2026 Robert N. Stavins: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	79	291	260	215	188	380	36961
Environmental Sciences	78	1043	990	458	421	352	35739

Overview

Robert N. Stavins is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Energy, and Environmental Science, with a total of 23 publications in economics-related topics, 11 in energy, and 8 in environmental science.

The scientist's work is concentrated in several main topics, including Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Horticultural and Viticultural Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Wine Industry and Tourism, and Environmental Impact and Sustainability.

Notable recent publications by Robert N. Stavins include:

The Future of US Carbon-Pricing Policy (2020), published in Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy
The Relative Merits of Carbon Pricing Instruments: Taxes versus Trading (2022), published in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
Global Climate Change and Wine Production: Industry and Academic Perspectives (2025), published in Harvard Data Science Review

Other recent influential papers associated with their research network, where they appear as a coauthor or influence, are:

Keep climate policy focused on the social cost of carbon (2021), published in Science
ROLLING THE DICE IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER: WILLIAM NORDHAUS'S IMPACTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY (2020), published in Climate Change Economics

The scientist has contributed to book literature, including one title published by World Scientific, "Economics of Environment, Climate Change, and Wine" (2024).

Robert N. Stavins has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including Joseph E. Aldy, Matthew J. Kotchen, Gilbert E. Metcalf, Gabriel Chan, and Charles D. Kolstad.

Their work appears regularly in a variety of academic publication venues, most notably:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Wine Economics
Science
Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Their expertise extends into subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.

Best Publications

A tale of two market failures: Technology and environmental policy

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

2084
Citations
The energy-efficiency gap What does it mean?

Adam B. Jaffe;Robert N. Stavins

2015
Citations
Transaction Costs and Tradeable Permits

Robert N. Stavins

1466
Citations
Environmental policy and technological change

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

1404
Citations
Experience with Market-Based Environmental Policy Instruments

Robert N. Stavins

1375
Citations
The induced innovation hypothesis and energy-saving technological change

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

1304
Citations
Land-Use Change and Carbon Sinks: Econometric Estimation of the Carbon Sequestration Supply Function

Ruben N. Lubowski;Andrew J. Plantinga;Robert N. Stavins

1096
Citations
What Can We Learn from the Grand Policy Experiment? Lessons from SO2 Allowance Trading

Robert N. Stavins

1093
Citations
Dynamic Incentives of Environmental Regulations: The Effects of Alternative Policy Instruments on Technology Diffusion

Adam B. Jaffe;Robert N. Stavins

920
Citations
The energy paradox and the diffusion of conservation technology

Adam B. Jaffe;Robert N. Stavins

911
Citations
Thirteen Plus One: A Comparison of Global Climate Policy Architectures

Joseph E. Aldy;Scott Barrett;Robert N. Stavins

871
Citations
Is there a role for benefit-cost analysis in environmental, health, and safety regulation?

Kenneth J. Arrow;Maureen L. Cropper;George C. Eads;Robert W. Hahn

853
Citations
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

767
Citations
The Choice of Regulatory Instruments in Environmental Policy

Nathaniel O. Keohane;Richard L. Revesz;Robert N. Stavins

668
Citations
Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures

Sheila Olmstead;Michael Hanemann;Robert Stavins

636
Citations
Incentive-Based Environmental Regulation: A New Era from an Old Idea

Robert W. Hahn;Robert N. Stavins

621
Citations
Land-use change and carbon sinks: Econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function

Ruben N. Lubowski;Andrew J. Plantinga;Robert N. Stavins

580
Citations
Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap

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

577
Citations
The Costs of Carbon Sequestration: A Revealed-Preference Approach

Robert N. Stavins

569
Citations
Comparing Price and Non-price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation

Sheila M. Olmstead;Robert N. Stavins;Robert N. Stavins

553
Citations
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

189
Citations
The Induced Innovation Hypothesis and Energy-Saving Technological Change

Robert Stavins;Adam Jaffe;Richard Newell

177
Citations
Is there a role for benefit-cost analysis in environmental, health, and safety regulation?

Kenneth J. Arrow;Maureen L. Cropper;George C. Eads;Robert W. Hahn

27
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. Newell C3 AI

Joseph E. Aldy Harvard University

Adam B. Jaffe Motu Economic and Public Policy Research

Robert W. Hahn University of Oxford

Andrew J. Plantinga University of California, Santa Barbara

Richard Schmalensee MIT

Carlo Carraro University of California, Berkeley

Charles D. Kolstad Stanford University

Gilbert E. Metcalf Tufts University

Lawrence H. Goulder Stanford University

External Links

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