Publications by Year: 1999

1999
Stavins, Robert N. “Consultation on the Topic: Induced Travel: Does Additional Highway Capacity Influence Travel Demand?” Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 1999. sab_report_on_highways.pdf

E-4

Stavins, Robert N. “The Costs of Carbon Sequestration: A Revealed-Preference Approach.” The American Economic Review 89 (1999): 994–1009. Publisher's Version cost_of_carbon_sequestration.pdf

A-29

Jaffe, Adam B, Richard G Newell, and Robert N Stavins. “Energy-Efficient Technologies and Climate Change Policies: Issues and Evidence.” Washington, D.C. Resources for the Future, 1999. rff_energy_effiient_tech_and_climate_change_policies.pdf

D-20

Stavins, Robert N. “How to Stop Squandering Water? Raise Its Price.” The New York Times (1999). op-ed.water_.nyt_.aug14.1999.pdf

D-19

Stavins, Robert N. “Importance of Reinstating the Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditures (PACE) Survey.” Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 1999. sab_report_on_pace.pdf

E-2

Newell, Richard G, Adam B Jaffe, and Robert N Stavins. “The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (1999): 941 –975. Publisher's VersionAbstract

We develop a methodology for testing Hicks's induced innovation hypothesis by estimating a product-characteristics model of energy-using consumer durables, augmenting the hypothesis to allow for the influence of government regulations. For the products we explored, the evidence suggests that (i) the rate of overall innovation was independent of energy prices and regulations; (ii) the direction of innovation was responsive to energy price changes for some products but not for others; (iii) energy price changes induced changes in the subset of technically feasible models that were offered for sale; (iv) this responsiveness increased substantially during the period after energy-efficiency product labeling was required; and (v) nonetheless, a sizable portion of efficiency improvements were autonomous.

rff-dp-98-12-rev.pdf

A-28

Keohane, Nathaniel, Robert N Stavins, and RL Revesz. “The Positive Political Economy of Instrument Choice in Environmental Policy.” In Environmental and Public Economics: Essays in Honor of Wallace E. Oates, edited by Arvind Panagariya, Paul R Portney, and Robert M Schwab, 89–125. London: Edward Elgar, Ltd. 1999. the_choice_of_regulatory1.pdf

C-12

Pfaff, A, and Robert N Stavins. “Readings in the Field of Natural Resource and Environmental Economics.” Harvard Kennedy School, 1999. readings_in_the_field_of.pdf

F-14

Stavins, Robert N. “Review of Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change, edited by William Nordhaus.Environment 41 (1999): 27. environment.review.econ_and_policy_issues_in_cc.nordhaus.1999.pdf

D-18

Stavins, Robert N. “An SAB Report on the EPA Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analysis.” Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 1999. sab_report_on_guidelines.pdf

E-3

Hahn, Robert W, and Robert N Stavins. “What Has the Kyoto Protocol Wrought? The Real Architecture of International Tradeable Permit Markets.” Washington, D.C. The AEI Press, 1999. what_has_kyoto_wrought.pdf

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