Dr. Seong-Hoon Cho
Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics
The University of Tennessee
314A Morgan Hall
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4518
Phone: (865) 974-7411
Fax: (865) 974-9492
scho9@utk.edu
Professional Interest
- Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Land Economics, Spatial Econometrics
Education
- Ph.D. in Resource and Environmental Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, December 2001
- M.S. in Resource and Environmental Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, December 1996
- B.S. in Managerial Economics, Department of Economics, Radford University, Radford, VA, Summa Cum Laude and Outstanding Graduate in Economics, May 1994
Teaching
- Agricultural Economics 670: Advanced Topics in Natural Resource Economics
- Agricultural Economics 320: Agricultural Microeconomics
Selected Publications
- Cho , S. S. Jung, and S. Kim. 2009. “Valuation of Spatial Configurations and Forest Types in the Southern Appalachian Highlands.” Environmental Management 44.
- Cho, S., D.M. Lambert, and Z. Chen. 2009. “Geographically Weighted Regression Bandwidth Selection and Spatial Autocorrelation: An Empirical Example Using Chinese Agriculture Data.” Applied Economics Letters 16.
- Poudyal, N.S., S. Cho, and D.G. Hodges. 2008. “Effects of Urban Sprawl on Hunting Participation in the Southeastern United States.” Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 32.
- Cho, S., Z. Chen, and S.T. Yen. 2008. “The Effects of Urban Growth Boundary on Housing Price at Knox County, Tennessee.” Review of Regional Studies, 38.
- Poudyal, N.S., S. Cho, and J.M. Bowker. 2008. “Demand for Resident Hunting in the Southeastern United States,” Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 13.
- Chen, Z., S. Cho, N.C. Poudyal, and R.K. Roberts. 2008. “Forecasting House Prices under Alternative Submarket Assumptions.” Urban Studies, 45.
- Cho, S., Z. Chen, and N.C. Poudyal. 2008. “Spatial Structure of Agricultural Production in China.” Applied Economics, 40.
- Cho, S., C.D. Clark, W.M. Park., and S. Kim. 2008. “Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Housing Market Values of Lot Size and Open Space.” Land Economics, 84.
- Cho, S., N.C. Poudyal, D.M. Lambert. 2008. “Estimating Spatially Varying Effects of Urban Growth Boundaries on Land Development and Land Value.” Land Use Policy, 25.
- Cho, S., S.T. Yen, J.M. Bowker and D.H. Newman. 2008. “Modeling Willingness to Pay for Land Conservation Easements: Treatment of Zero and Protest Bids with Application and Policy Implications.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 40.
- Poudyal, N.C., S. Cho, J.D. Strickland, and D.G. Hodges. 2008. “Socio-demographic and market forces of land use change in Northern Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee.” International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics, 10:53-62.
- Cho, S., N.C. Poudyal, R.K. Roberts. 2007. “Spatial Analysis of the Amenity Value of Green Open Space.” Ecological Economics, 61.
- Cho, S., O.A. Omitaomu, N.C. Poudyal, and D.B. Eastwood. 2007. “The Impact of an Urban Growth Boundary on Land Development in Knox County, Tennessee: A Comparison of Two-Stage Probit Least Squares and Multilayer Neural Network Models.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 39:701-717.
- Cho, S. and R.K. Roberts. 2007. “Cure for Urban Sprawl: Measuring the Ratio of Marginal Implicit Prices of Density-to-Lot-Size.” Review of Agricultural Economics, 29:572-579.
- Cho, S., S. Kim, C.D. Clark, and W.M. Park. 2007. “Spatial Analysis of Rural Economic Development Using a Locally Weighted Regression Model.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 36:24-38.
- Cho, S., Z. Chen, S.T. Yen and B.C. English. 2007. “Spatial variation of output-input Elasticities: Evidence from Chinese county-level agricultural production data.” Papers in Regional Science 86:139-157.
- Wu, J. and S. Cho. 2007. “The Effect of Local Regulations on Urban Development in the Western United States.” Regional Science and Urban Economics 37:69-86.
- Cho, S., J.M. Bowker, and W.M. Park. 2006. “Measuring the Contribution of Water and Green Space to Housing Values: An Application and Comparison of Spatially-weighted Hedonic Models.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 31:485-507.
- Cho, S., C.D. Clark, and W.M. Park. 2006. “Two Dimensions of the Spatial Distribution of Housing: Dependency and Heterogeneity across Tennessee’s Six Metropolitan Statistical Areas.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 38:299-316.
- Cho, S., Z. Chen, S.T. Yen. and D.B. Eastwood. 2006 “Estimating Effects of an Urban Growth Boundary on Land Development.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 38: 287-298.
- Cho, S., Z. Chen, S.T. Yen, and D.B. Eastwood. 2006. “The Effects of Urban Sprawl on Body Mass Index: Where People Live Does Matter?” Consumer Interests Annual 52:159-169.
- Cho, S., B.C. English., and R.K. Roberts. 2005. “Spatial Analysis of Housing Growth.” Review of Regional Studies 35:311-335.
- Cho, S. and D.H. Newman. 2005. “Spatial Analysis of Rural Land Development” Forest Policy and Economics 7:732-744.
- Cho, S., D.H. Newman and J.M. Bowker. 2005. “Measuring Rural Home Owners’ Willingness to Pay for Land Conservation Easements.” Forest Policy and Economics 7:757-770.
- Cho, S., D.H. Newman and D.N. Wear. 2005. “Community Choices and Housing Demands: A Spatial Analysis of the Southern Appalachian Highlands.” Housing Studies 20:549-569.
- Cho, S., J. Wu, and R. Alig. 2005. “Land Development under Regulation: A Comparison between the East and West Sides of the Cascade Range in Oregon, Washington, and California.” Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies 17:1-17.
- Cho, S., J. Wu and W.G. Boggess. 2003. “Measuring Interactions among Urban Development, Land Use Regulations, and Public Finance.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 85:988-999.
- Cho, S., D.H. Newman and D.N. Wear. 2003. “Impacts of Second Home Development on Housing Prices in the Southern Appalachian Highlands.” Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies 15:208-225.
- Wu, J. and S. Cho. 2003. “Estimating Households’ Preferences for Environmental Amenities Using Equilibrium Models of Local Jurisdictions.” Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50:189-206.
- Adams, R.M. and S. Cho. 1998. “Agricultural and endangered species: An analysis of trade-offs in the Klamath Basin, Oregon.” Water Resources Research 34:2741-2749.
