Nicolai V. Kuminoff Associate Professor Department of Economics Arizona State University, and NBER Office: CPCOM 455H Contact Information: Main Campus PO BOX 879801 Tempe, AZ 85287-9801 480.727.9802 (phone) 480.965.0748 (fax) kuminoff@asu.edu

Curriculum Vitae SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program: Comment with Jonathan Ketcham and Christopher Powers (Forthcoming in the American Economic Review). NBER Working Paper #21387. Environmental Regulations and the Welfare Effects of Job Layoffs in the United States: A Spatial Approach (2015) Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (with Todd Schoellman and Christopher Timmins). o This EPA workshop paper is an earlier draft that contains a description of the analytical model and additional results not published in the REEP version. Partial Identification of Amenity Demand Functions (2015) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (with Kevin Boyle and Congwen Zhang). Do “Capitalization Effects” for Public Goods Reveal the Public’s Willingness to Pay? (2014) International Economic Review (with Jaren Pope). The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and Policy Evaluation Using Housing Markets (2013) Journal of Economic Literature 51(4): 1007-1062 (with V. Kerry Smith and Chris Timmins) o NBER Working Paper #16349 is an earlier draft that contains additional material on hedonic demand estimation and the interpretation of capitalization effects that was not published in the JEL version. What Can We Learn from Benefit Transfer Errors? Evidence from 20 Years of Research on Convergent Validity (2013) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66 (1): 90-104 (with Sapna Kaul, Kevin Boyle, Chris Parmeter, and Jaren Pope). Equilibrium Sorting Models of Land Use and Residential Choice (2013) Oxford Handbook of Land Economics (with Allen Klaiber). A Novel Approach to Identifying Hedonic Demand Parameters (2012) Economics Letters 116 (3): 374-376 (with Jaren Pope). The Value of Residential Land and Structures during the Great Housing Boom and Bust (2012) Land Economics 89 (1): 1-29 (with Jaren Pope). Public Policy and Market Competition: How the Master Settlement Agreement Changed the Cigarette Industry (2010) Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Frontiers 10 (1): 1-46 (with Federico Ciliberto). Which Hedonic Models Can We Trust to Recover the Marginal Willingness to Pay for Environmental Amenities (2010) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 60 (3): 145-160 (with Chris Parmeter and Jaren Pope). A New Approach to Computing Hedonic Equilibria and Investigating the Properties of Locational Sorting Models (2010) Journal of Urban Economics 67 (3): 322-335 (with Abdul Jarrah). The Benefit Transfer Challenges (2010) Annual Review of Resource Economics (with Kevin Boyle, Chris Parmeter, and Jaren Pope). Why Isn’t More U.S. Farmland Organic? (2010) Journal of Agricultural Economics 61 (2): 240-258 (with Ada Wossink). Are Travelers Willing to Pay a Premium to Stay at a ‘Green’ Hotel? Evidence from an Internal Meta-Analysis of Hedonic Price Premia (2010) Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (with Jeta Rudi and Congwen Zhang). Does a Property-Specific Environmental Health Risk Create a “Neighborhood” Housing Price Stigma? Arsenic in Private Well Water (2010) Water Resources Research 46 (W03507): 1-10 (with Kevin Boyle, Congwen Zhang, Michael Devanney, and Kathleen Bell). Necessary Conditions for Valid Benefit Transfers (2009) American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91 (5): 1328-1334 (with Kevin Boyle, Chris Parmeter, and Jaren Pope). Using a Bundled Amenity Model to Estimate the Value of Cropland Open Space and Determine an Optimal Buffer Zone (2009) Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 34 (1): 68-90. Decomposing the Structural Identification of Non-market Values (2009) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 57 (2): 123-139. WORKING PAPERS Partial Identification of Preferences from a Dual-Market Sorting Equilibrium (2^nd Revision Requested: Econometrica). National Evidence on Air Pollution Avoidance Behavior with Danielle Back, Eric Van Buren, and Scott Van Buren (Revision Requested: Land Economics). National Expenditures on Local Amenities with David Bieri and Jaren Pope. Estimating the Heterogeneous Welfare Effects of Choice Architecture: An Application to the Medicare Prescription Drug Insurance Market, NBER Working Paper #22732 (with Jonathan Ketcham and Christopher Powers). CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS Inferring preferences for amenities from sorting behavior in housing, labor, and health insurance markets The distributional welfare effects of environmental regulation and nudges Valuing a statistical life CODE Global Optimization Toolbox for Matlab This is a set of global optimization algorithms for Matlab. The Zip file contains the toolbox for Matlab, along with demonstration files and documentation. The documentation file contains background on global optimization, explanations of each algorithm, and test results on sample problems. The genetic algorithm in particular seems effective in solving certain low and medium dimensional problems up to 10 parameters. These algorithms are designed to accompany the CompEcon toolbox written by Mario Miranda and Paul Fackler, who also prepared this excellent primer to programming in Matlab. Iterative Bidding Algorithm This algorithm can be used to compute hedonic equilibria in markets where buyers have heterogeneous preferences over the characteristics of a differentiated product. The Zip file contains the Matlab toolbox, a documentation file, and code to reproduce the tables and figures from Kuminoff and Jarrah (J. Urban Econ, 2010). The algorithm is also used in Kuminoff, Parmeter, and Pope (JEEM 2010). LINKS ASU Graduate Program in Economics ASU Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy PHOTOS FROM PHOENIX