalination and Renewable Energies”, Santorini, Greece, June 2000, National University of Athens, Renewable Energy Sources Unit: “Dynamic Adaptation to Resource Depletion with Backstop Technology: A Partial Resolution of the Gisser-Sanchez Effect.”

· Annual Conference of American Economic Association, 1998, Berlin: “Reconsidering the Mathematical Structure of the Gisser-Snachez Paradox in Water Resource Management”.

WORKSHOPS

· Workshop of Aquallibrium Project, Berlin, November 2002. “An overview on the current debate and analysis of the various models of involvement and co-operation between the public and the private sector in the Republic of Ireland. ”

· Invited Speaker for 2nd Workshop of MEDIS project “Towards sustainable water use on Mediterranean Islands: addressing conflicting demands and varying hydrological, social and economic conditions”, Majorca, October 2002. “Introducing the ARID Cluster: Strengthening complementarity and exploitation of results of related RTD projects dealing with water resources use and management in arid and semi-arid regions”

8 · Invited speaker for 2nd Workshop of AQUADAPT project, Montpellier, October 2002. “Introducing the ARID Cluster: Strengthening complementarity and exploitation of results of related RTD projects dealing with water resources use and management in arid and semi-arid regions”

· Workshop of The ARID Cluster, July 9th 2002, Hermoupolis, Syros Island, Greece. “Integrating the Arid Cluster. The new Accompanying Measures Project, Objectives and actions in the project; Implications of the Accompanying Measures activities on the Arid Cluster.”

· Invited Speaker for Workshop on Externalities: Building up the RED Database for Sustainable Development Strategy Support, 17th June 2002, Bruxelles, European Commission – Belliard 100, SDR 0/0. “An Economic Methodology Towards Full-Cost Recovery: Water”

· Invited Speaker for the Seminar on Water Management, December 2001, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht: “Towards an Integrated Water Management in Cyprus: Methodology and Application”.

· Invited Speaker for the EU Workshop on “Water Management and the European Union”, October 2001, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium. “Different Methodologies to Measuring Water Scarcity”.

· Workshop on “Integrated Water Management”, March 2000, Institute for Transnational Legal Research, Maastricht University, Maastricht: “Hedonic Price Analysis and Selectivity: Theory and Application to Groundwater as Productive Input.”

· Workshop on “Integrated Water Management”, July 1999, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia: “The Potential for Groundwater Management: Gisser-Sanchez's Result Reconsidered.” “Dynamic Adaptation to Resource Depletion with Backstop Technology: A Partial Resolution of the Gisser-Sanchez Effect.”

SEMINARS INVITED BY

· Department of Agriculture, University of Reading, 2003. · Cyprus International Institute of Management, 2002. · Department of International and European Economics Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2002. · Department of Economics, University College London, 2001. · Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2001. · Department of Land Economics, University of Cambridge, 2000. · Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, 2000. · Department of Economics, University of Reading, 2000, 2001, 2002. · Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, 2000. · Department of Economics, University of Crete, 1999.

9 RESEARCH PROJECTS AND INVOLMENT IN EC PROJECT EVALUATION

1. Integrated Water Management in Cyprus: Economic and Institutional Foundations; funded by the European Commission, DG XII, 5th Framework Programme (June 1998 - June 2001). Co-ordinator: Dr. Phoebe Koundouri Scientific Partners: (1) Department of Economics/CSERGE, University College London, UK. (2) Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus. (3) Institute for Transnational Legal Research, Maastricht University, Netherlands. (4) Geological Institute/Engineering Geology, Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland. (5) Water Development Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment, Cyprus.

2. Assessing the Fairness of the Greek Health System Financing; funded by the World Health Organization (WHO) (2000-2001). Co-ordinator: Dr. Phoebe Koundouri Scientific Partners: (1) Department of Economics, University of Reading, UK. (2) Department of Economics, University College London, UK.

3. Developing a Methodology for Integrated Watershed Management; funded by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK (2001). Co-ordinator: Prof. Timothy Swanson Scientific Partners: (1) Department of Economics, University College London, UK. (2) Department of Economics, University of Reading, UK.

4. Sustainable Management of the South East Kalahari Aquifer System; funded by the Department of Water Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture Water and Rural Development, Government of the Republic of Namibia, 2002. Co-ordinator: Ben Groom Scientific Partners: (1) Department of Economics, University College London, UK. (3) Environmental Consultancy Group, UK.

5. PUMP – PRIMING AWARD (R104211): Measuring Risk Attitudes in Agriculture, funded by the University of Reading, UK, 2001-2003.

Co-ordinator: Dr. Phoebe Koundouri Scientific Partners: (1) Department of Economics, University of Reading, UK. (2) Department of Economics, University of Toulouse, France.

10 6. ARID CLUSTER: Strengthening complementarity and exploitation of results of related RTD projects dealing with water resources use and management in arid and semi-arid regions; European Commission, DG XII, 5th Framework Programme (2003-2006). (http://arid.chemeng.ntua.gr/)

Co-ordinator: Dr. Phoebe Koundouri Scientific Partners: (3) Department of Economics, University College London, UK. (4) School of Water Science, Cranfield University, UK (Co-ordinator of AQUADAPT Project: 12 partners) (5) Centre for Environmental Research, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany (Co-ordinator of MEDIS Project: 12 partners) (6) School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. (Co-ordinator of WaterStrategyMan Project: 9 partners)

7. BIOdiversity and Economics for CONservation; funded by the European Commission, DG XII, 5th Framework Programme (2002-2005).

Co-ordinator: Prof. Timothy Swanson Scientific Partners: (1) Department of Economics, University College London, UK. (2) Finnish forest Research Institute, Helsinki Research Center, Finland. (3) Institute of International Economic Law, University of Helsinki, Finland. (4) Laboratoire Montpelliérain D’econoie Théorique Et Appliquée, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Université Montpellier 1, France. (5) Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University, Netherlands. (6) Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. (7) Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK. (8) Center for Development Research, Department of Economics and Technological Change, University of Bonn, Germany. (9) Genetic Resources Sciences and Technology Group, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Italy. (10) Center for Environment and Development Economics, Environment Department, University of York, UK.

8. AQUALIBRIUM, European Water Management between Regulation and Competition; funded by the European Commission, DGXII, 2002-2003. Global Project Management: Nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and interdisciplinary Research Hardenbergstr, Berlin, Germany. Major Subcontractor: Department of Economics, University of Reading, UK.

9. STAMP DUTY: Its Impact on the UK Housing Market and Proposals for Reform; funded by the Council of Mortgage Lenders, 2002-2003.

Co-odinator: Prof. Geoffrey Meen. Scientific Partners: (1) Prof. Alan Evans, School of Business, University of Reading, UK (2) Dr Phoebe Koundouri, Scool of Business, University of Reading, UK

11 10. LONG RUN DISCOUNTING, funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), 2002-2003. Co-ordinator: Prof. David Pearce. Scientific Partners: (1) Ben Groom, University College London, UK (2) Phoebe Koundouri, University of Reading, UK (3) Robin Smale, OXERA (Oxford Economic Research Associates) (4) Cameron Hepburn, OXERA (Oxford Economic Research Associates) (5) Jan Cornillie, OXERA. (Oxford Economic Research Associates)

11. Expert evaluator for the 5th Framework Research Program, European Commission, Directorate-General XII, Research (Brussels, 19-23 March 2001, 26-30 December 2001).

12. Water Expert for the World Bank, Rural Development Department.

INVITED RESEARCH TRIP July-August 2001 French National Institute for Research in Agricultural Economics (INRA), University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.

March-April 2002 Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece (visiting lecture for the course "Microeconomic Issues of European Policies").

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

· Research Fellow, Cyprus International Institute of Management. · Member, American Economic Association. · Member, American Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. · Member, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. · Member of Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge. · Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. · Member of Cambridge University Teachers Association. · Studying for the Certificate in Further Professional Studies in Higher Education, Department of Education, University of Reading.

12 REFEREES

Prof. Paul Seabright Prof. Timothy Swanson Faculty of Economics and Politics Faculty of Law and University of Cambridge Department of Economics Austin Robinson Building University College London Sidgwick Avenue Gower Street Cambridge CB3 9DD, UK London WC1E 6BT, UK E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Anastasios Xepapadeas Prof. Alban Thomas Department of Economics INRA, Universite des Sciences Sociales University of Crete Manufacture des Tabacs 74100 Rethymno 21 allee de Brienne Crete, Greece 31000 Toulouse, France E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Jacov Tsur Prof. Chuck Howe The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Economics Department of Agricultural Economics University of Colorado at Boulder & Management 256 UCB PO Box 12, 76100, Rehovot, Israel Boulder, Colorado 80309-0256 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Ariel Dinar Prof. Jim Pemberton Lead Economist Department of Economics Rural Development Department University of Reading World Bank, 1818 H St. NW Faculty of Letters & Social Sciences MAIL STOP NUMBER MC5-517 PO Box 218 Whiteknights Washington DC 20433, USA Reading, RG6 6AA, UK E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

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