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Economics and Finance
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2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
81
Citations
66089
World Ranking
257
National Ranking
29

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2010 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2001 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1978 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Nicholas Stern is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies in the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with notable contributions in subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, COVID-19 impact on air quality, and Regional resilience and development.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IMF Working Paper
  • Fiscal Studies
  • Environmental Science and Ecotechnology

Coauthors with whom they have frequently collaborated include:

  • Joseph E. Stiglitz
  • Mónica Costa Dias
  • Cameron Hepburn
  • Dimitri Zenghelis
  • Chunping Xie

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Nicholas Stern are:

  • Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions, 2021, Research Policy
  • The economics of immense risk, urgent action and radical change: towards new approaches to the economics of climate change, 2022, Journal of Economic Methodology
  • Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?, 2020, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Towards carbon neutrality and China's 14th Five-Year Plan: Clean energy transition, sustainable urban development, and investment priorities, 2021, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology
  • Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China, 2020, Nature Sustainability

Nicholas Stern has also contributed to book publications through the London School of Economics and Political Science, including the title Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change? published in 2020.

The scientist has received several awards over their career, including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2014)
  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010)
  • Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association (2001)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (1978)

Best Publications

  • The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

    Nicholas Stern

  • Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change

    Siobhan Peters;Vicki Bakhshi;Alex Bowen;Catherine Cameron

  • The Stern review report on the economics of climate change

    Nicholas Stern

  • The Economics of Climate Change

    Nicholas Stern

  • Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?

    Cameron Hepburn;Brian O’Callaghan;Nicholas Stern;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Taxation and development

    Robin Burgess;Nicholas H Stern

  • Pigou, taxation and public goods

    Anthony B. Atkinson;Nicholas Stern

  • Making carbon pricing work for citizens

    David Klenert;Linus Mattauch;Linus Mattauch;Emmanuel Combet;Ottmar Edenhofer;Ottmar Edenhofer

  • Report of the high-level commission on carbon prices

    Nicholas Stern;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • The theory of cost-benefit analysis

    Jean Drèze;Nicholas Stern

  • The Structure of Economic Modeling of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change: Grafting Gross Underestimation of Risk onto Already Narrow Science Models

    Nicholas Stern

  • The Economics of Development: A Survey

    Nicholas Stern

  • Towards carbon neutrality and China's 14th Five-Year Plan: Clean energy transition, sustainable urban development, and investment priorities

    Cameron Hepburn;Ye Qi;Ye Qi;Nicholas Stern;Bob Ward

  • Palanpur, the economy of an Indian village

    Christopher Bliss;Nicholas Stern

  • The theory of reform and indian indirect taxes

    Ehtisham Ahmad;Nicholas Stern

  • Economic development and converging household carbon footprints in China

    Zhifu Mi;Jiali Zheng;Jiali Zheng;Jing Meng;Jiamin Ou

  • Making Aid Work

    Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee;Alice H. Amsden;Robert Bates;Jagdish Bhagwati

  • Productivity, wages and nutrition : part I: the theory

    Christopher Bliss;Nicholas Stern

  • China’s changing economy: implications for its carbon dioxide emissions

    Fergus Green;Nicholas Stern

  • On the specification of models of optimum income taxation

    Nicholas Stern

  • Endogenous Growth, Convexity of Damage and Climate Risk: How Nordhaus' Framework Supports Deep Cuts in Carbon Emissions

    Simon Dietz;Nicholas Stern

  • What is the Economics of Climate Change

    Nicholas Stern

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Lanjouw
Peter Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Cameron Hepburn
Cameron Hepburn University of Oxford
Simon Dietz
Simon Dietz London School of Economics and Political Science
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Anthony B. Atkinson
Anthony B. Atkinson London School of Economics and Political Science
James A. Mirrlees
James A. Mirrlees University of Cambridge
Robin Burgess
Robin Burgess London School of Economics and Political Science
Jean Drèze
Jean Drèze University of Delhi
Avinash Dixit
Avinash Dixit Princeton University
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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