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Environmental and Energy Economics Archive

NBER Papers in Environmental and Energy Economics


2007
w13679 Severin Borenstein
Meghan Busse
Ryan Kellogg

Principal-agent Incentives, Excess Caution, and Market Inefficiency: Evidence From Utility Regulation

w13678 Matthew Kotchen
Michael Moore

Conservation: From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium

w13645 Don Fullerton
Garth Heutel

The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates

w13643 Matthew J. Kotchen
Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets

w13642 Gary D. Libecap
Open-Access Losses and Delay in the Assignment of Property Rights

w13616 Arik Levinson
Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing

w13614 Dora Gicheva
Justine Hastings
Sofia Villas-Boas

Revisiting the Income Effect: Gasoline Prices and Grocery Purchases

w13594 Raymond B. Palmquist
Daniel J. Phaneuf
V. Kerry Smith

Measuring the Values for Time

w13587 Robert Stavins
Judson Jaffe
Todd Schatzki

Too Good to Be True? An Examination of Three Economic Assessments of California Climate Change Policy

w13579 Geoffrey Heal
Howard Kunreuther

Social Reinforcement: Cascades, Entrapment and Tipping

w13575 Richard L. Revesz
Robert Stavins

Environmental Law and Policy

w13574 Robert N. Stavins
Environmental Economics

w13573 Sheila Olmstead
W. Michael Hanemann
Robert N. Stavins

Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures

w13572 Ruben N. Lubowski
Andrew J. Plantinga
Robert N. Stavins

What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions

w13554 Kevin A. Hassett
Aparna Mathur
Gilbert E. Metcalf

The Incidence of a U.S. Carbon Tax: A Lifetime and Regional Analysis

w13513 Erin T. Mansur
Sheila M. Olmstead

The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations

w13512 Nathaniel Keohane
Erin T. Mansur
Andrey Voynov

Averting Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence from New Source Review

w13511 Erin T. Mansur
Do Oligopolists Pollute Less? Evidence from a Restructured Electricity Market

w13510 Erin T. Mansur
Prices vs. Quantities: Environmental Regulation and Imperfect Competition

w13509 Erin T. Mansur
Measuring Welfare in Restructured Electricity Markets

w13508 Stephen P. Holland
Erin T. Mansur

Is Real-Time Pricing Green? The Environmental Impacts of Electricity Demand Variance

w13507 James B. Bushnell
Erin T. Mansur
Celeste Saravia

Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets

w13490 Martin Weitzman
Structural Uncertainty and the Value of Statistical Life in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change

w13472 James Bushnell
Carla Peterman
Catherine Wolfram

Local Solutions to Global Problems: Policy Choice and Regulatory Jurisdiction

w13458 Michael Greenstone
Is the "Surge" Working? Some New Facts

w13454 Hans-Werner Sinn
Public Policies against Global Warming

w13453 Hans-Werner Sinn
Pareto Optimality in the Extraction of Fossil Fuels and the Greenhouse Effect: A Note

w13439 David Popp
Tamara Hafner
Nick Johnstone

Policy vs. Consumer Pressure: Innovation and Diffusion of Alternative Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry

w13331 A. Lans Bovenberg
Lawrence H. Goulder
Mark R. Jacobsen

Industry Compensation and the Costs of Alternative Environmental Policy Instruments

w13347 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Mårten Palme

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

w13320 Boyan Jovanovic
Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources

w13266 Stephen P. Holland
Christopher R. Knittel
Jonathan E. Hughes

Greenhouse Gas Reductions under Low Carbon Fuel Standards?

w13252 Janet Currie
Eric Hanushek
E. Megan Kahn
Matthew Neidell
Steven Rivkin

Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

w13238 Leah G. Traub
Hilary Sigman

"Cooperative Federalism" as a Strategic Interaction: Voluntary Decentralization in Environmental Policy

w13227 Olivier Deschenes
Enrico Moretti

Extreme Weather Events, Mortality and Migration

w13215 James B. Bushnell
Catherine Wolfram

The Guy at the Controls: Labor Quality and Power Plant Efficiency

w13211 Matthew J. Kotchen
Nicholas E. Burger

Should We Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective

w13178 Olivier Deschênes
Michael Greenstone

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

w13176 Sergey Paltsev
John M. Reilly
Henry D. Jacoby
Angelo C. Gurgel
Gilbert E. Metcalf
Andrei P. Sokolov
Jennifer F. Holak

Assessment of U.S. Cap-and-Trade Proposals

w13098 Hilary Sigman
Decentralization and Environmental Quality: An International Analysis of Water Pollution

w13097 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime

w13053 William A. Pizer
David Popp

Endogenizing Technological Change: Matching Empirical Evidence to Modeling Needs

w13002 Jedidiah Brewer
Robert Glennon
Alan Ker
Gary D. Libecap

Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms

w12992 John A. List
Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally-Occurring Data

w12969 M. Scott Taylor
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison

w12892 Dalton Conley
Gordon C. McCord
Jeffrey D. Sachs

Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology


2006
w12813 William D. Nordhaus
The Economics of Hurricanes in the United States

w12777 John A. List
Michael Margolis
Daniel E. Osgood

Is the Endangered Species Act Endangering Species?

w12752 Robert S. Pindyck
Uncertainty In Environmental Economics

w12741 William D. Nordhaus
The "Stern Review" on the Economics of Climate Change

w12598 Gary D. Libecap
The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier: Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy

w12582 W. Kip Viscusi
Richard J. Zeckhauser

National Survey Evidence on Disasters and Relief: Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, and Compassion

w12568 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy

w12535 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Jongsang Park

A Comment on The Role of Prices for Excludable Public Goods

w12530 Jonathan E. Hughes
Christopher R. Knittel
Daniel Sperling

Evidence of a Shift in the Short-Run Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand

w12524 Severin Borenstein
Customer Risk from Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing: Bill Volatility and Hedgability

w12380 Orley Ashenfelter
Karl Storchmann

Using a Hedonic Model of Solar Radiation to Assess the Economic Effect of Climate Change: The Case of Mosel Valley Vineyards

w12338 Dean Karlan
John A. List

Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving? Evidence From a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

w12294 W. Kip Viscusi
Rational Discounting for Regulatory Analysis

w12272 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Energy Conservation in the United States: Understanding its Role in Climate Policy

w12266 Joseph J. Doyle
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Krislert Samphantharak

$2.00 Gas! Studying the Effects of a Gas Tax Moratorium

w12119 David Popp
Exploring Links Between Innovation and Diffusion: Adoption of NOx Control Technologies at U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants

w12106 Patrick Bayer
Nathaniel Keohane
Christopher Timmins

Migration and Hedonic Valuation: The Case of Air Quality

w12070 Don Fullerton
Seung-Rae Kim

Environmental Investment and Policy with Distortionary Taxes and Endogenous Growth

w11935 W. Kip Viscusi
Joel Huber

Hyperbolic Discounting of Public Goods

w11934 W. Kip Viscusi
Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks

w11923 Lawrence H. Goulder
William A. Pizer

The Economics of Climate Change

w11916 Orley Ashenfelter
Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects


2005
w11889 William Nordhaus
Life After Kyoto: Alternative Approaches to Global Warming

w11863 W. Kip Viscusi
Richard Zeckhauser

The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behavioral Blend

w11859 Joni Hersch
W. Kip Viscusi

The Generational Divide in Support for Environmental Policies: European Evidence

w11790 Michael Greenstone
Justin Gallagher

Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

w11667 Howard F. Chang
Hilary Sigman

The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields

w11665 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Tax Reform and Environmental Taxation

w11594 Severin Borenstein
Wealth Transfers from Implementing Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing

w11553 Ye Feng
Don Fullerton
Li Gan

Vehicle Choices, Miles Driven, and Pollution Policies

w11438 Ian W.H. Parry
Hilary Sigman
Margaret Walls
Roberton C. Williams III

The Incidence of Pollution Control Policies

w11415 David Popp
They Don't Invent Them Like They Used To: An Examination of Energy Patent Citations Over Time

w11311 Don Fullerton
Garth Heutel

The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Taxes

w11174 Don Fullerton
Li Gan

Cost-Effective Policies to Reduce Vehicle Emissions

w11118 Richard Arnott
Eren Inci

An Integrated Model of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion


2004
w11001 Kira Markiewicz
Nancy L. Rose
Catherine Wolfram

Do Markets Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on U.S. Electric Generation Efficiency

w10950 William Nordhaus
Retrospective on the 1970s Productivity Slowdown

w10895 Dae-Wook Kim
Christopher R. Knittel

Biases in Static Oligopoly Models? Evidence from the California Electricity Market

w10880 David Popp
R&D Subsidies and Climate Policy: Is There a "Free Lunch"?

w10854 William A. Brock
M. Scott Taylor

Economic Growth and the Environment: A Review of Theory and Empirics

w10824 Denise Mauzerall
Babar Sultan
Namsoug Kim
David F. Bradford

Charging NOx Emitters for Health Damages: An Exploratory Analysis

w10717 Hilary Sigman
Transboundary Spillovers and Decentralization of Environmental Policies

w10663 Olivier Deschenes
Michael Greenstone

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Profits and Random

w10643 David Popp
International Innovation and Diffusion of Air Pollution Control Technologies: The Effects of NOX and SO2 Regulation in the US, Japan, and Germany

w10639 Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price

Auctions with Resale When Private Values Are Uncertain: Theory and Empirical Evidence

w10629 Arik Levinson
M. Scott Taylor

Unmasking the Pollution Haven Effect

w10609 John A. List
Daniel M. Sturm

How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy

w10585 Josh Ederington
Arik Levinson
Jenny Minier

Trade Liberalization and Pollution Havens

w10557 William A. Brock
M. Scott Taylor

The Green Solow Model

w10490 Louis Kaplow
On the (Ir)Relevence of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion of Government Policy

w10330 Sarah E. West
Roberton C. Williams

Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second-Best Setting

w10285 David Popp
ENTICE-BR: The Effects of Backstop Technology R&D on Climate Policy Models

w10251 Janet Currie
Matthew Neidell

Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience


2003
w10140 Don Fullerton
Ann Wolverton

The Two-Part Instrument in a Second-Best World

w10090 Jeffrey A. Frankel
The Environment and Globalization

w10059 A.L. Bovenberg
Lawrence H. Goulder
Derek J. Gurney

Efficiency Costs of Meeting Industry-Distributional Constraints under Environmental Permits and Taxes

w10053 Kenneth Y. Chay
Michael Greenstone

Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970

w9986 Peter C. Reiss
Matthew W. White

Demand and Pricing in Electricity Markets: Evidence from San Diego During California's Energy Crisis

w9978 David Popp
Lessons from Patents: Using Patents To Measure Technological Change in Environmental Models

w9922 Severin Borenstein
Stephen P. Holland

On the Efficiency of Competitive Electricity Markets With Time-Invariant Retail Prices

w9823 Brian R. Copeland
M. Scott Taylor

Trade, Growth and the Environment

w9801 Per G. Fredriksson
John A. List
Daniel L. Millimet

Chasing the Smokestack: Strategic Policymaking With Multiple Instruments

w9776 Jean-Marie Grether
Jaime de Melo

Globalization and Dirty Industries: Do Pollution Havens Matter?

w9762 David Popp
ENTICE: Endogenous Technological Change in the DICE Model of Global Warming

w9741 Michael C. Davis
James D. Hamilton

Why Are Prices Sticky? The Dynamics of Wholesale Gasoline Prices

w9736 John A. List
Neoclassical Theory Versus Prospect Theory: Evidence from the Marketplace

w9733 Edward L. Glaeser
Matthew E. Kahn

Sprawl and Urban Growth

w9718 Josh Ederington
Arik Levinson
Jenny Minier

Footloose and Pollution-Free

w9678 Joshua Graff Zivin
Richard Just
David Zilberman

Risk Aversion, Liability Rules, and Safety

w9597 William A. Brock
M. Scott Taylor

The Kindergarten Rule of Sustainable Growth


2002
w9283 Roberton Williams
Prices vs. Quantities vs. Tradable Quantities

w9125 Wayne B. Gray
Ronald J. Shadbegian

Optimal Pollution Abatement - Whose Benefits Matter, and How Much?

w8901 Don Fullerton
Gilbert E. Metcalf

Cap and Trade Policies in the Presence of Monopoly and Distortionary Taxation

w8723 Don Fullerton
Robert D. Mohr

Suggested Subsidies are Sub-optimal Unless Combined with an Output Tax

w8705 Wayne B. Gray
Ronald J. Shadbegian

When Do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?


2001
w8687 Peter C. Reiss
Matthew W. White

Household Electricity Demand, Revisited

w8620 Severin Borenstein
James Bushnell
Christopher R. Knittel
Catherine Wolfram

Trading Inefficiencies in California's Electricity Markets

w8593 David Popp
Pollution Control Innovations and the Clean Air Act of 1990

w8458 A. Lans Bovenberg
Lawrence H. Goulder

Environmental Taxation and Regulation

w8420 Don Fullerton
A Framework to Compare Environmental Policies

w8284 David Popp
Induced Innovation and Energy Prices

w8213 Robert H. Patrick
Frank A. Wolak

Estimating the Customer-Level Demand for Electricity Under Real-Time Market Prices

w8119 Jeffrey D. Sachs
Tropical Underdevelopment


2000
w7970 Adam B. Jaffe
Richard G. Newell
Robert N. Stavins

Technological Change and the Environment

w7917 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Environmental Levies and Distortionary Taxation: Pigou, Taxation, and Pollution

w7774 Don Fullerton
Sarah West

Tax and Subsidy Combinations for the Control of Car Pollution

w7755 James D. Hamilton
What is an Oil Shock?

h0127 Gary D. Libecap
Zeynep Kocabiyik Hansen

"Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine: The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925

w7657 Brian R. Copeland
M. Scott Taylor

Free Trade and Global Warming: A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol

w7654 A. Lans Bovenberg
Lawrence H. Goulder

Neutralizing the Adverse Industry Impacts of CO2 Abatement Policies: What Does it Cost?

w7505 Don Fullerton
Ann Wolverton

Two Generalizations of a Deposit-Refund System


1999
w7259 Don Fullerton
Inkee Hong
Gilbert E. Metcalf

A Tax on Output of the Polluting Industry is Not a Tax on Pollution: The Importance of Hitting the Target

w7142 Gary D. Libecap
James L. Smith

The Self-Enforcing Provisions of Oil and Gas Unit Operating Agreements: Theory and Evidence

w7095 Steven J. Davis
John Haltiwanger

Sectoral Job Creation and Destruction Responses to Oil Price Changes

w7059 Don Fullerton
Sarah West

Can Taxes on Cars and on Gasoline Mimic an Unavailable Tax on Emissions?


1998
w6437 Richard G. Newell
Adam B. Jaffe
Robert N. Stavins

The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change


1997
w6074 Gilbert E. Metcalf
Kevin A. Hassett

Measuring the Energy Savings from Home Improvement Investments: Evidence from Monthly Billing Data

w5967 Ian W. H. Parry
Roberton C. Williams III
Lawrence H. Goulder

When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? The Fundamental Role of Distorted Factor Markets

w5880 Wayne B. Gray
Manufacturing Plant Location: Does State Pollution Regulation Matter?


1995
w5398 Jeffrey D. Sachs
Andrew M. Warner

Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth

w5242 Brian R. Copeland
M. Scott Taylor

Trade, Spatial Separation, and the Environment


1994
w4896 Lawrence H. Goulder
Environmental Taxation and the "Double Dividend:" A Reader's Guide


1993
w4582 Lawrence H. Goulder
Energy Taxes: Traditional Efficiency Effects and Environmental Implications

w4321 Wayne B. Gray
Ronald J. Shadbegian

Environmental Regulation and Manufacturing Productivity at the Plant Level


1989
w3077 Peter C. Reiss
Economic and Financial Determinants of Oil and Gas Exploration Activity


1980
w0582 Jeffrey D. Sachs
Energy and Growth under Flexible Exchange Rates: A Simulation Study


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