Dr. Siân Mooney
Associate Professor

Contact Information
Department of Economics

College of Business and Economics

1910 University Drive

Boise State University

Boise, Idaho 83725-1620.

Phone: +1-208-426-1471

Fax: +1-208-426-2071

Time zone: Mountain standard time

Email: Sianmooney at boisestate dot edu

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications

Education 

Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University

M.Sc., Agricultural Economics, University of Manitoba

B.Sc., (Hons) Agricultural Economics, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

Biography

Dr. Mooney joined the department of economics within the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University in 2006. She earned her B.Sc (Hons) in Agricultural Economics from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and Farm Management from the University of Manitoba and her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University . Before joining Boise State University she was an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming and post-doctoral fellow at Montana State University . 

Her work has focused on problems and opportunities that arise at the agricultural and environmental interface. Over the past eight years she has examined the design of economic incentives, policies and contracts to support the emerging trade in greenhouse gas credits; as well as simulating the response of agricultural producers to alternative incentive designs and estimating the magnitude of transactions costs associated with trades in agricultural soil carbon credits. She has also worked on a broad range of other topics including, drought management, environmental impacts of releasing new technologies, incentives for endangered species protection, mitigation of climate change and most recently erosion mitigation and water quality protection in sub-Saharan Africa . Her work is international, national, multiregional and multidisciplinary. 

Dr. Mooney is a board member on the American Agricultural Economics Association, Committee for Women in Agricultural Economics and holds a governors appointment to the Wyoming Governor’s Carbon Sequestration Advisory Committee. She has published many journal articles and reports related to the economics of carbon sequestration, climate change and environmental economics.