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D-Index
59
Citations
15496
World Ranking
872
National Ranking
549

William A. Pizer publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. Pizer sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 196 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

William A. Pizer D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William A. Pizer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

William A. Pizer is affiliated with Resources For The Future in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in economics, particularly focusing on the intersection of environmental and climate policy. Their work spans multiple subfields including economics and econometrics, renewable energy, sustainability, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and accounting.

The scientist's research primarily engages with topics such as climate change policy and economics, energy, environment, and transportation policies, economic and environmental valuation, fiscal policy and economic growth, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, environmental impact and sustainability, and climate change and geoengineering.

William A. Pizer has authored and coauthored numerous papers. Key recent publications include:

  • "Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2" (2022), published in Nature
  • "Carbon Leakage, Consumption, and Trade" (2022), published in Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • "The Social Cost of Carbon: Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount Rates" (2022), published in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  • "Social science research to inform solar geoengineering" (2021), published in Science
  • "A Discounting Rule for the Social Cost of Carbon" (2022), published in Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Pizer's frequent coauthors include Brian Prest, Richard G. Newell, Kevin Rennert, Frank Errickson, and Lisa Rennels, reflecting collaborative research relationships in the field.

Publication venues where the scientist's work appears most frequently are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science
  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • Nature
  • Annual Review of Environment and Resources

William A. Pizer's contributions center on integrating economic analysis with environmental policy questions, particularly in estimating costs associated with carbon emissions and evaluating policy instruments for climate change mitigation.

Best Publications

  • Mitigation from a cross-sectoral perspective

    Terry Barker;Igor Bashmakov;Awwad Alharthi;Markus Ammann

  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative.

    James S. Clark;Steven R. Carpenter;Mary Barber;Scott Collins

  • Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2

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  • Combining price and quantity controls to mitigate global climate change

    William A. Pizer

  • Instrument choice for environmental protection when technological innovation is endogenous

    Carolyn Fischer;Ian W.H. Parry;William A. Pizer

  • 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

  • Determining Benefits and Costs for Future Generations

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

  • Jobs Versus the Environment: An Industry-Level Perspective

    Richard D. Morgenstern;William A. Pizer;Jhih-Shyang Shih

  • Designing Climate Mitigation Policy

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

  • The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies

    Joseph Edgar Aldy;William Pizer

  • Modeling endogenous technological change for climate policy analysis

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

  • The optimal choice of climate change policy in the presence of uncertainty

    William A. Pizer

  • Balancing Cost and Emissions Certainty: An Allowance Reserve for Cap-and-Trade

    Brian C. Murray;Richard G. Newell;William A. Pizer

  • Carbon markets 15 years after Kyoto: Lessons learned, new challenges

    Richard G Newell;William Aaron Pizer;Daniel Raimi

  • Balancing Cost and Emissions Certainty: An Allowance Reserve for Cap-and-Trade

    Brian C. Murray;Richard G. Newell;William A. Pizer

  • Should governments use a declining discount rate in project analysis

    Kenneth J. Arrow;Maureen L. Cropper;Christian Gollier;Ben Groom

  • Climate change and residential electricity consumption in the Yangtze River Delta, China.

    Yating Li;William A. Pizer;Libo Wu

  • Decentralization in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and Lessons for Global Policy

    Joseph Kruger;Wallace E. Oates;William A. Pizer

  • Reality Check : The Nature and Performance of Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States, Europe, and Japan

    Richard D. Professor Morgenstern;William A. Pizer

  • Prices vs. Quantities Revisited: The Case of Climate Change

    William A. Pizer

  • Voluntary environmental regulation in developing countries: Mexico's Clean Industry Program

    Allen Blackman;Bidisha Lahiri;William Pizer;Marisol Rivera Planter

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph E. Aldy
Joseph E. Aldy Harvard University
Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper University of Maryland, College Park
Ben Groom
Ben Groom London School of Economics and Political Science
William D. Nordhaus
William D. Nordhaus Yale University
Carolyn Fischer
Carolyn Fischer Resources For The Future
James N. Sanchirico
James N. Sanchirico University of California, Davis
David Popp
David Popp Syracuse University
Christian Gollier
Christian Gollier Toulouse School of Economics

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