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R. William Provencher

Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

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Telephone:	(608) 262-9494
Fax:	(608) 262-4376
Office Address:	416 Taylor Hall 427 Lorch St. Madison, WI 53706

Prof. Provencher's Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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Research Interests

Provencher’s current research program focuses on the development of discrete choice models of the consumption of nonmarket goods and services, such as the Lake Michigan salmon fishery, with particular emphasis on the dynamic aspects of choice behavior; the interaction between socioeconomic and ecological systems, with an emphasis on the effect of ecological degradation on economic value and development patterns; and dynamic issues in resource allocation.

Current/Recent Courses

Recent Publications

McGough, Bruce, Andrew Plantinga and Bill Provencher. "The Dynamic Behavior of Efficient Timber Prices" Land Economics 80(2004)
Baerenklau, Kenneth A. and Bill Provencher "Static Modeling of Dynamic Recreation Behavior: Implications for Prediction and Welfare Estimation " Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 50(November 2005)
Moore, Rebecca, Alex Macpherson and Bill Provencher "A Dymamic Principal-Agent Model of Human-Mediated Aquatic Species Invasions." Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. AAE Staff Paper Series
Carpenter, S.R., B.J. Benson, R. Biggs, J.W. Chipman, J.A. Foley, S.A. Golding, R.B. Hammer, P.C. Hanson, P.T.J. Johnson, A.M. Kamarainen, T.K. Kratz, R.C. Lathrop, K.D. McMahon, B. Provencher, J.A. Rusak, C.T. Solomon, E.H. Stanley, M.G. Turner, M.J. Van "Understanding regional change: Comparison of two lake districts" Bioscience 157(4)(2007)

Education

Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of California-Davis, 1984.
M.S., Environmental Studies, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Duke University, 1985.
B.S., Natural Resources, Cornell University, 1981.