JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• “Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption,” (with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew J. Yates), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Volume 6, Issue S1, March 2019, Pages S65-S94.
• “Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets: A Revealed Preference Approach using the Shale Revolution,” (with Joseph Cullen). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2017, pages 106-133.
• “Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution,” (with James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote). American Economic Review, Volume 107, Issue 4, April 2017, pages 1313-1334.
• "Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance of Local Factors," (with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew Yates), American Economic Review, Volume 106, Issue 12, December 2016, pages 3700-3729.
• "Damages and Expected Deaths Due to Excess NOx Emissions from 2009-2015 Volkswagen Diesel Vehicles," (with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew Yates), Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 50, Issue 3, February 2016, pages 1111-1117.
• “Electricity Shortages and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China’s Industrial Firms,” (with Karen Fisher-Vanden and Juliana Q. Wang). Journal of Development Economics, Volume 114, May 2015, Pages 172-188.
• “Measuring Climatic Impacts on Energy Expenditures: A Review of the Empirical Literature” (with Maximilian Auffhammer). Energy Economics, Volume 46, November 2014, pages 522–530.
• “Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Marginal Emissions: Implications for Electric Cars and other Electricity-Shifting Policies,” (with Josh Graff Zivin and Matthew Kotchen), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 107, Part A, November 2014, pages 248–268.
• “How Stringent are the EPA’s Proposed Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants?” (with Matthew Kotchen), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Summer 2014.
• “Profiting from Regulation: Evidence from the European Carbon Market,” (with James B. Bushnell and Howard Chong), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 5, Issue 4, November 2013, pages 78-106.
• “Prices vs. Quantities: Environmental Regulation and Imperfect Competition,” Journal of Regulatory Economics, Volume 44, Issue 1, August 2013, pages 80-102.
• “Do Local Energy Prices and Regulation Affect the Geographic Concentration of Employment?” (with Matt Kahn), Journal of Public Economics, Volume 101, May 2013, pages 105-114.
• “The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations,” (with Sheila M. Olmstead), Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 71, Issue 3, May 2012, pages 332–346.
• “What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program,” (with Meredith Fowlie and Stephen P. Holland), American Economic Review, Volume 102, Issue 2, April 2012, pages 965-993.
• “Vertical Targeting and Leakage in Carbon Policy,” (with James B. Bushnell), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Volume 101, Issue 3, May 2011, pages 263-267.
• “Averting Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence from New Source Review,” (with Nathaniel O. Keohane and Andrey Voynov), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2009, pages 75-104.
• “Is Real-Time Pricing Green? The Environmental Impacts of Electricity Demand Variance,” (with Stephen P. Holland), Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 90, Issue 3, August 2008, pages 550-561.
• “Measuring Welfare in Restructured Electricity Markets,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 90, Issue 2, May 2008, pages 369-386.
• “Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition: An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets,” (with James B. Bushnell, Celeste Saravia), American Economic Review, Volume 98, Issue 1, March 2008, pages 237-266.
• “Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of Fuel Choice and Consumption in the U.S. Energy Sector,” (with Robert Mendelsohn, Wendy Morrison), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 55, Issue 2, March 2008, pages 175-193.
• “Reformulating Competition? Gasoline Content Regulation and Wholesale Gasoline Prices,” (with Jennifer Brown, Justine Hastings, and Sofia Villas-Boas), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 55, Issue 1, January 2008, pages 1-19.
• “Do Oligopolists Pollute Less? Evidence from a Restructured Electricity Market,” Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2007, pages 661-689.
• “Upstream Competition and Vertical Integration in Electricity Markets,” Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 2007, pages 125-156.
• “The Short-Run Effects of Time-Varying Prices in Competitive Electricity Markets,” (with Stephen P. Holland), Energy Journal, Volume 27, Issue 4, October 2006, pages 127-155.
• “Consumption under Noisy Price Signals: A Study of Electricity Retail Rate Deregulation in San Diego,” (with James B. Bushnell), Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 53, Issue 4, December 2005, pages 493-513.
• “Examining Policies to Reduce Homelessness using a General Equilibrium Model of the Housing Market,” (with John M. Quigley, Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky), Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 52, Issue 2, September 2002, pages 316-340.
• “The Environmental Effects of SO2 Trading and Banking,” (with Dallas Burtraw), Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 33, Issue 20, October 15, 1999, pages 3489-3494. Reprinted in Tom Tietenberg, ed. Emissions Trading Programs, Vol. 1: Implementation and Evolution (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001), pages 253-258.
• “Costs and Benefits of Reducing Air Pollutants Related to Acid Rain,” (with Dallas Burtraw, Alan Krupnick, David Austin, and Deirdre Farrell), Contemporary Economic Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, October 1998, pages 379-400.

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• “Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy” Chapter 12 in Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram, ed. The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy. University of Chicago Press. 2012. 344 pages.
• “Renewables Forecasts in a Low Carbon World: A Brief Overview” Chapter 3 in Boaz Moselle, Jorge Padilla, and Richard Schmalensee, ed. Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems: Theory, Practice, Policy. RFF Press. 2010. 368 pages.
• Homelessness in California, (with John Quigley, Steven Raphael, Eugene Smolensky, and Larry Rosenthal) GSPP Public Policy Institute of California Publication. 2001. 93 pages.

WORKING PAPERS

• “Market Organization and Efficiency in Electricity Markets,” (with Matthew W. White). Paper to be revised and resubmitted to the American Economic Review.
• “Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation” (with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew J. Yates). NBER Working Paper 25339. In submission.
• “Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's RECLAIM Program” (with Glenn Sheriff). NBER Working Paper 25666. In submission.
• “Technology Adoption as Climate Adaptation: Evidence from US Air Conditioning Penetration” (with Ian Sue Wing)
• “Electric Car Adoption with Learning by Doing and Charging Infrastructure” (with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew J. Yates)
• “Measuring the Environmental Benefits from Transportation Electrification: Urban Electric Buses” (with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew J. Yates)
• “Vertical Position and Price Effects of Mergers in Electricity Markets” (with With James B. Bushnell and Frank Wolak)
• “Do Firms Respond to Market Based Environmental Instruments? Evidence from Bidding Behavior in Electricity Markets” (with Steve Puller)