Billy Pizer, Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy

Please note: Billy has left the "Economics" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Billy Pizer joined the faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in the fall of 2011.  He also was appointed a faculty fellow in the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, a nonpartisan institute at Duke that focuses on finding solutions to some of the nation's most pressing environmental challenges.  His current research examines how we value the future benefits of climate change mitigation, how environmental regulation and climate policy can affect production costs and competitiveness, and how the design of market-based environmental policies can address the needs of different stakeholders.  He has been actively involved in creation of an environmental program at Duke Kunshan University in China, a collaborative venture between Duke University, Wuhan University, and the city of Kunshan.    

From 2008 to 2011, Pizer was deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he created and led a new office responsible for the department’s role in the domestic and international environment and energy agenda of the United States. Prior to that, Pizer was a researcher at Resources for the Future (RFF), a nonpartisan think tank, for more than a decade. He served as senior economist for the environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2002.  

Pizer's academic experience includes visiting professorships at The Johns Hopkins University (1997-1999) and Stanford University (2000-2001). He has published more than fifty peer-reviewed articles and books and holds a PhD and MA in economics from Harvard University and BS in physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Contact Info:

Office Location:	278 Rubenstein Hall, Box 90312, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 613-9286
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://duke.box.com/s/2rlxrvm4thw6vaw0og6sfaklyqypzil7

Education:

Ph.D.	Harvard University	1996
MA	Harvard University	1996
B.S.	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	1990

Specialties:

Public Policy
Economics

Keywords:

Carbon • Carbon Dioxide • Climate Change • Cost-Benefit Analysis • Decision Making • Emissions trading • Environment • Environmental economics • Global Warming • Greenhouse gases • Policy Making • Regulation • Socioeconomic Factors • Stochastic Processes • Uncertainty

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. William A. Pizer and Lee Branstetter, Facing the Climate Change Challenge in a Global Economy, in Globalization in an Age of Crisis, edited by Robert Feenstra and Alan Taylor, eds. (2014), Chicago: University of Chicago Press
2. Arrow, K; Cropper, M; Gollier, C; Groom, B; Heal, G; Newell, R; Nordhaus, W; Pindyck, R; Pizer, W; Portney, P; Sterner, T; Tol, RSJ; Weitzman, M, Determining benefits and costs for future generations, Science, vol. 341 no. 6144 (January, 2013), pp. 349-350, ISSN 0036-8075 (With Kenneth Arrow, Maureen L. Cropper, Christian Gollier, Ben Croom, Geoffrey M. Heal, Richard G. Newell, Robert S. Pindyck, Paul R. Portney, Thomas Sterner, Richard S. J. Tol and Martin L. Weitzman..) [repository], [doi]  [abs]
3. William A. Pizer, Carbon Market 15 Years after Kyoto: Lessons Learned, New Challenges, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2013) (With Richard Newell and Daniel Raimi.)
4. William A. Pizer, Adam M. Finkel, and Christopher Carrigan, eds. , With Joseph Aldy, The Employment and Competitiveness Impacts of Power-Sector Regulations. In Cary Coglianese, in Does Regulation Kill Jobs? (2013), University of Pennsylvania Press
5. Fell, H; MacKenzie, IA; Pizer, WA, Prices versus quantities versus bankable quantities, Resource and Energy Economics, vol. 34 no. 4 (2012), pp. 607-623, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0928-7655 [repository], [doi]  [abs]