Dr. Abler's current research
interests include international trade, natural resource and environmental
economics, and international economic development. His current
research projects include adaptation to climate change in the Mid-Atlantic
and Northeast United States; modeling the impacts of agricultural
trade liberalization proposals within the current round of the
World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations; economic impacts of
agricultural trade policy reforms in India; and policy options
for reducing nonpoint pollution.
Dr. Abler is also a Senior Research Associate at Penn State's
Population Research Institute. He is past president of the Penn
State chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. He
was a visiting research professor at Wageningen University in the
Netherlands in 1994.
Representative Publications
Abler, D., J. Shortle,
J. Carmichael, and R. Horan (2002). "Climate
Change, Agriculture, and Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Region." Forthcoming
in Climatic Change.
Horan, R., J. Shortle,
and D. Abler (2002). "Ambient Taxes
Under m-Dimensional Choice Sets, Heterogeneous Expectations, and
Risk Aversion." Environmental and Resource Economics 21:189-202.
Horan, R. D., D. G.
Abler, J. S. Shortle, and J. Carmichael (2002). "Cost-Effective
Point-Nonpoint Trading: An Application to the Susquehanna River
Basin." Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38:467-477.
Shortle, J. S., and D. G. Abler, eds. (2001). Environmental
Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control. Walingford,
UK: CAB International.
Abler, D., J. Shortle,
A. Rose, and G. Oladosu (2000). "Characterizing
Regional Economic Impacts and Responses to Climate Change." Global
and Planetary Change 25:67-81..
Abler, D. G., and J.
S. Shortle (2000). "Climate Change and
Agriculture in the Mid-Atlantic Region." Climate Research 14:185-194.
Abler, D. G., A. G.
Rodríguez, and J. S. Shortle (1999). "Parameter
Uncertainty in CGE Modeling of the Environmental Impacts of Economic
Policies." Environmental and Resource Economics 14:75-94.
Abler, D. G., A. G.
Rodríguez, and J. S. Shortle (1999). "Trade
Liberalization and the Environment in Costa Rica." Environment
and Development Economics 4:357-373.
Abler, D. G., A. G.
Rodríguez, and J. S. Shortle (1998). "Labor
Force Growth and the Environment in Costa Rica." Economic
Modelling 15:477-499.
Abler, D. G., and J.
Das (1998). "The Determinants of the
Speed of Convergence: The Case of India." Applied Economics 30:1595-1602.
Sukhatme, V. A., and
D. G. Abler (1997). "Economists and
Food Price Policy Distortions: The Case of India." Economic
Development and Cultural Change 46:79-96.
Abler, D. G., and J.
S. Shortle (1995). "Technology as an
Agricultural Pollution Control Policy." American Journal
of Agricultural Economics 77:20-32.
Abler, D. G., and J.
S. Shortle (1992). "Environmental and
Farm Commodity Policy Linkages in the US and EC." European
Review of Agricultural Economics 19:197-217.
Abler, D. G. (1989). "Vote
Trading on Farm Legislation in the U.S. House." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 71:583-591.
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