Roberton C. (Rob) Williams III

Visiting Associate Professor

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Recent Publications:

"A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation," with Li Gan and Thomas Wiseman, Economic Inquiry, forthcoming

"Optimal Taxation and Cross-Price Effects on Labor Supply: Estimates of the Optimal Gas Tax," with Sarah West, Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91:593-617.

"The Incidence of Pollution Control Policies," with Ian Parry, Hilary Sigman, and Margaret Walls, in H. Fulmer and T. Tietenberg (eds.), International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics, Edward Elgar, 2006, p. 1-42.

"The Cost of Reducing Gasoline Consumption," with Sarah West, American Economic Review, May 2005, 95:294-299

"Estimates from a Consumer Demand System: Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes," with Sarah West, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2004, 47:535-558

"The Substantial Bias from Ignoring General Equilibrium Effects in Estimating Excess Burden, and a Practical Solution," with Lawrence Goulder, Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111:898-927

"Health Effects and Optimal Environmental Taxes," Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87:323-335

"Environmental Tax Interactions When Pollution Affects Health or Productivity," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2002, 44:261-270

"Tax Normalizations, the Marginal Cost of Funds, and Optimal Environmental Taxes," Economics Letters, 2001, 71:137-142

"The Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Instruments for Environmental Protection in a Second-Best Setting," with Lawrence Goulder, Ian Parry, and Dallas Burtraw, Journal of Public Economics, 1999, 72:329-360

"When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? The Fundamental Role of Distorted Factor Markets," with Ian Parry and Lawrence Goulder, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1999, 37:52-84