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Constant I. Tra

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First Name:Constant
Middle Name:I.
Last Name:Tra
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RePEc Short-ID:ptr130
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Terminal Degree:2007 Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics; University of Maryland (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

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Department of Economics
Lee School of Business
University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada (United States)
http://www.unlv.edu/economics/
RePEc:edi:denlvus (more details at EDIRC)

Center for Business and Economic Research
Department of Economics
Lee School of Business
University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada (United States)
http://cber.unlv.edu/
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Research output

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Working papers

  1. Constant Tra, 2009. "Nonlinear Income Effects in Random Utility Models: Revisiting the Accuracy of the Representative Consumer Approximation," Working Papers 0924, University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics.
  2. Constant Tra, 2009. "Have Renewable Portfolio Standards Raised Electricity Rates? Evidence from U.S. Electric Utilities," Working Papers 0923, University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics.
  3. Constant Tra, 2009. "Title: A Discrete Choice Equilibrium Approach to Valuing Large Environmental Changes," Working Papers 0922, University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics.
  4. Tra, Constant I., 2007. "Equilibrium Welfare Impacts of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments in the Los Angeles Area," Working Papers 7341, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Articles

  1. Constant I. Tra, 2013. "Nonlinear income effects in random utility models: revisiting the accuracy of the representative consumer approximation," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(1), pages 55-63, January.
  2. Charles Towe & Constant I. Tra, 2013. "Vegetable Spirits and Energy Policy," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 95(1), pages 1-16.
  3. Tra, Constant I., 2010. "A discrete choice equilibrium approach to valuing large environmental changes," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(1-2), pages 183-196, February.
  4. Lichtenberg, Erik & Tra, Constant & Hardie, Ian, 2007. "Land use regulation and the provision of open space in suburban residential subdivisions," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 54(2), pages 199-213, September.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Constant Tra, 2009. "Nonlinear Income Effects in Random Utility Models: Revisiting the Accuracy of the Representative Consumer Approximation," Working Papers 0924, University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Min Qiang Zhao & Ju-Chin Huang, 2018. "The Representative Consumer Approximation Bias in Discrete Choice Welfare Analysis," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 71(4), pages 969-984, December.
    2. Delle Site, Paolo & Salucci, Marco Valerio, 2013. "Transition choice probabilities and welfare analysis in random utility models with imperfect before–after correlation," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 215-242.
    3. Dekker, Thijs, 2014. "Indifference based value of time measures for Random Regret Minimisation models," Journal of choice modelling, Elsevier, vol. 12(C), pages 10-20.
    4. Delle Site, Paolo, 2013. "Integration of choice probabilities in logit," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 120(1), pages 57-60.
    5. McFadden, Daniel, 2022. "Instability in mixed logit demand models," Journal of choice modelling, Elsevier, vol. 43(C).

  2. Constant Tra, 2009. "Have Renewable Portfolio Standards Raised Electricity Rates? Evidence from U.S. Electric Utilities," Working Papers 0923, University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Wang, Hongbo, 2014. "Do Mandatory U.S. State Renewable Portfolio Standards Increase Electricity Prices?," MPRA Paper 59165, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Karen Maguire & Abdul Munasib, 2013. "Do Renewables Portfolio Standards Increase Electricity Prices? A Synthetic Control Approach," Economics Working Paper Series 1403, Oklahoma State University, Department of Economics and Legal Studies in Business, revised Aug 2013.

  3. Tra, Constant I., 2007. "Equilibrium Welfare Impacts of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments in the Los Angeles Area," Working Papers 7341, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

    Cited by:

    1. Constant I. Tra, 2013. "Measuring the General Equilibrium Benefits of Air Quality Regulation in Small Urban Areas," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 89(2), pages 291-307.
    2. Constant Tra, 2009. "Nonlinear Income Effects in Random Utility Models: Revisiting the Accuracy of the Representative Consumer Approximation," Working Papers 0924, University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics.
    3. Constant I. Tra & Anna Lukemeyer & Helen Neill, 2013. "Evaluating The Welfare Effects Of School Quality Improvements: A Residential Sorting Approach," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(4), pages 607-630, October.
    4. Constant Tra, 2009. "Title: A Discrete Choice Equilibrium Approach to Valuing Large Environmental Changes," Working Papers 0922, University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Constant I. Tra, 2013. "Nonlinear income effects in random utility models: revisiting the accuracy of the representative consumer approximation," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(1), pages 55-63, January.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Charles Towe & Constant I. Tra, 2013. "Vegetable Spirits and Energy Policy," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 95(1), pages 1-16.

    Cited by:

    1. Cheu, Sungmin & Gammans, Matthew, 2023. "The Effect of Ethanol Capacity on Cover Crop Use in the Midwest," 2023 Annual Meeting, July 23-25, Washington D.C. 335819, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Buchanan, Kathryn & Russo, Riccardo & Anderson, Ben, 2015. "The question of energy reduction: The problem(s) with feedback," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 89-96.
    3. Kuethe, Todd H. & Walsh, Nicholas & Ifft, Jennifer, 2013. "Farmland versus Alternative Investments Before and After the 2008 Financial Crisis," Journal of the ASFMRA, American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, vol. 2013, pages 1-12, June.
    4. Stefan Seifert & Christoph Kahle & Silke Hüttel, 2021. "Price Dispersion in Farmland Markets: What Is the Role of Asymmetric Information?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(4), pages 1545-1568, August.
    5. Czyżewski, Bazyli & Trojanek, Radosław, 2016. "Drivers of agricultural land prices in terms of different functions of rural areas in Poland," Problems of Agricultural Economics / Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Rolnej 249742, Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics - National Research Institute (IAFE-NRI).
    6. Ifft, Jennifer & Wu, Shang & Kuethe, Todd, 2014. "The Impact of Pasture Insurance on Farmland Values," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, vol. 43(3), pages 1-16, December.
    7. Shukun Wang & Changquan Liu & Lei Han & Tingting Li & Guolei Yang & Taofeng Chen, 2022. "Corn Grain or Corn Silage: Effects of the Grain-to-Fodder Crop Conversion Program on Farmers’ Income in China," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-16, July.
    8. Junpyo Park, 2022. "Distance to Biorefinery Plants and Its Influence on Agricultural Land Value: Evidence from the United States Midwest Region," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-14, September.
    9. Jennifer Ifft & Deepak Rajagopal & Ryan Weldzuis, 2019. "Ethanol Plant Location and Land Use: A Case Study of CRP and the Ethanol Mandate," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 41(1), pages 37-55, March.
    10. Sampson, Gabriel S. & Al-Sudani, Amer & Bergtold, Jason, 2021. "Local irrigation response to ethanol expansion in the High Plains Aquifer," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
    11. Ifft, Jennifer & Rajagopal, Deepak & Ryan, Weldzius, 2016. "The effect of the ethanol mandate on the Conservation Reserve Program," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 236178, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    12. Hendricks, Nathan P. & Sinnathamby, Sumathy & Douglas-Mankin, Kyle & Smith, Aaron & Sumner, Daniel A. & Earnhart, Dietrich H., 2014. "The environmental effects of crop price increases: Nitrogen losses in the U.S. Corn Belt," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 68(3), pages 507-526.

  3. Tra, Constant I., 2010. "A discrete choice equilibrium approach to valuing large environmental changes," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(1-2), pages 183-196, February.

    Cited by:

    1. Bruno Lanz & Allan Provins, 2016. "Using averting expenditures to estimate the demand for public goods: Combining objective and perceived quality," IRENE Working Papers 16-06, IRENE Institute of Economic Research.
    2. Banzhaf, H. Spencer & Farooque, Omar, 2013. "Interjurisdictional housing prices and spatial amenities: Which measures of housing prices reflect local public goods?," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 43(4), pages 635-648.
    3. Nicolai V. Kuminoff & V. Kerry Smith & Christopher Timmins, 2013. "The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and Policy Evaluation Using Housing Markets," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 51(4), pages 1007-1062, December.
    4. Nicolai V. Kuminoff & V. Kerry Smith & Christopher Timmins, 2010. "The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and its Transformational Role for Policy Evaluation," NBER Working Papers 16349, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Neumann, Uwe & Taruttis, Lisa, 2018. "Sorting in an urban housing market - is there a response to demographic change?," Ruhr Economic Papers 784, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
    6. Wenjie Wu, 2013. "Does Better Rail Access Improve Homeowners’ Happiness?: Evidence Based on Micro Surveys in Beijing," SERC Discussion Papers 0134, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    7. Hilber, Christian A. L., 2015. "The economic implications of house price capitalization: a synthesis," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 61774, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    8. von Haefen, Roger H. & Domanski, Adam, 2018. "Estimation and welfare analysis from mixed logit models with large choice sets," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 101-118.
    9. Caroline Löffler & Harald Hecking, 2017. "Greenhouse Gas Abatement Cost Curves of the Residential Heating Market: A Microeconomic Approach," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 68(4), pages 915-947, December.
    10. H. Allen Klaiber & Roger H. von Haefen, 2019. "Do Random Coefficients and Alternative Specific Constants Improve Policy Analysis? An Empirical Investigation of Model Fit and Prediction," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 73(1), pages 75-91, May.
    11. Hamilton, Timothy L. & Phaneuf, Daniel J., 2015. "An integrated model of regional and local residential sorting with application to air quality," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 71-93.
    12. Michael Greenstone & John List & Chad Syverson, 2012. "The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing," Natural Field Experiments 00590, The Field Experiments Website.
    13. Patrick Bajari & Jane Cooley Fruehwirth & Kyoo il Kim & Christopher Timmins, 2012. "A Rational Expectations Approach to Hedonic Price Regressions with Time-Varying Unobserved Product Attributes: The Price of Pollution," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 102(5), pages 1898-1926, August.
    14. Teulings, Coen N. & Ossokina, Ioulia V. & de Groot, Henri L.F., 2018. "Land use, worker heterogeneity and welfare benefits of public goods," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 67-82.
    15. Kim, Hyun No & Boxall, Peter C. & Adamowicz, W.L.(Vic), 2019. "Analysis of the economic impact of water management policy on residential prices: Modifying choice set formation in a discrete house choice analysis," Journal of choice modelling, Elsevier, vol. 33(C).
    16. Grainger, Corbett A., 2012. "The distributional effects of pollution regulations: Do renters fully pay for cleaner air?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 96(9-10), pages 840-852.
    17. Dieckhoener, Caroline & Hecking, Harald, 2012. "Greenhouse Gas Abatement Cost Curves of the Residential Heating Market – a Microeconomic Approach," EWI Working Papers 2012-16, Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universitaet zu Koeln (EWI).
    18. Constant I. Tra & Anna Lukemeyer & Helen Neill, 2013. "Evaluating The Welfare Effects Of School Quality Improvements: A Residential Sorting Approach," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(4), pages 607-630, October.
    19. Matthew E. Kahn & Randall Walsh, 2014. "Cities and the Environment," NBER Working Papers 20503, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    20. V. Kerry Smith & Min Qiang Zhao, 2016. "Evaluating Economy-Wide Benefit Cost Analyses," NBER Working Papers 22769, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    21. Zhang, Zhaohua & Hite, Diane, 2016. "Residential Location Impacts of Environmental Disamenity: The Case of Gravel Pit Operation and Landfills," 2016 Annual Meeting, February 6-9, 2016, San Antonio, Texas 229739, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    22. Cao, Xiang & Boyle, Kevin J. & Siriwardena, Shyamani D. & Holmes, Thomas P., 2018. "Estimating Demand for Urban Tree Cover Using a Residential Sorting Model," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274020, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    23. Jie-Sheng Tan Soo, 2018. "Valuing Air Quality in Indonesia Using Households’ Locational Choices," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 71(3), pages 755-776, November.
    24. Bakkensen, Laura A. & Ma, Lala, 2020. "Sorting over flood risk and implications for policy reform," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 104(C).
    25. Qin Fan & Meri Davlasheridze, 2016. "Flood Risk, Flood Mitigation, and Location Choice: Evaluating the National Flood Insurance Program's Community Rating System," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 36(6), pages 1125-1147, June.
    26. Amy Binner & Brett Day, 2018. "How Property Markets Determine Welfare Outcomes: An Equilibrium Sorting Model Analysis of Local Environmental Interventions," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 69(4), pages 733-761, April.
    27. Holmes, Thomas J. & Sieg, Holger, 2015. "Structural Estimation in Urban Economics," Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, in: Gilles Duranton & J. V. Henderson & William C. Strange (ed.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edition 1, volume 5, chapter 0, pages 69-114, Elsevier.
    28. Allen Klaiber, H. & Phaneuf, Daniel J., 2010. "Valuing open space in a residential sorting model of the Twin Cities," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 60(2), pages 57-77, September.
    29. Zou, Guojian & Lai, Ziliang & Li, Ye & Liu, Xinghua & Li, Wenxiang, 2022. "Exploring the nonlinear impact of air pollution on housing prices: A machine learning approach," Economics of Transportation, Elsevier, vol. 31(C).
    30. Lee, Han Bum & McNamara, Paul E., 2017. "Deconcentrating the poor via public housing policy: What really matters?," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 67-78.
    31. Evans, Keith Shannon, 2011. "Problems of uncertainty, learning, and welfare measurement in resource and environmental economics," ISU General Staff Papers 201101010800001072, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    32. Hitaj, Claudia & Lynch, Lori & McConnell, Kenneth E. & Tra, Constant I., 2018. "The Value of Ozone Air Quality Improvements to Renters: Evidence From Apartment Building Transactions in Los Angeles County," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 706-721.
    33. Yong Chen & David J. Lewis & Bruce Weber, 2016. "Conservation Land Amenities And Regional Economies: A Postmatching Difference-In-Differences Analysis Of The Northwest Forest Plan," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 56(3), pages 373-394, June.

  4. Lichtenberg, Erik & Tra, Constant & Hardie, Ian, 2007. "Land use regulation and the provision of open space in suburban residential subdivisions," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 54(2), pages 199-213, September.

    Cited by:

    1. Magliocca, Nicholas & McConnell, Virginia & Walls, Margaret, 2015. "Exploring sprawl: Results from an economic agent-based model of land and housing markets," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 114-125.
    2. Magliocca, Nicholas & McConnell, Virginia & Walls, Margaret & Safirova, Elena, 2012. "Zoning on the urban fringe: Results from a new approach to modeling land and housing markets," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 42(1-2), pages 198-210.
    3. Legras, Sophie & Cavailhès, Jean, 2016. "Environmental performance of the urban form," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 1-11.
    4. Elena G. Irwin & Andrew M. Isserman & Maureen Kilkenny & Mark D. Partridge, 2010. "A Century of Research on Rural Development and Regional Issues," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 92(2), pages 522-553.
    5. Mallory, Mindy L. & Ando, Amy W., 2014. "Implementing efficient conservation portfolio design," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 1-18.
    6. Guillaume POUYANNE & Frederic GASCHET, 2013. "The Effect Of Current And Future Land Use On House Prices," ERSA conference papers ersa13p249, European Regional Science Association.
    7. Seong-Hoon Cho & Dayton Lambert & Seung Kim & Roland Roberts & William Park, 2011. "Relationship between value of open space and distance from housing locations within a community," Journal of Geographical Systems, Springer, vol. 13(4), pages 393-414, December.
    8. Ferris, Jeffrey & David, Newburn, 2014. "Residential Development And The Effect Of Forest Conservation Policy," 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota 170321, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    9. Cho, Seong-Hoon & Lambert, Dayton M. & Roberts, Roland K. & Kim, Seung Gyu, 2008. "Moderating Urban Sprawl through Land Value Taxation," 2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida 6150, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    10. Lichtenberg, Erik, 2011. "Open Space and Urban Sprawl: The Effects of Zoning and Forest Conservation Regulations in Maryland," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 40(3), pages 393-404, December.
    11. Maria A. Cunha-e-Sa & Sofia F. Franco, 2013. "The effects of land-use development policies on forest management," Nova SBE Working Paper Series wp576, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.
    12. Cotteleer, Geerte & van Kooten, G. Cornelis, 2012. "Expert opinion versus actual transaction evidence in the valuation of non-market amenities," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 29(1), pages 32-40.
    13. Seong-Hoon Cho & Dayton M. Lambert & Roland K. Roberts, 2010. "Forecasting Open Space with a Two-Rate Property Tax," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 86(2), pages 263-280.
    14. Marin V. Geshkov & Joseph S. DeSalvo, 2012. "The Effect Of Land-Use Controls On The Spatial Size Of U.S. Urbanized Areas," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(4), pages 648-675, October.
    15. Lichtenberg, Erik, 2008. "Open Space and Urban Sprawl: The Case of the Maryland Forest Conservation Act," Working Papers 37812, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
    16. Sims, Katharine R.E. & Schuetz, Jenny, 2009. "Local regulation and land-use change: The effects of wetlands bylaws in Massachusetts," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 39(4), pages 409-421, July.

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  1. NEP-DCM: Discrete Choice Models (2) 2009-09-26 2009-09-26
  2. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (1) 2009-09-26
  3. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (1) 2009-09-26
  4. NEP-UPT: Utility Models and Prospect Theory (1) 2009-09-26
  5. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2009-09-26

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