• Ph.D. Economics, University of Arizona, 2003.
• M.A., Environmental Studies,University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
• B.S., Management Sciences,University of California,San Diego, 1995

Dr. Schnier's research is primarily focused on facilitating the development of efficient marine resource policy and determining how fishermen respond to current and prospective fisheries policy. To achieve this goal Dr. Schnier utilizes econometric, experimental and simulation modeling methods. His recent research has focused on 1) the development of dynamic discrete choice models to evaluate the welfare impacts of marine closures; 2) the utilization of market based instruments to manage essential fish habitat; 3) the role of spatial externalities in human decision making; 4) the estimation of excess capacity in fisheries; and 5) investigating the role of spatial/agent heterogeneity in resource modeling. In addition to his research in marine resource management, he has been actively involved in research on charitable auctions and the provision of public goods.

• Flores-Lagunes, A., Horrace, W.C., and K.E. Schnier. 2007. "Identifying Technically Efficient Fishing Vessels: A Non-Empty, Minimal Subset Approach," Journal of Applied Econometrics 22:729-745.
  
• Hicks, R.L. and K.E. Schnier. 2006. "Dynamic Random Utility Modeling: A Monte Carlo Analysis," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(4) 816-835.
  
• Isaac, R. M. and K.E. Schnier. 2006. "Sealed Bid Variations on the Silent Auction," In Doug Davis, et. al. eds. Advances in Experimental Economics, vol. 11 (Amsterdam:Elsevier), pgs. 31-46.
  
• Schnier, K.E. and C.M. Anderson. 2006. "Decision Making in Patchy Resource Environments: Spatial Misperception of Bioeconomic Models," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization . 61: 234-254.
  
• Holland, D.S. and K.E. Schnier. 2006. "Modeling a Rights-Based Approach for Managing Habitat Impacts of Fisheries," Natural Resource Modeling 19(3): 405-435.
  
• Holland, D. and K.E. Schnier. 2006. "Protecting Marine Biodiversity: A Comparison of Individual Habitat Quotas and Marine Protected Areas," Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63(7):1481- 1495..
  
• Holland, D.S. and K.E. Schnier. 2006. "Individual Habitat Quotas for Fisheries," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 51(1): 72-92.
  
• Isaac, R.M. and K. E. Schnier. 2005. "Silent Auctions in the Field and the Laboratory," Economic Inquiry 43(4):715-733.
  
• Schnier, K.E. 2005. "Biological 'Hot Spots' and Their Effect on Optimal Bioeconomic Marine Reserve Formation," Ecological Economics 52: 453-468; Addendum 54: 111-113.

Working Papers

• Hicks, R.L. and K.E. Schnier. "Eco-Labeling and Dolphin Avoidance: A Dynamic Model of Tuna Fishing in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean," under review .
  
• Schnier, K.E. "Spatial Externalities and the Common-Pool Resource Mechanism," under review .
  
• Schnier, K.E., Anderson, C.M. and W.C. Horrace. "Estimating Heterogeneous Production in Fisheries," under review .
  
• Horrace, W.C. and K.E. Schnier. "Fixed-Effects Estimation of Highly Mobile Production Technologies," under review .
  
• Flores-Lagunes, A. and K.E. Schnier. "Estimation of Sample Selection Models with Spatial Dependence," under review .
  
• Isaac, M.R., Pevnitskaya, S. and K.E. Schnier. "Bidder Behavior in Multiple-Good Sealed Bid Auctions Where the Number of Bidders is Unknown," under review .
  
• Horrace, W.C. and K.E. Schnier. "Selection Procedures for Policy Analysis: Fishery Capacity Utilization and Error Rates," under review .
  
• Felthoven, R.L., Horrace, W.C. and K.E. Schnier. "Estimating Heterogeneous Capacity and Capacity Utilization Measures in a Multi-Species Fishery," in progress.
  
• Horrace, W.C. and K.E. Schnier. "GMM Estimation of a Production Function for Highly-Mobile Technologies," in progress .
  
• Schnier, K.E., Hicks, R.L. and A. Haynie. "Can Efficient Bycatch Reduction be Achieved Through Information Provision? The Case of the Commercial Flatfish Fishery in the Bering Sea," in progress .
  
• Schnier, K.E., Hicks, R.L.,Adams, C. and S. Larkin. "A Dynamic Model of Inta-Annual Species Selection in Fisheries," in progress .
  
• Brasington, D., Flores-Lagunes, A. and K.E. Schnier. "A Spatial Sample Selection Model of Housing Prices," in progress .
  
• Schnier, K.E. "Framing Effects and the Common Pool Resource Mechanism," in progress .