Jonathan K. Yoder
Associate Professor
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Economics, 1999. North Carolina State University
- M.S., Economics, 1994. Montana State University
- B.A. Biology and journalism, 1990. Indiana University
FIELDS OF INTEREST
- Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
- Econometrics
- Contract theory and Public Policy
HONORS
- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, American Agricultural
Economics Association. August 2000.
- Young Professional's Exchange Travel Award --- Heading South. 2003. Presented by the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society and the American Agricultural Economics Association. Awarded to present a research paper entitled "Playing with Fire: Endogenous Risk in Resource Management."
WORKING PAPERS AND PROJECTS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Yoder, J. 2008. "Liability, regulation, and Endogenous Risk: Incidence and Severity of Escaped Prescribed Fires in the United States." Journal of Law and Economics.
- Yoder, J., Hossain, I., Epplin, F., and Doye, D. 2008. "Contract duration and the division of labor in agricultural land leases," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
- Bilgic, A., W.J. Florkowski, J. Yoder, and D. Schreiner. 2008. "Estimating Fishing and Hunting Leisure Spending Shares in the United States." J. of Tourism Management, 29(4):771-782.
- Chouinard, H. and J. Yoder. 2007. "Repeated Auctions with the Right of First Refusal." B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics.
- Lee, Hsiang-Tai, and Jonathan Yoder. 2007. "Optimal Hedging with a Regime-Switching Time-Varying Correlation GARCH Model." Journal of Futures Markets.
- Lee, H. and Yoder, J., 2007, "A Bivariate Markov Regime Switching GARCH Approach to Estimate Time Varying Minimum Variance Hedge Ratios," Applied Economics.
- Rucker, Randal, Walter Thurman, and Jonathan Yoder 2005. "Estimating the Speed of Market Reaction to News: Market Events and Lumber Futures Prices." American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 87(2):482-500.
- Yoder, Jonathan K, Dave Engle, and Sam Fuhlendorf. 2004. Liability, Incentives, and Prescribed Fire for Ecosystem Management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2(7):361-366.
- Yoder, Jonathan K. 2004. "Playing with Fire: Endogenous Risk in Resource Management." American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 86(4), (November): 933-948.
- Yoder, Jonathan K. and Keith Blatner. 2004. “Incentives and Timing of Prescribed Fire for Wildfire Risk Management.” Journal of Forestry September: 40-44.
- Yoder, Jonathan K. February 2002. "Estimating Aggregate
Wildlife-Inflicted Crop Damage with Self-Selected Data." Land Economics 78(1):45--59.
- Yoder, Jonathan K. "Contracting Over Common Property:
Cost-Share
Contracts for Predator Control." Journal of Agricultural
and Resource Economics, Vol. 25, no. 2 (December 2000):
485-500.
- Yoder, Jonathan K. 2000. "Wildlife on Private Land: Contracting
over Wildlife-Inflicted Property Damage and Abatement." Dissertation abstract in recognition of AAEA Outstanding
Dissertation Award. American Journal of Agricultural
Economics 82(5): 1238-1239.

Contact Info
E-mail Address
yoder@wsu.edu
Office Location:
203G Hulbert Hall
Office phone: 335-8596