NBER profile: V. Kerry Smith.

V. Kerry Smith is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Environmental and Energy Economics. He is also Regents' Professor of Economics at Arizona State University and a University Fellow at Resources for the Future.

Smith received his Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University in "what no doubt seems like another lifetime": 1970. His research focuses on measuring the economic tradeoffs that individuals make to enhance environmental quality and to reduce environmental sources of risk. His recent research has focused on evaluating alternative modeling strategies for introducing environmental services into static and dynamic computational equilibrium models, both at the regional and national levels.

In addition to this research, he has...