Current Projects
Ghost Gear
Funding: UiT and Bugas Chair
Papers:
1. Do, H-L and T.L. Cherry. 2025. “Ghost fishing and the voluntary adoption of biodegradable gear” Resource and Energy Economics. 84: 101534.
2. Do, H-L, T.L. Cherry, C. Hill and D. McEvoy. 2025. Refundable deposits and the adoption of biodegradable fishing gear: An experimental investigation. Under review.
Solar Geoengineering
Funding: NSF
Selected Papers:
1. Campoverde, D., T.L. Cherry, D. McEvoy, S. Kroll. 2025. Solar geoengineering and Mitigation: Pre- and Post Deployment Responses. Working paper.
2. Cherry, T.L., D. McEvoy, S. Kroll, D. Campoverde. 2024. Solar geoengineering, free-driving and conflict: An experimental investigation. Environmental and Resource Economics, Volume 87, 2024.
3. Cherry, T.L., S. Kroll, D. McEvoy, J. Moreno-Cruz, D. Campoverde. 2023. Climate cooperation in the shadow of solar geoengineering: An experimental investigation of the moral hazard conjecture. Environmental Politics, 1-9, 2023.
Wildfire Risk and Management
Funding: NSF
Papers:
1. Brimley, P., T.L. Cherry. 2025. Proactive responses to increasing wildfire risk: The (mis)alignment of public preferences and management priorities. Environmental Research Letters, forthcoming.
2. Brimley, P., T.L. Cherry, J. Hochard, B. Leonard. 2025. Paradox of preparedness. Working Paper.
Wildfire Risk and Management
Funding: NSF
Papers:
1. Brimley, P., T.L. Cherry. 2025. Proactive responses to increasing wildfire risk: The (mis)alignment of public preferences and management priorities. Environmental Research Letters, forthcoming.
2. Brimley, P., T.L. Cherry, J. Hochard, B. Leonard. 2025. Paradox of preparedness. Working Paper.
Intangibility of Risk Reduction
Funding: NSF
Papers:
1. Fletcher, I., T.L. Cherry, G Loewenstien. 2025. Natural Disasters and the Intangibility of Risk Reduction: Experimental Evidence. Working paper.
Wildlife Risk and Management
Funding: NSF
Papers:
1. Hubbard, C., I. Fletcher, T.L. Cherry, D. Finnoff, J. Hochard. 2025. Individual Preference Elicitation Transforms ‘Social Carrying Capacity’ into a Pragmatic Management Tool, Communications Earth and Environment, forthcoming.
2. Cherry, T.L., C. Hubbard, L. Lewis. 2025. Celebrity wildlife and the risk of human-predator encounters. Park Science, 39(2).
3. Brimley, P., T.L. Cherry, J. Whitehead. 2025. Species-specific wildlife recreation demand: Evidence from WTP and WTA estimates in Grand Teton National Park. Under review.
Epidemics and Herd Immunity
Funding: NSF
Papers:
1. Lubsen, C., T.L. Cherry. 2025. Strategic uncertainty and heterogeneous costs in a collective risk social dilemma. Working paper.
Global Public Goods
Funding: Bugas Chair
Papers:
1. McEvoy, D., M. McGinty, D. Campoverde, T.L. Cherry. Providing global public goods using monetary deposits: Theory and experiments. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol 236.
2. McEvoy, D., M. McGinty, T.L. Cherry. Asymmetric public goods using monetary deposits: Theory and experiments. Working paper.
Two-stage Contests
Funding: Bugas Chair
Papers:
1. Hill, C. and T.L. Cherry. 2025. Asymmetric contests with pre-investment. Working paper.
2. Bruner, D., T.L. Cherry, E. Levi, M. O'Malley, A. Ramalingam. 2025. Repeated contests with winner advantage. Under review.
Two-stage Contests
Funding: Bugas Chair
Papers:
1. Hill, C. and T.L. Cherry. 2025. Asymmetric contests with pre-investment. Working paper.
2. Bruner, D., T.L. Cherry, E. Levi, M. O'Malley, A. Ramalingam. 2025. Repeated contests with winner advantage. Under review.
Asymmetries in Resource Management
Funding: Mason Award
Papers:
1. Longuevan, J., T.L. Cherry. 2025. Appropriation of endogenously provided common pool resources with heterogeneous effort. Working paper.
2. Longuevan, J., T.L. Cherry. 2025. Public good maintenance with heterogeneous agents. Working paper.
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty
Funding: NSF
Papers:
1. Lubsen, C., T.L. Cherry. 2025. Uncertainty and public confidence in projected scenarios. Working paper.
Charitable Giving
Funding: Mason Award
Papers:
1. Paul, S., T.L. Cherry, K. Van 't Veld. 2025. Same money, different meaning: Donor and attribution effects on overhead preferences. Working paper.
Vertical vs. Horizontal Inequality
Funding: Bugas Chair
Papers:
1. Paul, S., T.L. Cherry. 2025. Vertical and horizontal inequality in a simple bargaining game. Working paper.
Polarization
Funding: Bugas Chair
Projects:
1. Conflicted groups with bubbles
2. Gerrymandering and extreme outcomes