Prof. Dietrich Earnhart
CV
Professional Preparation:
Yale University New Haven, CT Economics/Political Science B.A., 1987
Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison, WI Economics M.S., 1991
Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison, WI Economics Ph.D., 1995
Appointments:
2017 – present Director, Undergraduate Studies Program, Department of Economics, University of Kansas
2009 – present Full Professor, University of Kansas
2012 – present Research Associate, Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI), Charles University – Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
2002 – 2009 Associate Professor, University of Kansas
2002 – present Director, Center for Environmental Policy, Institute for Policy and Social Research, University of Kansas
1999 – 2003 Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute (at University of Michigan)
1999 – 2003 Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research
1997 – 2002 Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
1995 – 1997 Assistant Professor, Fairfield University
Publiktionen (Auswahl)
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“Effect of Cooperative Enforcement Strategies on Wastewater Management,” Economic Inquiry, 56 (2) [April], pg. 1357-1379, 2018 (with Zach Raff).
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“Corporate Environmental Strategies in Developing and Transition Economies,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 8 (2), pg. 164-185, 2014 (with Madhu Khanna and Thomas Lyon).
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“Effect of Audits on the Extent of Compliance with Wastewater Discharge Limits,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 68 (2), pg. 243-261, 2014 (with Donna Ramirez Harrington).
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“‘Effective Regulatory Stringency’ and Firms’ Profitability: The Effects of Effluent Limits and Government Monitoring,” Journal of Regulatory Economics, 50 (2), pg. 111-145, 2016 (with Dylan Rassier).
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“The Role of Regulated Facilities’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Regulatory Monitoring and Enforcement: Compliance with the Clean Water Act,” Ecological Economics, 142, pg. 282-294, 2017 (with Lana Friesen).
FRIAS Projekt
Information-Based Environmental Regulation: Testing the Porter Hypothesis
This FRIAS project explores the effect of information-based environmental regulation, which requires companies to record and publicly report their pollutant emissions, on companies’ financial outcomes, e.g,. profits. Specifically, the project derives theoretically hypotheses specific to information-based regulation, drawing upon standard economic theory, which posits that any environmental regulation undermines financial outcomes, and the Porter Theory, which posits that environmental regulation may improve financial outcomes. The project then tests empirically these hypotheses in the context of European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) regulation using data on German manufacturing facilities. These data are available from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) database, which is housed at the Center for European Economic Research [Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)]. For this project, the applicant is collaborating with research scientists at ZEW: Dr. Robert Germeshausen and Dr. Kathrine von Graevenitz.