"Residual Network Costs and the Economic Efficiency of Regulated Cost Allocation"
Derek E. H. Olmstead, Brian Rivard, and Mark Zanewick, July 2022
This paper considers the causes of residual transmission network costs and sets out a framework through which the economic efficiency of the regulated rates set to recover these costs can be analyzed.
"The Surprising Static and Dynamic Effects of Oil and Gas Flaring on Agriculture"
Adrian Guerin, Nouri Najjar, and Brandon Schaufele, July 2024
Energy producers frequently flare and vent excess gas. We demonstrate that these emissions cause surprising static physiological and dynamic economic spillovers for proximate agricultural operations.
'Free Trade and the Formation of Environmental Policy: Evidence from US Legislative Votes'
Nouri Najjar, Jevan Cherniwchan, February 2022
We test the hypothesis that governments alter environmental policy in response to trade by studying NAFTA’s effects on the formation of environmental policy in the US House of Representatives between 1990 and 2000. We find that reductions in US tariffs decreased political support for environmental legislation. This decrease appears to be due to: (i) a reduction in support by incumbent Republican legislators in response to trade-induced changes in the policy preferences of their constituents, and (ii) changes in partisan representation in affected districts due to decreased electoral support for pro-NAFTA Democrats following the agreement.
