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Paul J. THOMASSIN is an Associate Professor in the Agricultural Economics Program at McGill University. He received his B.Sc. (Agr) from McGill University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Agricultural and Resource Economics. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO) in the experimental economics group, is the lead of the working group on “Ecosystem accounts for Quebec: Measuring biodiversity and ecological services”, and has been a Visiting Professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii, Visiting Fellow at The Australian National University, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His area of specialization is agriculture and environmental economics. His research includes: non-market valuation of environmental goods and services, accounting of ecological goods and services in a set of satellite accounts, economic-ecologic input-output modeling, integrating economic and bio-physical models, the macroeconomic impacts of nutrition related chronic disease, and the use of experimental economics for institutional design. In addition, he has an interest in the valuation of food attributes, which include their health and environmental attributes. Other areas of research include the institutional design of a domestic emission trading system that includes offsets from the agriculture sector and the integration of agriculture and food policies into a single policy platform.