Ana Espinola-Arredondo

Associate Professor and Associate Director

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EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
• M.Sc. Economics, University of Barcelona, Spain, 2002
• B.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Valparaiso with Honors, Chile, 1999
• B.A. Business Administration, University of Valparaiso with Honors, Chile, 1999

FIELDS OF INTEREST

• Environmental Economics and Game Theory
• Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconomics.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Strandholm, J. and A. Espinola-Arredondo. Investment in Green Technology and Entry Deterrence. Forthcoming The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., F. Munoz-Garcia and I. Duah. Anticipatory Effects of Taxation in the Commons: When Do Taxes Work, and When Do They Fail? Forthcoming Ecological Economics.
• Bayham, J., F. Munoz-Garcia and A. Espinola-Arredondo. 2019. International Coordination of Environmental Policies: Is it Always Worth the Effort? Environment and Development Economics, 24(3), pp. 294-316.
• Choi, P., Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2018. Conservation Procurement Auctions with Bidirectional Externalities. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 92, pp. 559-579.
• Strandholm, J., A. Espinola-Arredondo and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2018. Regulation, Free-Riding Incentives, and R&D investment with Spillover. Resource and Energy Economics, 53, pp. 133-146.
  
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., F. Munoz-Garcia and P. Tantihkarnchana. 2018. Information Transmission During the Trial: The Role of Punitive Damages and Legal Costs. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 20(2), pp. 136-155.
  
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2016. Profit-Enhancing Environmental Policy: Uninformed Regulation in an Entry-Deterrence Model. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 50(2), pp. 146-163.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2015. Can Poorly Informed Regulators Hinder Competition? Environmental and Resource Economics, 61(3), pp. 433-461.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2015. Why do Firms Oppose Entry-Deterring Regulation? Environmental Regulation and Entry Deterrence.Environment and Development Economics, 20(2), pp. 141-160.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2015.The Signaling Role of Subsidies. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 15(1), pp. 157-178.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., F. Munoz-Garcia and J. Bayham. 2014. The Entry-Deterring Effects of Inflexible Regulation. Canadian Journal of Economics, 47(1), pp. 298-324.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2013. Asymmetric Information may Protect the Commons: The Welfare Benefits of Uninformed Regulators.Economics Letters, 121 (3), pp. 463-67.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2013. When does Environmental Regulation Facilitate Entry-Deterring Practices? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 65(1), pp. 133-152.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2013. Don’t Forget to Protect Abundant Resources. Strategic Behavior and the Environment, 3(4), pp. 251-278.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and H. Zhao. 2012. Environmental Policy in a Linear City Model of Product Differentiation. Environment and Development Economics, 17(4), pp. 461-477.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2012. When do Firms Support Environmental Agreements?  Journal of Regulatory Economics, 41(3), pp. 380-401.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2011. Can incomplete information lead to under-exploitation in the commons? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62(3), pp. 402-413.  [Technical Appendix]
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., E. Gal-Or and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2011. When should a firm expand its business? The Signaling Implications of Business Expansion.International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29 (6), pp. 729-745.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2011. Free-riding in International Environmental Agreements: A Signaling Approach to Non-Enforceable Treaties.Journal of Theoretical Politics, 23 (1), pp. 111–134.
• Free-riding and cooperation in environmental games. 2009. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 11 (1), pp. 119–158.
• Green Auctions: a biodiversity study of mechanism design with externalities. 2008. Ecological Economics, 67 (2), pp. 175-183.

For more on her research, visit her personal website

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. Intermediate Economic Theory: Tools and Step-by-Step Examples. The MIT Press, Forthcoming Spring 2020.
• Dunaway, E., Strandholm, J., Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. Practice Exercises for Intermediate Economic Theory. The MIT Press, Forthcoming Spring 2020
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. Editors of the volume dedicated to “Game Theory,” in the WSCP reference of natural resources and environmental policy in the era of global change, World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC)/Imperial College Press (IPC). October 2016.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2013. “Environmental Negotiations under Uncertainty,” in Analyzing Global Environmental Issues: Theoretical and Experimental Applications and their Policy Implications, Ariel Dinar and Amnon Rapoport, eds. Routledge. February 14th, pp. 53-68.
• F. Munoz-Garcia and Espinola-Arredondo. “The Role of Information in the Tragedy of the Commons,” in Analyzing Global Environmental Issues: Theoretical and Experimental Applications and their Policy Implications, Ariel Dinar and Amnon Rapoport, eds. Routledge. February 14th, pp. 29-52.
• Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 8th edition. (Tom Tietenberg and Lynne Lewis), Prentice Hall, 2009.

AWARDS

• 2017-18 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant.
• The Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship. AAEA Foundation, 2010.
• Second Place in Research Medal Award of the Global Development Network (sponsored by International Development Research Center, Canada (IDRC) and the World Bank) with the paper “Free-riding and Cooperation in Environmental Games,” Kuwait, February 2009.
• Junta de Andalucia Research Fellowship, Spain, Summer 2009.
• Full tuition scholarship and stipend, University of Pittsburgh, 2003-Spring 2008
• Arts & Sciences Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Summer and Fall 2007
• Full tuition scholarship, University of Barcelona, Spain, 2001-Spring 2002

EDITORIAL DUTIES

• Economic Inquiry, Co-Editor 2018-
• PLOS ONE, Editorial Board 2019-

TEACHING MATERIALS

• Microeconomic Theory – EconS501 (Fall 2019)
• Environmental Economics – EconS582 (Spring 2020)
• All teaching materials are at Blackboard. For further information, please visit her Personal Website.
• Faculty Research Lightning Talk

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