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Title: Assistant Professor/Micrometeorologist
Email Address: cclin@primal.ucdavis.edu
Web Site: http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Lin/index.html
Telephone: 530-752-0824
FAX: 530-752-5614

Home Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics; Environmental Science and Policy

Graduate Programs

Areas of Research

Air Pollution and Health - Quantifying the effects of air quality on health.
Transportation - Air pollution and climate change implications of transportation
Urban and Regional Smog - Trends in ozone smog and effects of regulation and climate change on ozone smog.
Agricultural Emissions - Effects of regulation on agricultural emissions.
Global Climate Change - Economics of global climate change; effects of climate change on air quality.

Research Summary

I am an economist with a background and publications in atmospheric chemistry. My fields of interest are: environmental and natural resource economics, energy economics, industrial organization, and applied microeconomics. My research projects fall mainly in the following subject areas: energy (including offshore petroleum production, oil, renewable energy), air quality, natural resources, and environmental regulation. My research projects use the following methodologies: applied econometrics (including structural econometrics and spatial econometrics) and applied theory (including optimal control theory, game theory and contract theory).

Teaching Summary

I teach an upper-level undergraduate course in natural resource economics (ARE 175) and a Ph.D. course on advanced topics in environmental and resource economics (ARE 276).