List of Abstracts
Thursday, April 24, 1997
Session #1
Electric Power and Utility Regulation
Restructuring the Electricity Industry
Terry H. Morlan
Entry Decisions and Regulatory Distortions: Qualifying Facilities in the Northwest
David Hunger
Economic Impact of Electric Power Industry Deregulation on the
State of Washington
Roger Coupal
Are Local Telephone Monopolies Unnatural?: Subadditivity, Costs and
Deregulation of Local Telephone Markets
Wesley W. Wilson
Public Services
Rethinking the Economic Impact of Higher Education
Rebecca Johnson, Kristen Aldred Cheek, Bruce Weber and Laurie Houston
Land Use: Implication for Local Government Revenues and Expenditures
Neil Meyer
Is Municipal Recycling Cost Effective?
Clark Wiseman
Restructuring the U.S. Department of Energy's Acquisition Approach to
Reduce Deadweight Loss
Mark R. Weimar, Orman H. Paanen and Michael J. Scott
Timber Issues I: Recreation vs. Timber
Recreation or Timber: Which Brings More Benefits?--Challenging the
Conventional Wisdom
Con Schallau and Wilbur Maki
Recreation or Timber: Which Brings More Benefits?--A Forest Service
Prospective
Greg Alward
The Growth Follows Amenities Doctrine and the Inland Northwest
John Miller
A Theory of Communities for Pacific Northwest Rural Economic Development
Planning and Analysis: A Look at Community-Level Data and Impact Models
Hank Robison
Friday, April 25, 1997
Session #2
Agriculture
The Trends and Changing Structure of Idaho Farms
Shunxiang Wu and David J. Walker
Crop Acreage Decisions: Case of Corn
Mehrdad Karimi
Idaho Feeder Cattle: A Commodity Price Analysis for 1973-1993
Tim Bodine
Technical Efficiency and Decomposition for Sugarbeet Farms in Southern
Idaho and Eastern Oregon
Shunxiang Wu, Russ Withers and David J. Walker
Valuation of Environmental Quality
Valuation of Ecological Resources and Functions
Michael J. Scott, Gordon R. Bilyard, Paolo F. Ricci, Harold E. Seely, Carols A. Ulibarri and
Howard E. Westerdahl
The Aesthetic Value of Riparian Enhancement: A Hedonic Study of
Changes in Property Values
Sian Mooney
An Alternative Incentive Program to Protect Groundwater Quality
Sally Easley Hays
National Forest Service Valuations for Environmental Amenities Associated
With Timber Harvests
Brooks Kaiser
Industries in Transition
The Functional Distribution of Household Income in Washington
Fatuma Yusuf
Regional Market Networks in Health Care Services
Steve Seninger
Helping Rural Food Manufacturers Capitalize on Trade, Technology and
Policy Changes
Julie Fox Sievertsen, and Thomas Worley
Economic Development Strategies
Poverty Transitions and Public Policy in Oregon
Elizabeth E. Davis and Bruce Weber
Economic Trends and State Strategic Planning: Lessons From Economic
Analysis, Goal Setting and Benchmarking
Gerald R. Kissler
Oregon and the Global Transformation: Is Oregon Prepared to Succeed
in the 21st Century?
Katherine Richardson and Gerald Kissler
Sports Facility Location as an Economic Development Strategy in Seattle,
Portland and Vancouver
Timothy S. Chapin
Friday, April 25, 1997
Session #3
Social Demographic Trends in Rural Areas: Searching for Explanations
Amenities and Economic Growth in the Pacific Northwest
Paul E. Polzin
The Missing Link? Sources of Income and Recent Population Growth in the Nonmetropolitan West
Peter B. Nelson
Land Preservation
The Impact of Oregon's Land Use Planning Program on Forest and Agricultural Land Retention
Jeffrey Kline and Ralph Alig
Efficient Land Tenure Contract Under Asymmetric Information and
Effect of Two Sources of Moral Hazard
Siddhartha Dasgupta
Timber Issues II: Community Assessments, Climate Signals and Forest Product Marketing
Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Community Assessment
Rebecca Johnson and Kristin Aldred Cheek
Incorporating Climate Signals in Natural Resources Planning in the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska
Mark P. Baldwin, Rebecca Tuttle Baldwin and Nicholas A. Bond
An Initial Look at the Transportation Needs of the Forest Products
Industry in the Pacific Northwest
Ken Casavant and Lynn Alderson
Friday, April 25, 1997
Session #4
A Discussion of the Recent Property Tax Initiatives in Idaho and Oregon Panel
Idaho's 1996 One Percent Property Tax Initiative
Stephen Cooke
Trade and Transportation
International Trade Opportunities and Challenges - A Regional Perspective
Arun Jhaveri
Network Pricing in Railroad Markets
Mark Burton and Wesley W. Wilson
U.S.-Canada Trade and Its Impact on Washington Highways
Ken Casavant and Ken Eriksen
Electricity Markets in Transition: An Analysis of the PGE-Enron Merger
Debbie Kitchin
Monitoring the Economy
On Constructing a Local Time Series Price Index
David Merrifield
Seasonality in Washington
Gary Kamimura
Why Tax Structures are Not Simple--A Case Study Involving Warehousing
Exemptions
Lorrie Jo Brown
Saturday, April 26, 1997
Session #5
Migration to Pacific Northwest
Shifting Trends in Interstate Migration: Implications for the Pacific
Northwest Economy
Steven G. Cochrane
Why People Move to Montana
James T. Sylvester
Retiree Migration: Who's Coming, Where From and Why?
Virginia W. Junk, Linda K. Fox and Sandra E. Cann
Failed Hopes or Dreams Come True: What's Behind Recent Rural In-Migration?
Harold L. Fossum and Priscilla Salant
Water Policy
Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Age of Regulatory Reform: A State Agency Example
William Bafus
Third-Party Impacts and the Potential for Water Transfers in the Northwest
Gareth P. Green
An Update of a Preliminary Estimate of Snake River Fish Runs
Edgar L. Michalson
Applied Natural Resource Economics for Water Quality
June C. Grabemeyer
Ports and River System
The Economic Impacts of the Ports of Lewiston, Clarkston and Whitman County
Lawrence Merk and Steven Peterson
Waterborne Commerce on the Columbia-Snake System
Nancy S. Lee and Ken Casavant
Channel Deepening and Other Maritime Policy Issues Impact on Pacific
Northwest Wheat Exports
James R. Jones and Yuying Guo
Measuring Impacts From a Snake River Drawdown: A GIS Approach
Eric Jessup
Grappling With Urban Growth
Portland's Urban Growth Boundary: Growth Management or Growth Limitation?
Anthony M. Rufolo
Urban Growth Boundaries and Lot Price: Clark County, Washington
Jack Purdie, Marvin Wolverton and Glenn Crellin
Congestion Pricing and Financial Hardship: Income and Poverty
Status of Peak-Hour Single Occupant Vehicle Commuters in the Portland Metropolitan Area
Jack Svadlenak and Barnie Jones
Sinclair Landing: A Private-Public Innovation
Lynn S. Horton and Terrie O'Neill
Job Transitions and Welfare Changes
Employment Transitions and Changes in Industrial Structure in the Pacific Northwest
Richard Barrett
Changes in the Welfare System: Responses of Selected Pacific Northwest Employers
Dorothy Z. Price
School Quality and the Black-White Performance Gap
David N. Figlio and Wesley W. Wilson
Identifying Economically Distressed Areas: Concept and Data
Irv Lefberg, Carol Jenner and Ta-Win Lin