Teaching
Awards
-Faculty Early Achievement in Teaching Award. Iowa State University. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. March 2024.
Teaching - Iowa State University
-Advanced Environmental Economics (ECON581 - Ph.D.). (Syllabus)
Interrelationships of natural resource use and the environment. Applied welfare and benefit-cost analyses. Externalities and pollution abatement. Nonmarket valuation of resources. Property rights. Legal and social constraints. Policy approaches.
-Intermediate Environmental and Resource Economics (ECON481 - Undergraduate). (Syllabus)
Theories of natural resource utilization and allocation. Externalities, public goods, and environmental quality. Renewable energy, biofuels, land use change and life cycle analysis of carbon, and sustainability and resource conservation. Methodologies for analyzing natural resource and environmental problems and evaluating resource policies.
-Commodity Marketing and Risk Management (ECON437 - Undergraduate and Masters). (Syllabus)
The purpose and performance of commodity markets. How commodity marketing institutions function. Merchandising arrangements. Distinguishing features of agricultural commodities. Hedging, arbitrage, and speculation in commodity spot, forward, futures, and options markets. Valuation theory.
-Introduction to Econometrics (ECON371 - Undergraduate). (Syllabus)
Introduction to the models and methods used to estimate relationships and test hypotheses pertaining to economic variables. The course covers Single and multiple regression analysis, functional forms, omitted variable analysis, multicollinearity, heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation, simultaneous equations, and dynamic models.
-Introduction to Agricultural Markets (ECON235 - Undergraduate). (Syllabus)
Basic concepts and economic principles related to markets for agricultural inputs and products. Overview of current marketing problems faced by farms and agribusinesses, farm and retail price behavior, the structure of markets, food marketing channels, food quality, and food safety, and the role of agriculture in the general economy. The implications of consumer preferences at the farm level. Introduction to hedging, futures, and other risk management tools.
Teaching Assistantship - Yale University
-Economic Strategies for Developing Countries (MBA). Dr. Mushfiq Mobarak, 2016
-Multivariate Statistics for Social Sciences (Masters). Dr. Reuning-Scherer, 2016
-Economics of Energy and Climate Change (undergraduate). Dr. William Nordhaus, 2014
-Energy Technology Innovation (Masters). Dr. Arnulf Grubler, 2014
-Economics of the Environment (undergraduate). Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, 2014
-Energy Systems Analysis (Masters). Dr. Arnulf Grubler, 2010 and 2012