Mark Jacobsen - Papers - UCSD Department of Economics

Mark Jacobsen

Research

Working Papers and Current Projects:

Inattention Is Not Inefficiency: Correcting the Logic Behind the 2025 Proposed Vehicle Standard Rollback (with Antonio Bento, Kenneth Gillingham, Christopher Knittel, Benjamin Leard, Joshua Linn, David Rapson, James Sallee, Arthur van Benthem, and Kate Whitefoot)
The Efficiency of Dynamic Electricity Prices (with Andrew Hinchberger, Christopher Knittel, James Sallee, and Arthur van Benthem). Revisions requested at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Negative Rebound: Fuel Economy Standards and Miles Traveled (with Yanjun Liao).
When the Myopic and Pro-Social Meet: Second-Best Gasoline Policy (with Bei Luo)
Are Carbon Taxes More Efficient in Industrializing Countries? Comparing China and India to the United States (with Richard Carson and Anthony Liu).

Publications:

Understanding and Valuing Human Connections to Deep-Sea Methane Seeps Off Costa Rica (with Olívia Pereira, Richard Carson, Jorge Cortés, and Lisa Levin). Ecological Economics, 2024.
Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient? (with James Sallee, Joseph Shapiro, and Arthur van Benthem). National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper W30702 and The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023.
The Effects of New-Vehicle Price Changes on New- and Used-Vehicle Markets and Scrappage (with Robert Beach, Chandler Cowell, and Joshua Fletcher) Washington DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2021.
The Use of Regression Statistics to Analyze Imperfect Pricing Policies (with Christopher Knittel, James Sallee, and Arthur van Benthem) Journal of Political Economy, 2020.
Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Fuel Economy Standards (with Antonio Bento, Christopher Knittel, and Arthur van Benthem) NBER Book Series: Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Cost-Effective Climate Policies in Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions, Ed. V. Ramanathan, Oakland, CA: Regents of the University of California, 2019.
Flawed Analyses of U.S. Auto Fuel Economy Standards (with Antonio Bento, Kenneth Gillingham, Christopher Knittel, Benjamin Leard, Joshua Linn, Virginia McConnell, David Rapson, James Sallee, Arthur van Benthem, and Kate Whitefoot) Science, Vol. 362, 2018.
Environmental Policy in the Presence of an Informal Sector (with Antonio Bento and Anthony Liu) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 90, 2018.
Public Policy and the Private Provision of Public Goods Under Heterogeneous Preferences (with Jacob LaRiviere and Michael Price) Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2017.
Vehicle Scrappage and Gasoline Policy (with Arthur van Benthem) American Economic Review, Vol. 105, No. 3, 2015.
Fuel Economy and Safety: The Influences of Vehicle Class and Driver Behavior American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2013.
Evaluating U.S. Fuel Economy Standards in a Model with Producer and Household Heterogeneity American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2013.
Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations: The Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-per-Mile Limits (with Lawrence Goulder and Arthur van Benthem) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2012.
Book Review, The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America’s Environment, Security, and Independence Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2011.
Fuel Economy, Car Class Mix, and Safety American Economic Review - Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 101, No. 3, 2011.
Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Increased U.S. Gasoline Taxes (with Antonio Bento, Lawrence Goulder, and Roger von Haefen) American Economic Review, Vol. 99, No. 3, 2009. (Reprinted in Fuel Taxes and the Poor: The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy, Ed. Thomas Sterner, Washington DC: RFF Press, 2011.)
Costs of Alternative Environmental Policy Instruments in the Presence of Industry Compensation Requirements (with Lans Bovenberg and Lawrence Goulder) Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 92, No. 5, 2008.
Ricardian Rents, Environmental Policy, and the ‘Double-Dividend’ Hypothesis (with Antonio Bento) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 53(1), 2007.
Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Gasoline Taxes: An Econometrically Based Multi-market Study (with Antonio Bento, Lawrence Goulder, Emeric Henry, and Roger von Haefen) American Economic Review - Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2005.
Electricity Regulation in California and Input Market Distortion (with Azeem Shaikh) Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper, No. 03-016, 2003.
Meeting Concentration Targets in the Post-Kyoto World — Does Kyoto Further a Least Cost Strategy? (with Gary Yohe) Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1999.
Spanning Not Implausible Futures to Assess Relative Vulnerability to Climate Change and Climate Variability (with Gary Yohe and Taras Gapotchenko) Global Environmental Change, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1999.

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