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McClelland Hall 401EE
Assistant Professor of Economics
Degrees
Ph.D. in Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 2011
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental and Energy Economics
- Climate Change
- Decision-Making Under Uncertainty and Over Time.
- Technological Change
Courses
ECON 696V Environmental and Energy Economics: Applied Theory
ECON 150 Energy and Environmental Challenges
Current Research
Professor Lemoine's research combines economic theory and computational methods to better understand the dynamics of optimal environmental policy and of energy systems.
Primary Publications
- Green Expectations: Current Effects of Anticipated Carbon Pricing, Forthcoming. Review of Economics and Statistics.
- Escape from Third-Best: Rating Emissions for Intensity Standards, Forthcoming. Environmental and Resource Economics.
- A Top-Down Approach to Projecting Market Impacts of Climate Change (with S. Kapnick), 2016. Nature Climate Change (6):51-55.
- Watch Your Step: Optimal Policy in a Tipping Climate, (with C. Traeger), 2014. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6(1):137-166.
- The Economics of Solar Electricity, (with E. Baker, M. Fowlie, and S. Reynolds), 2013. Annual Review of Resource Economics 5(1): 387-426.
Working Papers
- Steering the Climate System: Using Inertia to Lower the Cost of Policy (Resubmitted to American Economic Review)
- The Climate Risk Premium: How Uncertainty Affects the Social Cost of Carbon (Revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy)
- Innovation-Led Transitions in Energy Supply (New version soon)
- General Equilibrium Rebound from Energy Efficiency Policies
- Age-Induced Acceleration of Time: Implications for Intertemporal Choice
- The Process of Self-Discovery: Learned Helplessness, Self-Efficacy, and Endogenous Overoptimism
Other Selected Publications
- Ambiguous Tipping Points (with C. Traeger), Forthcoming. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
- Economics of Tipping the Climate Dominoes (with C. Traeger), 2016. Nature Climate Change 6(5):514-519.
- Valuing Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles' Battery Capacity Using a Real Options Framework, 2010. The Energy Journal 31(2):113-143.
- Trapped Between Two Tails: Trading Off Scientific Uncertainties via Climate Targets (with H.C. McJeon), 2013. Environmental Research Letters 8:034019.
- Climate Sensitivity Distributions Depend on the Possibility that Models Share Biases, 2010. Journal of Climate 23(16):4395-4415.
- Paleoclimatic Warming Increased Carbon Dioxide Concentrations, 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research 115:D22122.
- An Innovation and Policy Agenda for Commercially Competitive Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (with D. Kammen and A. Farrell), 2008. Environmental Research Letters 3(1):014003.