Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Time of Coronavirus and Climate Change
Like climate economics, the economics of Covid-19 mean we need to take aggressive action, not incremental steps.
The Virus Is Teaching Everyone What Runaway Growth Really Means
To make sense of the spread of Covid-19, economics—particularly black swan events and compound growth—can provide guidance.
Carbon Pricing Workshop
NYU Wagner
How Economics Can Inform Coronavirus Decision-Making
When considering travel and other choices, economic principles can provide guidance.
An Economist’s Guide to Spending Bezos’s Billions on Climate Change
The money would go far in politics, but it will also allow for technological experimentation and will take a fundraising burden off recipients.
KGO 810 Radio San Francisco
Pat Thurston Show
Carbon Taxes Alone Aren’t Good Climate Policy
To drive down tomorrow’s CO₂ emissions, governments need to subsidize fossil fuel alternatives, too.
Carbon Pricing Dialogue
Washington, DC
WaPo: “Mnuchin said Thunberg needed to study economics before offering climate proposals. So we talked to an economist.”
By Philip Bump
Why Oil Giants Figured Out Carbon Costs First
Inaugural Risky Climate column
NPR Marketplace: "The Trump administration wants to end California’s cap-and-trade program"
by Scott Tong
PBS Newshour
With Paul Solman
Energy Research Insights for Decisionmaking
Washington, DC
Climate Policy—Past, Present, and Future
Fall 2018
Fast, cheap, and imperfect? US public opinion about solar geoengineering
by Aseem Mahajan, Dustin Tingley, and Gernot Wagner
Factoring in the forgotten role of renewables in CO2 emission trends using decomposition analysis
by Kristina Mohlin, Jonathan R. Camuzeaux, Adrian Muller, Marius Schneider, and Gernot Wagner
Ramsey discounting calls for subtracting climate damages from economic growth rates
by J. Paul Kelleher and Gernot Wagner
European Forum Alpbach Geoengineering
Alpbach, Austria
Why the EPA gives Taxpayers the Biggest Bang for their Hard-earned Buck
With a 9x return, EPA gives taxpayers the biggest ROI of any federal agency
Fear of solar geoengineering is healthy – but don't distort our research
Models suggest solar geoengineering could reduce climate change and our independently assessed studies are vital to understanding its full potential
