Working Papers

• Technology Lock-In and Costs of Delayed Climate Policy (with Jonathan T. Hawkins-Pierot). Revise and resubmit at Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.


• The Use and Misuse of Average and Marginal Energy Prices: Implications for Climate Policy (with Jonathan T. Hawkins-Pierot)

Published and Forthcoming Papers

• Fifty Years of U.S. Natural Disaster Insurance Policy (with Kendra Marcoux). Forthcoming at Handbook of Insurance.


• Crowding In with Impure Altruism: Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks (with Matthew J. Kotchen). 2023. Journal of Public Economics, 222: 104879.


• Efficient Adaptation to Flood Risk (with Winston P. Hovekamp). 2023. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 113: 304-309.


• Designing Insurance for Climate Change. 2022. Nature Climate Change, 12(12): 1070-1072.


• Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance. 2022. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 14(3): 380–421.


• Environmental Preferences and Consumer Behavior. 2016. Economics Letters, 146: 1-4.

Selected Work in Progress

• Does Globalization Undermine Sustainability? (with Brian Greaney and Joseph S. Shapiro)


• Climate Risk and Insurance Market Unraveling (with Winston P. Hovekamp)