Environmental Publications

  1. How “green preferences” can offset some of the impact of ambiguity on incentives to invest in conservation.
  2. Decomposing the impact of ambiguity into the effect of equivalent risk and the effect of pure ambiguity.
  3. A study of the impact of deep uncertainty or ambiguity on the incentives to invest in conservation.
  4. A study of the effectiveness of blended finance from the Journal of Financial Economics.
  5. Blended finance – mixing public and private funds in biodiversity conservation – or other environmental projects. A paper from the AEA P&P.
  6. A review of the (huge) economic value of biodiversity, together with an analysis of why the market fails to conserve biodiversity appropriately and what we can do to improve this situation.
  7. A critiqueof the value of a carbon tax
  8. A very non-technical review of the economic importance of biodiversity conservation
  9. A historical review of the considerable practical and intellectual accomplishments of environmental economics, published in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP)
  10. Defining and Measuring Sustainability, a survey paper on sustainability (also from REEP)
  11. Are We Consuming too Much? A more technical paper on sustainability
  12. An article about how lower oil prices affect the competitiveness of renewable energy
  13. A paper on fisheries conservation and marine protected areas
  14. Why do People Care About Sea Lions? (with Min Gong)
  15. A General Business Model for Marine Reserves (from the Public Library of Science)
  16. Global Environmental Risks (from the Journal of Economic Literature)
  17. Sustainable Fisheries with Wolfram Schlenker from Nature
  18. Valuing Ecosystem Services with Ed Barbier from The Economists’ voice – a non-technical introduction to some recent conceptual developments in environmental economics
  19. From Growth to Green Growth – a Framework with Stéphane Hallegate, Marian Fay and David Treguer
  20. Are Resource-Producers Rich? Accounting and the Resource Curse
  21. Genetic Diversity and Interdependent Crop Choice in Agriculture
  22. Bundling Biodiversity Journal of the European Economic Association
  23. The Relationship between Price and Extraction Cost for a Resource with a Backstop Technology, from the Bell Journal of Economics
  24. Global Environmental Risks from the Journal of Economic Perspectives
  25. A General Business Model for Marine Reserves from PLOS One
  26. Should Governments Use a Declining discount Rate In Project Analysis?

More of my publications can be found at Academic Commons, on the web site of the National Bureau of Economic Research and on the web site of the Social Science Research Network. There is also a listing of my papers, with links to some of them, at REPEC.