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Anneliese Vance-Sherman, Employment Security Department
Honorable Victoria Woodards, Mayor, Tacoma, Washington
Arun Raha, Chief Economist, Eaton Corporation
Chair: Tom Potiowsky, Portland State University
Speakers:
Peter Hulseman, Portland State University
Emma Willingham, Portland State University
Jessie Martin, Earth Economics
Toni Sipic, Central Washington University
Chair: Becky Knudson, Oregon Department of Transportation
Speakers:
Matthew Pahs, Washington State Department of Transportation
Becky Knudson, Oregon Department of Transportation
Christopher Wilhelm, Oregon State University
"A Model for Innovative Infrastructure Management and Financing: Regional P3 Accelerator"
Chair: Patrick Balducci, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Speakers:
Bob Kirchmeier, Washington State Energy Office
Kendall Mongird, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nancy Hirsch, Northwest Energy Coalition
"A Review of the Economic Impacts of Washington’s Clean Energy Standard and the Complementary Effects of Potential Future Policy Options, Including Carbon Taxes and Expanded Renewable Portfolio Standards"
Chair: Nick Beleiciks, Oregon Employment Department
Speakers:
R. Karina Gallardo, Washington State University
"Mechanization of Farm Work"
Joel Ainsworth, ECONorthwest
"Automation and the Future of Work"
Nick Beleiciks, Oregon Employment Department
"A Short History of the Technological Unemployment Debates"
Dan Rickman, Oklahoma State University
Natural Amenities, the Energy Boom and Economic Growth in the US Continental Northwest
Chairs:
Speakers:
Becky Knudson,, Oregon Department of Transportation
"Travel Surveys: How to Obtain More Travel Data in a Time of Declining Survey Participation"
Pat Barkey, University of Montana
"Back to the Future: A Regional Survey Research Center Responds to the Demise of Random-Digit Dial Surveys"
Virginia M. Lesser, Oregon State University
"Conducting Surveys in 2018 and Beyond"
Chair: Toni Sipic, Central Washington University
Speakers:
Sarah Pratt, Central Washington University
"Economic Impact of the Oso Landslide: Hedonic Approach"
Todd Stoothoff and Toni Sipic, Central Washington University
"Cougar Incident Impacts on Housing Prices in Washington State"
Hongbo Wang and Dan Rickman, Oklahoma State University
"Housing Prices and Population Growth Across China"
Chair: Chris Lawless, BC Investment Management Corporation
Speakers:
Katarina Wasielewski and Laura Adkins-Hackett, Alberta Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
"The Employment of Bilateral Trade between Alberta and the United States"
James Hammond, BC Ministry of Jobs, Trade and Technology
Robert Hamilton, Washington Department of Commerce
Laurie Trautman, Western Washington University, Border Policy Research Institute
Chair: Terry Morlan, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
Speakers:
Massoud Jourabchi, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
"Recent Trends in Energy Consumption and its Relationship to the Regional Economy"
Kevin Smit, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
"Tapping our Untapped Energy Efficiency Potential: the First Regional Effort to Systematically Identify and Address Underserved Populations in the Pacific Northwest"
Massoud Jourabchi, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
"Load Impact of Deep Decarbonization Policies"
Chair: Peter Maille, Eastern Oregon University
Speakers:
Peter Maille, Eastern Oregon University
"Estimating the Economic Value of the Elk Herd in the Blue Mountains of Oregon: A Travel Cost Analysis"
Kaleb Javier, Central Washington University
"The Economic Impacts of Forest Timber Methods in Washington State: A Hedonic Approach"
Don Holley, Boise State University
"A Comparison of the Spending Patterns of Boaters, Snowmobilers, and Campers in Idaho"
Chair: Massoud Jourabchi, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
Speakers:
Chris Rich, Oregon Employment Department
"Clearing the Haze around Eastern Oregon’s Budding Marijuana Industry"
Mallory Icenhower, Cassandra Koefod, Toni Sipic, Eric Staats, and Kenneth Zummach, Central Washington University
"On the Industrial Organization of Cannabis Markets in Washington State"
Massoud Jourabchi, Northwest Power and Conservation Council
"Electricity Consumption for Cannabis Production in the Northwest"
Chair: Roger Coupal, University of Wyoming
Speakers:
Lee Cartier and Svan Lembke, Okanogan School of Business
"The Okanogan Valley Tree Fruit Industry: Opportunities for Value Chain Innovation"
Christopher Bastian, Chian Jones Ritten, Mariah Ehmke, Hunter Bruce and Vardges Hovhannisyan, University of Wyoming
"Almond Growers’ Preferences for Pollination Services: A Random Utility Analysis"
Roger Coupal, University of Wyoming
"Economics of Oil and Gas Reclamation and Managing the Legacy of Fossil Fuel Development in the Rocky Mountain West"
Chair: Bill Beyers
Speakers:
Lizbeth Martin-Mahar, Brian Calkins and David Ding, Washington State Department of Transportation
"Fueling Our Economy – Beginning the Evaluation of Connecting Washington’s Impact on our Region’s Economy"
Boris Houenou, Washington State University
"Community Reinvestment Act as Positive Externalities in Merger in the U.S. Bank Industry"
Heleana Lally and Isabel Vassiliadis, Western Washington University
"Economic Impacts of Food Banks"
Speakers:
Al Mowbray, Metro
"Land Development Monitoring System for the Portland Metropolitan Area: Results and Use in Improving Land-Use Models and Forecasts"
Abby Schamp, Oregon State University
"The Immigrant Advantage: The Educational Attainment and Parental Educational Goals of Immigrants Compared to the General Population"
Patrick Balducci and R. O’Neil, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Economic Opportunities for Energy Storage Systems in the Pacific Northwest in Light of Evolving Regulatory Barriers and Incentives"
Nicholas Larsen, Eastern Washington University
"The Impacts of Religious Upbringing on Educational Attainment and Current Religion"
Gary Smith, Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Analysis Project
"A Rendezvous with Shift-Share Analysis…Devoid of Paralysis"
Kendall Mongird, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"An Economic Evaluation of Community Solar and Energy Storage on Decatur Island, Washington"
Speakers:
Jacob Vigdor, University of Washington
Michael Reich, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Mark Beattie, Washington State University
Speakers:
Tim Nadreau, IMPACT Center, Washington State University
"Understanding State Agency Restaurant Data"
Season Hoard and Christina Sanders, Washington State University
"Establishing a Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Washington Restaurants"
Anthony Anton, Washington Hospitality Association
"What Data Tell Us about the Health of the Washington Restaurant Industry"
Chair: Michael Wilkerson, ECONorthwest
Speakers:
Michael Wilkerson and Marley Buchman, ECONorthwest
"Estimating Housing Underproduction in the Pacific Northwest: Measuring the Economic and Fiscal Impacts Associated with Different Regional Growth Models"
Mike Kingsella, Up for Growth National Coalition
"Policy and Economic Incentives to Increase Housing Production in the Pacific Northwest"
Chris Judson, REMI
"Evaluating the Regional Economic Impacts of Transportation Investments"
Chair: Patrick Balducci, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Speakers:
Mark Weimar and Trevor Hardy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Mini-grid Design and Business Case Development for Chefornak: a Rural Alaska Community"
Tony Jimenez, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
"Mini-grid Design and Business Case Development for Chefornak: a Rural Alaska Community"
Foster Robertson, Pacific Lutheran University
"The Impacts of Tradable Carbon Credits on Washington State Forestry"
Kaleb Javier and Toni Sipic, Central Washington University
"Political Economy of Fracking Moratoria"
Chair: Gary Smith, Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Analysis Project (PNREAP)
Speakers:
Gary Smith, Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Analysis Project
"County Level Per Capita Income Inequality"
Linda Gibson and Bruce Finnie, Pacific Lutheran University
"Trends in Income Inequality and Growth in the Pacific Northwest"
Christian Kaylor, Oregon Employment Department,
"Learning from Oregon’s 2003 Minimum Wage Increase: A Synthetic Control Approach"
Chair: Philip Watson, University of Idaho
Speakers:
Greg Alward and Garth Taylor, University of Idaho
"Estimating Sales Tax Impacts with Input-Output Models"
Tim Nadreau, Washington State University
"Municipal Incentives and Agglomeration Externalities"
Philip Watson, Florina Salaghe, Haley Hildebrandt, and Malieka Landis, University of Idaho, Benedictine University
"U.S. Census Bureau and University of Nevada-Reno, Business Climate is in the Eye of the Employer"
Chair: Hart Hodges, Western Washington University
Speakers:
Justin Beaudoin, University of Washington ‒ Tacoma
Jenny Liu, Portland State University
Sharon Shewmake, Western Washington University
Mazen Malik, Legislative Revenue Office
Chair: Terry Morlan, Northwest Power and Conservation Council (Retired)
Speakers:
Jeffrey Morris, Sound Resource Management Group,
"Energy, Environment, and Economy: Trade Offs when Managing Biomass or Plastic Wastes for Sustainability and Resiliency"
Patrick Balducci,, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Market Analysis of the Shell Energy North America’s Small Modular Pumped Storage Hydro Unit"
Nik Foster, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
"No Mighty Wind: The State of Distributed Wind in the Pacific Northwest"
Chair: Becky Knudson, Oregon Department of Transportation
Speakers:
Richard Lycan, Portland State University
"Forecasting Populations of Older Persons"
Al Mowbray, Research Center Portland Metro
"Land Development Monitoring System for the Portland Metropolitan Area: Results and Use in Improving Land-Use Models and Forecasts"
Patrick Edward Corcoran, Oregon State University
"Living with the Threat of a Cascadia Subduction Zone Event: Implications of Economic Development in the Tsunami Hazard Zone"
Dr. AnnaLee (Anno) Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Scott Bailey, Washington Employment Security Department
Speakers:
Gail K. Krumenauer, Oregon Employment Department
"Employment, Education, and Earnings by Race and Ethnicity"
Felicia Bechtoldt, Oregon Employment Department
"The Ability of Oregon Workers to Speak English Varies by Type of Job"
Christopher Wilhelm, Oregon State University
"The State of Minority-Owned Microenterprise in Seattle, Washington"
Chair: Barb Ivanov, University of Washington (UW) Urban Freight Lab
Speakers:
Barb Ivanov, UW Urban Freight Lab
"How the Growth of E-Comerce, Population, and Ride-Hailing Services is Reshaping Cities"
Jose Machado, UW Urban Freight Lab
"The Urban Load/Unload Space Network: Seattle Case Study"
Chris Eaves, , Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)
"City of Seattle Innovations Serving the Urban Goods Delivery System"
Chair: Patrick Balducci, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Speakers:
Felicia Mutheardy, City of Edmonton
"Alberta"
Chris Lawless, BC Investment Management Corporation
"British Columbia"
Eric Stuen, University of Idaho
"Idaho"
Pat Barkey, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of Montana
"Montana"
Mark McMullen, Office of Economic Analysis, State of Oregon
"Oregon"
Steve Lerch, Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council, State of Washington
"Washington"
Roger Coupal, University of Wyoming
"Wyoming"
