Working Papers

Cavanagh, Sheila M., W. Michael Hanemann, and Robert N. Stavins (2001) "Muffled Price Signals: Household Water Demand Under Increasing-Block Prices," Kennedy School of Govermnent, Harvard University.

Chatterji, Aaron K., David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel (2006) "Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance?," Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-021.

Cooper, R.N. (2001) "A Carbon Tax in China?," Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Delmas, M. and Michael W. Toffel (2006) "Institutional pressure and environmental strategies," Harvard Business School Working Paper.

Foster, Andrew D. and Rosenzweig, Mark R. (2004) "Agricultural Productivity Growth, Rural Economic Diversity, and Economic Reforms: India, 1970-2000." Economic Development and Cultural Change 52(3).

Hogan, William, John D. Chnadley and Scott M. Harvey. (2000) "Electricity Market Reform in California."

Hogan, William and Scott M. Harvey (2000) "Issues in the Analysis of Market Power in California"

Hogan, William and Scott M. Harvey (2000) "California Electricity Prices and Forward Market Hedging"

Hogan, William (2000) "Flowgate Rights and Wrongs."

Hogan, William (2000) " Regional Transmission Organizations: Designing Market Insitutions for Electric Network Systems."

Hogan, William and Scott M. Harvey (2000) "Nodal and Zonal Congestion Management and the Exercise of Market Power."

Jaffe, A.B., R.G. Newell, R.N. Stavins (2000) "Induced Invention, Innovation, and Diffusion: An Integrated Application to Energy-Saving Technology." Working Paper, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.

Keohane, N., B. Van Roy, and R. Zeckhauser (2000) "Controlling Stocks and Flows to Promote Quality: The Environment, with Applications to Human and Physical Capital", NBER Working Paper 7727.

Kremer, Michael, Jessica Leino, Edward Miguel, and Alix Peterson Zwane (2006) “Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water Quality Improvement.”

Lin, C.-Y. Cynthia (2004) "Optimal World Oil Extraction: Calibrating and Simulating the Hotelling Model", SSRN Electronic Paper Collection.

Lubowski, Ruben N., Andrew J. Plantiga, and Robert N. Stavins (2005) "Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks: Econometric Estimation of the Carbon Sequestration Supply Function", Working Paper.

Olmstead, Sheila M., W. Michael Hanemann, and Robert N. Stavins (2005) "Do Consumers React to the Shape of Supply? Water Demand Under Heterogeneous Price Structures," Kennedy School of Govermnent, Harvard University.

Panayotou, T. (2000) "Economic Growth and the Environment" CID Working Paper no. 56, Environment and Development Paper No.4.

Panayotou, T. (2000) "Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City Regions" CID Working Paper no. 55, Environment and Development Paper No.3.

Panayotou, T. (2000) "Population and Environment" CID Working Paper no. 54, Environment and Development Paper No.2.

Panayotou, T. (2000) "Globalization and Environment" CID Working Paper no. 53, Environment and Development Paper No.1.

Pitt, Mark M., Rosenzweig, Mark R. and Hassan, Md. Nazmul. (2005) "Sharing the Burden of Disease: Gender, the Household Division of Labor and the Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution." CID Working Paper No. 119.

Reinhardt, Forest. "Environmental Quality and Economic Advantage: A Framework for Understanding Corporate Environmental Management." Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 97071.

Reinhardt, Forest. "Market Failure and the Environmental Strategies of Firms: The Microeconomic Roots of Corporate Environmental Policy." Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 99038.

Reinhardt, Forest. "Sustainability and the Firm." Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 99039.

Revesz, Richard L. and Stavins, Robert N. (2004) "Environmental Law and Policy" Paper prepared for "The Handbook of Law and Economics," edited by A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell, Amsterdam: North-Holland/Elsevier Science.

Rosenzweig, Mark R. and Foster, Andrew D. (2003) "Economic Growth and the Rise of Forests." Quarterly Journal of Economics, May.

Short, Jodi L. and Michael W. Toffel (2006) "Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator," Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-020.

Snyder, Lori D. (2003) "Are Management-Based Regulations Effective?: Evidence from State Pollution Prevention Programs," Regulatory Policy Program Working Paper RPP-2003-21.

Snyder, Lori D., Robert N. Stavins, and Alexander F. Wagner (2003) "Private Options to Use Public Goods: Using Revealed Preferences to Estimate Environmental Benefits," Harvard University.

Stavins, Robert N. (2003) "Environmental Protection and Economic Well-Being: How Does (and How Should) Government Balance These Two Important Values?" Paper prepared for presentation at the Aspen Institute, Aspen Colorado, January 10-12, 2004.

Stavins, Robert N. (2003) "Market-Based Environmental Policies: What Can We Learn From U.S. Experience (and Related Research)?" Paper prepared for presentation at "Twenty Years of Market-Based Instruments for Environmental Protection: Has the Promise Been Realized?," Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, August 23-24, 2003.

Stavins, Robert N. (2004) "Introduction to the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation," Paper prepared as Chapter 1 (Introduction) for The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Stavins, Robert N. (2004) "Can an effective global climate treaty be based on sound science, rational economics, and pragmatic politics?," Kennedy School of Government working paper.

Stavins, Robert N. (2004) "Environmental Economics," Prepared for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, Lawrence Blume and Steven Durlauf, General Editors, London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.

Stavins, Robert N. (2005) "The Effects of Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation." Related Publication 05-03. Washington, D.C.: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, March 2005.

Stavins, Robert N. (2005) "Vintage-Differentiated Environmental Regulation." November 2005, forthcoming in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.

Stavins, Robert N, Judson Jaffee and Todd Schatzki. (2007) "Too Good to Be True? An Examination of Three Economic Assessments of California Climate Change Policy"

Michael W. Toffel (2006) "Resolving information asymmetries in markets: The role of certified management programs," Harvard Business School Working Paper.

Viscusi, W. Kip, Huber, Joel C. and Bell, Jason. (2004) "The Value of Regional Water Quality Improvements," Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 477.

Articles

Electronic Access to Many Economics Journal Articles (Harvard Only)

Aldy, Joseph E., Scott Barrett, Robert N. Stavins (2003) "Thirteen Plus One: A Comparison of Global Climate Policy Architectures," Climate Policy 3 (4): 373-397.

Aldy, Joe, and Jeffrey Frankel (2004) "Designing a Regime of Emission Commitments for Developing Countries that is Cost-Effective and Equitable," written for G20 Leaders and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations, September 20-21.

Barrett, Scott and Robert N. Stavins (2002) "Increasing Participation and Compliance in International Climate Change Agreements," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 3: 349-376.

Bluffstone, R. and T. Panayotou. (2000) "Environmental Liability and Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward an Optimal Policy." Environmental and Resource Economics 17: 335-352.

Cooper, R.N. (2001) "The Kyoto Protocol: A Flawed Concept." The Environmental Law Reporter, 31: 11484-11492.

Cooper, R. N. (2000) "International Approaches to Global Climate Change," The World Bank Research Observer, 15 (2): 145-72.

Cooper, R. N. (2000) "Trade and the Environment," Environment and Development Economics, 5(4).

Delmas, Magali and Michael W. Toffel (2004) "Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: An Institutional Framework," Business Strategy and the Environment 13, no. 4 (July/August)

Frankel, Jeffrey (2000) "Achieving Environmental Goals at Minimum Economic Cost," Edison Electric Institute Advisory Panel on Fuel Diversity, EEI Chief Executives Conference, Palm Springs, CA, Jan. 13.

Frankel, Jeffrey (2004) "Kyoto and Geneva: Linkage of the Climate Change Regime and the Trade Regime," a speech for Broadening Climate Discussion: The Linkage of Climate Change to Other Policy Areas, conference organized by FEEM/MIT, Venice, Italy, June 2004.

Frankel, Jeffrey (2004) "The Impact of a Revised Kyoto Protocol on Developing Countries," forthcoming, Business and Economy, India

Frankel, Jeffrey, "The Environment and Globalization," forthcoming in Globalization: What's New edited by Michael Weinstein, Council on Foreign Relations (Columbia University Press: New York). To be reprinted in Economics of the Environment, 5th ed., edited by R.Stavins (W.W.Norton: New York), 2005.

Frankel, Jeffrey and Andrew Rose (2005) "Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? ÊSorting out the Causality," Review of Economics and Statistics, 87, no.1, February.

Fu, T.-T., J.-T. Liu, and J.K. Hammitt (1999) "Consumer Willingness to Pay for Low-Pesticide Fresh Produce in Taiwan," Journal of Agricultural Economics 50(2): 220-233.

Glaeser, Edward L. (2007) "A road map for environmentalism." Boston Globe Op-ed, May 21.

Goulder, L.H. and R.N. Stavins (2002) "An Eye On The Future" Nature 419: 673-674.

Gray G.M. and J.K. Hammitt (2000) "Risk/risk trade-offs in pesticide regulation: an exploratory analysis of the public health effects of a ban on organophosphate and carbamate pesticides" Risk Analysis 20(5):665-80.

Hahn, R., S. Olmstead and R.N. Stavins (2003) "Environmental Regulation During the 1990s: A Retrospective Analysis" Harvard Environmental Law Review 27(2):377-415.

Hammitt, J.K., and C.M. Harvey (2000) "Equity, Efficiency, Uncertainty, and the Mitigation of Global Climate Change," Risk Analysis 20(6): 851-860.

Hammitt, J.K., J.-T. Liu, and W.-C. Lin (2000) "Sensitivity of Willingness to Pay to the Magnitude of Risk Reduction: A Taiwan-United States Comparison," Journal of Risk Research 3(4): 305-320.

Hammitt, J.K. (2000) "Analytic Methods for Environmental Regulation in the United States: Promise, Pitfalls, and Politics," International Journal of Risk Assessment & Management 1(1/2): 105-124.

Hammitt, J.K. (2000) "Global Climate Change: Benefit-Cost Analysis vs. the Precautionary Principle," Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 6(3): 387-398.

Hammitt, J.K. (2000) "Are The Costs of Proposed Environmental Regulations Overestimated? Evidence from the CFC Phaseout," Environmental and Resource Economics 16(3): 281-301.

Hammitt, J.K. (2000) "Valuing Mortality Risk: Theory and Practice," Environmental Science and Technology 34(8): 1396-1400.

Hammitt, J.K. and J.D. Graham, (1999) "Willingness to Pay for Health Protection: Inadequate Sensitivity to Probability?" Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 18(1): 33-62.

Hammitt, J.K. (1999) "Evaluation Endpoints and Climate Policy: Atmospheric Stabilization, Benefit-Cost Analysis, and Near-Term Greenhouse-Gas Emissions," Climatic Change 41(3/4): 447-468.

Hertwich, E.G., and J.K. Hammitt (2001) "A Decision-Analytic Framework for Impact Assessment Part I: LCA and Decision Analysis," International Journal of Life-Cycle Assessment 6(1): 5-12.

Hertwich, E.G., J.K. Hammitt, and W.S. Pease (2000) "A Theoretical Foundation for Life-Cycle Assessment: Recognizing the Role of Values in Environmental Decision Making," Journal of Industrial Ecology 4(1): 13-28.

Jaffe, A.B., R.G. Newell, R.N. Stavins (2001) "Environmental Policy and Technological Change." Environmental and Resource Economics, 22(2002):41-69

Jorgenson, W., R. Garbaccio and M.S. Ho (1999) "Controlling Carbon Emissions in China", Environment and Development, Vol. 2, Part 4, pp. 493-518.

Jorgenson, W., R. Garbaccio and M.S. Ho (1999) "Why Has the Energy-Output Ratio Fallen in China?" Energy Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 63-91.
(Permission to web publish)

Levy J.I., J.K. Hammitt, and J.D. Spengler (2000) "Estimating the mortality impacts of particulate matter: what can be learned from between-study variability?" Environmental Health Perspectives 108(2):109-17.

Levy, J.I., J.K. Hammitt, Y. Yanagisawa, and J.D. Spengler (1999) "Development of a New Damage Function Model for Power Plants: Methodology and Applications," Environmental Science and Technology 33: 4364-4372.

Liu J.T., J.K. Hammitt, J.D. Wang, and J.L Liu (2000) "Mother's willingness to pay for her own and her child's health: a contingent valuation study in Taiwan." Health Economics, 9(4):319-26.

Liu, J.-T., and J.K. Hammitt (1999) "Perceived Risk and Value of Workplace Safety in a Developing Country," Journal of Risk Research 2(3): 263-275.

Marshall, Julian D. and Michael W. Toffel (2005) "Framing the Elusive Concept of Sustainability: A Sustainability Hierarchy," Environmental Science and Technology 39, no. 3.

McElhaney, Kellie, Michael W. Toffel and Natalie Hill (2004) "Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience," Greener Management International: Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and Practice 46.

Newell, R. and R.N. Stavins (2000) "Climate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 40:211-235.

Newel, R.G., A.B. Jaffe, and R.N. Stavins (1999) "The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114(3):941-975.

Newell, R.G. and R.N. Stavins (2003) "Cost Heterogeneity and the Potential Savings from Market-Based Policies," Journal of Regulatory Economics 23(1): 43-59.

Panayotou, T., J. Sachs and A. Zwane (2001) "Compensation for 'Meaningful Participation' in Climate Change Control: A Modest Proposal and Empirical Analysis." Forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Panayotou, T. (1999) "The Economics of Environments in Transition." Environmental and Development Economics 4 (1): 389.

Plantinga, Andrew J., Ruben N. Lubowski, and Robert N. Stavins (2002) "The Effects of Potential Land Development on Agricultural Land Prices," Journal of Urban Economics 52: 561-581.

Reinhardt, F.L. (2000) "Review of 'Cool Companies:How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions' by Joseph J. Romm." Journal of Industrial Ecology 4, no. 1: 141-143.

Reinhardt, F. (2000) "Review of 'Profit Centers in Industrial Ecology: The Business Executive's Approach to the Environment' by Ronald S. Smith, Jr." Journal of Industrial Ecology 4, no. 1: 141-143.

Reinhardt, F. L. (2000) "Sustainability and the Firm." Interfaces 30, no. 3: 13-25.

Reinhardt, F. L. (2000) "Tensions in the Environment." Financial Times Mastering Risk.

Reinhardt, F., and Kimberly O'Neill Packard. (2000) "What Every Executive Needs to Know about Global Warming." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 4: 128-135.

Reinhardt, F. L. (1999) "Bringing the Environment Down to Earth." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 4: 149-157.

Reinhardt, F. L. (1999) "Market Failure and the Environmental Policies of Firms: Economic Rationales for 'Beyond Compliance' Behavior." Journal of Industrial Ecology 3, no. 1: 9-21.

Snyder, Lori D., Nolan H. Miller, and Robert N. Stavins (2003) "The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing," American Economic Review 93: 431-435.

Stavins, Robert N., Alexander F. Wagner, and Gernot Wagner "Interpreting Sustainability in Economic Terms: Dynamic Efficiency Plus Intergenerational Equity." Economics Letters 79 (2003): 339-343.

Stavins, R.N. and Richard Newell (2000) "Climate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 40:211-235.

Stavins, R.N. (1999) "The Costs of Carbon Sequestration: A Revealed-Preference Approach." American Economic Review, 89(4):994-1009.

Stavins, R.N. (2005) "Don't blame Romney." Boston Globe Op-Ed, December 10.

Summers, Lawrence "Foreword" in Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, eds. Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World, Cambridge University Press, 2007 (forthcoming).

Summers, Lawrence (2007) "Four practical steps to climate control," Financial Times Op-Ed, May 29.

Toffel, Michael W., and Arpad Horvath (2004) "Environmental Implications of Wireless Technologies: News Delivery and Business Meetings." Environmental Science and Technology 38, no. 11.

Toffel, Michael W., and Julian D. Marshall (2004) "Improving Environmental Performance Assessment: Comparative Analysis of Weighting Methods used to Evaluate Chemical Release Inventories." Journal of Industrial Ecology 8, nos. 1-2.

Toffel, Michael W. (2004) "Strategic Management of Product Recovery." California Management Review 46, no. 2.

Weitzman, Martin L. (2000) "The Linearised Hamiltonian as Comprehensive NDP," Environment & Development Economics 5(1-2):55-68.

Weitzman, Martin L. (2000) "Economic Profitability versus Ecological Entropy," The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115(1):237-63.

Weitzman, Martin L. (1999) "Pricing the Limits to Growth from Minerals Depletion" The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114(2):691-706.

Williams P.R. and J.K Hammitt (2000) "A comparison of organic and conventional fresh produce buyers in the Boston area" Risk Analysis 20(5):735-46.

Zeckhauser, Richard and Andrew Metrick. (1999) "Price Versus Quantity: Market-Clearing Mechanisms When Consumers are Uncertain about Quality," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 17(3): 215-242.

Zeckhauser, Richard and Anthony Patt, (2000) "Action Bias and Environmental Decisions," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 21(1): 45-72.

Zwane, Alix Peterson and Michael Kremer (2007) “What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review,” World Bank Research Advisor 22 (1):1-24.

Books

Hay, Bruce L., Stavins, Robert N. , and Vietor, Richard H.K. (2005) Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business, (RFF Press).

Jorgenson, Dale W. (1998) Energy, the Environment, and Economic Growth, (Cambridge: MIT Press).

Panayotou, T. (ed.) (2001) Environment for Growth in Central America: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

Panayotou, T. and Zhang Zheng (2000). The Cost of Environmental Damage in China: Preliminary Assessment and Valuation Framework, (Bethesda, MD: Aileen International Press for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development).

Panayotou, T. and W. Yajun (1999). Green Taxation: National Experience and Relevance to China, (Bethesda, MD: Aileen International Press for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development).

Panayotou, T. (1998). Instruments of Change: Motivating and Financing Sustainable Development, (London: Earthscan Publications).

Panayotou, T. and C. Restrepo and R. Faris (1997). Green Book: From Peace to Sustainable Development: A Call to Action. (El Salvador: FUSADES/CODES).

Panayotou, T. (1995) Green Markets: The Economics of Sustainable Development, (San Francisco: ICS Press for the International Center for Economic Growth)

Portney, Paul and Robert Stavins (2000) Public Policy for Environmental Protection, (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future Press).

Reinhardt, F. L. (2000) Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, (Boston: Harvard Business School Press).

Reinhardt, F. L., and R. H.K. Vietor (1996) Business Management and the Natural Environment: Cases and Text, (Cincinnati: Southwestern Publishing Company).

Reinhardt, F. L., and R. H.K. Vietor (1996) Instructor's Manual for Business Management and the Natural Environment: Cases and Text, (Cincinnati: Southwestern Publishing Company).

Stavins, Robert (2004) The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation (Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.)

Stavins, Robert (2001) Environmental Economics and Public Policy: Selected Papers of Robert N. Stavins, 1988-1999 (Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.)

Stavins, Robert (2000) Economics of the Environment, (New York: W.W. Norton)

Viscusi, W. Kip. (1998) Rational Risk Policy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Viscusi, W. Kip. (1995) Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, (Cambridge: MIT Press).