Biography
Dr. Small is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Meteorology, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. Small's scholarship focuses on environmental and natural resource economics and policy. Particular areas of interest include the economics of biodiversity conservation and climate change.

Small's recent publications include Risk Sharing in Coasean Contracts, with Joshua Graff Zivin in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2003) and Agricultural Biotechnology's Complementary Intellectual Assets, with Gregory D. Graff and Gordon C. Rausser in Review of Economics and Statistics (2003).

Professor Small received his BA in mathematics from Columbia University in 1987, an MS in mathematics from Cornell University in 1990, and his PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. In 2001, Small received the Quality of Research Discovery Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association for work on the economics of biodiversity conservation. Small served on the editorial council of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management from 2003 to 2004. His teaching activities include environmental economics, environmental finance, and cost-benefit analysis.

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