He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2002) and a B.S. in business marketing and management from Cornell University (1995). Prior to joining Tulane, Dr. Shimshack was an assistant professor of economics at Tufts University and a visiting researcher at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB. His major fields are environmental economics, applied microeconomics, and public policy. At Tulane, he teaches environmental economics and statistics. Dr. Shimshack’s specific research interests include monitoring and enforcement, corporate environmental performance, transparency and advisories, and environmental health. He was recently named to the editorial council of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the leading environmental economics journal.