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Richard G. Newell

Richard G. Newell

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
67
Citations
24986
World Ranking
531
National Ranking
348

Overview

Richard G. Newell is affiliated with Resources For The Future in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with significant contributions in the interdisciplinary fields of renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including climate change policy and economics, energy, environment, and transportation policies, economic and environmental valuation, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, agricultural risk and resilience, global energy and sustainability research, and misinformation and its impacts.

Newell has published extensively in several academic venues. They have contributed six publications to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other notable publication venues include Nature, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Recent significant papers by the scientist are:

  • "The Social Cost of Carbon: Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount Rates" (2022) in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  • "The GDP-Temperature relationship: Implications for climate change damages" (2021) in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • "A Discounting Rule for the Social Cost of Carbon" (2022) in Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Other prominent papers relevant to their research areas, though with other lead authors, include:

  • "Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2" (2022) in Nature
  • "The social media Infodemic of health-related misinformation and technical solutions" (2024) in Health Policy and Technology

Newell collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Brian Prest, William A. Pizer, Kevin Rennert, Frank Errickson, and Lisa Rennels.

Their work broadly intersects the analysis of economic and environmental outcomes related to climate change policies and energy systems, often advancing understanding of valuation methods and implications of long-term social costs associated with carbon emissions.

Best Publications

  • A tale of two market failures: Technology and environmental policy

    Adam B. Jaffe;Richard G. Newell;Robert N. Stavins

  • Environmental policy and technological change

    Adam B. Jaffe;Richard G. Newell;Robert N. Stavins

  • Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation

    Carol y n Fischer;Richard G. Newell

  • The induced innovation hypothesis and energy-saving technological change

    Richard G. Newell;Adam B. Jaffe;Robert N. Stavins

  • Energy Efficiency Economics and Policy

    Kenneth Gillingham;Richard G. Newell;Richard G. Newell;Richard G. Newell;Karen Palmer

  • Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

    David Popp;David Popp;Richard G. Newell;Richard G. Newell;Adam B. Jaffe;Adam B. Jaffe

  • Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2

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  • TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

    Adam B. Jaffe;Richard G. Newell;Robert N. Stavins

  • Discounting the Distant Future: How Much Do Uncertain Rates Increase Valuations?

    Richard G. Newell;William A. Pizer

  • Regulating Stock Externalities Under Uncertainty

    Richard G. Newell;William A. Pizer

  • Information programs for technology adoption: The case of energy-efficiency audits

    Soren T. Anderson;Richard G. Newell

  • Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap

    Todd D. Gerarden;Richard G. Newell;Robert N. Stavins

  • Policy-induced technology adoption: Evidence from the U.S. lead phasedown

    Suzi Kerr;Richard G. Newell

  • Prospects for carbon capture and storage technologies

    Soren T. Anderson;Richard G. Newell

  • Determining Benefits and Costs for Future Generations

    Kenneth J. Arrow;M. Cropper;Christian Gollier;Ben Groom

  • Fishing Quota Markets

    Richard G. Newell;James N. Sanchirico;Suzi Kerr

  • Designing Climate Mitigation Policy

    Joseph E Aldy;Alan J Krupnick;Richard G Newell;Ian W.H. Parry

  • ENERGY EFFICIENCY POLICIES: A Retrospective Examination

    Kenneth Gillingham;Richard Newell;Karen Palmer

  • Modeling endogenous technological change for climate policy analysis

    Kenneth Gillingham;Richard G. Newell;William A. Pizer

  • Nudging Energy Efficiency Behavior: The Role of Information Labels

    Richard G. Newell;Juha V. Siikamäki

  • Environmental Policy and Technological Change

    Robert N. Stavins;Robert N. Stavins;Robert N. Stavins;Adam B. Jaffe;Adam B. Jaffe;Adam B. Jaffe;Richard G. Newell;Richard G. Newell;Richard G. Newell

  • The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change

    Robert Stavins;Adam Jaffe;Richard Newell

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert N. Stavins
Robert N. Stavins Harvard University
William A. Pizer
William A. Pizer Resources For The Future
Adam B. Jaffe
Adam B. Jaffe Motu Economic and Public Policy Research
James N. Sanchirico
James N. Sanchirico University of California, Davis
David Popp
David Popp Syracuse University
Karen L. Palmer
Karen L. Palmer Resources For The Future
Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper University of Maryland, College Park
William D. Nordhaus
William D. Nordhaus Yale University
Carolyn Fischer
Carolyn Fischer Resources For The Future

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