Recent Papers

(earlier papers can be accessed from links on CV)

“Timing Is Everything: How Economists Can Better Address the Urgency of Stronger Climate Policy.”  Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 14(1), Winter 2020.

“Impacts of a U.S. Carbon Tax across Household Income Groups:  What Are the Equity-Efficiency Trade-Offs?”  (with Marc A. C. Hafstead, GyuRim Kim, and Xianling Long), Journal of Public Economics 175, July 2019.

“China’s Rate-Based Approach to Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions:  Strengths, Limitations, and Alternatives” (with Richard D. Morgenstern), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2018.

“The Sensitivity of CO2 Emissions under a Carbon Tax to Alternative Baseline Forecasts” (with Yunguang Chen and Marc A. C. Hafstead), Climate Change Economics 9(1), February 2018.

Confronting the Climate Challenge:  U.S. Climate Policy Options (with Marc A. C. Hafstead), Columbia University Press, December 2017.

“China’s National Carbon Dioxide Emissions Trading System:  An Introduction” (with Richard Morgenstern, Clayton Munnings, and Jeremy Schreifels), Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, November 2017.

China’s Nationwide Cap-and-Trade System to Address Climate Change, a special issue of Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, November 2017.Co-edited with Richard D. Morgenstern, Valerie Karplus, and Christian von Hirschhausen.

“General Equilibrium Impacts of a Federal Clean Energy Standard” (with Marc A. C. Hafstead and Roberton C. Williams III), American Economic Journal – Economic Policy, May 2016.