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Notching for Free: Do Cyclists Reveal the Value of Time?

Casey Wichman and Brandon Cunningham

Effects of Increases in IQ in India on the Present Value of Lifetime Earnings: A Structured Expert Judgment Study

Randall Lutter, Abigail Colson and Roger Cooke

Informing SPR Policy through Oil Futures and Inventory Dynamics

Richard Newell and Brian Prest

The Effects of Climate on Leisure Demand: Evidence from North America

Nathan Chan and Casey Wichman

Costs and Benefits of Saving Unprofitable Generators: A Simulation Case Study for US Coal and Nuclear Power Plants

Daniel Shawhan and Paul Picciano

The Efficiency Consequences of Heterogeneous Behavioral Responses to Energy Fiscal Policies

Sebastien Houde and Joseph E. Aldy

The Effect of Fuel Price Changes on Fleet Demand for New Vehicle Fuel Economy

Benjamin Leard, Virginia McConnell and Yichen Zhou

The Future of Power Markets in a Low Marginal Cost World

David Bielen, Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer and Daniel Steinberg

Vertical Market Power in Interconnected Natural Gas and Electricity Markets

Levi Marks, Charles Mason, Kristina Mohlin and Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins

Price Elasticity of Supply and Productivity: An Analysis of Natural Gas Wells in Wyoming

Charles Mason and Gavin Roberts

Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)

Michael A. Mehling, Gilbert Metcalf and Robert Stavins

Do Discrete Choice Approaches to Valuing Urban Amenities Yield Different Results Than Hedonic Models?

Paramita Sinha, Martha Caulkins and Maureen Cropper

Environmental Policy, Full-Employment Models, and Employment: A Critical Analysis

Marc Hafstead, Roberton Williams and Yunguang Chen

Valuing Nonmarket Impacts of Climate Change: From Reduced Form to Welfare

Nathan Chan and Casey Wichman

Quantities with Prices

Dallas Burtraw, Charles Holt, Karen Palmer, Anthony Paul and William Shobe

Who Did the Ethanol Tax Credit Benefit? An Event Analysis of Subsidy Incidence

David Bielen, Richard Newell and William Pizer

Coal Demand, Market Forces, and US Coal Mine Closures

Brett Jordan, Ian Lange and Joshua Linn

What’s in a Name? A Systematic Search for Alternatives to “Value of Statistical Life”

Chris Dockins, Kelly Maguire, Steve Newbold, Nathalie Simon, Alan Krupnick and Laura Taylor

Changing Baselines, Shifting Margins: How Predicted Impacts of Pricing Carbon in the Electricity Sector Have Evolved Over Time

Karen Palmer, Anthony Paul and Amelia Keyes

Recognizing Gravity as the Strong Force in Atmosphere Emissions Markets

Dallas Burtraw and Amelia Keyes

The GDP Temperature Relationship: Implications for Climate Change Damages

Richard Newell, Brian Prest and Steven Sexton

Retirements and Funerals: The Emission, Mortality, and Coal-Mine Employment Effects of a Two-Year Delay in Coal and Nuclear Power Plant Retirements

Daniel Shawhan and Paul Picciano

WTO-Compatible Methodologies to Determine Export Rebates and Import Charges for Products of Energy-Intensive, Trade- Exposed Industries, If There Is an Upstream Tax on Greenhouse Gases

Brian Flannery and Jan Mares

Carbon Standards Examined: A Comparison of At-the-Source and Beyond-the-Source Power Plant Carbon Standards

Amelia Keyes, Kathleen Lambert, Dallas Burtraw, Jonathan Buonocore, Jonathan Levy and Charles Driscoll

Using Satellite Data to Fill the Gaps in the US Air Pollution Monitoring Network

Daniel Sullivan and Alan Krupnick

Impacts of a Carbon Tax across US Household Income Groups: What Are the Equity- Efficiency Trade-Offs?

Lawrence Goulder, Marc Hafstead, GyuRim Kim and Xianling Long

Fiscal Federalism, Interjurisdictional Externalities, and Overlapping Policies

Jessica Coria, Magnus Hennlock and Thomas Sterner

Do Markets Trump Politics? Fossil Fuel Market Reactions to the Paris Agreement and the US Election

Samson Mukanjari and Thomas Sterner

Policy Evolution under the Clean Air Act

Richard Schmalensee and Robert Stavins

The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem

Joshua Blonz

Ecosystem Valuation and Hydropower Licensing Decisions: Lessons from the FERC Experience

Kurt Stephenson and Leonard Shabman

Key Issues Facing California’s GHG Cap-and-Trade System for 2021-2030

Robert Stavins and Todd Schatzki

GHG Cap-and-Trade: Implications for Effective and Efficient Climate Policy in Oregon

Todd Schatzki and Robert Stavins

Estimating Consumer Substitution Between New and Used Passenger Vehicles

Benjamin Leard

Discounting for Public Cost–Benefit Analysis

William Pizer and Qingran Li

The Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Increased US Oil and Gas Production

Daniel Raimi

Green Innovation And Economic Growth In A North-South Model

Carolyn Fischer and Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks

What Does an Electric Vehicle Replace?

Benjamin Leard, Shanjun Li and Jianwei Xing

Reducing Risk in Merchant Wind and Solar Projects through Financial Hedges

Jay Bartlett

Pass-Through and Welfare Effects of Regulations that Affect Product Attributes

Benjamin Leard, Joshua Linn and Katalin Springel

The Energy Paradox in Seemingly Competitive Industries: The Use of Energy-Efficient Equipment on Heavy-Duty Tractor Trailers

Arthur G. Fraas, Randall W. Lutter and Derek Wietelman

What is a Fish Out of Water? The Economics Behind the Joint Management of Water Resources and Aquatic Species in the United States

Kailin Kroetz, Yusuke Kuwayama and Caroline Vexler

Transitioning to Long-Run Effective and Efficient Climate Policies

Robert Stavins, Todd Schatzki and K Scott

The Future of United States Carbon-Pricing Policy

Robert Stavins

Addressing the Urgency of More Stringent Climate Change Policy

Lawrence H. Goulder

Human Migration in the Era of Climate Change

Cristina Cattaneo, Michel Beine, Christiane J. Fröhlich, Dominic Kniveton, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Marina Mastrorillo, Katrin Millock and Etienne Piguet

Building Subway Systems and Improving Air Quality in China: New Evidence from Multiple Chinese Cities

Lunyu Xie, Joshua Linn and Haosheng Yan

Market-Based Methods for Monetizing Uncertainty Reduction: A Case Study

Roger Cooke and Alexander Golub

The Cost-Effectiveness of Satellite Earth Observations to Inform a Post-Wildfire Response

Richard Bernknopf, Yusuke Kuwayama, Reily Gibson, Jessica Blakely, Bethany Mabee, T.J. Clifford, Brad Quayle, Justin Epting, Terry Hardy and David Goodrich

Jobs and Environmental Regulation

Marc Hafstead and Roberton Williams