Details about Robert Douglas Cairns

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Department of Economics, McGill University, (more information at EDIRC) Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) (Center for Interuniversity Research in Quantitative Economics), (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2024

1. Intragenerational inequality aversion and intergenerational equity
   (Aversion à l'inégalité intragénérationnelle et équité intergénérationnelle)
   Working Papers, HAL View citations (1)
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2021) View citations (2)
   Working Papers, FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2021) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Intragenerational inequality aversion and intergenerational equity, EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (2022) View citations (1) (2022)

2021

2. Growth and long-run sustainability
   (Croissance et durabilité à long terme)
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (3)
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2019) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Growth and long-run sustainability, Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press (2021) View citations (3) (2021)

2019

3. Sustainability of an economy relying on two reproducible assets
   (Soutenabilité d’une économie reposant sur deux actifs renouvelables)
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (7)
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2017) View citations (1)
   Working Papers, INRA, Economie Publique (2016) View citations (2)
   Working Papers, FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2017) View citations (1)
   EconomiX Working Papers, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX (2017) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Sustainability of an economy relying on two reproducible assets, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier (2019) View citations (7) (2019)

2014

4. An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (27)
   Also in EconomiX Working Papers, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX (2012) View citations (1)
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2013) View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development, European Economic Review, Elsevier (2014) View citations (24) (2014)

2006

5. Sustained Development of a Population and a Resource
   2006 Conference (50th), February 8-10, 2006, Sydney, Australia, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society

2004

6. Reinforcing Economic Incentives for Carbon Credits for Forests
   CIRANO Working Papers, CIRANO View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Reinforcing economic incentives for carbon credits for forests, Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier (2004) View citations (5) (2004)

2001

7. Carbon Credits for Forests and Forest Products
   Cahiers de recherche du Département des sciences économiques, UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des sciences économiques View citations (3)
   Also in CIRANO Working Papers, CIRANO (2001) View citations (1)

1985

8. Sectoral Supply of Minerals of Varying Quality
   Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques View citations (5)

Journal Articles

2022

1. Intragenerational inequality aversion and intergenerational equity
   EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2022, (forthcoming) View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Intragenerational inequality aversion and intergenerational equity, Working Papers (2024) View citations (1) (2024)

2021

2. Growth and long-run sustainability
   Environment and Development Economics, 2021, 26, (4), 381-402 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Growth and long-run sustainability, Post-Print (2021) View citations (3) (2021)

2019

3. Sustainability of an economy relying on two reproducible assets
   Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2019, 101, (C), 145-160 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Sustainability of an economy relying on two reproducible assets, Post-Print (2019) View citations (7) (2019)

2018

4. Economic Accounting in the Simple Hotelling Model
   Resource and Energy Economics, 2018, 51, (C), 18-27 View citations (4)
5. Stranded oil of Erewhon
   Energy Policy, 2018, 121, (C), 248-251 View citations (2)

2017

6. The odd notion of “reversible investment”
   Journal of Banking & Finance, 2017, 81, (C), 172-180 View citations (3)

2015

7. Mineral Depletion and the Rules of Resource Dynamics
   The Energy Journal, 2015, Volume 36, (Adelman Special Issue) View citations (2)

2014

8. An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development
   European Economic Review, 2014, 69, (C), 4-17 View citations (24)
   See also Working Paper An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development, Post-Print (2014) View citations (27) (2014)
9. The green paradox of the economics of exhaustible resources
   Energy Policy, 2014, 65, (C), 78-85 View citations (28)

2013

10. Sustainability or the measurement of wealth?
    Environment and Development Economics, 2013, 18, (5), 640-648 View citations (11)
11. The fundamental problem of accounting
    Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2013, 46, (2), 634-655 View citations (1)
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46, (2), 634-655 (2013) View citations (11)

2012

12. Good timing: The economics of optimal stopping
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2012, 36, (2), 255-265 View citations (11)
13. OPEC: Market failure or power failure?
    Energy Policy, 2012, 50, (C), 570-580 View citations (37)

2011

14. Accounting for Sustainability: A Dissenting Opinion
    Sustainability, 2011, 3, (9), 1-16 View citations (10)

2010

15. Sustained development of a society with a renewable resource
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34, (6), 1048-1061 View citations (17)

2009

16. Green Accounting for Black Gold
    The Energy Journal, 2009, Volume 30, (Number 4), 113-140 View citations (9)

2008

17. Exhaustible Resources, Non-Convexity and Competitive Equilibrium
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2008, 40, (2), 177-193 View citations (6)
18. Value and income
    Ecological Economics, 2008, 66, (2-3), 417-424 View citations (12)

2006

19. Implementing carbon credits for forests based on green accounting
    Ecological Economics, 2006, 56, (4), 610-621 View citations (9)
20. Maximin: a direct approach to sustainability
    Environment and Development Economics, 2006, 11, (3), 275-300 View citations (48)
21. On accounting for sustainable development and accounting for the environment
    Resources Policy, 2006, 31, (4), 211-216 View citations (7)

2005

22. Book Review
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107, (2), 395-397
23. Rejecting the Hotelling Valuation Principle
    Empirical Economics, 2005, 30, (2), 473-478 View citations (1)

2004

24. Green Accounting for an Externality, Pollution at a Mine
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2004, 27, (4), 409-427 View citations (10)
25. Principles of green accounting for renewable and nonrenewable energy resources
    Energy Policy, 2004, 32, (2), 261-267 View citations (4)
26. Reinforcing economic incentives for carbon credits for forests
    Forest Policy and Economics, 2004, 6, (3-4), 321-328 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Reinforcing Economic Incentives for Carbon Credits for Forests, CIRANO Working Papers (2004) View citations (5) (2004)
27. Two Proposals to Improve Price-Cap Regulation
    Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2004, 160, (2), 243-251

2003

28. Reconciling the Green Accounts
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2003, 25, (1), 51-63 View citations (7)
29. The choice of the cutoff grade in mining
    Resources Policy, 2003, 29, (3-4), 75-81 View citations (11)

2002

30. Green accounting using imperfect, current prices
    Environment and Development Economics, 2002, 7, (2), 207-214 View citations (8)
31. Green national income and expenditure
    Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2002, 35, (1), 1-15 View citations (4)
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2002, 35, (1), 1-15 (2002) View citations (4)
32. Summaries
    Environment and Development Economics, 2002, 7, (2), 197-206

2001

33. Adelman's Rule and the Petroleum Firm
    The Energy Journal, 2001, Volume22, (Number 3), 31-54 View citations (32)
34. Capacity Choice and the Theory of the Mine
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2001, 18, (1), 129-148 View citations (25)
35. Seeing the trees as a forest: what counts in green accounting
    Ecological Economics, 2001, 36, (1), 61-69 View citations (8)

2000

36. ACCOUNTING FOR RESOURCE DEPLETION: A MICROECONOMIC APPROACH
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2000, 46, (1), 21-31 View citations (7)
37. Sustainability accounting and green accounting
    Environment and Development Economics, 2000, 5, (1), 49-54 View citations (9)

1999

38. Valuing Petroleum Reserves Using Current Net Price
    Economic Inquiry, 1999, 37, (2), 295-311 View citations (18)

1998

39. An assessment of Thailand's new telecommunications plan
    Telecommunications Policy, 1998, 22, (2), 145-155
40. Are mineral deposits valuable? A reconciliation of theory and practice
    Resources Policy, 1998, 24, (1), 19-24 View citations (1)
41. On Opposition to Rent Seeking: Implications for Developing Countries
    Review of Development Economics, 1998, 2, (3), 282-292
42. On Using Current Information To Value Hard-Rock Mineral Properties
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998, 80, (4), 658-663 View citations (9)
43. Optimal Exploration for and Exploitation of Heterogeneous Mineral Deposits
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1998, 35, (2), 164-189 View citations (19)
44. Simple Analytics of Valuing Producing Petroleum Reserves
    The Energy Journal, 1998, Volume19, (Number 4), 133-142 View citations (9)
45. Sufficient conditions for a class of investment problems
    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1998, 23, (1), 55-69 View citations (8)

1996

46. Competition and regulation in the taxi industry
    Journal of Public Economics, 1996, 59, (1), 1-15 View citations (57)
47. Uncertain contestability
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1996, 30, (1), 125-131 View citations (1)

1994

48. On Gray’s Rule and the Stylized Facts of Non-Renewable Resources
    Journal of Economic Issues, 1994, 28, (3), 777-798 View citations (1)

1993

49. The optimal auction: A mechanism for optimal third-degree price discrimination
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1993, 20, (2), 213-225 View citations (2)

1992

50. La recherche de rentes en situation d’incertitude avec ou sans opposition
    L'Actualité Economique, 1992, 68, (3), 477-498 View citations (1)

1991

51. Rent seeking with uncertain opposition
    European Economic Review, 1991, 35, (6), 1223-1235 View citations (12)
52. The role of investment in multiple-deposit extraction: Some results and remaining puzzles
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1991, 21, (1), 52-66 View citations (8)

1990

53. A Contribution to the Theory of Depletable Resource Scarcity and Its Measures
    Economic Inquiry, 1990, 28, (4), 744-55 View citations (2)
54. A note on discreteness and Jevonsian deterioration in non-renewable resource exploration
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1990, 19, (3), 297-299
55. A partial characterization of a history-dependent, subgame-perfect equilibrium: The case of an exhaustible resource duopoly
    Economics Letters, 1990, 32, (1), 81-84
56. Artificial Compatibility, Barriers to Entry, and Frequent-Flyer Programs
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1990, 23, (4), 807-16 View citations (20)
57. Geological influences, metal prices and rationality
    Resources and Energy, 1990, 12, (2), 143-171 View citations (4)
58. Les ressources non renouvelables: le côté offre
    L'Actualité Economique, 1990, 66, (4), 444-460 View citations (1)
59. The Economics of Exploration for Non-renewable Resources
    Journal of Economic Surveys, 1990, 4, (4), 361-95 View citations (25)

1989

60. A Note on MacLeod's Treatment of Contestability
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1989, 22, (2), 434-37
61. Dynamic rent seeking
    Journal of Public Economics, 1989, 39, (3), 315-334 View citations (12)

1988

62. The Softwood Lumber Agreement and Resource Politics
    Canadian Public Policy, 1988, 14, (2), 186-196

1987

63. An Economic Assessment of the Resource Amendment
    Canadian Public Policy, 1987, 13, (4), 502-514
64. On Public Utility Pricing and Forgone Economic Benefits
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1987, 20, (1), 152-63

1986

65. A model of exhaustible resource exploitation with ricardian rent
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1986, 13, (4), 313-324 View citations (6)
66. More on depletion in the nickel industry
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1986, 13, (1), 93-98 View citations (3)

1985

67. Nickel depletion and pricing: Further considerations
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1985, 12, (4), 395-396 View citations (2)
68. Reform of Exhaustible Resource Taxation
    Canadian Public Policy, 1985, 11, (4), 649-658 View citations (4)
69. Rent Seeking, Deregulation and Regulatory Reform
    Canadian Public Policy, 1985, 11, (3), 591-601 View citations (1)

1983

70. Policy quandary: the Canadian nickel industry in recession
    Resources Policy, 1983, 9, (2), 140-141

1982

71. Assessment of risk in a minerals industry: Canadian nickel
    Resources Policy, 1982, 8, (1), 59-64
72. The measurement of resource rents: An application to Canadian nickel
    Resources Policy, 1982, 8, (2), 109-116 View citations (1)

1981

73. A Reconsideration of Ontario Nickel Policy
    Canadian Public Policy, 1981, 7, (4), 526-533
74. An Application of Depletion Theory to a Base Metal: Canadian Nickel
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1981, 14, (4), 635-48 View citations (6)
75. The Constitution as Regulation: The Case of Natural Resources
    Canadian Public Policy, 1981, 7, (1), 66-74

Edited books

1990

1. Economic Theory, Welfare and the State
   Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)

Chapters

1990

1. Introduction
   Palgrave Macmillan