2017

The American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) just released a new issue of the Journal of Wine Economics (JWE) (Vol 12, No 3). For a list of content and full text/abstract links see below. This issue includes two freely accessible articles, one on...

Whether replacing a light bulb or buying a car, investing in energy-efficient products can help people to reduce their carbon footprint while saving money. So why do consumers still opt for energy-inefficient goods? In a new paper in the December issue of...

Robert Stavins, HEEP Director, Todd Gerarden, HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow, and Richard Newell, former HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow, co-authored an article published in December 2017 in the Journal of Economic Literature, titled “Assessing the Energy-Efficiency...

Professor Stavins is interviewed by ICCG at Bonn Climate Negotiations regarding progress on the rulebook for Article 6, November 16, 2017.

Tom Ashbrook interviews Professor Stavins on National Public Radio’s “On Point,” on November 14, 2017, at the UNFCCC’s COP-23 in Bonn, Germany. Included in the interview, which begins at 30 minutes into the one-hour program, is consideration of the...

Professor Rob Stavins quoted in New York Times, commenting on the role the U.S. will play as countries meet in Bonn, Germany for Climate Conference.

[ Harvard Gazette ]...Daniel Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, and Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, will bring Nocera’s clean-energy innovation — the “bionic leaf” — together with Pande’s policy research to inform the...

[ Arizona Daily Sun ]...The recent monster storms that many scientists are linking to warmer oceans heated by carbon-based greenhouses gases might be another factor in the drive toward carbon taxes. One former skeptic, noted Harvard economist Gregory...

[Robert Stavins' Blog] “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The implication of this famous line (often misquoted as “those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it”) from philosopher George Santayana’s 1905 book, The...

[Robert Stavins' blog ] Today, I wish to take a brief hiatus from reflecting on the current status of climate change policy, whether in the often traumatic context of policy pronouncements – or rather, Twitter messages – from U.S. President Trump and his...