Associate Professor of Economics Email: shamilto@calpoly.edu Phone: (805) 756-2555 Fax: (805) 756-1473 Website: http://buiznt.cob.calpoly.edu/cob/Econ/hamilton/ Office: 03-432 Hours: By Appointment

Education

• Ph.D: University of California at Berkeley, 1996.
• MS: University of California at Berkeley, 1994.
• BA: Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in Major in Environmental Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1991.

Fields of Interest

• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Public Economics

Awards and Honors

• Invited Speaker, Industrial Organization and the Food Processing Industry, INRA-IDEI, Toulouse, France, 2004.
• Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003-
• Keynote Speaker, International Dimension of Environmental Policy, Dutch Science Foundation/EURESCO, Kerkrade, Holland, 2000.
• Early Career Award for Outstanding Research, Gamma Sigma Delta, 1999.
• Faculty of the Semester Award for Undergraduate Instruction

Selected Publications

• Cassou, Steven and Stephen F. Hamilton, "The Transition from Dirty to Clean Industries: Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Two Sector Model of Endogenous Growth," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
• Hamilton, Stephen F., "Slotting Allowances as a Facilitating Practice by Food Processors in Wholesale Grocery Markets: Profitability and Welfare Effects," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85(4), 2003, 797-813.
• Hamilton, Stephen F., David L. Sunding, and David Zilberman, "Public Goods and the Value of Product Quality Regulations: The Case of Food Safety," Journal of Public Economics 87(3-4), 2003, 799-817.
• Hamilton, Stephen F., and Kyle Stiegert, "An Empirical Test of the Rent-Shifting Hypothesis: The Case of State Trading Enterprises," Journal of International Economics 58(1), 2002, 135-57.
• Hamilton, Stephen F., and Kyle Stiegert, "Vertical Coordination, Antritrust Law, and International Trade," (with Kyle Stiegert), Journal of Law & Economics 43(1), 2000, 143-56.
• Hamilton, Stephen F., "Demand Shifts and Market Structure in Free-Entry Oligopoly Equilibria," International Journal of Industrial Organization 17(2), 1999, pp. 259-75.