Christian Vossler
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
534 Stokely Management Center
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0550
(865) 974-1699
(865) 974-4601 Fax
cvossler@utk.edu
Vitae (pdf)
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Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2003
M.S., Oregon State University, 1999
B.S., University of Nevada-Reno, 1997
Teaching
Economics 362 – Environmental and Natural Resource Policy
Economics 381 – Introduction to Econometrics
Economics 677 – The Theory and Practice of Nonmarket Valuation
Research Interests
I am an applied microeconomist and applied econometrician whose teaching and research primarily focuses on environmental and natural resource issues. Much of my research has centered on non-market valuation methods used to estimate the benefits of environmental and other public goods, with special attention on mechanism design and validity issues related to survey-based valuation methods. I have also been active in theoretical and experimental economics research on public goods funding mechanisms, including the voluntary contributions mechanism and majority voting. Under a recent EPA STAR grant, I am using experimental economics methods to test the efficacy of ambient-based policies for regulating nonpoint source water pollution from agriculture. A second EPA STAR grant is being used for theoretical and empirical work on corporate governance issues related to environmental information disclosure programs. I am currently the Energy and Environmental Policy Research program coordinator for the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE), and Director of the Experimental Economics Laboratory at UT.
Selected Publications
Suter, Jordan F., Christian A. Vossler and Gregory L. Poe. Forthcoming. Experiments on Damage-Based Ambient Taxes for Nonpoint Source Polluters. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Vossler, Christian A. and Michael McKee. 2006. Induced-Value Tests of Contingent Valuation Elicitation Mechanisms. Environmental & Resource Economics 35: 137-168.
Vossler, Christian A., Gregory L. Poe, William D. Schulze, and Kathleen Segerson. 2006. Communication and Incentive Mechanisms Based on Group Performance: An Experimental Study of Nonpoint Pollution Control. Economic Inquiry 44: 599-613.
Vossler, Christian A. and Gregory L. Poe. 2005. Analysis of Contingent Valuation Data with Multiple Bids and Response Options Allowing Respondents to Express Uncertainty: A Comment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 49: 197-200.
Vossler, Christian A., Gregory L. Poe, Michael Welsh, and Robert Ethier. 2004. Bid Design Effects in Multiple Bounded Discrete Choice Valuation. Environmental & Resource Economics 29: 401-418.
Chapman, Duane, Christian A. Vossler, Timothy D. Mount, Vanessa Barboni, Robert J. Thomas, and Ray D. Zimmerman. 2004. Market Efficiency, Competition, and Communication in Electric Power Markets: Experimental Results. Ecological Economics 48: 317-327.
Vossler, Christian A. and Joe Kerkvliet. 2003. A Criterion Validity Test of the Contingent Valuation Method: Comparing Hypothetical and Actual Voting Behavior for a Public Referendum. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45: 261-277.
Vossler, Christian A., Joe Kerkvliet, Stephen Polasky, and Olesya Gainutdinova. 2003. Externally Validating Contingent Valuation: An Open-Space Survey and Referendum in Corvallis, Oregon. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 51: 261-277.
Vossler, Christian A., Robert G. Ethier, Gregory L. Poe, and Michael P. Welsh. 2003. Payment Certainty in Discrete Choice Contingent Valuation Responses: Results from a Field Validity Test. Southern Economic Journal 69: 886-902.
Poe, Gregory L. and Christian A. Vossler. 2002. Monte Carlo Benchmarks for Discrete Response Valuation Methods: Comment. Land Economics 78: 605-616.