Dr. Bostian joined the Economics Department at Lewis & Clark in 2011. She completed her PhD in economics at Oregon State University in 2010 with fields of specialization in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Econometrics.
Her research interests include productivity analysis, agri-environmental policy, energy and carbon policy, water resources and integrated modeling.
Dr. Bostian is an Associate Editor for The Journal of Productivity Analysis and The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. She has received two Fulbright Scholar Awards (Sweden, 2018-2019; Finland, 2014-2015). She holds a visiting researcher appointment to Umeå University Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE) (SE). She has also travelled as a visiting researcher to University of Sydney (AU), VATT Institute for Economic Research (FI), University of Queensland (AU), and INRA UMR SMART (FR).
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Econometrics, Productivity Analysis
PhD in Economics, Oregon State University, 2010, M.S. in Applied Economics, Auburn University, 2005, BS in Economics and International Affairs, Florida State University, 2003.
Ancev, T., Bostian, M., 2026. Optimal timing and rate of nitrogen fertilizer use: an integrated network technology approach. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 108(3). 856-873.
Amjadi, G., Bostian, M., Lindström, H., Lundgren, T., Besterberg, M., 2025. The effect of environmental protection expenditures on industrial employment in Sweden. Environmental and Resource Economics 88, 1071-1110.
Bostian, M., Lundgren, T., Managi, S., 2024. Editors in Chief, Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics, 2e. Elsevier, London.
Barnhart, B., Bostian, M., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Lochner, S., 2023. A productivity indicator for adaptation to climate change. PLOS Climate 2(11): e0000199.
Ancev, T., Barnhart, B., Bostian, M. B., 2023. Nitrogen Use Efficiency. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 48(1), 178-201.
Bostian, M. B., Lundgren, T., 2022. Valuing Ecosystem Services
for Agricultural TFP: A Review of Best Practices, Challenges, and
Recommendations. Forthcoming, Sustainability.
Bostian, M. B., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Lundgren, T., 2021. Prevention or Cure? Valuing the Tradeoffs Between Abatement Measures. Forthcoming, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies.
Barnhart, B., Bostian, M. B., Jha, M., Kurkalova, L., 2021. Bilevel Optimization of Conservation Practices for Agricultural Production. Journal of Cleaner Production 300, 126874.
Zhou, W., Bostian, M. B., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Lundgren, T., 2021. Efficient and Sustainable Bioenergy Production in Swedish Forests? A Network DEA Approach, Data Envelopment Analysis Journal: Vol. 5(2), 363-394.
Bostian, M. B., Daraio, C., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Izzo, M. G., Leuzzi, L., Ruocco, G., Weber, W. L., 2020. Reconstructing Nonparametric Productivity Networks. Entropy 22, 1401.
Bostian M. B., Lundgren T., 2020. Production and the Environment. In: Ray S.C., Chambers R., Kumbhakar S. (eds) Handbook of Production Economics. Springer, Singapore.
Bostian, A.A., Bostian, M. B., Laukkanen, M., Simola, A., 2020. Assessing the productivity consequences of agri-environmental practices when adoption is endogenous. Journal of Productivity Analysis 53, 141-162.
Bostian, M. B., Daraio, C., Grosskopf, S.,Ruocco, G.,Weber, W. L., 2020. Sources and Uses of Knowledge in a Dynamic Network Technology. International Transactions in Operational Research 27, 1821-1844.
Bostian, M. B., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Lundgren, T., 2018. Network Representations of Pollution-Generating Technologies. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 11(3), 193-231.
Bostian, M. B., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Lundgren, T., Weber, W. L., 2018. Time substitution for environmental performance: The case of Sweden manufacturing. Empirical Economics 54(1), 129-152.
Barnhart, B., Lu, Z., Bostian, M. B., Sinha, A., Deb, K., Kurkalova, L., Jha, M., and Whittaker, G. 2017. Handling practicalities in agricultural policy optimization for water quality improvements. In GECCO ’17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, ACM, 1065-1072.
Whittaker, G., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Barnhart, B., Bostian, M. B., Mueller-Warrant, G., Griffith, S., 2017. Spatial Targeting of Agri-Environmental Policy using Bilevel Evolutionary Optimization. OMEGA, The International Journal of Management Science 66, Part A, 15-27.
Bostian, M. B., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., Lundgren, T., 2016. Environmental Investment, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Performance: A Network Approach. Energy Economics 57, 243 - 255.
Barnhart, B., Bostian, M. B., Whittaker, G., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., 2016. Prioritizing conservation for the reduction of Gulf hypoxia using an environmental performance index. Ecological Indicators 66, 235 - 241.
Bostian, M. B., Whittaker, G., Barnhart, B., Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., 2015. Valuing water quality tradeoffs at different spatial scales: An integrated approach using bilevel optimization. Water Resources and Economics 11, 1 - 12.
Bostian, M. B., Sinha, A., Whittaker, G., Barnhart, B., 2015. Incorporating Data Envelopment Analysis solution Methods into Bi-Level Multi-Objective Optimization. 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 1667-1674.
Bostian, M. B., Herlihy, A. T., 2014. Valuing Tradeoffs Between Agricultural Production and Wetland Condition in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Region. Ecological Economics 105, 284 - 291.
Bellenger (now Bostian), M., Herlihy, A. T., 2010. Performance Based Environmental Index Weights: Are all Metrics Created Equal? Ecological Economics 69 (5), 1043-1050.
Bellenger (now Bostian), M., Herlihy, A. T., 2009. An Economic Approach to Environmental Indices. Ecological Economics 68 8-9, 2216-2223.
Bellenger (now Bostian), M., Fields, D., Hite, D., Tilt, K., 2008. Producer Preferences for Migrant Labor and the Wages, Hours and Gross Sales Effects in Alabama’s Horticulture Industry. Hort Technology 18, 301-307, 2008.
Conference Participation (Past Five Years)
2025 North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW), Washington, D.C. “Irrigation Productivity in the San Salvador Basin, Uruguay”
2024 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Confernce on Sustainable Agricultural Productivity to Address Food Systems Challenges: Measurement, Data, Drivers and Policies, Paris. Panelist for session titled, “Towards the cross-country benchmarking of environmentally sustainable agricultural productivity: Where do we stand with indicators?”
2024 European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (EWEPA), Faro, PT.”Environmentally adjusted efficiency of rain-fed and irrigated enterprises in the San Salvador Basin, Uruguay.”
2024 European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (EWEPA), Faro, PT.\textquotedblleft{}Labor Input Efficiency with Environmental Regulation.”
2023 North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW), Miami. “Labor Input Efficiency with Environmental Regulation.”
2022 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA), virtual. “A Productivity Indicator for Adaptation to Climate Change.”
2022 Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics, Ulvön, SE. “A Productivity Indicator for Adaptation to Climate Change.”
2022 European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (EWEPA), Porto, PT. “Optimal timing of nitrogen use: an integrated network
technology approach.”
2021 North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW). “A Productivity Indicator for Adaptation to Climate Change.”
2021 Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), “Valuing Ecosystem Services for Agricultural TFP.”
Fourth Meeting of the OECD Network on Agricultural Total Factor Productivity and the Environment, 2020. “Valuing Ecosystem Services for Agricultural TFP.”
2020 European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE). “Prevention or cure? Optimal abatement mix.”
2020 North American Productivity Workshop. “Dynamic optimization of nitrogen use for improved water quality and crop yields.
Honors and Awards
2018-2019 CORE Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Umeå University Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Sweden, “Forests for the future: Achieving Sweden’s forest bioenergy production goals through the use of bilevel optimization methods.”
2016 Sylvia Lane Mentorship Award, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), “Bilevel Optimization of Conservation Practices for Agricultural Production,”with Lyubov Kurkalova (NCA&T State University)
2016 NSF BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action Grant, “Agri-Environmental Government-Farmer Tax Policies for Controlling Fertilizer Run-off Using a Evolutionary Bi-level Framework,” with Bradley Barnhart, Kalyanmoy Deb, Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Pekka Malo, Ankur Sinha, and Gerald Whittaker
2014-2015 CORE Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to University of Turku, Finland, “Productivity Change and Environmental Performance under Finland’s Agri-Environmental Program.”
Affiliated Researcher, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Umeå, Sweden, 2019-Present; University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2025-Present.
Associate Editor, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, since 2020.
Associate Editor, The Journal of Productivity Analysis, since 2024.
Fulbright Scholar, Umeå University Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Umeå, Sweden. 2018-2019 Academic year
Visiting Researcher, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Fall 2018; Umeå University Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Umeå, Sweden Summer 2016-2018; VATT Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland. Summer 2016, 2017.
Fulbright Scholar, The University of Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland. 2014-2015 Academic year.
Visiting Researcher, The French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Rennes, France. Summers 2012-2015.
Location:
J.R. Howard Hall
Economics is located in J.R. Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
