Publications

2001
Stavins, Robert N. “Give Bush Time on Climate Issues.” The Boston Globe (2001). op-ed_on_bush_climate_policy_in_boston_globe_april_4_2001.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N. “Market Incentives.” Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 2001. sab_report_on_mbis.pdf

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Bashmakov, I, C Jepma, P Bohm, S Gupta, Erik Haites, T Heller, JP Montero, et al.Policies, Measures, and Instruments.” In Climate Change 2001: Mitigation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Third Assessment Report, Working Group III, Chapter 6. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ipcc_ar3_chapter_6.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N. “Trade and the Environment.” Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 2001. sab_report_on_trade.pdf

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Stavins, RN. “A Two-Way Street Between Environmental Economics and Public Policy.” In Environmental Economics and Public Policy: Selected Papers of Robert N. Stavins, 1988-1999. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. 2001.Abstract

Review: "Robert N. Stavins has emerged as one of the most influential voices in environmental economics over the last decade and a half. These twenty-three essays on environmental economics and policy, written by Professor Stavins and his co-authors over the period 1988-1999, originally appeared in a diverse set of leading scholarly periodicals and are here collected for the first time." "Students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers will find this volume a valuable and very useful addition to their collection."–Jacket.

introduction_to_selected_papers_1.pdf

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2000
Coglianese, C, G Marchant, and Robert N Stavins. “Amici Curiae Brief to U.S. Supreme Court Arguing that Natural Science Alone Cannot Provide a Basis for Risk Management Decisions,” 2000. science_amicus_brief.pdf

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Litan, R, Robert W Hahn, and Robert N Stavins. “Amici Curiae Brief to U.S. Supreme Court Recommending that EPA be Allowed to Consider Costs and Consequences of Environmental Regulations.” Washington, D.C. AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2000. amici_curiae.pdf

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Newell, Richard G, and Robert N Stavins. “Climate Change and Forest Sinks: Factors Affecting the Costs of Carbon Sequestration.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 40 (2000): 211–235. Publisher's VersionAbstract

The possibility of encouraging the growth of forests as a means of sequestering carbon dioxide has received considerable attention, partly because of evidence that this can be a relatively inexpensive means of combating climate change. But how sensitive are such estimates to specific conditions? We examine the sensitivity of carbon sequestration costs to changes in critical factors, including the nature of management and deforestation regimes, silvicultural species, relative prices, and discount rates.

newell_stavins_jeem.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N. “Introduction.” In Public Policies for Environmental Protection, edited by Paul R Portney and RN Stavins. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C. Resources for the Future, 2000. introduction_to_rff_policy_book.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N. “Market-Based Environmental Policies.” In Public Policies for Environmental Protection, edited by Paul R Portney and RN Stavins. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C. Resources for the Future, 2000. market-based_envir._policies.pdf

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Public Policies for Environmental Protection
Portney, Paul R, and Robert N Stavins. Public Policies for Environmental Protection. Washington, D.C. Resources for the Future, 2000.

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Stavins, Robert N. “Review of Pollution for Sale: Emissions Trading and Joint Implementation, edited by Steve Sorrell and Jim Skea.” Environment 42 (2000): 45. environment.pollution_for_sale.2002.pdf

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Stavins, Robert N. “An SAB Report on EPA's White Paper Valuing the Benefits of Fatal Cancer Risk Reductions.” Washington, D.C. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, 2000. sab_report_on_fatal_cancer.pdf

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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