Bento, Antonio Miguel R.
Associate Professorresearch
research and scholarship focus
My research program is in the area of environmental economics and energy policy. At the present time, I am mostly focusing on the development of integrated frameworks to evaluate the overall costs, land use impacts and resulting GHG emissions from biofuels policies. |I am also developing methods to evaluate cost-effective solutions to reduce GHG emissions in NY
submitted impact statement
- The costs and benefits of biofuels policies | 2007 Impact statement
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Applied Economics and Management (AEM) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Applied Economics and Management | graduate field
- Natural Resources | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Institute for Computational Sustainability | research center
teaching
teaching focus
Together with Peter Hess, I am organizing the Biofuels Colloquium.|www.bee.cornell.edu/cals/bee/upload/Semester-SP-2008-Colloquia1-2.pdf
teaches
- AEM 4990 - Undergraduate Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- AEM 7000 - Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- AEM 7900 - Graduate-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- AEM 8900 - Master's Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- AEM 9900 - Doctoral-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- AEM 4970 - Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- AEM 7000 - Individual Study in Applied Economics and Management (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- AEM 7900 - Graduate-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- AEM 8900 - Master's Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- AEM 9900 - Doctoral-Level Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
service
outreach focus
My outreach program aims to provide guidance to federal and state level policies in the areas of biofuels and climate change. At the present time, I am in the process of developing the webpage for the "environmental economics and energy policy" program. The program will have two types of outreach activities: (a) policy briefs and (b) small forums that bring together different stakeholders
event participant
background
educational background
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- B.A., Economics. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 1996.
- B.A., Economics. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 1996.
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- Ph.D., Agricultural and resource economics. University of Maryland, 2000.
professional background
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- Donald Bren School of Environmental Sciences and Management and the Department of Economics; University of California-Santa Barbara
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- School of Public Policy; University of Maryland
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- Consultant to the research division of the World Bank
featured in
- As the Big Red goes green, climate conference builds bridges across campus | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) Academic Venture Fund awards five grants to explore burning powdered wood, developing cheaper solar cells and more | Cornell Chronicle feature
- Experts to highlight bioenergy innovations at Sun Grant conference | Cornell Chronicle feature
- On issues of energy, environment and climate, Cornell experts say they have a leading role to play | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- Bento, Antonio, Charles Towe, and Jackie Geoghegan. December 2007. The Effects of Moratoria on Residential Development: Evidence from a Matching Approach. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(5).
- Bento, Antonio, Mark Jacobsen. January 2007. Ricardian Rents, Environmental Policy, and the "Double Dividend" Hypothesis. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 53(1).
- Bento, Antonio, Sofia Franco, and Daniel Kaffine. January 2006. The Efficiency and Distributional Impacts of Anti-Sprawl Policies. Journal of Urban Economics 59(1).
- Bento, Antonio, Maureen Cropper, Mushfiq Moborak, and Katja Vinha. August 2005. The Impact of Urban Spatial Structure on Travel Demand in the United States. Review of Economics and Statistics 87(3).
- Bento, Antonio, Lawrence Goulder, Emeric Henry, Mark Jacobsen, and Roger Von-Haefen. May 2005. Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Gasoline Taxes: An Econometrically-based Multi-market Study. American Economic Review 95(2).
speaker at Cornell event
Keywords: environmental economics and energy policy