Jay Shimshack

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Research interests: environmental economics, applied economics, public policy

304 Tilton Hall

504-862-8353

jshimsha@tulane.edu

Personal website: greenspace.tulane.edu/jshimsha

Short bio

Jay Shimshack is an assistant professor of economics at Tulane University. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2002) and a B.S. in business marketing and management from Cornell University (1995). Prior to joining Tulane, Dr. Shimshack was an assistant professor of economics at Tufts University and a visiting researcher at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB. His major fields are environmental economics, applied microeconomics, and public policy. At Tulane, he teaches environmental economics and statistics.

Dr. Shimshack's specific research interests include monitoring and enforcement, corporate environmental performance, transparency and advisories, and environmental health. He was recently named to the editorial council of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the leading environmental economics journal. He is the EPA's current outside expert for an ongoing project to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of Agency compliance assurance and enforcement activities, and his information work has been cited to influence policy at the National Academies, the National Research Council, the FDA, the EPA, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Shimshack's published research on mercury advisories was named the 2008 best economics paper in food safety and nutrition and his recent paper on transparency policies in the electricity sector was honored by the Academy of Management. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the EPA.

Selected publications

Magali Delmas, Maria Montes, and Jay Shimshack. Forthcoming. Mandatory Information Disclosure in the Electricity Industry. Economic Inquiry.

Jay Shimshack and Michael Ward. 2008. Enforcement and Overcompliance. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 55(1): 90-105.

Timothy Beatty, Peter Berck, and Jay Shimshack. 2007. Curbside Recycling in the Presence of Alternatives. Economic Inquiry 45(4): 739-55.

Jay Shimshack, Michael Ward, and Tim Beatty. 2007. Mercury Advisories: Information, Education, and Fish Consumption. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 53(2): 158-79.

Jay Shimshack and Michael Ward. 2005. Regulator Reputation, Enforcement, and Environmental Compliance. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 50(3): 519-40.

Michael B. Ward, Jay P. Shimshack, Jeffrey M. Perloff, and J. Michael Harris. 2002. The Effects of the Private Label Invasion in Food Industries. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84(4): 961-73.