Economics Journal Publications

Air Pollution and Mortality Impacts of Coal Mining: Evidence from Coalmine Accidents in China (with Yin Chu, Yun Qiu, Xian-Lian Tian and Maigeng Zhou) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 121 (September 2023)
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Decomposing Changes in Establishment Level Emissions with Entry and Exit (with Lawrence LaPlue ) Canadian Journal of Economics, August 2021
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"Environmental Policy Instrument Choice and International Trade" (with Mohamed Mohsin and Shreekar Pradhan) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 88 (March 2018)
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"How Does Welfare from Load Shifting Electricity Policy Vary with Market Prices? Evidence from Bulk Storage and Electricity Generation" (with Jacob LaRiviere) Energy Journal, Vol 39, No. 6 (Fall 2018)
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Prices versus nudges: What matters for search versus purchase of energy investments? (with Jacob LaRiviere, David Novgorodsky and Michael Price) Journal of Public Economics, Vol 172 (April 2019)
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Alternative Value Elicitation Formats in Contingent Valuation: A New Hope (with Christian Vossler) Journal of Public Economics, Vol 165 (September 2018)
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"Emissions Leakage, Environmental Policy and Trade Frictions" (with Mohamed Mohsin and Shreekar Pradhan) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 88 (March 2018)
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"Pass-through from Fossil Fuel Market Prices to Procurement Costs of the U.S. Power Producers"(with Yin Chu and Jacob LaRiviere) Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 65 (December 2017)
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"The Impact of Cheap Natural Gas on Marginal Emissions from Electricity Generation and Implications for Energy Policy" (with Jacob LaRiviere) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 85 (September 2017)
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"The Environmental Impacts of Fuel Switching Power Plants" (with Steven Soloway) Energy Journal, Vol 37 No.4 (Fall 2016)
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"Exporters and the Environment" Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 49, No. 1 (February 2016)
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"The Perverse Impact of Calls for Energy Conservation" (with Michael Price and Marianne Wanamaker) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 110 (February 2015)
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"Regional Variation, Holdouts, and Climate Treaty Negotiations" (with Michael Livermore) Journal of Cost Benefit Analysis, Vol. 4, No. 2 (August 2013)
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"Should Cities Go for the Gold: The Long-Term Impacts of Hosting the Olympics" (with Stephen Billings) Economic Inquiry, Vol. 50, No. 3 (July 2012)
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Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Coal-Fired Power Plant Retirements in the US”, (with Rebecca Davis and Charles Sims). In Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, Volume 3 (2021) Tatyana Deryugina, Matthew Kotchen and James H. Stock (Eds.). National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Non-Economics Journal Publications

Reducing the Vulnerability of Electric Power Infrastructure against Natural Disasters by Promoting Distributed Generation (with Gasser G. Ali, Islam H. El-adaway, Charles Sims, J. Scott Holladay, and Chien-Fei Chen) Natural Hazards Review , Vol. 24, No. 2 (May 2023)

Policies and incentives for promoting distributed solar generation: Impact on electric power infrastructure (with Gasser G. Ali, Islam H. El-adaway, Charles Sims, J. Scott Holladay, and Chien-Fei Chen) Journal of Infrastructure Systems , Vol. 28, No. 4 (December 2022)

Studying dynamic pricing in electrical power markets with distributed generation: Agent-based modeling and reinforcement-learning approach (with Gasser G. Ali, Islam H. El-adaway, Charles Sims, J. Scott Holladay, and Chien-Fei Chen) Journal of Energy Engineering , Vol. 148, No. 5 (October 2022)

"Shift in seasonal climate patterns likely to impact residential energy consumption in the United States" (with Deeksha Rastogi, Katherine J. Evans, Ben L Preston and Moetasim Ashfaq) Environmental Research Letters, Volume 14, Number 7, (July 2019)
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"Intraday Load Forecasts with Uncertainty" (with David Kozak and Gregory E. Fasshauer) Energies, Volume (12):1833 (May 2019)
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Completed Papers

The relationship between policy and residential solar adoption: Looking beyond high-income areas (with Xiaojing Xu, Charles Sims, Chien-fei Chen, Gerald Jones Jr. and Tim Roberson) Revision Requested

The Environmental Performance of Foreign Owned Manufacturing Establishments (with Justin Roush)

Patronage and Pollution Abatement (with Yin Chu and Xian-Liang Tian)

Research in Progress

The Impact of Air Pollution on High Stakes Physical Activity (with Michael Brown)

Air Pollution and Students' High-stakes Exam Performance: Evidence from Mexico (with Maria Padilla-Romo and Xin Jin)

Response to Market Uncertainty: Market Pros vs Average Joes (with Alecia Evans and Charles Sims)