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Former HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Gernot Wagner publishes book

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Gernot Wagner, a former Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), has published a book entitled, But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World. Gernot is a staff economist with the Environmental...

Signs of New Life as U.N. Searches for a Climate Accord

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[ The New York Times ]... Robert N. Stavins, director of the environmental economics program at Harvard University, said that Durban had helped resuscitate an international effort that appeared close to collapse. He said that the tasks before it were...

Just Price Carbon

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[ The Huffington Post ]...My colleagues and I wrote a paper in 2009 about using real options to evaluate climate policy under uncertainty. We found that, unlike indications from cost-benefit analysis, stabilizing at 2C is a very cheap option. Better still...

US Economists Urge Obama to Push for Global Carbon Tax

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[ Energy Live News ] President Barack Obama should press for a global carbon tax, a Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist has told ELN. Professor Eric S. Maskin from the Department of Economics at Harvard University suggested America should even adopt a...

The EPA’s Odd Double Standard on Pollution Rules

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[ The Washington Post ] One of the strangest aspects of the EPA’s newest rules on carbon-dioxide emissions is that they only apply to future power plants. Existing facilities — the ones that are actually producing all the pollution — get to carry on as...

Katharine R.E. Sims, Cozzarelli Prize Winner

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Katharine R. E. Sims, former Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), is a winner of the 2011 Cozzarelli Prize. The Prize is awarded by the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) to...

Gasoline Taxes and Consumer Behavior

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Erich Muehlegger, a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, along with Assistant Professor Shanjun Li of Cornell University and Resources for the Future Fellow, Joshua Linn, have released a HEEP Discussion Paper detailing the...