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Matthew J. Kotchen |
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Yale |
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Email:
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Publications Listed
below are links to selected publications and forthcoming papers. Academic
oriented papers are listed first, followed by Op-Eds
and commentaries. Papers Voluntary- and
Information-Based Approaches to Environmental Management: A Public Economics
Perspective, Review of
Environmental Economics and Policy, forthcoming. Rebound Effect is
Over-Played, Nature,
493:475-476, with K. Gillingham, D. Rapson, and G. Wagner. How Stringent is the
EPA's Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants?, Review of Environmental Economics and
Policy, forthcoming, with E. Mansur. Do Building Codes
Save Energy? Evidence from Residential Billing Data in Florida, The Review of Economics and Statistics,
forthcoming, with G. Jacobsen. Community-Based
Incentives for Environmental Protection: The Case of Green Electricity, Journal of Regulatory Economics,
forthcoming, with G. Jacobsen and G. Clendenning. Willingness to
Pay and Policy-Instrument Choice for Climate-Change Policy in the United
States, Energy Policy,
forthcoming, with K. Boyle and A. Leiserowitz. Public Goods,
in Environmental and Natural Resource
Economics: An Encyclopedia, T. Haab and J.
Whitehead (eds.), ABC-CLIO Inc., forthcoming. Corporate Social
Responsibility for Irresponsibility, The
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions), 12:1
(2012) Article 55, with J. J. Moon. Willingness to Pay
and Political Support for a U.S. National Clean Energy Standard, Nature Climate Change, 2 (2012)
596-599, with J. Aldy and A. Leiserowitz. The Behavioral
Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good: Evidence
from Residential Electricity Demand, European
Economic Review, 56 (2012) 946-960, with G. Jacobsen and M. Vandenbergh. Controlling for
Habitat Confirms Robust Reserve Effects and Gradients of Abundance Near
Borders for California Spiny Lobster, Marine
Ecology Progress Series, 451 (2012) 137-150, with M. Kay, H. Lenihan, and C. Miller. Business Cycle
Effects on Concern About Climate Change: The Chilling Effect of Recession,
Climate Change Economics, 2 (2011)
257-273, with M. E. Kahn. Energy
Efficiency Codes, The Milken
Institute Review, Fourth Quarter (2011), 58-69. Green Clubs, Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, 62 (2011) 309-322, with K. van 't Veld. Review of Climatopolis, Journal of Economic Literature, 49 (2011) 777-779. Does Daylight
Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana, The Review of Economics and Statistics,
93 (2011) 1172-1185, with L. E. Grant.
An Economic
Framework for Evaluating Climate Proofing Investments on Infrastructure,
in Paving the Way for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure:
Guidance for Practitioners and Planners, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), 2011.
[Presentation slides available here] A Free Lunch in
the Commons, Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management, 61 (2011) 245-253, with S. W. Salant. Cost-Benefit Analysis,
Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, 2nd Edition, S.
Schneider and M. Mastrandrea (ed.), Oxford
University Press, 2011. Climate Policy and
Voluntary Initiatives: An Evaluation of the Connecticut Clean Energy
Communities Program, Voluntary
Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets, Economic Journal, 119 (2009) 883-899. Explaining the
Price of Voluntary Carbon Offsets, Climate
Change Economics, 1 (2010) 93-111, with M. N. Conte. Offsetting
Green Guilt, Stanford Social
Innovation Review, Spring 2009, 26-31. Some
Microeconomics of Eco-Entrepreneurship, in Frontiers in Eco-Entrepreneurship Research, (2009), G. Libecap (ed.), Emerald Group Publishing. A Meta-Analysis of
Cost of Community Service Studies, International
Regional Science Review, 32 (2009) 376-399, with S. L. Schulte. Grades, Course
Evaluations, and Academic Incentives, Eastern
Economic Journal, 36 (2010) 151-163, with D. A. Love. The Effect of
Geomorphic Channel Restoration on Streamflow and
Groundwater in a Snow-Melt Dominated Watershed, Water Resources Research, 44 (2008) , with C. Tague
and S. Valentine. Reef Structure
Regulates Small-Scale Spatial Variation in Coral Bleaching, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 270
(2008) 127-141, with H. Lenihan, M. Adjeroud, J. Hench, and T. Nakamura. Pharmaceuticals in
Wastewater: Behavior, Preferences, and Willingness to Pay for a Disposal
Program, Journal of Environmental
Management, 90 (2009) 1476-82, with J. Kallaos,
K. Wheeler, C. Wong, M. Zahller. Equilibrium
Existence and Uniqueness in Impure Public Good Models, Economics Letters, 97
(2007) 91-96. An Economics
Perspective on Treating Voluntary Programs as Clubs, in Voluntary Programs: A Club Theory
Perspective, (2009), Potoski and Prakash (eds.), MIT Press, with K. van 't Veld. Conservation:
From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium, Environmental
and Resource Economics, 40 (2008) 195-215, with M. R. Moore. Review of Our Precarious Habitat, Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA), 299 (2008) 581-582. Should We Drill in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective, Energy Policy, 35
(2007) 4720-4729, with N. E. Burger. Private Provision
of Environmental Public Goods: Household Participation in Green-Electricity
Programs, Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management, 53 (2007) 1-16, with M.
R. Moore. Relating
Environmental Attitudes and Contingent Values: How Robust Are Methods for
Identifying Preference Heterogeneity? Environmental
and Resource Economics, 37 (2007) 757-775, with G. Aldrich, K. Grimsrud, and J. Thacher. Meeting the
Challenges of the Anthropocene: Toward a Science of
Coupled Human-Biophysical Systems, Global
Environmental Change, 17 (2007) 149-151, with O. R. Young. Green Markets
and Private Provision of Public Goods, Journal
of Political Economy, 114 (2006) 816-834. Explaining the
Appearance and Success of Voter Referenda for Open-Space Conservation, Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management, 52 (2006) 373-390, with S. M. Powers. Environmental
Constraints on Hydropower: An Ex-Post Benefit-Cost Analysis of Dam
Relicensing in Michigan, Land
Economics, 82 (2006) 389-403, with M. R. Moore, F. Lupi, and E. Rutherford. Impure Public
Goods and the Comparative Statics of Environmentally Friendly Consumption,
Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, 49 (2005) 281-300. Review of The Economics of Sustainable Development,
Journal of Regional Science, 46
(2006) 583-86. Internal and
External Influences on Pro-Environmental Behavior: Participation in a Green
Electricity Program, Journal
of Environmental Psychology, 23 (2003) 237-46, with C. F. Clark
and M. R. Moore. Review of Principles of Environmental and Resource
Economics, The Annals of Regional
Science, 36:4 (2002) 697-99. Environmental
Voluntary Contracts Between Individuals and Industry: An Analysis of Consumer
Preferences for Green Electricity, in Environmental
Voluntary Contracts: Comparative Approaches to Regulation Innovation in the
United States and Europe, E. Orts and K. Deketelaere
(eds.), London: Kluwer Law International (2001)
409-23, with M. R. Moore and C. F. Clark. Environmental
Attitudes, Motivations, and Contingent Valuation of Nonuse Values: A Case
Study Involving Endangered Species, Ecological
Economics, 32 (2000) 93-107, with S. D. Reiling. Do Reminders of
Budget Constraints and Substitutes Influence Contingent Valuation Estimates?
Another Comment, Land
Economics, 75 (1999) 478-82, with S. D. Reiling. Incorporating
Resistance in Pesticide Management: A Dynamic Regional Approach, in Regional Sustainability: Applied
Ecological Economics Bridging the Gap Between Natural and Social Sciences,
I. Ring, B. Klauer, F. Watzold,
and B. Mansson (eds.), New York: Springer Verlag (1999) 126-35. Estimating and
Questioning Economic Values for Endangered Species: An Application and
Discussion, Endangered
Species Update, 15:5 (1998) 9-15, with S. D. Reiling. Op-Eds and
Commentaries Beware
of the Rebound Effect, The New York
Times, March 20, 2012. Coaches Game the System
When Ranking College Football Teams in the US, VOX Column, December 24, 2011, with M. Potoski. Are
Americans Willing to Pay for Climate Change Mitigation? RFF Weekly Policy
Commentary, Dec 5, 2011, with K. Boyle and A. Leiserowitz. Cheap
Gas is a Trap, The New York Times,
November 7, 2011. Building Codes
and Energy Policy, Resources
Magazine, Fall 2010, with G. Jacobsen. Also reprinted as an RFF Weekly
Policy Commentary here.
Discussion of Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas
Emissions,
in The Design and Implementation of U.S.
Climate Policy, D. Fullerton and C. Wolfram (eds.), forthcoming,
University of Chicago Press Trends in Environmental
Concern as Revealed By Google Searches, VOX Column, August, 2010, with M. Kahn. Is
it Obama's Spill Now? Seize An Opportunity, The New York Times, May 26, 2010. What
the Spill Means for Offshore Drilling? Tax, Baby, Tax, The New York Times, April 29, 2010. Greener
Pastures for Commercial Real Estate, The
Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2009. What's
The Point of Daylight Time? The New
York Times, November 20, 2008, with L. Grant. Does Daylight Saving Time
Save Electricity?, VOX Column,
December 5, 2008, with L. Grant. Oil
and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, RFF Weekly Policy Commentary
Oct. 5, 2008, reprinted in Issues of
the Day, I W.H. Perry and F. Day (eds.), Resources for the Future Press,
with N. E. Burger. What Would
Environmentalists Do with ANWR?, The
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 18, 2008. Letter
in Response to No Middle Way on The Environment, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1998. |