Papers

Publications

What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California’s NOx Trading Program (with Stephen Holland and Erin Mansur), forthcoming, American Economic Review.

Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources (with Christopher Knittel and Catherine Wolfram), forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Emissions Trading, Electricity Industry Restructuring, and Investment in Pollution Control. 2010. American Economic Review. 100(3).

Incomplete Environmental Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and Emissions Leakage. 2009. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 1(2).

Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency Revisited  (with Maximilian Auffhammer and Carl Blumstein). 2008. The Energy Journal. 29(3)

Public goods and private interests: Understanding non-residential demand for green power. (with  Edward Holt and Ryan Wiser). 2001. Energy Policy 29(13).

 

Book chapters

Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program, in Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram, ed. The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy, University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming.

 

Working papers

Designing markets for pollution when damages vary across sources:
What are the gains from differentiation? (with Nicholas Muller)

Product design response to policy intervention: Evaluating fuel economy standards
using an engineering model of product design (with Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos).

Market-based Emissions Regulation and the Evolution of Market Structure (with Mar Reguant and Stephen Ryan)

Distributing Pollution Rights in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Are Outcomes Independent of Allocation? (with Jeffrey Perloff)

Allocating Emissions Permits in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Theory and Evidence

 

Work in progress

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions from Wind Energy: Location, Location, Location? [abstract]. Preliminary draft available upon request.