Field of research: Natural Resources
Stephen Salant
Stephen Salant (BA, Columbia; PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is an applied microtheorist specializing in natural resource economics. In the 1970s, he worked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, and Federal Trade Commission. Before joining the University of Michigan as a full professor (1986-2015), he served as the first co-editor of The Rand Journal of Economics. His other research on the oil market and on price ceilings include extensions of the Hotelling model to account for (1) cartel/oligopolistic industry structures, (2) arbitrary spatial configurations of extractors and their customers and (3) the fact that an oil well, once drilled, produces oil over many years. He has also shown that price ceilings (or pegs) defended by bufferstock sales inevitably cause speculative attacks—an insight quickly developed in the international finance literature.
Diego S. Cardoso
Diego S. Cardoso is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics). He received his PhD from Cornell University’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. His research focuses on designing and evaluating policies related to the energy transition, climate, and the use of natural resources. He is also interested in the intersection of applied welfare analysis and risk modeling for benefit-cost analysis.
Johan Gars
Johan Gars is a researcher at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and holds a PhD in Economics from Stockholm University (2012). His work sits broadly within the economics of environmental issues and natural resource use, with a focus on how the global economy depends on and affects the natural environment.
He uses a wide toolkit of economic models, including macroeconomic and trade frameworks, to analyze these relationships. His current research emphasizes the role of energy in the global economy and methods for jointly assessing several major environmental challenges at once, such as those captured by the planetary boundaries framework. He has also contributed research on macroeconomic aspects of climate change and on international trade in agricultural products and harvested renewable resources.
(Last updated November 2025)
Gerhard Toews
Gerhard Toews is an Assistant Professor at the New Economic School in Moscow and a Research Affiliate at Oxcarre, University of Oxford, where he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow between 2014 and 2018. He is an applied economist with an interest in natural resource economics and economic history. See more at: https://sites.google.com/site/gerhardtoews/
(Last updated October 2022)
Mykhaylo Salnykov
Mykhaylo Salnykov is an Academic Director at BEROC. He earned his PhD in Economics at the Simon Fraser University (Canada) in 2008 supplemented by two Masters in Economic Theory (Kyiv School of Economics, 2004) and Environmental Sciences and Policy (Central European University, 2002).
Michael Alexeev
Michael Alexeev holds the rank of Full Professor of Economics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. He graduated from Moscow University in 1975, majoring in Economics and Mathematics, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University in 1984.
Alexeev’s research has appeared in such leading general economics journals as Journal of Economic Theory and Review of Economics and Statistics, as well as in comparative and development economics journals and edited volumes. He has also published articles in public choice and in law and economics, and has recently co-edited The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, the Russian edition of which was published earlier this year.