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Note: From July 1^st 2009 I will be working as an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. My new e-mail address is rmartinezesp@mun.ca

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Hello! My name is Roberto Martínez Espiñeira and I am an Associate Professor of Economics at St Francis Xavier University. This is located in a very beautiful Canadian town: Antigonish, Nova Scotia. I am also, since 2007, Adjunct Professor at the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton.

I was born in Lugo, a small town (OK a `biggish' town if you live in Antigonish) in Galicia on the northwest of Spain, although I spent six years studying (and walking under the rain mostly) in Santiago de Compostela. Then I got my MSc and a PhD in Environmental Economics at the University of York, in the United Kingdom, ...where it actually rained less.

I got my PhD on the Economics of Water Pricing at the University of York in 2001, under the supervision of Jack Pezzey and Charles Perrings. I also have an Economics degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela and completed my MSc in Environmental Economics in York's Environment Department (former EEEM) in 1996-97.

My research.

I did my thesis on issues related to the estimation of water demand. This is the initial research proposal I had in mind at the beginning of my DPHIL: Residential Water Pricing for Demand Management in the UK. Lessons from Spain. This is an abstract of the research I conducted on the elasticity of domestic water demand in the Northwest of Spain.

I am also interested in the valuation of natural resources, the management of natural resources, and the estimation of demand functions for non-marketed goods and services. Some of the projects I am currently working on include the estimation of non-use values of wildlife species, the valuation of access to natural recreational sites, and forest management.

Recent publications:

"Effect on Recreation Benefit Estimates from Correcting for On-Site Sampling Biases and Heterogeneous Trip Overdispersion in Count Data Recreation Demand Models", with Joseph Hilbe, accepted for publication in the Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 7(1), 2009

“Attitudes toward wildlife habitat preservation in the management of private woodlots in Cape Breton” with Lars Hallstrom, Human Dimensions of Wildlife Volume 14(5), 265 - 277, 2009

“Multi-destination and multi-purpose trip effects in the analysis of the demand for trips to a remote recreational site” with Joe Amoako-Tuffour, forthcoming in Environmental Management, Volume 43(6) 1146-1161 2009.

Published online: 31 January 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9253-9

“The effect of environmental change and price policies on livelihoods in tropical agroforestry systems” with Unai Pascual, forthcoming in the Journal of International Development, Volume 21(3) 433–446, March 2009

“Does private management of water supply services really increase prices? An empirical analysis in Spain” with Maria Ángeles García-Valiñas and Francisco González Gómez, Urban Studies, 46(4) 923–945, April 2009

“Comparing recreation benefits from on-site versus household surveys in count data travel cost demand models with overdispersion”, with John. B. Loomis, Joe. Amoako-Tuffour and Joseph Hilbe, Tourism Economics 14(3), pp. 567-576, 2008.

"Testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis with bird populations as habitat-specific environmental indicators: evidence from Canada", with Van Lantz, Conservation Biology 22(2), 428-438, 2008.

“Recreation Demand Analysis under Truncation, Overdispersion, and Endogenous Stratification: An Application to Gros Morne National Park" with Joe Amoako-Tuffour, Journal of Environmental Management, 88(4), pp. 1320-1332, 2008.

"An Estimation of Residential Water Demand Using Co-Integration and Error Correction Techniques" Journal of Applied Economics 10(1), pp. 161-184, 2007.

"‘Adopt a Hypothetical Pup’: A Count Data Approach to the Valuation of Wildlife" Environmental and Resource Economics 37(2), pp. 335-360, 2007.

Full list of published contributions

Other working papers

Teaching

In the Fall of 2008 I will be teaching one section of ECON101 (Introductory Microeconomics) and ECON 291 (Economics of Leisure Recreation and Sports) and in the Spring I will be teaching ECON281 (Environmental Economics) and ECON 301 (Intermediate Microeconomics II). Soon, I will have more information on these courses posted on this website.

Prospective Students of these and/or any other Economics courses should consult the Departmental website for information on these courses for 2008-2009, and contact me for additional information

The links below correspond to the 2006-2007 course websites (they are password-protected, if you are enrolled in the relevant course just type WEBFX\ in front of your STFX username, as in “WEBFX\xyz2006”). Students registered in 2007-2008 will be able to access their corresponding website during their term of enrolment. If at that time you are registered for the course but cannot access the appropriate website, let me know!!!

For those of you not yet registered for the courses, open information is available below for some of the courses I usually teach and I will be happy to respond to questions about these courses by e-mail.

ECON 101:15 Introductory Microeconomics (Fall 2008-09)

ECON251 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I (Fall 2006-2007)

ECON301:20 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory II (Winter 2008-09)

ECON 281:20 Environmental Economics (Winter 2008-09)

ECON291:10 Economics of Leisure Recreation and Sports (Fall 2008-00)

ECON312:10 Industrial Organization (not offered in 2006-07)

ECON 381 Natural Resource Economics (Winter 2006-07)

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Please note that all of these webpages are currently being updated and that some of these courses will not be offered by me or at all in 2008-09. If interested in any of these courses please contact me and consult the Economics Department’s main website. You will, however, be able to find some generic information about the courses and their 2008-09 availability by clicking on these links:

Open information on ECON 201 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I (formerly ECON 251)

Open information on ECON 301 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory II (formerly ECON 252)

Open information on ECON 281 Environmental Economics

Open information on ECON291 Economics of Leisure Recreation and Sports

Open information on ECON312 Industrial Organization

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rmespi@stfx.ca

Roberto Martínez-Espiñeira

Department of Economics
St Francis Xavier University
PO Box 5000, Antigonish
NOVA SCOTIA
CANADA B2G 2W5
Tel: 1-902 867 5443

Office Hours NH 305

MON 10:15-12:15 and 1:00-2:00

WED 3:30-5:00

THU 11:00-12:30

Phone (5443) or email to arrange an appointment if you cannot make any of the above times.

Last updated on 10-JUNE-09