Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Educational Resources

 Journal Articles

Caplan, Arthur J., Tiffany Woods, Brent Chamberlain, and Sarah Klain (2024) “Measuring Heterogeneous Preferences for the Preservation of Prime Farmland With and Without Agrivoltaics.” Forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

Siu, Wai Yan, Man Li, and Arthur J. Caplan (2023) "Unintended Effects of Preferential Tax Assessment on Farmland Protection: Evidence from Utah's Farmland Assessment Act." Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2(4), 737-752. 

Caplan, Arthur J. (2023) “Missing the Warning Signs? The Case of ``Yellow Air Day'' Advisories in Northern Utah.” Environmental and Resource Economics 85, 479-522.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2022) "Regulating Coopetition in an EV Charging Market." Economic Modelling 118, 106080.

Nehra, Arpita and Arthur J. Caplan (2022) “Nash Bargaining in a General Equilibrium Framework: The Case of a Shared Surface Water Supply.” Water Resources and Economics 39, 100206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2022.100206.

Hartley, Ethan and Arthur J. Caplan (2021) "Measuring the Social Net Benefits of COVID-19 Restrictions: The Case of Reduced Vehicle Use in a Pollution-Prone Region of Utah." Journal of Environmental Protection 12(11), DOI: 10.4236/jep.2021.1211052. 

Caplan, Arthur J., Sherzod B. Akhundjanov, and Kristopher Toll (2021) “Measuring Heterogeneous Preferences for Residential Amenities.” Regional Science and Urban Economics 87, 103646 .

Caplan, Arthur J. and Dong-Hun Go (2020) “Measuring the Bioeconomic Impacts of Prolonged Drought on a Lake Ecosystem: The Case of the Great Salt Lake, Utah.” Natural Resource Modeling 33(2), 1-38. 

Acharya, Ramjee and Arthur J. Caplan (2020) “Optimal Investment to Control “Red Air Day” Episodes: Lessons from Northern Utah, USA." Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 9(2), 227-250. 

Caplan, Arthur J. and Ramjee Acharya (2019) “Optimal Vehicle Use in the Presence of Episodic Mobile-SourceAir Pollution.” Resource and Energy Economics, 57, 185-204.

Caplan, Arthur J. and Reza Oladi (2018) "Green Competition, Hybrid Equilibrium, and Establishment of a Resale Market." International Review of Economics and Finance 58, 259-269.

Oladi, Reza, Arthur J. Caplan, and John Gilbert (2018) "Sequestration and the Engagement of Developing Economies in a GlobalCarbon Market.” Resource and Energy Economics 52(C), 50-63.

Caplan, Arthur J. and M.K. Kim (2018) "A Note on Mitigating the Adverse Scale Effects Associated with Daily Driving Restrictions." Environment and Development Economics 23(1), 63-79.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2017) "The Simple Economics of Conservation Clubs." Environment and Natural Resources Research 7(2), 112-130.

Moscardini, Leo and Arthur J. Caplan (2017) "Controlling Episodic Air Pollution with a Seasonal Gas Tax: The Case of Cache Valley, Utah." Environmental and Resource Economics 66(4), 689-715.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2016) "Uncertainty and the Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good in a Two-Moment Decision Model." Journal of Public Economic Theory 18(6), 910-922.

Caplan, Arthur J., Charles Sims, and E. Jordan Anderson (2014) "Measuring the Environmental Cost of Hypocrisy." Ecological Economics 108, 124-135.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2014) “Measuring the Surplus of Superficiality: The Case of Dented Bumper Repair.” Applied Economics Letters, 21(14), 992-996.

Dunn, Jarod, Arthur J. Caplan, and Ryan Bosworth (2014) “Measuring the Value of Plastic and Reusable Grocery Bags.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 3(2), 125-147.

Basdekas, Leon, Luis A. Bastidas, Thomas B. Hardy, Arthur J. Caplan, and Mac McKee (2014) “Virgin River Multi-Objective Optimization: Maximizing Endangered Fish Habitat and Minimizing Costs.” International Journal of River Basin Management 12(1), 15-28.

Caplan, Arthur J. and Yuya Sasaki (2014) “Benchmarking an Optimal Pattern of Pollution Trading: The Case of Cub River,Utah.” Economic Modelling 36(1), 502-510.

Caplan, Arthur J., John Gilbert, and Devalina Chatterjee (2013) “Using Field-Level Characteristics as Proxy Measures to Test for the Presence of Economies of Scale in Nonpoint Pollution Control.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 42(2), 365-386.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2013) "Water Quality Trading in the Presence of Abatement Cost Sharing."  Contemporary Economic Policy 31(2), 279-290.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2011) “Carbon Sequestration and Permit Trading on the Competitive Fringe.” Economic Modelling 28(6), 2803-2810.

Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (2011) "Impure Public Goods, Matching Grant Rates, and Income Redistribution in a Federation with Decentralized Leadership and Imperfect Labor Mobility." International Tax and Public Finance 18(3), 322-336.

Mukherjee, Shibashis and Arthur J. Caplan (2011) “GIS-Based Estimation of Housing Amenities: The Case of High Grounds and Stagnant Streams.” Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 4(1), 49-61.

Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2010) "Can Fighting Grade Inflation Help the Bottom Line?" Applied Economics Letters 17(17), 1663-1667.

Caplan, Arthur J., Douglas Jackson-Smith, and Sandra Marquart-Pyatt (2010) “Does ‘Free Sampling’ Enhance the Value of Public Goods?” Applied Economics Letters 17(4), 335-339.

Caplan, Arthur J., David Aadland, and Anthony Macharia (2010) “Estimating Hypothetical Bias in Economically Emergent Africa: A Generic Public Good Experiment.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39(2), 1-10.

Larson, Jordan and Arthur J. Caplan (2009) “Estimating the Effectiveness of a Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax in Reducing Particulate Matter Emissions.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 52(3), 315-344.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2008) “Incremental and Average Control Costs in a Model of Water Quality Trading with Discrete Abatement Units.” Environmental and Resource Economics 41(3), 419-435.

Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2008) “D is For Dillydally?” Applied Economics Letters 15(14), 1085-1088.

Sasaki, Yuya and Arthur J. Caplan (2008), "Matching Heterogeneous Traders in Quantity-Regulated Markets." Computational Economics 31(4), 341-362.

Aadland, David M., Arthur J. Caplan, and Owen R. Phillips (2007) “A Bayesian Examination of Information and Uncertainty in Contingent Valuation.”  Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 35(2), 149-178.

Bohara, Alok K., Arthur J. Caplan, and Therese Grijalva (2007) “The Effect of Experience and Quantity-Based Pricing on the Valuation of a Curbside Recycling Program.” Ecological Economics 64(2), 433-443.

Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (2007) “An Equitable, Efficient, and Implementable Scheme to Control Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” International Tax and Public Finance 14(3), 263-279.

Caplan, Arthur J., Therese Grijalva, and Douglas Jackson-Smith (2007) “Using Choice Question Formats to Determine Compensable Values:  The Case of a Landfill Siting Process.” Ecological Economics 60(4), 834-846.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2006) “A Comparison of Emissions Taxes and Permit Markets for Controlling Correlated Externalities.” Environmental and Resource Economics 34(4), 471-492.

Aadland, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2006) “Curbside Recycling: Waste Resource or Waste of Resources?” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 25(4), 855-874.

Aadland, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2006) “Cheap Talk Reconsidered:  New Evidence From CVM.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 60(4), 562-578.

Caplan, Arthur J. and Yuya Sasaki (2006) “Interactive Geometry for Surplus Sharing in Cooperative Games.” Journal of Economic Education 37(3), 382.

Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2006) “Interactive Scenario Analysis of Exhaustible Resource Problems.” Computers in Higher Education Economics Review 18, 4-9.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2005) “Seeing is Believing:  Simulating Forest-Harvest Problems with Microsoft Excel in an Intermediate-Level Natural-Resource Economics Course.” Perspectives on Economic Education Research 1(1), 44-52.

Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (2005) “An Efficient Mechanism to Control Correlated Externalities: Redistributive Transfers and the Coexistence of Regional and Global Pollution Permit Markets.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 49(1), 68-82.

Tesfamichael, Aklilu, Arthur J. Caplan, and Jagath Kaluarachchi (2005) “Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis of Atrazine in Drinking Water from Agricultural Activities and Policy Implications.” Water Resources Research 41(5), 1-13.

Aadland, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2004) “Incentive Incompatibility and Starting-Point Bias in Iterative Valuation Questions:  Comment.” Land Economics 80(2), 312-315.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2003) “Reputation and the Control of Pollution.” Ecological Economics 47(2-3), 197-212. 

Aadland, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2003) “Willingness to Pay for Curbside Recycling With Detection and Mitigation of Hypothetical Bias.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(2), 492-502.

Caplan, Arthur J., Richard C. Cornes, and Emilson C.D. Silva (2003) "An ‘Ideal Kyoto Protocol’:  Emissions Trading, Redistributive Transfers and Global Participation.” Oxford Economic Papers 55, 216-234.

Caplan, Arthur J., Therese Grijalva, and Paul M. Jakus (2002) “Waste Not or Want Not?  A Contingent Ranking Analysis of Curbside Waste Disposal Options.” Ecological Economics 43(2-3), 185-197.

Caplan, Arthur J., Richard C. Cornes, and Emilson C.D. Silva (2000) “Pure Public Goods and Income Redistribution in a Federation with Decentralized Leadership and Imperfect Labor Mobility.” Journal of Public Economics 77(2), 265-284. 

Aadland, David M. and Arthur J. Caplan (1999) “Household Valuation of Curbside Recycling.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 42(6), 781-800.

Brist, Lonnie E. and Arthur J. Caplan (1999) “More Evidence on the Role of Secondary Education in the Development of Lower-Income Countries: Wishful Thinking or Useful Knowledge?” Economic Development and Cultural Change 48(1), 155-176.

Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (1999) “Federal Acid Rain Games.” Journal of Urban Economics 46(1), 25-52.

Caplan, Arthur J., Christopher J. Ellis, and Emilson C.D. Silva (1999) “Winners and Losers in a World with Global Warming:  Noncooperation, Altruism, and Social Welfare.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 37(3), 256-271.

Silva, Emilson C.D. and Arthur J. Caplan (1997) “Transboundary Pollution Control in Federal Systems.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 34(2), 173-186.

  Book Chapters

Finnoff, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2011) “Bioeconomics and International Trade: The Case of the Great Salt Lake, Utah.” In New Developments in Computable General Equilibrium Analysis for Trade Policy, John Gilbert ed., Frontiers in Economics and Globalization, Volume 7, Emerald Group Publishing, United Kingdom.

Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (2005) “Equitable and Efficient International Schemes to Control Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” In The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Essays in Honor of J. Michael Finger, Douglas Nelson ed., Contributions to Economic Analysis, Elsevier Inc., The Netherlands.

Caplan, Arthur J. (2002) “Poverty and Access to Health Care:  An Academic Service Learning Project in Economics.” Putting the Invisible Hand to Work:  Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Economics, K.M. McGoldrick and A. Ziegert eds., University of Michigan Press.

  Educational Resources

Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2006) "Resource-Extraction Simulation Models in Excel." An online supplement for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics by Tom Tietenberg, Seventh Edition, Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. Available at http://wps.aw.com/aw_tietenberg_envnatrese_7/0,10924,2439699-,00.html.

Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2006) “How-To Manual for Resource-Extraction Simulation Models in Excel. ” an online supplement for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics by Tom Tietenberg, Seventh Edition, Boston:  Pearson Education, Inc.  Available at http://wps.aw.com/aw_tietenberg_envnatrese_7/0,10924,2439699-,00.html.