OVERALL RESEARCH INTERESTS

Specialist in environmental and resource economics. Worked on valuation of the environment, external costs of fuels, green accounting, economy-wide policies and the environment, climate change, ozone layer protection, development of economic instruments for environmental protection.

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SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters

bullet"Costing Methodologies" in IPCC (2001) Climate Change 2001: Mitigation. (with K. Halsnaes and others) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

bulletCleaning Rivers in Developing Countries: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Ganga River Action Plan, (With M.N. Murty (ed.)) OUP, Oxford and New Delhi. (2001).

bulletClimate Change and Sustainable Development, (with K. Halsnaes (eds.)), Earthscan: London (2002).

bullet Environmental Economics for Sustainable Growth (With P. Harou, L. Bellù and V. Cistulli). Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, (2002).

bullet"“Green Accounting in Europe: The GARPII Project” (with M.L. Tamborra), forthcoming, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, (2005).

bullet“Зкономика: окружающей среды и риродных ресуров”, (with A. Golub, E. Strukova, P. Mason, Y. Savonov and A. Hunt), Higher School of Economics, Moscow, (2003).

bullet  “Upgrading Environmental Standards”, in (B. Funk (ed.)) Expenditure Policies Toward EU Accession, World Bank Technical Paper No. 533, Washington DC, (2002).

bullet       “Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development: Implications for the Management of Natural Capital” in Marcello Basili, Maurizio Franzini and Alessandro Vercelli (eds.), Environment, Inequalities and Collective Action, Routledge (2006).

bullet“Gains of Regional Cooperation: Environmental Problems and Solutions” in R. Auty (ed.) Energy Resources, Governance and Welfare in the Caspian Sea Basin, University of Seattle Press, Seattle, Washington, forthcoming  (2005).

bullet“Policy Failures as a Cause of Environmental Degradation”, in The Handbook of Environmental Economics, (Karl-Goran Maler and Jeffery Vincent eds.), General Editors: Kenneth Arrow and Michael Intriligator, Amsterdam: North Holland/Elsevier Science, forthcoming, (2005)

bullet  “Water Quality Issues in Developing Countries” in R. Lopez and M. Toman (eds.) Essays in Environment and Development, Columbia University Press (2006)

 

“Where is the Wealth of Nations: Measuring Capital for the 21st Century”, World Bank, Washington DC. (B)

 

Journal articles

bullet“The Analysis of the Welfare Effects of a Environmental Product Tax: An Application to the Taxation of Automobile Tires in Hungary”,  (with I. Galarraga). Fiscal Studies, 24, 1, 97-114. (2003)

bullet  “Efficiency and Affordability Considerations In The Pricing Of Energy For Households”, (with D. Streimikiene), Economic Journal of Development Issues, 3, 2, 1-14. (2003)

  “Cost Benefit Analysis of Cleaning Ganges: Some Emerging Environment and Development Issues”, (with M.N. Murty), Environment and Development,(2003).

   “Climate Change Considerations on Energy Policy: The Case of Russia” (with A. Golub and E. Strukova), Global Environmental Issues (2004).

  “Ancillary Benefits of Climate Policy” (with D. Rübbelke), Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (2004).

“Energy Intensity in Transition Economies: Is There Convergence Towards The EU Average?” (with S. Pedroso and D. Stremikiene), Energy Economics, (2006). (J)

 

“Valuing River Characteristics Using Combined Site Choice and Participation Travel Cost Models” (with C. Johnstone), Journal of Environment Management, 80, 3, 237-247. (2006) (J)

 

 

“Electricity Generation and Health” (with P. Wilkinson), Lancet, 370, 979-990. (2007) (J)

 

“Security of Energy Supply: Comparing Scenarios From a European Perspective”

(with V. Costantini, F. Gracceva and G. Vicini). Energy Policy, 35, 210-226. (J)

 

“Can Transition Economies Implement a Carbon Tax and Hope For A Double Dividend?  The Case of  Estonia” (With O. Kiula), forthcoming, Applied Economics Letters. (J)

 

 



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TEACHING

Sample Test 2005

Unit Outline

Lecture VIII:  Fisheries

Environmental Economics II.   Presentations are available here.

Lecture I: Contingent Valuation

Lecture II: Conjoint Choice Analysis

Lecture III: Travel Cost

Lecture IV: Hedonic Pricing

Lecture V: Benefit Transfer

Lecture VI: Non-Renewable Resources

- Lecture VII: Applications of Non Reneweables

Lecture XI: Climate Change  New CC lecture

Environmental Kuznets Curve

Lecture XII: Ganges CBA 

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