Carmen Carrión-Flores

• 2024 Spring
  • ECN 311 Intermediate Mathematical Microeconomics
• 2023 Fall
  • ECN 437 Environmental and Resource Economics
  • ECN 610 Special Topics in Economics - Environ.& Nat. Resource Econ
• 2023 Spring
  • ECN 311 Intermediate Mathematical Microeconomics
• 2022 Fall
  • ECN 437 Environmental and Resource Economics
  • ECN 610 Special Topics in Economics - Environ.& Nat. Resource Econ
• 2022 Spring
  • ECN 437 Environmental and Resource Economics

Carmen Carrión-Flores is a research assistant professor of economics in the Maxwell School’s Department of Economics and a senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research. Carrión-Flores is an environmental and regional economist whose research interests are in land use economics, energy efficiency, air pollution and migration. She uses spatial and dynamic econometric models to answer questions that are relevant for policy analysis.

Carrión-Flores’ main focus of her research is to tackle relevant policy questions (e.g., pollution reduction, land use change, migration, and energy use) based on theoretical foundations using state of the art econometric methodologies. Her research extensively uses empirical data to support economic analysis and obtain relevant policy recommendations. A critical aspect of environmental and natural resources issues and policies is that they demand a multidisciplinary approach. The “environment” is a complex and multidimensional issue that overlaps numerous disciplines. Hence, Carrión-Flores continually searches for new insights on new conceptual and methodological grounds to keep building the field of environmental and natural resources economics.

Motivated by this notion, Carrión-Flores explores the short-term effect of policy on the incentives for allocating productive resources (i.e. the adoption of cleaner and safer strategies and practices) while considering long-term effects of policy, such as the development of new technologies. For example, developing new technologies as a result of a response to environmental policy, could, in turn, reduce future air emissions. However, the quick development of new technology could stall long-term environmental R&D investments. If we expect that there is a short-term effect between policy and economic resources that can change judgments about net benefits of environmental policy, we also need to contemplate the long-term effects of environmental policy. This strategy, if successful, is consistent with the aim of finding new solutions to the problems we face today (e.g., climate change).

Her current projects include the analysis of different effects of environmental, natural resources, energy and labor policies on different outcomes, and their mechanisms. For instance, her research on Energy Star® lies at the interplay between economics and engineering. Engineers have continually pushed our technological boundaries to deliver energy efficient appliances and houses. In controlled trials, those appliances and houses exhibit substantial energy savings. However, from a holistic point of view, the effectiveness of those technologies and related policies (e.g., ENERGY STAR©) should consider any economic or behavioral responses by the end consumers.

Her work has been published in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary academic journals, including the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Ecological Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and the IZA Journal of Development and Migration.

Carrión-Flores has held faculty appointments at the State University of New York at Binghamton and the University of Florida. She received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Arizona in 2007.

"The Net-Zero Carbon Economy", Sponsored by CUSE Grants - Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant.

"Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Communication", Sponsored by SUNY Research Foundation.

"Impacts of Environmental Technologies on Labor Demand", Sponsored by Funds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg.

"Workshops on Voluntary Pollution Control Initiatives", Sponsored by Environmental Protection Agency.

"Using a Hedonic model to assess the Value of Urban Forests in Florida", Sponsored by US Department of Agriculture, Forest Division.

• Journal Articles
  • Carrión Flores, C. E., Flores-Lagunes, A. and Guci, L., "An Estimator for Discrete-Choice Models with Spatial Lag Dependence Using Large Samples, with an Application to Land-Use Conversions." Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018.
  • Carrión Flores, C. E., "What makes you go back home? Determinants of the duration of migration of Mexican immigrants in the US." IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2018.
  • Huan, L., Carrión Flores, C. E., "An Analysis of the ENERGY STAR® Program in Alachua County, Florida." Ecological Economics, 2017.
  • Carrión Flores, C. E., Irwin, E., "The Effect of Minimum Lot Zoning on Rural Land Conversion." Annals of Regional Science, 2017.
  • Bruegge, C., Carrión Flores, C. E. and Pope, J. C., "Does the Housing Market Value Energy Efficient Homes? Evidence from the Energy Star Program." Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016.
  • Carrión Flores, C. E., Innes, R. and Sam, A. G., "Do Voluntary Pollution Reduction Programs (VPRs) Spur or Deter Environmental Innovation? Evidence from 33/50." Environmental Economics and Management, 2013.
  • Carrión Flores, C. E., Innes, R., "Environmental innovation and environmental performance." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2010.
• Book Chapter
  • Carrión Flores, C. E., "Implications of Climate Variability and Water Supplies for Tribal Water Settlements." In Negotiating Tribal Water Rights. Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West. Colby, B. G., Thorson, J. E. and Britton, S. (eds.) University of Arizona Press, 2005.
• Abstract
  • Carrión Flores, C. E., Irwin, E., "Identifying Land-Use Conversion Patterns, the Effect of Zoning on Rural Land Conversion, and Land-Use Spillovers." In US-German Conference "Tough Choices – Land under a changing climate". Federal Ministry of Education and Research, DFG and NSF, 2009.
• Book Review
  • Carrión Flores, C. E., "Economics and Land Use Planning by Alan W. Evans." In Papers in Regional Science. , 2006.
• Technical Reports
  • Carrión Flores, C. E., Irwin, E., "Understanding the Spatial Pattern of Urbanization in Medina County, Ohio. A summary of recent research findings." Grant Twin Line Newsletter, 2001.
  • Libby, L., Carrión Flores, C. E., Development Impact Fees: A Primer. Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics Working Paper – AEDE – WP 0022-01, The Ohio State University, 2000.

Southern Economic Association Meeting (November, 2020)

XV Encuentro Internacional Capital Humano y Crecimiento (October, 2020)

XIV Encuentro Internacional Capital Humano y Crecimiento (October, 2019)

Western Economic Association International Annual Conference (July, 2018)

National Socio?Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Distinguished Scholar, Immersion Program in Economics (February, 2018)

George W. Coleman Scholarship, Department of Economics, The University of Arizona (2005)

George W. Coleman Scholarship, Department of Economics, The University of Arizona (2004)

Merit Scholarship, ITESM, Campus Monterrey (1994 - 1997)