MIMAKO (MIMI) KOBAYASHI

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1 MIMAKO (MIMI) KOBAYASHI Department of Resource Economics (MS 204) University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557, USA Phone: (775) ; Fax: (775) Web: March 2010 EDUCATION Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis, March Dissertation: Livestock Production in Transition Economies: The Case of Kazakhstan. Advisors: Dr. Richard E. Howitt and Dr. Lovell S. Jarvis. M.A., Economics, Kobe University, March Thesis: Market Competitiveness and Impacts of Migration on Rural Economies: A Case of Mexican Villages. Adviser: Dr. Susumu Hondai. M.S., Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis, September B.A., Language and Area Studies (France), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, March Thesis: Food Problem in the Third World. Advisor: Dr. Peter B. Oblas. ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Assistant Professor, Department of Resource Economics, University of Nevada, Reno, Jan 08 present. Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, Aug 04 Sept 07. Consultant, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, July 08, Feb 07 Mar 07, and Oct 06 Nov 06. Research Assistant, Departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Range Science, University of California, Davis, Apr 99 Dec Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, Apr 97 Jun 98. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Nevada, Reno Guest lecturer, Department of Resource Economics RECO 466/666 Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, Oct 08 Instructor, Department of Resource Economics APEC 202 Natural Resources, Environment, and the Economy, Spring 08 University of California, Davis Instructor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE 143 Investments, Fall 07 Teaching Assistant for Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics ARE 100A Intermediate Microeconomics, Winter 99 ARE 155 Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions, Fall 98 M. Kobayashi 1

2 PEER-REVIEWD JOURNAL ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS Sensitivity of WTP Estimates to Definition of Yes : Reinterpreting Expressed Response Intensity (with K. Rollins and M.D.R. Evans). Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39(1), The Use of Poultry Value Chain Mapping in Developing HPAI Control Programmes (with A. McLeod, J. Gilman, A. Siagian, and M. Young). World s Poultry Science Journal 65(2) (2009), Model Could Aid Emergency Response Planning for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreaks (with R.E. Howitt and T.E. Carpenter). California Agriculture 63(3) (2009), Stochastic Rangeland Use under Capital Constraints (With R.E. Howitt, L.S. Jarvis, and E.A. Laca). American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(3) (2007). A Dynamic Optimal Disease Control Model for Foot-and-mouth Disease. I. Model Description (With T.E. Carpenter, B.F. Dickey, and R.E. Howitt). Preventive Veterinary Medicine 79 (2007). A Dynamic Optimal Disease Control Model for Foot-and-mouth Disease. II. Model Results and Policy Implications (With T.E. Carpenter, B.F. Dickey, and R.E. Howitt). Preventive Veterinary Medicine 79 (2007). TECHNICAL REPORTS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS Economic Analysis of Water Conservation Practices for Agricultural Producers in the Walker River Basin. University Center for Economic Development (UCED) Publication 2008/ pages (with K.R. Curtis, C.D. Bishop, S. Emm, T.R. Harris, and M. Kim). Northwestern Nevada Alfalfa Hay Establishment, Production Costs & Returns, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Special Publication, SP pages (with K.R. Curtis and C. Bishop). Northwestern Nevada Wine Grape Establishment, Production Costs & Returns, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Special Publication, SP pages (with K.R. Curtis and C. Bishop). Hunan Value Chain Mapping Workshop: Consultant Report. FAO, Rome, Indonesia Trip Consultant Report. FAO, Rome, Poultry Value Chain Study: Consultant Report. FAO, Rome, WORKING PAPERS Latent Thresholds Analysis of Choice Data with Multiple Bids and Response Options (with K. Moeltner and K. Rollins; submitted for journal review). Strategic Incentives in Biosecurity Investment: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses (with T. Melkonyan; in revision). Risk Preferences of Private Property Owners Facing Wildfire Threats in Nevada (with K. Rollins; in progress). Property-owner Incentives to Create Defensible Space against Wildfire (with N. Zirogiannis, K. Rollins, and M. Evans; in progress). Estimating WTP for an Environmental Policy When the Good Comes with the Bad (with K. Rollins; in progress). Invasive Annual Weeds and Wildfire Suppression Costs in Great Basin (with K. Rollins and M. Landis; in progress). M. Kobayashi 2

3 Effects of Water Right Institutions on Agricultural Production Decisions in Northern Nevada (with K.R. Curtis, M.W. Cowee, and S. Emm; in revision). Invasive Weeds, Wildfire, and Rancher Decision Making in the Great Basin (with K. Rollins). UNR Joint Economics Working Paper Series, Working Paper No Willingness to Pay Estimation When Protest Beliefs Are Inseparable from the Public Good Definition (with K. Rollins, M.D.R. Evans, and A. Castledine). UNR Joint Economics Working Paper Series, Working Paper No Livestock Transition in Kazakhstan (with L.S. Jarvis and R.E. Howitt; in revision). CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS Risk Preferences of Private Property Owners Facing Wildfire Threats in Nevada (with K. Rollins). Paper presented at the W2133 Regional Project meeting, February 24-27, 2010, Tucson, AZ. Strategic Incentives in Biosecurity Investment: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses (with T. Melkonyan). Paper presented in UNR Joint Economic Seminar, November 13, 2009, Reno, NV. Water Rights and Farm Production Decisions in the Walker River Basin (with K.R. Curtis, M.W. Cowee, and S. Emm). Selected poster presented at the International Terminus Lakes Symposium, October 26-29, 2009, Reno, NV. Invasive Weeds, Wildfire, and Rancher Decision Making in the Great Basin (with T. Harris and K. Rollins). Paper presented at the 2009 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Landowner Willingness to Sell Water Rights in Nevada" (with K.R. Curtis, M. Cowee, and S.K. Emm). Paper presented at the 2009 Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, June 24-26, Kauai, Hawaii. Rangeland Management with Invasive Annual Grasses and Wildfire in the Great Basin" (with K. Rollins). Paper presented at the 2009 Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, June 24-26, Kauai, Hawaii. Preparing for Exotic Livestock Disease Outbreaks: The Case of a Potential Foot-and- Mouth Disease Outbreak in California (With R.E. Howitt and T.E. Carpenter). Paper presented at the Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, July 3-7, 2006, Kyoto, Japan. Epidemiologic Disease Spread Models and Economic Optimal Disease Control Models. Invited presentation at Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan, June 30, Investment in Infectious Disease Control Capacity: The Case of a Potential Foot-and- Mouth Disease Outbreak in California (With R.E. Howitt and T.E. Carpenter). Paper presented at the 2006 American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, California. Dynamic Optimization Approach to Infectious Livestock Disease Control Problems: An Application to a Potential Foot-and-mouth Disease Outbreak in California (With B.F. Dickey, T.E. Carpenter, and R.E. Howitt). Paper presented at the 2005 Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, December 4-6, St. Louis, Missouri. Sheep Production in Central Asia: A Graduate Student s Perspective. Speech given as a guest panelist at the 2005 UC Davis Chancellor s Fall Conference, September 18-20, Tahoe City, California. M. Kobayashi 3

4 Economic Modeling of Livestock Disease Control: The Case of a Potential Foot-and- Mouth Disease Outbreak in California (With B.F. Dickey, T.E. Carpenter, and R.E. Howitt). Paper presented at the 2005 Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, July 6-8, San Francisco, California. Modeling Extensive Livestock Production Systems: An Application to Sheep Production in Kazakhstan (With R.E. Howitt, L.S. Jarvis, and E.A. Laca). Paper presented at the 2003 American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada. Livestock Production in Transition Economies: The Case of Kazakhstan (With R.E. Howitt and L.S. Jarvis). Poster presented at the 2002 American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, California. Small-scale Agricultural Production in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Implications to Spatial Marketing of Live Animals. Paper presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program, March 15-18, Autlan, Mexico. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Reviewer: Agricultural Economics (2009) Reviewer: proposals for the 12 th International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics in Durban, South Africa, 2009 Reviewer: European Review of Agricultural Economics (2008) Reviewer: CAB Reviews (Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources) (2007) Reviewer: selected papers proposals for the 2006 Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) Annual Meetings in Anchorage, AK PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Agricultural & Applied Economics Association GRANT AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIP Co-PI: EPA-STAR/USDA, 2/1/2010-1/31/2014 ($499,243). Integrating Market and Non- Market Benefits to Value Ecological Change in Agroecosystems: An Application to Invasive Weeds on Great Basin Rangeland. Co-PI: USDA-FAS, 10/1/2009 9/30/2010 ($174,050). Public Policy Support for the National Animal Health Program in the Republic of Georgia. Co-PI: Hatch, 7/1/2009-6/30/2010 ($41,462 for the first year). Modeling Rancher and Public Agency Decision-making to Coordinate Efforts to Battle Invasive Weeds and Wildfire on Nevada s Rangelands. Co-PI: ERS-USDA PRESIM (Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management), ($177,933). Institutional Design for Resource Allocation and Risk Sharing among Private and Public Sector Agents to Manage Invasive Annual Grasses and Wildfire in the Great Basin Jastro-Shields Graduate Research Awards ($2,139) 1999 Jastro-Shields Graduate Research Awards ($2,959) Frank and Grace Benedix Memorial Scholarship ( ) Giannini Fellowship ( ) M. Kobayashi 4

5 STUDENT ADVISING PhD students (1) MS students (3) LANGUAGES Fluency in Japanese and English Proficiency in French Knowledge of Russian COMPUTING SKILLS Microsoft Office, GAMS, STATA, SHAZAM, EVIEWS, R. M. Kobayashi 5