Ana Espinola-Arredondo

Biography

• Personal Web Page
• Google Scholar
• CV (pdf)

Education

• Ph.D. Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
• M.Sc. Economics, University of Barcelona, Spain, 2002
• B.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Valparaiso with Honors, Chile, 1999
• B.A. Business Administration, University of Valparaiso with Honors, Chile, 1999

Fields of Interest

• Environmental Economics and Game Theory
• Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconomics.

Editorial Positions

• Co-Editor-in-chief, Environmental and Resource Economics, February 2024-
• Co-Editor-in-chief International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, May 2022-
• Co-Editor, Economic Inquiry, 2018-
• Associate Editor, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, December 2025-
• Co-Editor, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2021-2024
• Editorial Board, PLOS ONE, 2019-2022.
• Guest Editor, Games (MDPI open access journal), 2020.

Awards

• 2024 Outstanding CJAE Article Award.
• 2017-18 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant.
• The Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship. AAEA Foundation, 2010.
• Second Place in Research Medal Award of the Global Development Network (sponsored by International Development Research Center, Canada (IDRC) and the World Bank) with the paper “Free-riding and Cooperation in Environmental Games,” Kuwait, February 2009.
• Junta de Andalucia Research Fellowship, Spain, Summer 2009.
• Full tuition scholarship and stipend, University of Pittsburgh, 2003-Spring 2008
• Arts & Sciences Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Summer and Fall 2007
• Full tuition scholarship, University of Barcelona, Spain, 2001-Spring 2002

Selected Publications

• Bateman, I.J., Espinola-Arredondo, A., Munro, A. and Schumacher I. 2025. Understanding the National and International Impacts of Recent Environmental Policy Changes in the US: A Call for Research. Environmental and Resource Economics, 88, pp. 2287–2289.
• Choi, P., Espinola-Arredondo, A., Munoz-Garcia F., and E. Diaz-Farina. 2025. Optimal Patent Lengths in Polluting Industries. Energy Economics, 152, 108968.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., Munoz-Garcia, F. and F. Tomori. 2025. Climate events and adaptation: Effects on environmental policy and abatement. Resource and Energy Economics, 83, 101537.
• Strandholm, J. C., Espinola-Arredondo, A., and Munoz-Garcia, F. 2025. Greener or Cheaper: Economies of Scope in Green R&D. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 130, 103107.
• Surve, A. and A. Espinola-Arredondo. 2025. Can abatement efforts in a CPR promote over-exploitation of the resource? Environment and Development Economics, pp. 1-24.
• Kanjilal, K., Espinola-Arredondo, A., and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2024. Strategic Merger Approvals Under Incomplete Information. Review of Industrial Organization, 65, pp. 759–791.
• Choi, P., Espinola-Arredondo, A., and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2024. Environmental Regulation under Sequential Competition. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 221, pp. 52-72.
• Rosas, J., Espinola-Arredondo, A., and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2024. When Should the Regulator Be Left Alone in the Commons? How Fishing Cooperatives Can Help Ameliorate Inefficiencies. Resource and Energy Economics, 77, 101434.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., Munoz-Garcia, F. and Garrido, D. 2023. Measuring regulatory errors from environmental policy uncertainty. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 64, pp. 48-65.
• Strandholm, J. C., Espinola-Arredondo, A., and Munoz-Garcia, F. 2023. Asymmetric regulators in polluting mixed oligopolies: Agency problems and second-mover advantage. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 1–27.
• Strandholm, J., A. Espinola-Arredondo and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2023. Being green first: Simultaneous vs. sequential abatement decisions. Economics Letters, 227, 111123.
• Pardini, C. and A. Espinola-Arredondo. 2023. Fungicide resistance and misinformation: A game theoretic approach.  Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 71, pp. 171-201. [Outstanding CJAE Article Award for 2024].
• Kanjilal, K., Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2022. Does the Presence of a Public Firm Facilitate Merger Approvals? Economics Letters, 219, 110841.
• Choi, P., Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2022. Environmental policy helping antitrust decisions: socially excessive and insufficient merger approvals. Resource and Energy Economics, 67, 101267.
• Strandholm, J., A. Espinola-Arredondo and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2021. Pollution Abatement with Disruptive R&D Investment. Resource and Energy Economics, 66, 101258.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., E. Stathopoulou and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2021. Regulators and Environmental Groups: Better Together or Apart? Environment and Development Economics, 27(1), pp. 40-66
• Pardini, C. and A. Espinola-Arredondo. 2021. Violence, Coercion and Settler Colonialism. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 33(2), pp. 236-273. [Errata file]
• Garrido, D., A. Espinola-Arredondo and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2020. Can Mandatory Certification Promote Greenwashing? A Signaling Approach. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 22(6), pp. 1801-1851.
• Strandholm, J. and A. Espinola-Arredondo. 2020. Investment in Green Technology and Entry Deterrence. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 20(2), 20180355.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., F. Munoz-Garcia and I. Duah. 2019. Anticipatory Effects of Taxation in the Commons: When Do Taxes Work, and When Do They Fail? Ecological Economics, 166, 106433.
  
• Bayham, J., F. Munoz-Garcia and A. Espinola-Arredondo. 2019. International Coordination of Environmental Policies: Is it Always Worth the Effort? Environment and Development Economics, 24(3), pp. 294-316.
• Choi, P., Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2018. Conservation Procurement Auctions with Bidirectional Externalities. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 92, pp. 559-579.
• Strandholm, J., A. Espinola-Arredondo and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2018. Regulation, Free-Riding Incentives, and R&D investment with Spillover. Resource and Energy Economics, 53, pp. 133-146.
  
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., F. Munoz-Garcia and P. Tantihkarnchana. 2018. Information Transmission During the Trial: The Role of Punitive Damages and Legal Costs. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 20(2), pp. 136-155.
  
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2016. Profit-Enhancing Environmental Policy: Uninformed Regulation in an Entry-Deterrence Model. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 50(2), pp. 146-163.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2015. Can Poorly Informed Regulators Hinder Competition? Environmental and Resource Economics, 61(3), pp. 433-461.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2015. Why do Firms Oppose Entry-Deterring Regulation? Environmental Regulation and Entry Deterrence. Environment and Development Economics, 20(2), pp. 141-160.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2015.The Signaling Role of Subsidies. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 15(1), pp. 157-178.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., F. Munoz-Garcia and J. Bayham. 2014. The Entry-Deterring Effects of Inflexible Regulation. Canadian Journal of Economics, 47(1), pp. 298-324.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2013. Asymmetric Information may Protect the Commons: The Welfare Benefits of Uninformed Regulators. Economics Letters, 121 (3), pp. 463-67.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2013. When does Environmental Regulation Facilitate Entry-Deterring Practices? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 65(1), pp. 133-152.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2013. Don’t Forget to Protect Abundant Resources. Strategic Behavior and the Environment, 3(4), pp. 251-278.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and H. Zhao. 2012. Environmental Policy in a Linear City Model of Product Differentiation. Environment and Development Economics, 17(4), pp. 461-477.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2012. When do Firms Support Environmental Agreements? Journal of Regulatory Economics, 41(3), pp. 380-401.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2011. Can incomplete information lead to under-exploitation in the commons? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62(3), pp. 402-413.  [Technical Appendix]
• Espinola-Arredondo, A., E. Gal-Or and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2011. When should a firm expand its business? The Signaling Implications of Business Expansion. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29 (6), pp. 729-745.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2011. Free-riding in International Environmental Agreements: A Signaling Approach to Non-Enforceable Treaties. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 23 (1), pp. 111–134.
• Free-riding and cooperation in environmental games. 2009. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 11 (1), pp. 119–158.
• Green Auctions: a biodiversity study of mechanism design with externalities. 2008. Ecological Economics, 67 (2), pp. 175-183.

For more on her research, visit her personal website

Books and Book Chapters

• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. “Game Theory: An Introduction with Step-by-Step Examples.” Palgrave Macmillan, December 2023.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. “Common Pool Resources: Strategic Behavior, Inefficiencies, and Incomplete Information.” Cambridge University Press, October 2021.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. Intermediate Economic Theory: Tools and Step-by-Step Examples. The MIT Press, November 2020.
• Dunaway, E., Strandholm, J., Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. Practice Exercises for Intermediate Economic Theory. The MIT Press, November 2020
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. Editors of the volume dedicated to “Game Theory,” in the WSCP reference of natural resources and environmental policy in the era of global change, World Scientific Publishing Company (WSPC)/Imperial College Press (IPC). October 2016.
• Espinola-Arredondo, A. and F. Munoz-Garcia. 2013. “Environmental Negotiations under Uncertainty,” in Analyzing Global Environmental Issues: Theoretical and Experimental Applications and their Policy Implications, Ariel Dinar and Amnon Rapoport, eds. Routledge. February 14th, pp. 53-68.
• F. Munoz-Garcia and Espinola-Arredondo. “The Role of Information in the Tragedy of the Commons,” in Analyzing Global Environmental Issues: Theoretical and Experimental Applications and their Policy Implications, Ariel Dinar and Amnon Rapoport, eds. Routledge. February 14th, pp. 29-52.
• Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 8th edition. (Tom Tietenberg and Lynne Lewis), Prentice Hall, 2009.

Teaching Materials

• Intermediate Microeconomic Theory – EconS 301 (Spring 2025)
• Microeconomic Theory – EconS501 (Fall 2024)
• Environmental Economics – EconS582 (Fall 2021)
• Fundamentals of Microeconomics – EconS 101 (Fall 2024)
• All teaching materials are at Blackboard. For further information, please visit her Personal Website.
• Faculty Research Lightning Talk