Publications
International Environmental Agreements:
Klis, AA., McGinty M., Citizen Carbon Fund: Harmonized International Carbon Taxes and Transfers to Increase Treaty Size, 2022. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 22(2): 269-280. Keywords: IEAs, public goods, stable coalitions, climate change, pollution abatement, asymmetry, transfers. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2021-0072
Klis, AA., McGinty M., Citizen Carbon Fund: Harmonized International Carbon Taxes and Transfers to Increase Treaty Size, 2022. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 22(2): 269-280. Keywords: IEAs, public goods, stable coalitions, climate change, pollution abatement, asymmetry, transfers. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2021-0072
Game Theory and Environmental Agreements: Getting Started with Coalition Models, 2022. EBSCO Pathways to Research in Sustainability, inaugural edition SUS027, [s. l.], p. 1–18. Keywords: international environmental agreements, treaty, coalition, tragedy of the commons, game theory, self-enforcement. https://www.pathways2research.com/pts/Game%20Theory%20and%20Environmental%20Agreements%3A%20Getting%20Started%20with%20Coalition%20Models.
Identity and Equal Treatment in Negative Externality Agreements, 2019. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics, 19(6): 615-630. Keywords: agreements, equal treatment, exclusive coalition, minilateralism, minimum participation, negative externality. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-019-09456-5.
Theory:
Klis, AA., Melstrom, RT., Strategic behavior and dynamic externalities in commercial fisheries, 2020. Ecological Economics, 169: 106503 (March). Keywords: bioeconomics, game theory, cooperation, overfishing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106503.
Klis, AA., Melstrom, RT., Strategic behavior and dynamic externalities in commercial fisheries, 2020. Ecological Economics, 169: 106503 (March). Keywords: bioeconomics, game theory, cooperation, overfishing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106503.
On the Openness of Unique Pure-Strategy Nash Equilibrium. 2019. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 19(1): 1-9. Keywords: unique Nash equilibrium, pure strategies, open condition, differentiable strict concavity, transversal, game theory, univalence. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/bejte-2017-0065
Empirical Applications:
Ekpe, G., Klis, AA., Spillover effects in irrigated agriculture from the groundwater commons. 2023. Environmental and Resource Economics, online Sept 1.
Keywords: groundwater commons, spatial externality, irrigation, spatial Durbin model, spatial regression, correlated random effects. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00801-6
2024 EAERE Commendation for Outstanding Publication in ERE, www.eaere.org/outstanding-publication-in-ere/.
Ekpe, G., Klis, AA., Spillover effects in irrigated agriculture from the groundwater commons. 2023. Environmental and Resource Economics, online Sept 1.
Keywords: groundwater commons, spatial externality, irrigation, spatial Durbin model, spatial regression, correlated random effects. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00801-6
2024 EAERE Commendation for Outstanding Publication in ERE, www.eaere.org/outstanding-publication-in-ere/.
Solatyavari, L., Klis, AA., Groves, J., Superfund cleanup time and community characteristics: A survival analysis, 2022. Journal of Environmental Management, 320: 115705. Keywords: Superfund, minorities, hazardous waste, ArcGIS. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115705
Melstrom, RT., Klis, AA., Estimating dynamic adjustment in commercial fisheries, 2021. Land Economics, 97(3): 562-576. Keywords: fishing effort, overexploitation, Great Lakes, two-stage estimation. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3368/wple.97.3.072519-0103R1
Economics Education:
Inequality and Superfund Sites: Using Backwards Design, Cooperative Learning, and Data Integration in Introductory Environmental Economics. (2023). The Journal of Economic Education, 54 (4). Keywords: backward design, classroom data integration, GDP per capita, Superfund, team-based learning. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2023.2242338
Inequality and Superfund Sites: Using Backwards Design, Cooperative Learning, and Data Integration in Introductory Environmental Economics. (2023). The Journal of Economic Education, 54 (4). Keywords: backward design, classroom data integration, GDP per capita, Superfund, team-based learning. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2023.2242338
Working Papers
When is Bad "Bad Enough"? A Framework for Analyzing Benefits of Coordination Under Externalities. Keywords: game theory, international policy, dynamic externalities, public good provision, Taylor expansion.
Penn, J., Hu, W., Vassalos, M., Klis, AA., Discrete Choice Experiments Can Generate Consistent Results Regardless of the Number of Choice Sets: Theory and Evidence. Keywords: experimental, discrete choice, hypothetical bias, willingness to pay, probabilistic binding.
Klis, AA., Jackson Young, L., A Transdisciplinary Approach to Undergraduate Sustainability Education: Resource Economics by Way of Business and Science. Keywords: experimental, discrete choice, hypothetical bias, willingness to pay, probabilistic binding.
Klis, AA., McGinty, M., Biodiversity and Systems Externalities: A Trophic Level Approach to Conservation, Degradation, and Coordination.
Klis, AA., Stinchcombe, MB., Voluntary Information Sharing.
Just for Fun
For the 9th Carroll Round conference for undergraduate research in international economics:
Early Participants of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Their Effect on Later Membership. Honors Thesis for International Economics at Georgetown University. May 2010. Published in the Carroll Round Proceedings, Volume 6 (2011): 238-251.
Early Participants of Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Their Effect on Later Membership. Honors Thesis for International Economics at Georgetown University. May 2010. Published in the Carroll Round Proceedings, Volume 6 (2011): 238-251.

Klis Early Participants of MEAs |
For classes:
(N.B. These papers were co-written with other students during my graduate and undergraduate education. They won't be published anywhere, but I'll mention them here anyway because they were useful and fun exercises.)
Experimental Economics Final Report and Statistical Inferences. Co-written with Swagata Bhattacharjee, Umut Dur, Shan Jang, Rajiv Mukherjee, Xi Qin, and Tom Roderick for Professor Stahl's course in Experimental Economics. December 2011. (Paper is unavailable, but it was fun to write!)
(N.B. These papers were co-written with other students during my graduate and undergraduate education. They won't be published anywhere, but I'll mention them here anyway because they were useful and fun exercises.)
Experimental Economics Final Report and Statistical Inferences. Co-written with Swagata Bhattacharjee, Umut Dur, Shan Jang, Rajiv Mukherjee, Xi Qin, and Tom Roderick for Professor Stahl's course in Experimental Economics. December 2011. (Paper is unavailable, but it was fun to write!)
The Game of Blackjack and Analysis of Counting Cards. Co-written with Ariell Zimran, Alejandra Fuster, and Christopher Rivelli for Professor Catilina's undergraduate course in Game Theory. December 2009. (Sorry, C++ code is not available.)

Zimran Klis Fuster Rivelli Blackjack |