Robert Stavins
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Robert Stavins is an American environmental economist best known for his work on climate economics. He is a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and director of several projects within the school, including the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. He is an affiliate of Resources for the Future[1] and the National Bureau of Economic Research[2] and has held positions on the US Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board. He is also Vice-President of the American Association of Wine Economists and co-editor of the Journal of Wine Economics.[3]
Stavins is best known for academic contributions in environmental economics and policy, including work on comparing policy instruments, the economics of green technology innovation, and the political economy of climate agreements. He was a lead author on the Second and Third Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a co-lead author on the Fifth Assessment Report.[4] For his work as an environmental economist he was elected a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in 2009 and was awarded the Edmund G. Pat Brown Award in 2016. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). In 2019 Stavins was named one of the 100 most influential people in climate policy [5]. In 2023 he made the list again [6].
Among his most influential academic work is his work on policy instrument choice under uncertainty. In one famous paper Stavins proved how correlated uncertainty affected the comparison between price and quantity instruments, building on work by his close friend Martin Weitzman[7]. Stavin's result, that positively correlated uncertainty in the marginal benefit and marginal costs curves favors a quantity instrument but negative correlated uncertainty favors a price instrument, is referred to at times as the Stavins Rule.
In 1988 Stavins directed Project 88, a bipartisan research effort to use market based policies to address environmental problems [8][9]. The proposals from this program eventually became the sulfur dioxide emissions trading program in the Acid Rain Program, a landmark achievement in environmental policy making that proved the effectiveness of cap-and-trade schemes[10]. He is a regular columnist for the New York Times, writing about and debating environmental policy[11][12][13].
Stavins received a BA in philosophy from Northwestern University, an MS in agricultural economics from Cornell University and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
References
- ↑ "Robert N. Stavins". Resources for the Future. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ↑ "Robert Stavins". NBER. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ↑ "Journal | American Association of Wine Economists". wine-economics.org. 30 July 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ↑ "Robert Stavins — IPCC". ipcc.ch. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ↑ Gavel, Doug. "Professor Robert Stavins Named Among the Most Influential People in Climate Policy".
- ↑ "100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy". Apolitical.co.
- ↑ Stavins, Robert (1996). "Correlated Uncertainty and Policy Instrument Choice". Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
- ↑ "Crossing the aisle to cleaner air: How the bipartisan "Project 88" transformed environmental policy" (PDF).
- ↑ "Harnessing Market Forces to Protect the Environment: Initiatives for the New President" (PDF).
- ↑ Schmalensee, Richard; Stavins, Robert. "The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment". Journal of Economic Perspectives. doi:10.1257/jep.27.1.103.
- ↑ Stavins, Robert. "Climate Realities".
- ↑ Stavins, Robert. "Pitching Divestment as a "Moral" Crusade is Misguided".
- ↑ Stavins, Robert. "Cap and Trade Is the Only Feasible Way of Cutting Emissions".
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