ZINNIA MUKHERJEE
COLLEGE ADDRESS:
Department of Economics
Simmons College
Office: MCB E-203J
300 Fenway Park
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (860) 992 – 6592
Email: [email protected]
CITIZENSHIP: India
U.S. VISA: H1-B
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Primary: Environmental & Natural Resource Economics
Secondary: Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, Industrial Organization
EDUCATION:
• PhD, Economics, University of Connecticut, 2004 – 2009.
Dissertation Title: “Three Essays on Conservation of Endangered Species”
Major Advisor: Kathleen Segerson, Professor of Economics, University of Connecticut.
• Master of Science (M.Sc.), Economics, University of Calcutta, India, 2001 – 2003.
Specialization: Statistics and Econometrics, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics.
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Economics, University of Calcutta, India, 1998 – 2001.
Major: Economics
Minors: Mathematics, Political Science.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
• Assistant Professor of Economics, September 2013 - present
Simmons College, Boston, MA
• Research Fellow, August, 2011 - August, 2013
American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, MA
• Adjunct Faculty, 2012 - 2013
Connecticut College, New London, CT
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2009 - 2012
Connecticut College, New London, CT
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NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE:
• March, 2013 - July, 2013 – Lead Economist for Business Cycle Conditions Report at the American
Institute for Economic Research
• June, 2010 - August, 2010 – Research Specialist, Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development.
Project required analyzing financial and tax incentives provided by U.S. states to attract new businesses.
• June 2008 - August 2008 – Research Assistant, CT Department of Economic and Community Development.
Project: State Strategic Economic Plan
• June 2007 - December 2007 – Research Assistant, Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis, Storrs,
CT.
• September 2006 - December 2006 – Research Assistant for Professor Samson M. Kimenyi, Department
of Economics, University of Connecticut. Project: An Overview of Public School Systems Across
African Nations
PUBLICATIONS:
• Mukherjee, Zinnia “An Economic Approach to Understanding the Trade Induced Transfer of Bycatch
from Unilateral Bycatch Reduction Policies,” Marine Policy, forthcoming January 2015.
• Mukherjee, Zinnia and Kathleen Segerson, “TED Regulation and Shrimp Harvest: The Role of Behavioral and Market Responses,” Marine Resource Economics, Vol. 26, No.3, October 2011, pp 173-189.
– Recipient of the 2011 Marine Resource Economics Outstanding Article Award
COMPLETED WORKING PAPERS:
• Mukherjee, Zinnia “Controlling Stochastic Externalities with Penalty Threats: The Case of Bycatch,”
2013 (under review).
• Garces, Juan Pedro and Zinnia Mukherjee “Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Environmental Resources in the Chilean Patagonia,” 2014 (under review)
WORKING PAPERS:
• “Behavioral Response of Fishers to Hypoxia and the Distributional Impact on Harvest,” with Kathleen
Segerson, 2013.
• “Measuring the Spatial Effect of Hypoxia on Harvesting Capacity - A Data Envelopment Analysis
Approach,” with Lei Chen, 2014.
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WORK IN PROGRESS:
• “An Economic Analysis of Connecticut’s Nitrogen Credit Trading Program,” 2014, funded by the Simmons College Fund for Research Award. Research Assistant - Marilyn Baremore
• “Understanding the economic & behavioral drivers for sustainable fisheries management in West Bengal, India,” with Simanti Banerjee, 2014.
• “Environmental Regulation and U.S. Trade Flows: 1970 - 2010,” with Niloufer Sohrabji, 2014.
• “Behavioral Response and the Impact of Hypoxia on Lobster Harvest in the Long Island Sound” with
Kathleen Segerson and Michele Baggio, 2014.
SELECTED NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
• Heffley, Dennis, Zinnia Mukherjee and Lei Chen, “Can Economic Equality Add Years to Your Life?”
The Connecticut Economy, Spring 2012.
• Mukherjee, Zinnia and Steven Cunningham, “India’s Secret Engine,” Research Report, Vol. LXXIX,
No.8, May 7, 2012, American Institute for Economic Research.
• Mukherjee, Zinnia, “The Housing Trap,” Research Report, Vol. LXXIX, No. 1, January 16, 2012,
American Institute for Economic Research.
• Mukherjee, Zinnia, “Held Back by Our Labor Force,”, Research Report, Vol. LXXVIII, No. 19,
November 7, 2011, American Institute for Economic Research.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Simmons College:
• Principles of Microeconomics - Spring 2014
• Public Economics - Spring 2014
• Environmental Economics - Fall 2013, Spring 2015
• Intermediate Microeconomics Theory - Fall 2013, Fall 2014
• Master in Public Policy - Economic Policy Analysis (Graduate level) - Spring 2015
• Business Competition and Antitrust Policy - Fall 2014
• Economics of Sustainability and Resource Use - Fall 2015 (scheduled)
Connecticut College:
• Urban and Regional Economics - Spring 2012, Fall 2012
• Environmental Economics - Fall 2011
• Seminar in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics - Spring 2011, Spring 2013
• Intermediate Microeconomic Theory - Spring 2011
• Econometrics - Fall 2009, Fall 2010
• Introductory Macroeconomics - Spring 2010
• Introductory Microeconomics - Spring 2010
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Additional responsibilities: supervising independent research projects and advising economics majors
University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT:
Instructor of Record, Department of Economics
• Industrial Organization - Summer 2010
• Principles of Macroeconomics - Spring 2010 (Avery Point campus)
• Econometrics – Spring 2009, Summer 2009
• International Trade Theory – Fall 2008
• Principles of Microeconomics – Summer 2008
• Public Finance (Writing intensive course) – Fall 2007
• Mathematical Economics – Summer 2007, Summer 2009
• Government and Industry – Summer 2006, Spring 2007
• Intermediate Microeconomic Theory – Fall 2006, Spring 2006
FELLOWSHIP, GRANTS AND AWARDS:
• 2014: Simmons College Fund for Faculty Development.
• 2013: Simmons College Fund for Research, December 2013.
• 2012: Research Grant, Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University
(PI: Juan-Pedro Garces).
• 2011: Dr. S.Y. Hong Award for Outstanding Article in Marine Resource Economics (with Kathleen
Segerson)
• 2011: CONNSHARP award for facilitating faculty-student research (Student: Vinh Pham),
Connecticut College, May 2011.
• 2009: Best Doctoral Student Paper at the Jr. Faculty and Doctoral Student Paper Competition by
the Northeast Business and Economics Association, for “Economic Impact of the TED Regulation –
A U.S. Approach to Reduce Stochastic Sea Turtle Bycatch,” 2009.
• 2009: Multidisciplinary Environmental Research Award for Graduate Students, Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, March 2009.
• 2008: Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Connecticut, June 2008.
• 2007: Albert E. Waugh Scholarship, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, “ to recognize both a high level of academic achievement and promise as a teacher”.
• 2005: Albert E. Waugh Scholarship, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut.
• 2004 – 2008: Economics Department Graduate Fellowship, University of Connecticut.
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PRESENTATIONS:
• Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, November 1 - 2, 2014, poster presentation
• International Conference on Economic and Business Issues, Denver, Colorado, December 18-19, 2014
– “Environmental Regulation and U.S. Trade Flows: 1970 - 2010” (scheduled)
• 5th GRETha International Conference on Economic Development, Bordeaux, France, June 20, 2014 –
“Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Environmental Resources in the Chilean Patagonia” (presented
by Juan Pedro Garces, my coauthor)
• The Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance, Rimini, Italy, June 9, 2014 – “Estimating the
Willingness to Pay for Environmental Resources in the Chilean Patagonia” (presented by Juan Pedro
Garces, my coauthor)
• 12th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 15, 2014
– “Measuring the Spatial Effect of Hypoxia on Harvesting Capacity - A Data Envelopment Analysis
Approach” (presented by Lei Chen, my coauthor).
• 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics,
Toulouse, France, June 26-29, 2013 – “Controlling Stochastic Externalities with Penalty Threats: The
Case of Sea Turtle Bycatch”.
• Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Conference, Lowell, MA, June 11, 2012
– “Effect of Marine Hypoxia on Lobster Harvest Evidence from Long Island Sound Fisheries”.
• Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 10, 2012 – “Behavioral Response of Fishers to Marine Hypoxia Some Evidence from Long Island Sound Fisheries”.
• Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 9, 2012 – “U.S. Corporate
Taxes - A Redefined Role in the 21st Century”.
• Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington DC – November 19, 2011 – “Behavioral Response of Fishers to Marine Hypoxia Evidence from Long Island Sound Fisheries,”.
• EAERE Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics, Venice, Italy – July 7, 2011 –
“Controlling Stochastic Externalities with Penalty Threats: The Case of Sea Turtle Bycatch”.
• Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Conference - June 13 - 14, 2010 – “Economic Impact of the TED Regulation – A U.S. Approach to Reduce Stochastic Sea Turtle Bycatch”.
• Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA – February 26, 2010 – “Economic
Impact of the TED Regulation – A U.S. Approach to Reduce Stochastic Sea Turtle Bycatch”.
• 36th Annual Conference of the Northeast Business & Economics Association, Worcester, MA – November 6, 2009 – “Economic Impact of the TED Regulation – A U.S. Approach to Reduce Stochastic Sea
Turtle Bycatch”.
• Camp Resources Workshop XVI, North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC – August 2009 – “Voluntary Approaches to Conserving Endangered Species – The Case of Stochastic Sea Turtle Bycatch”.
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• Economics Department, University of Connecticut – Brownbag Seminar Series – Fall 2008, Spring 2008
and Spring 2007.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
• External:
– University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA - November 18, 2014, scheduled
– Gettysburg College, PA - April 3, 2014
– University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - December 4, 2013
• Simmons College:
– Lecture on “Global Warming and Climate Change: How Economics Matters” - President’s Reception, April 12, 2014
– Invited Presentation, Economics Liaison, “Primer on U.S. Health Care Market and Policy,” February 13, 2014
– Invited Panelist, “Roundtable Discussion: The Shutdown & Debt-Ceiling Crisis” - October 17,
2013
SIMMONS COLLEGE SERVICE:
• Committees:
– 2014 - present: Member, CAS Curriculum Committee
– 2013 - present: Member, Faculty Advisory Board for Minor in Sustainability
• Other Services:
– Fall 2014 - Invited panelist, New Faculty Orientation September 2
– Spring 2014 - present: Student Advising
– Spring 2014 - developed a new undergraduate course - Econ 145 - Economics of Sustainability
and Resource Use
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE SERVICE:
• INDEPENDENT STUDIES
– Jessie Mehrhoff (Spring 2013): Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impact of the Appalachian
Coal Industry
– Jean Claude Foumena (Spring 2013): A Study of the Economic and Environmental Effects of
Marine Bycatch
– Tyler Corcoran (Fall 2012): Climate Change and Sustainability of Ski Resorts
– Justin Conway (Spring 2011): An Analysis of Discouraged Workers Effect of the Great Recession
in Connecticut
– Justin Conway (Fall 2010): Determinants of Crime Across Connecticut Towns – A study from
2001 to 2006
– Julianna Tatelbaum (Fall 2010): An Empirical Analysis of College Destination Choices
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• ECONOMICS MAJOR ADVISEES:
Tyler Corcoran, Eli Kahan, John Lyons, Catherine Smith - graduated Spring 2013
REFEREE:
• Marine Resource Economics
• Journal of Applied Statistics
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC SERVICE:
• 2013 – Session Chair, “Voluntary Approaches II,” 20th Annual Conference of the European Association
of Environmental and Resource Economics, Toulouse, France.
• 2013 – Discussant for Corporate Environmental Responsibility, Consumers’ Trust and Imperfect Competition, 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, Toulouse, France.
• 2012 – Session Chair, “Global Warming,” Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA.
• 2012 – Discussant for Modeling and Measuring the Impact of Climate: A Case Study of New England
Ski Resorts, Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA.
• 2010 – External Masters Thesis Evaluator, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
• 2010 – Discussant for Optimal Capital Taxation and Consumer Uncertainty, Eastern Economic Association, Philadelphia, PA, February 26.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
• 2007 – 2008: President, Association of Graduate Economics Students (AGES), Department of Economics, University of Connecticut.
• 2006 – 2007: Faculty Liaison Officer, AGES, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut.
• Spring 2006: Graduate Student Senator, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
• Interview - “U.S. Housing Markets”, The Solari Report, June 27, 2013.
• “Economics As A Career Choice,” Career Day Presentation, American Institute for Economic Research, April, 2013.
• Presentation “The U.S. Housing Market - Looking Forward”, Women’s Financial Empowerment Fall
Series, American Institute for Economic Research, October 18, 2012
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DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING MATERIALS:
2013 – Participant, Pearson Education Group Discussion for developing an all digital principles of economics
product (March 7, 2014)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION:
American Economic Association (AEA)
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
REFERENCES:
Dr.Kathleen Segerson
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
University of Connecticut
Department of Economics
341 Mansfield Road
Storrs, CT 06269 – 1063
Phone: (860)486 – 4567
Email: [email protected]
Dr.Dennis Heffley
Professor of Economics
University of Connecticut
Department of Economics
341 Mansfield Road
Storrs, CT 06269 – 1063
Phone: (860)486-4669
Email: [email protected]
Dr.Dipak K. Dey
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Associate Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Connecticut
Department of Statistics
215 Glenbrook Rd. U-4120
Storrs, CT 06269-4120
Phone: (860)486 – 4196
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
TEACHING REFERENCE:
Dr.Edward McKenna
Professor of Economics
Chair of Economics Department
Connecticut College
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT 06320
Phone: (860)439–2594
Email: [email protected]
October 2014
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