Research
Published Papers
“Market Power in Coal Shipping and Implications for U.S. Climate Policy”
Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
[ungated PDF] [online appendix] [supplemental appendix] [EI@Haas blog] [Axios]“Out of the Darkness and Into the Light? Development Effects of Rural Electrification”
Journal of Political Economy, accepted.
(with Fiona Burlig)
[ungated PDF] [online appendix] [VoxDev piece] [IEEE Spectrum] [video by econimate]“MPAs and Aspatial Policies in Artisanal Fisheries”
Marine Resource Economics 36 (4): 341–367. 2021.
(with H. Jo Albers, Madison Ashworth, Tabaré Capitán, and Róger Madrigal-Ballestero)
[ungated PDF] [online appendix]“Optimal Siting, Sizing, and Enforcement of Marine Protected Areas”
Environmental and Resource Economics 77 (1): 229–269. 2020.
(with H. Jo Albers, Tabaré Capitán, Elizabeth Robinson, and Róger Madrigal-Ballestero)“Panel Data and Experimental Design”
Journal of Development Economics 144: 102548. 2020.
(with Fiona Burlig and Matt Woerman)
[ungated PDF] [online appendix] [Stata package: type - ssc describe pcpanel - in Stata console]“Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Are We Deploying Too Many?”
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 4 (4): 959–984. 2017.
(with Carolyn Fischer and Richard Newell)
[ungated PDF] [online appendix]“Combining Policies for Renewable Energy: Is the Whole Less Than the Sum of Its Parts?”
International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 4 (1): 51–92. 2010.
(with Carolyn Fischer)
Working Papers
“Blackouts: The Role of India's Wholesale Electricity Market” UPDATED FEBRUARY 2024!
(with Fiona Burlig and Akshaya Jha)
[NBER WP] [VoxDev piece] [VoxEU piece] [Ideas for India piece | हिंदी ]“Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice”
(with Fiona Burlig and Matt Woerman)
[NBER WP] [Forbes piece] [Forecast Direct podcast] [Barron's piece]
Selected Works in Progress
- “Transmission Constraints and Electricity Trade in India”
(with Fiona Burlig and Akshaya Jha)
- “Groundwater in a Changing Climate”
(with Fiona Burlig, Aaron Hrozencik, and Matt Woerman)
- “Supplier Market Power in the Energy Transition: An Empirical Study of Coal Mines, Railroads, and Power Plants”
(with Andrew Sweeting)
- “Pricing the Pump: Demand Response to Two-Part Electricity Tariffs”
(with Fiona Burlig and Matt Woerman)
- “Exporting Carbon: U.S. Coal Demand, International Leakage, and Implications for Climate Policy”
(with Joshua Blonz)
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