RESEARCH
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Kenneth
Gillingham
Assistant Professor, Yale University
E-mail: kenneth dot gillingham at yale dot edu
Research Interests
Environmental & Energy Economics, Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Econometrics,
Technological Change, Transportation Economics, Energy & Climate Policy Modeling
Work-in-Progress
Selection on Anticipated Driving and the Consumer Response to Changing Gasoline Prices
(previously titled: How Do Consumers Respond to Gasoline Price Shocks? Heterogeneity in Vehicle Choice and Driving Behavior)
[Working Paper undergoing revision - available upon request]
Identifying the Elasticity of Driving: Evidence from a Gasoline Price Shock in California
[R&R at Regional Science & Urban Economics - Working Paper]
Bridging the Energy Efficiency Gap: Insights for Policy from Economic Theory and Empirical Analysis (with Karen Palmer)
[R&R at Review of Environmental Economics & Policy - RFF Discussion Paper]
The Economics of Fuel Economy Standards versus Feebates
[Working Paper]
Learning-by-Doing Spillovers in the Solar Photovoltaic Industry (with Bryan Bollinger)
Automaker Responses to Fuel Economy Standards (with Antonio Bento, Kevin Roth, and Yiwei Wang)
Salience and Upstream versus Downstream Cap-and-Trade
The Economic Efficiency of Renewable Portfolio Standards in the Presence of Cap-and-Trade (with Arthur van Benthem)
Valuing Energy Storage (with Pedram Mokrian)
Publications
Long-Term Shifts in Lifecycle Energy Efficiency and Carbon Intensity (with Sonia Yeh, Gouri Mishra, Geoff Morrison, Jacob Teter, and Raul Quiceno) The Rebound Effect is Over-played (with Matthew Kotchen, David Rapson, and Gernot Wagner) Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels (with Bryan Bollinger) Barriers to the Implementation of Low Carbon Technologies (with Jim Sweeney) Split Incentives in Residential Energy Consumption (with Matt Harding and Dave Rapson) Market Failure and the Structure of Externalities (with Jim Sweeney) Economic Impact of the Integration of Alternative Vehicle Technologies into the New Zealand Vehicle Fleet (with Jonathan Leaver) Energy Efficiency Economics and Policy (with Richard Newell
and Karen Palmer) Economic Efficiency of Solar Hot Water Policy in New Zealand Assessment of Primary Impacts of a Hydrogen Economy in New
Zealand using UNISYD (with Jonathan Leaver and Luke Leaver) Modeling Endogenous Technological Change for Climate Policy
Analysis (with Richard Newell and William Pizer) Learning-by-Doing and the Optimal Solar Policy in
California (with Arthur van Benthem and James Sweeney) Impact of Bioenergy Crops in a Carbon Constrained World: An Application of the MiniCAM Linked Energy-Agriculture and Land Use Model (with Stephen Smith and Ronald
Sands) Measuring
Marginal Congestion Costs of Urban Transportation: Do Networks Matter? (with
Elena Safirova and Sebastien Houde) Energy Efficiency Policies: A Retrospective Examination (with Richard Newell and Karen
Palmer) Economies of Scale in Community Water Systems (with Jhih-Shyang Shih, Winston Harrington,
and William Pizer) Choosing Congestion Pricing Policy: Cordon Tolls vs. Link-Based Tolls (with Elena
Safirova, Peter Nelson, Winston Harrington, and Abram Lipman) Welfare and Distributional Effects of HOT Lanes and Other Road Pricing Policies in
Metropolitan Washington, DC (with Elena Safirova, Ian Parry, Winston Harrington, Peter Nelson, and David Mason) Other Publications Do Peer Effects Matter? Assessing the Impact of Causal Social Influence on Solar PV Adoption (with Bryan Bollinger) Carbon Accounting is a Tricky Business, Letter to the Editor (with Andrew Friedland) Analysis of Measures to Meet the Requirements of California's Assembly Bill 32 (with James
Sweeney, John Weyant, and the AB-32 team) Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles: A Prudent Intermediate Step or a Step in
the Wrong Direction? The Effectiveness and Cost of Energy Efficiency Programs (with Richard Newell and
Karen Palmer) Are HOT Lanes a Hot Deal? Analyzing the Potential of HOV to HOT Lanes Conversion in Northern
Virginia (with Elena Safirova, Winston Harrington, and Peter Nelson) Revving up the Tax Engine: Gas Taxes and the DC Metro Area's Transportation Dilemma (with
Peter Nelson and Elena Safirova) Selected Presentations Understanding the Rebound Effect: How Much More Do People Drive When We Implement Fuel Economy Standards?
Environmental Science & Technology (2013), forthcoming
[Published Version]
Nature (2013), 493: 475-476
[Published Version]
[Longer Working Paper]
Marketing Science (2012), 31(6): 900-912
[Published Version]
[Working Paper Version]
[Online Appendix]
Climate Change Economics (2012), 3(4): forthcoming
[Published Version]
[Working Paper Version]
Energy Journal (2012), 33(2): 37-62
[Working Paper Version]
[Contract Theory Appendix]
In: Harnessing Renewable Energy, A. Jorge Padilla and Richard Schmalensee (eds). RFF Press. 2010.
[Working Paper Version]
Journal of Cleaner Production (2010), 18(9): 908-916
[Published
Version]
Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009), 1: 597-619
[Published
Version] [NBER Working
Paper Version] [RFF Discussion
Paper Version] [Reprint in Italian in Energia]
Energy Policy (2009), 37(9): 3336-3347
[Published
Version]
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2009), 34(7): 2855-2865
[Published
Version]
Energy Economics (2008), 30(6): 2734-2753
[Published
Version] [RFF Discussion Paper Version]
Energy Journal (2008), 29(3): 131-151
[Published
Version] [Final Working
Paper Version] [RFF Weekly Policy
Commentary based on the paper]
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (2008), 13(7): 675-701
[Published
Version] [Published
Version with Appended Figures]
Transportation
Research A (2007), 41(8): 734-749
[Published
Version][RFF Discussion Paper Version]
Annual Review of Environment and Resources (2006) 31: 193-237
[Published
Version] [RFF Discussion Paper Version]
[Resources
article based on the paper]
Journal of American Water Works Association (2006) 98(9): 100-108
[RFF Discussion Paper Version]
Transportation Research Record (2005) 1932: 169-177
[Published Version]
In: Road Pricing: Theory and Practice, Georgina Santos (ed). Elsevier Publishing. 2004
[RFF Discussion Paper Version]
Photovoltaics International (2012), 17: 146-150
[Published Version]
Science (2010), 327: 411-412
[Published Version]
Precourt
Institute for Energy Efficiency Working Paper (2008)
Stanford Global
Climate and Energy Project Working Paper (2006)
In: The RFF Reader in Environmental and Resource Policy, Wallace Oates (ed). Resources for the Future Press. 193-201. 2006
Resources for
the Future Issue Brief 03-03 (2003)
Resources for
the Future Issue Brief 03-05 (2003)
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Seminar Series, February 15, 2012