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EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. in Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island
• M.S. in Economics (with a minor in Statistics), Iowa State University
• B.A. in Economics, California State University, Fullerton
• A.S., Cypress College

FIELDS OF INTEREST:

• Environmental Economics
• Natural Resource Economics
• Microeconomics
• Experimental Economics
• Public Goods

COURSES MOST FREQUENTLY TAUGHT:

• ECON 202 - Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON 301 - Quantitative Methods in Economics
• ECON 412 - Resource and Environmental Economics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Spencer, Michael A. (2010). “Loyalty, Protocol, Bargainer Characteristics, and Rationality in an Experimental Investigation of Bilateral Bargaining in Dyads.” Applied Economics Letters, 17(9): 895-900.
• Spencer, Michael A., Stephen K. Swallow, Jason F. Shogren, and John A. List (2009). “Rebate Rules in Threshold Public Good Provision.” Journal of Public Economics, 93(5-6): 798-806. [This paper originally appeared as National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper No. 14559, which is available online at http://www.nber.org/papers/w14559.]
• Spencer, Michael A. (2007). “Using Rebate Rules to Provide and Value Threshold Public Goods: An Overview of Experimental Economic Research with Implications for Natural Resources Management.” Taiwan Journal of Forest Science, 22(1): 29-45.
• Hardmeyer, Kent and Michael A. Spencer (2007). “Using Risk-Based Analysis and Geographic Information Systems to Assess Flooding Problems in an Urban Watershed in Rhode Island.” Environmental Management, 39(4): 563-574.
• Zlotnick, Caron, Benjamin F. Rodriguez, Risa B. Weisberg, Steven E. Bruce, Michael A. Spencer, Larry Culpepper, and Martin B. Keller (2004). “Chronicity in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Predictors of the Course of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among Primary Care Patients.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 192(2): 153-159.
• Spencer, Michael A. and Jason F. Shogren (2000). “Protocol for Inexperienced Coasean Bargainers Confronting Delay Costs.” Resource and Energy Economics, 22(1): 79-90.
• Spencer, Michael A., Stephen K. Swallow, and Christopher J. Miller (1998). “Valuing Water Quality Monitoring: A Contingent Valuation Experiment Involving Hypothetical and Real Payments.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 27(1): 28-42.