About the Author
Robert N. Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and Chairman of the Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group.
Tag Archives: econometric analysis
What’s in a Name? Wine, Economics, and Terroir
Today, I’m pleased to offer a temporary respite from analysis of climate change policy (and other environmental policies, for that matter), while remaining well within the general province of environmental and natural resource economics. I do this through a merger … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Economics, Wine Economics
Tagged American Association of Wine Economists, American Economic Review, Andrew Plantinga, AOC, AVA, econometric analysis, hedonic price analysis, Journal of Wine Economics, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Robin Cross, Stephen Colbert, terroir, vineyards, wine
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Unintended Consequences of Government Policies: The Depletion of America’s Wetlands
Private land-use decisions can be affected dramatically by public investments in highways, waterways, flood control, or other infrastructure. The large movement of jobs from central cities to suburbs in the postwar United States and the ongoing destruction of Amazon rain … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Forest Policy, Natural Resource Economics, Natural Resource Policy, Water Policy
Tagged benefit-cost analysis, Clean Water Act, common property resources, econometric analysis, economic valuation, environmental politics, externalities, free rider problem, infrastructure, land use, market failure, public goods, regulation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Soil Conservation Service, wetlands
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Policies Can Work in Strange Ways
Whether the policy domain is global climate change or local hazardous waste, it’s exceptionally important to understand the interaction between public policies and technological change in order to assess the effects of laws and regulations on environmental performance. Several years … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change Policy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy
Tagged chlorine, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Cluster Rule, Compensation, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, econometric analysis, environmental politics, externalities, global climate policy, green jobs, hazardous waste, Minamata, Montreal Protocol, pulp and paper, regulation, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, technological change, Toxics Release Inventory
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