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Roberton C. Williams III |
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| Associate Professor | ||
| Phone: 301-405-1284 |
Office: 2122 Symons Hall | |
| E-mail: rwilliams@arec.umd.edu | Personal Web Page | |
| Education: |
Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1999 |
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| Research: | Public Economics, Environmental Economics, Microeconomic Theory | |
| Courses: |
AREC 240 - Introduction to Economics and the Environment AREC869W - Advanced Topics in Agricultural Economics: Environmental Taxation and Regulation |
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| Selected Publications: |
“Growing State-Federal Conflicts in Environmental Policy: The Role of Market-Based Regulation,” Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming. “The Choice of Discount Rate for Climate Change Policy Evaluation,” with Lawrence H. Goulder, Climate Change Economics, forthcoming. “A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation,” with Li Gan and Thomas Wiseman, Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49:674-684. “Efficiency and Distributional Trade-Offs in Recycling Carbon Cap-and-Trade Revenues,” with Ian Parry, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010, 10(2): Article 9. “Optimal Taxation and Cross-Price Effects on Labor Supply: Estimates of the Optimal Gas Tax,” with Sarah West, Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91:593-617. “Evaluating Public Goods and Regulations: Comment,” with Lawrence Goulder and Ian Parry,Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19:233-234. “The Cost of Reducing Gasoline Consumption,” with Sarah West, American Economic Review,May 2005, 95:294-299. “The Death of the Pigouvian Tax: Comment,” with Ian Parry, Land Economics, 2004, 80:575-581. “The Substantial Bias from Ignoring General Equilibrium Effects in Estimating Excess Burden,and a Practical Solution,” with Lawrence Goulder, Journal of Political Economy, 2003, |
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Last updated: 02/7/2012