Prof. Dietrich Earnhart – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Prof. Dietrich Earnhart

University of Kansas
Economics

External Senior Fellow
June 2021

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E-Mail: Earnhart@ku.edu

Last Update: 31.08.2021

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Preparation:

Yale University New Haven, CT Economics/Political Science B.A., 1987

Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison, WI Economics M.S., 1991

Univ. of Wisconsin – Madison, WI Economics Ph.D., 1995

Appointments:

2017 – present Director, Undergraduate Studies Program, Department of Economics, University of Kansas

2009 – present Full Professor, University of Kansas

2012 – present Research Associate, Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI), Charles University – Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

2002 – 2009 Associate Professor, University of Kansas

2002 – present Director, Center for Environmental Policy, Institute for Policy and Social Research, University of Kansas

1999 – 2003 Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute (at University of Michigan)

1999 – 2003 Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research

1997 – 2002 Assistant Professor, University of Kansas

1995 – 1997 Assistant Professor, Fairfield University

Selected Publications

“Effect of Cooperative Enforcement Strategies on Wastewater Management,” Economic Inquiry, 56 (2) [April], pg. 1357-1379, 2018 (with Zach Raff).
“Corporate Environmental Strategies in Developing and Transition Economies,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 8 (2), pg. 164-185, 2014 (with Madhu Khanna and Thomas Lyon).
“Effect of Audits on the Extent of Compliance with Wastewater Discharge Limits,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 68 (2), pg. 243-261, 2014 (with Donna Ramirez Harrington).
“‘Effective Regulatory Stringency’ and Firms’ Profitability: The Effects of Effluent Limits and Government Monitoring,” Journal of Regulatory Economics, 50 (2), pg. 111-145, 2016 (with Dylan Rassier).
“The Role of Regulated Facilities’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Regulatory Monitoring and Enforcement: Compliance with the Clean Water Act,” Ecological Economics, 142, pg. 282-294, 2017 (with Lana Friesen).

FRIAS Project

Information-Based Environmental Regulation: Testing the Porter Hypothesis

This FRIAS project explores the effect of information-based environmental regulation, which requires companies to record and publicly report their pollutant emissions, on companies’ financial outcomes, e.g,. profits. Specifically, the project derives theoretically hypotheses specific to information-based regulation, drawing upon standard economic theory, which posits that any environmental regulation undermines financial outcomes, and the Porter Theory, which posits that environmental regulation may improve financial outcomes. The project then tests empirically these hypotheses in the context of European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) regulation using data on German manufacturing facilities. These data are available from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) database, which is housed at the Center for European Economic Research [Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)]. For this project, the applicant is collaborating with research scientists at ZEW: Dr. Robert Germeshausen and Dr. Kathrine von Graevenitz.