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Research Briefs·Nov 11, 2024

Carbon Burden

Lubos Pastor, Robert F. Stambaugh, and Lucian A. Taylor
The US corporate sector’s “carbon burden” (the present value of social costs of its future carbon emissions) is 131% of...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Podcasts episode·Oct 29, 2024

Economics Meets Ecology: The Huge Costs of Ecosystem Declines

Tess Vigeland and Eyal Frank
Bats are considered a natural pesticide. When they began to die out due to an invasive fungus, farmers turned to...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Research Briefs·Sep 27, 2024

Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Prosumers: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

John List, Ioannis C. Pragidis, and Michael K. Price
Nudging energy prosumers to conserve via a home energy report reduces their energy consumption, with significant variation across seasons and...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Podcasts episode·Jul 9, 2024

The Uncertainties of Climate Change

How can we incentivize the private and public sectors to develop and deploy solutions to climate change, while accounting for...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Research Briefs·Oct 3, 2023

Private Actions in the Presence of Externalities: The Health Impacts of Reducing Air Pollution Peaks but not Ambient Exposure

Joshua Dean and Susanna B. Berkouwer
Improved cookstoves reduce exposure to peak cooking emissions by 42%, though impacts on overall pollution exposure are muted by high...
Topics: Development Economics, Energy & Environment, Health care
Podcasts episode·Sep 19, 2023

How Much Would it Cost to Save the Rainforest?

Tess Vigeland and Lars Peter Hansen
As a massive carbon sink, the Brazilian Amazon plays a crucial role in stabilizing the global climate. It’s also valuable...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Research Briefs·Jul 6, 2023

Carbon Prices and Forest preservation Over Space and Time in the Brazilian Amazon

Juliano J. Assunção, Lars Peter Hansen, Todd Munson, and José A. Scheinkman
With modest transfers per ton of net CO2, Brazil would find it optimal to choose policies that produce substantial capture...
Topics: Energy & Environment, Financial Markets
Research Briefs·Jun 22, 2023

Finance and Climate Resilience: Evidence From the Long 1950s US Drought

Raghuram G. Rajan and Rodney Ramcharan
Areas affected by the 1950s drought where access to credit was constrained experienced sharp declines in bank lending, net emigration,...
Topics: Energy & Environment, Financial Markets
Research Briefs·Jun 20, 2023

When Cryptomining Comes to Town: High Electricity-Use Spillovers to the Local Economy

Matteo Benetton, Giovanni Compiani, and Adair Morse
Households and small businesses paid an extra $204 million and $92 million annually, respectively, in Upstate New York because of...
Topics: Energy & Environment, Financial Markets