Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Books
- William A. Pizer & Richard Morgenstern. Reality Check: The Nature and Performance of Voluntary Programs in the United States, Europe, and Japan. RFF Press, 2007.
- William A. Pizer & Raymond Kopp. Assessing U.S. Climate Policy Options: A report summarizing work at RFF as part of the inter-industry U.S. Climate Policy Forum. RFF Press, 2007. [cpfreport]
Journal Articles
- William A. Pizer, Harrison Fell and Ian MacKenzie. "Prices versus quantities versus bankable quantities.." Resource and Energy Economics. (2012).
- William A. Pizer, Richard Morgenstern and Jhih-Shyang Shih. "The Performance of Industrial Sector Voluntary Climate Programs: Climate Wise and 1605 (b)." Energy Policy. (2011).
- William A. Pizer, Michael Batz and Jim Sanchirico. "Regional Patterns of Household Carbon Emissions." Climatic Change 99.1-2 (2010): 47-63.
- William A. Pizer, Allen Blackman, Bidisha Lahiri, Marisol Rivera Planter, and Carlos Munoz Pina.. "Voluntary Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries: Mexico's Clean Industry Program.." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 60.3 (2010): 182-192.
- William A. Pizer, Joseph Aldy, Alan Krupnick, Richard Newell, and Ian Parry. "Designing Climate Mitigation Policy.." Journal of Economic Literature (2010).
- William A. Pizer & Joseph Aldy. "Issues in Designing U.S. Climate Change Policy." Energy Policy 30.3 (2009): 179-210.
- William A. Pizer, Brian Murray & Richard Newell. "Balancing Cost and Emission Certainty: An Allowance Reserve for Cap-and- Trade." Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 3.1 (2009): 84-103.
- William A. Pizer & Richard Newall. "Carbon Mitigation Costs for the Commercial Sector: Discrete-Continuous Choice Analysis of Multifuel Energy Demand." Resource and Energy Economics 30 (2008): 527-539.
- William A. Pizer & Richard Newall. "Indexed Regulation." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 56.3 (2008): 221-233.
- William A. Pizer, Richard Newall & Kenneth Gillingham. "Modeling Endogenous Technological Change for Climate Policy Analysis." Energy Economics 30.6 (2008): 2734-2770.
- William A. Pizer & David Popp. "Endogenizing technological change: Matching empirical evidence to modeling needs.." Energy Economics 30.6 (2008): 2754-2770.
- William A. Pizer, Jospeh Kruger and Wallace Oates.. "Decentralized in the EU ETS and Lessons for Global Policy." Review of Environmental Econimics and Policy 1.1 (2007): 112-133.
- William A. Pizer, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Winston Harrington, and Kenny Gillingham. "Economies of Scale and Technical Efficiency in Community Water Systems.." Journal of American Water Works Association 98.9 (2006): 100-108.
- William A. Pizer, Dallas Burtraw, Winston Harrington, Richard Newell, and James Sanchirico.. "Modeling economy-wide vs. sectoral climate policies using combined aggregate-sectoral models.." Energy Journal 27.3 (2006): 135-168.
- William A. Pizer. "The evolution of a global climate change agreement.." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 96.2 (2006): 26-30.
- William A. Pizer. "The Case for Intensity Targets.." Climate Policy 5.4 (2005): 455-462.
- William A. Pizer, Richard Newell, and Jiangfeng Zhang.. "Managing Permit Markets to Stabilize Prices.." Environment and Resource Economics 32.2 (2004).
- William A. Pizer and Andrei Marcu. "Defining and Trading Emission Targets.." Climate Policy 3.S2 (2003): S3-S6.
- William A. Pizer and Richard Newell. "Uncertain Discount Rates and Climate Policy Analysis.." Energy Policy 32.() (2003): 519-529.
- William A. Pizer and Richard Newell. "Discounting the Distant Future: How Much Do Uncertain Rates Increase Valuations?." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 46.1 (2003): 52-71.
- William A. Pizer and Richard Newell. "Regulating Stock Externalities Under Uncertainty." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45 (2003): 416-432.
- William A. Pizer, Ian Parry and Carolyn Fischer.. "Instrument Choice for Environmental Protection When Technological Innovation Is Endogenous.." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45.3 (2003).
- William A. Pizer, Ian Parry, and Carolyn Fischer.. "How Large are the Welfare Gains from Technological Innovation Induced by Environmental Policies?." Journal of Regulatory Economics 23.3 (2003): 237-255.
- William A. Pizer. "Combining Price and Quantity Controls to Mitigae Global Climate Change." Journal of Public Economics 85.3 (2002): 409-434.
- William A. Pizer, Richard Morgenstern, and Jhih-Shyang Shih. "Jobs versus the Environment: Is There a Trade-Off?." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 43.3 (2002): 412-436.
- William A. Pizer, Richard Morgenstern, and Jhih-Shyang Shih. "The Cost of Environmental Protection.." Review of Economics and Statistics 83.4 (2001): 732-738.
- William A. Pizer, James S. Clark, Steven R. Carpenter, Mary Barber, Scott Collins, Andy Dobson, Jonathan A. Foley, David M. Lodge, Mercedes Pascual, Roger Pielke Jr., Cathy Pringle, Walter V. Reid, Kenneth A. Rose, Osvaldo Sala, William H. Schlesinger, Diana H. Wall, and David Wear.. "Ecological Forecasts: An Emerging Imperative.." Science 293 (2001): 657-660.
- William A. Pizer. "Optimal Choice of Policy Instrument and Stringency under Uncertainty: The Case of Climate Change." Resource and Energy Economics 21.(3-4) (1999): 255-287.
Chapters in Books
- William A. Pizer and Lee Branstetter.. "Facing the Climate Change Challenge in a Global Economy." Globalization in an Age of Crisis.
Ed. Robert Feenstra and Alan Taylor University of Chicago Press, forthcoming
- William A. Pizer, Daniel Hall, Michael Levi & Takahiro Ueno. "Policies for Developing Country Engagement." Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Implementing Architectures for Agreement.
Ed. Joseph Aldy & Robert Stavins Cambridge University Press, 2010
- William A. Pizer. "Economics versus Climate Change." The Design of Climate Policy.
Ed. Roger Guesnerie & Henry Tulkens MIT Press, 2009
- William A. Pizer. "Climate Policy Design under Uncertainty." Human-Induced Climate Change.
Ed. Michael Schlesinger et al. Cambridge University Press., 2007
- William A. Pizer. "A U.S. perspective on future climate regimes. 2005 Sustainability Review.." 2006
- William A. Pizer. "Practical Climate Policy. Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, eds.." 2006
- William A. Pizer and Larry Goulder. "Economics of Climate Change. Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf, eds.." 2005
- William A. Pizer, Raymond Kopp, Richard Morgenstern, and Richard Newell. "Domestic Climate and Technology Policy. In New Approaches on Energy and the Environment: Policy Advice for the President.." 2004
- William A. Pizer. "A Tale of Two Policies: Clear Skies and Climate Change. In Randall Lutter and Jason Shogren eds, Painting the White House Green.." 2004
- William A. Pizer and Raymond Kopp. "Calculating the Costs of Environmental Regulation. Forthcoming in K.G.-Maler and Jeffrey Vincent eds, Handbook of Environmental Economics.." 2002
- William A. Pizer, Raymond Kopp, Frederic Ghersi, and Richard Morgenstern. "Limiting Costs and Assuring Domestic Effort under the Kyoto Protocol. Forthcoming in Ching-Cheng Chang, Robert Mendelsohn, and Daigee Shaw, eds.,." 2002
- William A. Pizer. "Designing Climate Policy to Address Uncertainty. In Designing Climate Policy:." 2001
- William A. Pizer. "Choosing Price or Quantity Controls for Greenhouse Gases.." 2001
NBER Working Papers
- William A. Pizer and Joseph Aldy. "The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies." (December, 2011).
Other
- William A. Pizer and Joseph Aldy. "The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies.." Report by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. (2009).
- William A. Pizer and Ian Parry. "Combating Global Warming.." Regulation (Fall, 2007): 18-22.
- William A. Pizer. "Climate Change Policy in the United States." Bridges (2006).
- William A. Pizer and Madeleine Baker. "Understanding Proposed CAFE Reforms for Light Trucks.." (2005). [Understanding-Proposed-CAFE-Reforms-for-Light-Trucks.cfm.]
- William A. Pizer. "What Kyoto Means for Oil and Gas.." Horizon 2 (2005): 52.
- William A. Pizer. "What is the United States Doing about Climate Change? Everyone Else is Coping with Kyoto." Resources 157 (2005): 20.
- William A. Pizer. "Setting Energy Policy in the Modern Era: Tough Challenges Lie Ahead.." Resources 156 (2005): 8.
- William A. Pizer and Joe Kruger. "Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Prelude to a National Program.." Resources 156 (2005): 4.
- William A. Pizer. "Mercury Rising: Understanding Global Warming Economics.." Imagine 12.3 (2005): 21.
- William A. Pizer and Joe Kruger. "The EU Emissions Trading Directive: The New Grand Policy Experiment.." Environment 46.8 (2004).
- William A. Pizer and Ray Kopp. "Summary and Analysis of McCain-Lieberman-"Climate Stewardship Act of 2003, S. 139".." (2003). [pdf]
- William A. Pizer and Dallas Burtraw. "A Comparison of Two Senate Approaches to Controlling Power Plant Pollution.." (2002). [available here]
- William A. Pizer, Dallas Burtraw, and David Lankton.. "Legislative Comparison of Multipollutant Proposals S. 366, S. 485, and S. 843.." (2002). [available here]
- William A. Pizer and Richard Newell. "Discounting the Benefits of Future Climate Change Mitigation: How Much Do Uncertain Rates Increase Valuations?." Report by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. (2001).
- William A. Pizer, Raymond Kopp, Richard Morgenstern, and Michael Toman. "A Proposal for Credible Early Action in U.S. Climate Policy.." Weathervane (1999). Reprinted in Flexible Mechanisms for Efficient Cliamte Policy: Cost Saving Policies and Business Opportunities, Karl Ludwig Brockmann and Marcus Stonzik (Eds.), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2000.
