Robert Halvorsen
Robert Halvorsen is a professor of economics at the University of Washington, Seattle. His area of focus area is environmental econ, resource economics and applied microeconomics. He has written numerous publications on environmental economics. His most recent publication “explorations in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Essays in honor or Gardner M. Brown was written with co-authors Gardner Mallard Brown, and David F. Layton.
Interested in taking a course from Professor Halvorsen? He teaches Econ 436, Econ 535, Econ 435, and Econ 454.
Hendrik Wolff
Hendrik Wolff is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle. He is co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and on the editorial council of the new journal, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE).
He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agricultural engineering from the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn respectively. He received a second master and a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, as well as a grant from the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). He was a visiting professor at Resources for the Future, as well as at LMU Munich, University of Cologne and at IZA, Bonn.
Professor Wolff’s main research is in environmental economics, working at the intersection of transportation, air pollution, energy and health. This includes the economic causes and consequences of air pollution; the "value of time;" the impact of energy conservation policies on electricity consumption; cost benefit analysis of the clean air act and its effects on health; the interactions between climate, local prices, wages and "quality of life; and the economics of Daylight Saving Time."
Interested in taking a course from Professor Wolff? He teaches Econ 436, Econ 536, and Econ 482.
Greg Ellis
Greg Ellis is a principle lecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. His interests include industrial organization, microeconomic theory, resource economics and natural resource economics. He has written numerous publications on environmental economics including the article “Estimation of Market Power in a Nonrenewable Resource Industry” published in the Journal of Political Economy with co-author and professor at the University Robert Halvorsen.
Interested in taking a course from Greg Ellis? He teaches Econ 435, Econ 382, Econ 282, and Econ 200.