Erin T. Mansur
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research
Revers Professor of Business Administration

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Tuck School of Business
100 Tuck Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Office: 102 Buchanan Hall
Phone: (603) 646-2398
Fax: (603) 646-0995
erin.mansur@dartmouth.edu








 

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ACADEMIC PAPERS:

Journal Publications

Other Publications

    Working Papers

 Co-authors

 JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

*The Economics of Electricity Reliability
Joint with Severin Borenstein and Jim Bushnell
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 37, Issue 4, Fall 2023, Pages 181-206.

* Reply to Gagnon et al.: Short-Run Estimates vs. Long-Run Conjectures
Joint with Stephen Holland, Matt Kotchen, and Andy Yates
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 119, Issue 49, November 2022, e2214219119.

* Why Marginal CO2 Emissions are not Decreasing for US Electricity: Estimates and Implications for Climate Policy
Joint with Stephen Holland, Matt Kotchen, and Andy Yates
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 119, Issue 8, February 2022, e2116632119.

* The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles
Joint with Stephen Holland and Andy Yates
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 13, Issue 3, August 2021, Pages 316-344.

* Expected Health Effects of Reduced Air Pollution from COVID-19 Social Distancing
Joint with Steve Cicala, Stephen Holland, Nick Muller, and Andy Yates
Atmosphere, Special Issue on Human Health, Climate Change, and Ambient Air Pollution, Volume 12, Issue 8, Article 951, July 2021.

*  On the Measurement of Environmental Inequality: Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by Different Policy Instruments
Joint with Glenn Sheriff
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Volume 8, Issue 4, July 2021, Pages 721-758.

* The Environmental Benefits from Transportation Electrification: Urban Electric Buses
Joint with Stephen Holland, Nick Muller, and Andy Yates
Energy Policy, Volume 148, Part A, January 2021, 111921.

*  Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation
Joint with Stephen Holland, Nick Muller, and Andy Yates
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 12, Issue 4, November 2020, Pages 244-274. 

*  Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution: Reply
Joint with Jim Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
American Economic Review, Volume 110, Issue 6, June 2020, Pages 1914-1920.

*  Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption
Joint with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew J. Yates
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Volume 6, Issue S1, March 2019, Pages S65-S94.

*  “Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets: A Revealed Preference Approach using the Shale Revolution”
Joint with Joseph Cullen
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2017, Pages 106-133.

*  “Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution”
Joint with Jim Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
American Economic Review, Volume 107, Issue 4, April 2017, Pages 1313-1334.

*  “Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance of Local Factors
Joint with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew J. Yates
American Economic Review, Volume 106, Issue 12, December 2016, Pages 3700−3729.

*  “Response to Comment on `Damages and Expected Deaths Due to Excess NOx Emissions from 2009-2015 Volkswagen Diesel Vehicle
Joint with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew J. Yates
Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 50, Issue 7, March 2016, Pages 4137−4138.

*  “Correspondence: Reassessing the Contribution of Natural Gas to US CO2 Emission Reductions Since 2007
Joint with Matt Kotchen
Nature Communications, Volume 7, Article 10648, March 2016.

*  “Damages and Expected Deaths Due to Excess NOx Emissions from 2009-2015 Volkswagen Diesel Vehicles”
Joint with Stephen P. Holland, Nicholas Z. Muller, and Andrew J. Yates
Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 50, Issue 3, February 2016, Pages 1111−1117.

*  “Electricity Shortages and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China's Industrial Firms”
Joint with Karen Fisher-Vanden and Juliana Qiong Wang
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 114, May 2015, Pages 172-188.

*  “Measuring Climatic Impacts on Energy Expenditures: A Review of the Empirical Literature”
Joint with Max Auffhammer
Energy Economics, Volume 46, November 2014, Pages 522–530.

* “Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Marginal Emissions: Implications for Electric Cars and Other Electricity-Shifting Policies”
Joint with Josh Graff Zivin and Matt Kotchen
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 107, Part A, November 2014, Pages 248–268.

*  “How Stringent are the US EPA’s Proposed Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants?”
Joint with Matt Kotchen
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2014, Pages 290–306.

*  “Profiting from Regulation: Evidence from the European Carbon Market”
Joint with Jim Bushnell and Howard Chong
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Volume 5, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 78-106.

*  “Prices vs. Quantities: Environmental Regulation and Imperfect Competition”
Journal of Regulatory Economics, Volume 44, Issue 1, August 2013, Pages 80-102.

*  “Do Local Energy Prices and Regulation Affect the Geographic Concentration of Employment? A Border Pairs Approach”
Joint with Matt Kahn
Journal of Public Economics, Volume 101, May 2013, Pages 105-114.

*  “The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations”
Joint with Sheila Olmstead
Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 71, Issue 3, May 2012, pages 332-346.

*  “What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program”
Joint with Meredith Fowlie and Stephen Holland
American Economic Review, Volume 102, Issue 2, April 2012, pages 1-29.

*  “Vertical Targeting and Leakage in Carbon Policy”
Joint with Jim Bushnell
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Volume 101, Issue 3, May 2011, pages 263-267.

*  “Averting Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence from New Source Review”
Joint with Nat Keohane and Andrey Voynov
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2009, pages 75-104.

*  “Is Real-Time Pricing Green? The Environmental Impacts of Electricity Demand Variance”
Joint with Stephen Holland
Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 90, Issue 3, August 2008, pages 550-561.

*  “Measuring Welfare in Restructured Electricity Markets”
Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 90, Issue 2, May 2008, pages 369-386.

*  “Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition: An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets”
Joint with Jim Bushnell and Celeste Saravia
American Economic Review, Volume 98, Issue 1, March 2008, pages 237-266.

*  “Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of Fuel Choice and Consumption in the U.S. Energy Sector”
Joint with Robert Mendelsohn and Wendy Morrison
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 55, Issue 2, March 2008, pages 175-193.

*  “Reformulating Competition? Gasoline Content Regulation and Wholesale Gasoline Prices”
Joint with Jen Brown, Justine Hastings, and Sofia Villas-Boas
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 55, Issue 1, January 2008, pages 1-19.

*  “Do Oligopolists Pollute Less? Evidence from a Restructured Electricity Market”
Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2007, pages 661-689.

*  “Upstream Competition and Vertical Integration in Electricity Markets”
Journal of Law and Economics, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 2007, pages 125-156.

*  “The Short-Run Effects of Time-Varying Prices in Competitive Electricity Markets”
Joint with Stephen Holland
The Energy Journal, Volume 27, Issue 4, October 2006, pages 127-155.

*  “Consumption under Noisy Price Signals: A Study of Electricity Retail Rate Deregulation in San Diego”
Joint with Jim Bushnell
Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 53, Issue 4, December 2005, pages 493-513.

*  “Examining Policies to Reduce Homelessness using a General Equilibrium Model of the Housing Market”
Joint with John Quigley, Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky
Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 52, Issue 2, September 2002, pages 316-340.

*  “The Environmental Effects of SO2 Trading and Banking”
Joint with Dallas Burtraw
Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 33, Issue 20, October 15, 1999, pages 3489-3494. 

*  “Costs and Benefits of Reducing Air Pollutants Related to Acid Rain”
Joint with Dallas Burtraw, Alan Krupnick, David Austin, and Deirdre Farrell
Contemporary Economic Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, October 1998, pages 379-400.  

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

*  “Are Electric Cars Greener? Depends on Where You Live”
Joint with Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Kotchen
Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2014.

*  “Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy”
Chapter 10 in Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram, ed.
The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy, University of Chicago Press. 2012. 344 pages.

*  “Renewables Forecasts in a Low Carbon World: A Brief Overview”
Chapter 3 in Boaz Moselle, Jorge Padilla, and Richard Schmalensee, ed.
Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems: Theory, Practice, Policy. RFF Press. 2010. 368 pages.

*  Homelessness in California
Joint with John Quigley, Steven Raphael, Eugene Smolensky, and Larry Rosenthal
GSPP Public Policy Institute of California Publication. 2001. 93 pages.

 

WORKING PAPERS:

Recent papers

* Regularization from Economic Constraints: A New Estimator for Marginal Emissions”
Joint with Stephen Holland, Valentin Verdier, and Andy Yates
NBER Working Paper 32065

* Technology Adoption as Climate Adaptation: Evidence from US Air Conditioning Penetration”
Joint with Ian Sue Wing

*“Electrification in the Long Run”
Joint with Stephen Holland and Andy Yates
NBER Working Paper 30082

*“On the Feasibility, Costs and Benefits of an Immediate Phasedown of Coal for U.S. Electricity Generation”
Joint with Stephen Holland, Matt Kotchen, and Andy Yates
NBER Working Paper 32235

Other papers

*  Capacity Markets at a Crossroads
Joint with James B. Bushnell and Michaela Flagg
Energy Institute at Haas Working Paper 278.

*  Review of the Economics Literature on U.S. Electricity Restructuring
Joint with James B. Bushnell and Kevin Novan

*  “Vertical Commitments and the Price Effects of Mergers: Evidence from Electricity Markets”
Joint with Jim Bushnell and Frank Wolak

*  “Market Organization and Efficiency in Electricity Markets”
Joint with Matt White

*  “Do Firms Respond to Market Based Environmental Instruments? Evidence from Bidding Behavior in Electricity Markets”
Joint with Steve Puller

 

WEB PAGES OF CO-AUTHORS:

Co-Author

Affiliation

Auffhammer, Max

University of California at Berkeley

Austin, David

Resources for the Future

Borenstein, Severin

University of California at Berkeley

Brown, Jennifer

University of Utah

Burtraw, Dallas

Resources for the Future

Bushnell, Jim

University of California at Davis

Chong, Howard

Cornell University

Cicala, Steve

Tufts University

Cullen, Joseph

Washington University in St. Louis

Farrell, Deirdre

Resources for the Future

Feyrer, Jim

Dartmouth College

Fisher-Vanden, Karen

Pennsylvania State University 

Fowlie, Meredith

University of California at Berkeley 

Graff Zivin, Josh

University of California at San Diego

Hastings, Justine

Brown University

Holland, Stephen

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Kahn, Matthew

Johns Hopkins University 

Keohane, Nat

Environmental Defense Fund

Kotchen, Matt

Yale University

Krupnick, Alan

Resources for the Future

Mendelsohn, Robert

Yale University  

Morrison, Wendy

Texas A&M University

Muller, Nick

Carnegie Mellon University

Olmstead, Sheila

University of Texas at Austin

Puller, Steve

Texas A&M University 

Quigley, John

University of California at Berkeley 

Raphael, Steven

University of California at Berkeley

Rosenthal, Larry

University of California at Berkeley

Sacerdote, Bruce

Dartmouth College

Saravia, Celeste

Cornerstone Research

Sheriff, Glenn

Arizona State University

Smolensky, Eugene

University of California at Berkeley

Sue Wing, Ian

Boston University

Verdier, Valentin

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Villas-Boas, Sofia

University of California at Berkeley

Voynov, Andrey

Yale University 

Wang, Juliana Qiong

University of Southern California

White, Matt

ISO New England

Wolak, Frank

Stanford University

Yates, Andy

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill