Robert N. Stavins

April, 1998

"How do Economists Really Think About the Environment"

Discussion Paper

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

February, 1998

"Market-Based Environmental Policies"

Discussion Paper

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

1998

"The Choice of Regulatory Instruments in Environmental Policy"

Journal Article, Harvard Environmental Law Review, issue 2, volume 22

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

A discussion of policy instruments that could be used to achieve desired levels of environmental protection.

August, 1995

"Costs of Carbon Sequestration: A Revealed-Preference Approach"

Discussion Paper

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

Increased attention by policy makers to the threat of global climate change has brought with it considerable attention to the possibility of encouraging the growth of forests as a means of sequestering carbon dioxide. This paper demonstrates a methodology whereby reliable estimates of the costs of carbon sequestration can be developed on the basis of revealed-preference evidence from observations of landowners' behavior when confronted with the opportunity costs of alternative land uses.

1995

"Dynamic Incentives of Environmental Regulation: The Effects of Alternative Policy Instruments on Technology Diffusion"

Journal Article, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, volume 29

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

This paper develops a framework for comparing empirically the effects of alternative environmental policy instruments on the diffusion of new technology.

November, 1994

"Correlated Environmental Uncertainty and Policy Instrument Choice"

Discussion Paper

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

May, 1993

"Transaction Costs and the Performance of Markets for Pollution Control"

Discussion Paper

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

December, 1991

"Economic Incentives for Environmental Protection: Integrating Theory and Practice"

Discussion Paper

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

July, 1989

"Alternative Renewable Resources Strategies: A Simulation of Optimal Use"

Discussion Paper

By Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

AP Photo

Spring 2010

"Scholars' Views Vary on Copenhagen Successes"

Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter

By Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements

"Belfer Center participants in the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (UNFCCC) agreed that while the summit did not produce the treaty most wanted, it did make some significant progress. They disagree, however, on how much. Professors Jeffrey Frankel, Kelly Sims Gallagher, and Robert Stavins, all members of the Belfer Center Board of Directors, offer their takeaways from the event."