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Billy Pizer, Adjunct Professor  

Office Location: 278 Rubenstein Hall, Box 90312, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Box: 90312
Email Address: billy.pizer@duke.edu
Web Page: https://duke.box.com/s/2rlxrvm4thw6vaw0og6sfaklyqypzil7

Areas of Expertise

  • Environment and Energy
    • Climate Change
    • Environmental Law, Regulation and Policy

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

Office Hours:
4-5pm Tuesday
2:30-4pm Wednesday

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. 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, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014
  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 341.6144 (January, 2013): 349-350. (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." Does Regulation Kill Jobs?. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
  5. Fell, H; MacKenzie, IA; Pizer, WA. "Prices versus quantities versus bankable quantities." Resource and Energy Economics 34.4 (2012): 607-623. [repository], [doi]  [abs]

Curriculum Vitae

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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. 

Bio/Profile
Billy Pizer joined the faculty of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University in the fall of 2011 to help design and lead a university-wide initiative in energy and the environment.

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.

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. He had served as senior economist for the environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 to 2002.

Pizer was a senior fellow and research director at Resources for the Future (RFF), a nonpartisan think tank. His research during 12 years at RFF often related to global climate change and examined how the design of environmental policy affects costs and effectiveness. In 2007 and 2008, he was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Climate Change Task Force.

Pizer's academic experience includes visiting professorships at The Johns Hopkins University (1997-1999) and Stanford University (2000-2001). He has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles, as well as numerous other articles, reports and book chapters.

Pizer earned his Ph.D. and master’s degrees in economics at Harvard University in 1996 and a bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He is a member of the UNC Institute for the Environment board of visitors.

Billy Pizer