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| Stephen DeCanio is Professor of Economics at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. He has served as Senior Staff Economist at the President's
Council of Economic Advisers. He has been a member of the Economic
Options Panel convened by the United Nations Environment Programme to
review economic aspects of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete
the Ozone Layer, and is currently Co-Chair of the Montreal Protocol's
Agricultural Economics Task Force of the Technical and Economics Assessment
Panel. His research focuses on the economics of climate change,
protection of the stratospheric ozone layer, factors affecting the diffusion
of energy-efficient technologies, and the impacts of greenhouse gas reduction
policies. He is one of the founders of UCSB's
Computational Laboratories Group. His most recent book, Economic
Models of Climate Change: A Critique, is available from Palgrave-Macmillan.
His resume gives a complete
list of publications, and a selection of them is shown below.
Professor DeCanio is currently serving as Director of the UCSB Washington Program. |
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Education
| PhD | Economics | MIT | 1972 |
| BA | Mathematics | University of California, Berkeley | 1964 |
| Selected Papers Available Online | Date | |
| “Economic Analysis, Environmental Policy, and Intergenerational Justice in the Reagan Administration: The Case of the Montreal Protocol,” International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 3: 299-321 [electronic reprint] | 2003 | 
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| “Economic Aspects of Nominations for 'Critical Use' of Methyl Bromide Under Terms of the Montreal Protocol” (with Catherine S. Norman) | May 2003 |
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| “Complexity in Organizations,” in Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources, Volume 3, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc., Richard B. Howarth and Darwin C. Hall, Editors | Apr'98 revised Oct'98 |
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“Economic Analysis, Environmental
Policy, and Intergenerational Justice in the Reagan Administration:
The Case of the Montreal Protocol”
| International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (forthcoming 2003) |
“Cutting Carbon Emissions at a Profit (Part II): Impacts on U.S. Competitiveness and Jobs” (with Florentin Krause, J. Andrew Hoerner, and Paul Baer) | Contemporary Economic Policy 21, 2003 |
“Cutting Carbon Emissions at
a Profit (Part I): Opportunities for the U.S.” (with Florentin
Krause, J. Andrew Hoerner, and Paul Baer)
| Contemporary Economic Policy 20, 2002 |
| “Organizational Structure
and the Behavior of Firms: Implications for Integrated Assessment”
(with Catherine Dibble and Keyvan Amir-Atefi)
| Climatic Change 48, 2001 |
| “The Importance of
Organizational Structure for the Adoption of Innovations” (with
Catherine Dibble and Keyvan Amir-Atefi)
| Management Science 46, 2000 |
| “Estimating the Non-Environmental
Consequences of Greenhouse Gas Reductions is Harder Than You Think”
| Contemporary Economic Policy 17, 1999 |
| “Information Processing and Organizational Structure” (with William E. Watkins) | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 36, 1998 |
| “The Efficiency Paradox:
Bureaucratic and Organizational Barriers to Profitable Energy-Saving
Investments”
| Energy Policy 26, 1998 |
| “Investment in Energy
Efficiency: Do the Characteristics of Firms Matter?” (with William
E. Watkins)
| Review of Economics and Statistics 80, 1998 |
| “Economic Modeling
and the False Tradeoff Between Environmental Protection and Economic
Growth”
| Contemporary Economic Policy 15, 1997 |
| The Economics of Climate
Change: A Background Paper
| Redefining Progress, San Francisco, California |
| “Modeling Technological
Change in Energy Demand Forecasting: A Generalized Approach”
(with John A. “Skip” Laitner)
| Technological Forecasting and Social Change 55, 1997 |
| “The Dynamics of the
Phaseout Process Under the Montreal Protocol”
| Report of the Economics Options Committee, Montreal Protocol 1994 Assessment |
| “The Future Through
Yesterday: Long-Term Forecasting in the Novels of H.G. Wells and Jules
Verne”
| The Centennial Review 38, 1994 |
| “Why Do Profitable
Energy-Saving Investment Projects Languish?”
| Journal of General Management 20, 1994 |
| “Agency and Control
Problems in U.S. Corporations: The Case of Energy-Efficient Investment
Projects”
| Journal of the Economics of Business 1, 1994 |
| “Barriers within Firms
to Energy-Efficient Investments”
| Energy Policy 21, 1993 |
| “Carbon Rights and
Economic Development: A Property Rights Approach”
| Critical Review 6, 1992 |
| “International Cooperation
to Avert Global Warming: Economic Growth, Carbon Pricing, and Energy
Efficiency”
| Journal of Environment and Development 1, 1992 |
| “Doing Well by Doing
Good: Technology Transfer to Protect the Ozone” (with Kai N.
Lee)
| Policy Studies Journal 19, 1991 |
“Uncle Tom's Cabin:
A Reappraisal”
| The Centennial Review 34, 1990 |
| Taxing Energy: Oil Severance
Taxation and the Economy
(with Robert T. Deacon, H.E. Frech, III, and M. Bruce Johnson) | Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1990 |
| “Delivered Pricing
and Multiple Basing Point Equilibria: A Re-evaluation”
| Quarterly Journal of Economics 99, 1984 |
| “Two Hidden Sources
of Productivity Growth in American Agriculture, 1860-1930” (with
William N. Parker)
| Agricultural History 56, 1982 |
| “Economic Losses from
Forecasting Error in Agriculture”
| Journal of Political Economy 88, 1980 |
| “Rational Expectations
and Learning from Experience”
| Quarterly Journal of Economics 93, 1979 |
“Accumulation and Discrimination
in the Postbellum South”
| Explorations in Economic History 16, 1979 |
| Agriculture in the Postbellum
South: The Economics of Production and Supply
| MIT Press, 1974 |