Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Davis; M.S. in economics, Colorado State University; B.A. in economics, Frostburg State University
Craig Bond is an applied microeconomist who specializes in natural resource and environmental economics, including stochastic dynamic modeling, resource valuation, consumer and producer choice, and applied welfare economics.
While at RAND, he has led and participated in projects that span many topics, including risk in acquisitions, unit readiness, tour lengths, and the economic impacts of various potential events for the military. On the civilian side, he has worked on environmental and economic impacts of long-term changes along the Louisiana coast, the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality in Australia, and evaluating the technical transition of the Nation's telephone system to more modern technologies, among other projects.
Other research includes a diverse array of applied projects, including the optimal management of high elevation ecosystems in the American West, the economic impacts of invasive species, the economic contributions of aquacultural suppliers of recreational fish, and the economics of genetically-modified rice. Behavioral stated-preference studies have valued OHV recreation, Stellar sea lion habitat, attributes of irrigation technologies, high elevation forests, food attributes, and attributes of programs that pay for ecosystem services.
Methodologically, he has extensive experience with non-market valuation of ecosystem services, as well as panel data and discrete choice econometric methods, and has designed a number of choice-based experiments. His structural modelling work is focused on stochastic dynamic programming approaches to adaptive management planning and assessment and sustainability, as well as dynamic games, agent-based modelling, and other structural dynamic models of economies.
C.A. Bond, "Valuing Coastal Natural Capital in a Bioeconomic Framework," Water Economics and Policy, 2016 (forthcoming)
C.A. Bond, J.L. Lewis, H.A. Leonard, J. Pollak, C. Guo and B.D. Rostker, Tour Lengths, Permanent Changes of Station, and Alternatives for Savings and Improved Stability, RAND Corporation (RR-1034-OSD), 2016
V.A. Greenfield, K. Crane, C.A. Bond, N. Chandler, J.E. Luoto and O. Oliker, Reducing the Cultivation of Opium Poppies in Southern Afghanistan, RAND Corporation (RR-1075-DOS), 2015
C.M. Schnaubelt, C.A. Bond, F. Camm, B.E. Lachman, L. McDonald, J. Mele, P. Ng, M. Smith, C. Sutera, and C. Skeels, The Army's Local Economic Effects, RAND Corporation (RR-1119-A), 2015
C.A. Bond, J. Pollak, B.D. Rostker, and C. Yoon, The Likely Effects of Price Increases on Commissary Patronage: A Review of the Literature, RAND Corporation (RR-835-OSD), 2015
Y.H. Farzin and C.A. Bond, "Does Political Ideology Matter for Environmental Quality Outcomes?" Environmental Economics, 5(2):14-31, 2014
J. Meldrum, P. Champ., and C.A. Bond, "Heterogeneous Nonmarket Benefits of Managing White Pine Blister Rust in High Elevation Pine Forests," Journal of Forest Economics, 19:61-77, 2013
D. Deisenroth, J. Loomis, and C.A. Bond, "Using Revealed Preference Behavioral Models to Correctly Account for Substitution Effects in Economic Impact Analysis," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 43(2):157-169, 2013