Dr Stephanie McWhinnie

Biography/ Background

Please note that I am on leave until June 2009.

Born in Nelson, New Zealand, I did my BA(Hons) at the University of Otago in Dunedin and worked for two years as a Policy Analyst at the Dunedin City Council before moving to Canada for graduate school. After my MA at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, I completed my PhD in Economics there in 2006. My curriculum vitae is available below.

Teaching Interests

My areas of teaching are in natural resource, environmental and applied microeconomics. In both 2007 and 2008 I taught Consumers, Firms and Markets II/IID (Intermediate Micro) and Resource and Environmental Economics III/IIID. I have also supervised Honours, Masters of Applied Economics, Masters of Economics dissertations. In 2009 I will teach Resource and Environmental Economics III/IIID (second semester). All course related information is available on MyUni.

Research Interests

My areas of research interest are in natural resource and environmental economics, at present my work is focused on fisheries.

Work in progress includes:

McWhinnie, Stephanie F. (2006) "The Impact of Rights-Based Management Regimes on Fishery Productivity" in Sumaila, U. Rashid and Marsden, A. Dale (eds.) 2005 North American Association of Fisheries Economists Forum Proceedings. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 14(1). Fisheries Centre, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. www.fisheries.ubc.ca/publications/reports/report14_1.php

Publications

"The Tragedy of the Commons in International Fisheries: An Empirical Examination" forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2008.07.008

Professional Associations

Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society: South Australian Branch Executive (Student Matters)

Files

• CV - SFMcWhinnie_CV_Oct08.pdf [125.2K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009