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Roberton C. Williams III

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First Name:Roberton
Middle Name:C.
Last Name:Williams
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RePEc Short-ID:pwi38
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Twitter: @roberton3will
Terminal Degree:1999 Department of Economics; Stanford University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(97%) Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (United States)
http://www.arec.umd.edu/
RePEc:edi:daumdus (more details at EDIRC)

(1%) Department of Economics
University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (United States)
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/econ/
RePEc:edi:deumdus (more details at EDIRC)

(1%) Resources for the Future (RFF)

Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
http://www.rff.org/
RePEc:edi:rffffus (more details at EDIRC)

(1%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.nber.org/
RePEc:edi:nberrus (more details at EDIRC)

Research output

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Working papers

  1. Lawrence H. Goulder & Marc A.C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams III, 2024. "Is Broader Always Better? Preexisting Distortions, Emissions Elasticities, and the Scope of Emissions Pricing," NBER Working Papers 32915, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Joseph E. Aldy & Dallas Burtraw & Carolyn Fischer & Meredith Fowlie & Roberton C. Williams III & Maureen L. Cropper, 2022. "How Is the US Pricing Carbon? How Could We Price Carbon?," NBER Working Papers 30545, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Cunningham, Brandon & Lu, Chenxi & Toder, Eric & Williams III, Roberton C., 2021. "Effects of 2017 US Federal Tax Overhaul on the Energy Sector," RFF Working Paper Series 21-24, Resources for the Future.
  4. Hafstead, Marc & Williams III, Roberton C., 2020. "Designing and Evaluating a US Carbon Tax Adjustment Mechanism," RFF Working Paper Series 20-04, Resources for the Future.
  5. Hafstead, Marc & Williams III, Roberton C., 2020. "Mechanisms to Reduce Emissions Uncertainty under a Carbon Tax," RFF Working Paper Series 20-05, Resources for the Future.
  6. Marc A. C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams III, 2019. "Jobs and Environmental Regulation," NBER Working Papers 26093, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Marc A. C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams III & Yunguang Chen, 2018. "Environmental Policy, Full-Employment Models, and Employment: A Critical Analysis," NBER Working Papers 24505, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Hafstead,Marc Andrew Christian & Williams III,Roberton C. & Golub,Alexander Alexandrovich & Meijer,Siet & Narayanan,Badri G. & Nyamweya,Kevin & Steinbuks,Jevgenijs, 2018. "Effect of climate policies on labor markets in developing countries : review of the evidence and directions for future research," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8332, The World Bank.
  9. Roberton C. Williams III, 2016. "Environmental Taxation," NBER Working Papers 22303, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  10. Marc A. C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams III, 2016. "Unemployment and Environmental Regulation in General Equilibrium," NBER Working Papers 22269, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Hafstead, Marc & Metcalf, Gilbert E. & Williams III, Roberton C., 2016. "Adding Quantity Certainty to a Carbon Tax: The Role of a Tax Adjustment Mechanism for Policy Pre-Commitment," RFF Working Paper Series dp-16-43, Resources for the Future.
  12. Gordon, Hal & Burtraw, Dallas & Williams, Roberton, 2015. "A Microsimulation Model of the Distributional Impacts of Climate Policies," RFF Working Paper Series dp-14-40, Resources for the Future.
  13. Williams III, Roberton C. & Gordon, Hal & Burtraw, Dallas & Carbone, Jared C. & Morgenstern, Richard D., 2014. "The Initial Incidence of a Carbon Tax across US States," RFF Working Paper Series dp-14-25, Resources for the Future.
  14. Williams III, Roerton C. & Gordon, Hal & Burtraw, Dallas & Jared C. Carbone & Morgenstern, Richard D., 2014. "The Initial Incidence of a Carbon Tax across Income Groups," RFF Working Paper Series dp-14-24, Resources for the Future.
  15. Lawrence H. Goulder & Marc A. C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams III, 2014. "General Equilibrium Impacts of a Federal Clean Energy Standard," NBER Working Papers 19847, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  16. Lawrence H. Goulder & Roberton C. Williams III, 2012. "The Choice of Discount Rate for Climate Change Policy Evaluation," NBER Working Papers 18301, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  17. Parry, Ian W.H. & Williams, Roberton C., 2011. "Moving U.S. Climate Policy Forward: Are Carbon Taxes the Only Good Alternative?," RFF Working Paper Series dp-11-02, Resources for the Future.
  18. Ian W.H. Parry & Roberton C. Williams III, 2010. "What Are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?," NBER Working Papers 16486, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  19. Parry, Ian W.H. & Williams, Roberton C. III, 2010. "What Are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives in Designing Domestic Climate Policy?," RFF Working Paper Series dp-10-51, Resources for the Future.
  20. Roberton C. Williams III, 2010. "Growing State-Federal Conflicts in Environmental Policy: The Role of Market-Based Regulation," NBER Working Papers 16184, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  21. Roberton C. Williams III, 2010. "Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy: The Economics of Environmental Policy Phase-Ins," NBER Working Papers 16120, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  22. Parry, Ian W.H. & Sigman, Hilary & Walls, Margaret & Williams, Roberton C., III, 2005. "The Incidence of Pollution Control Policies," Discussion Papers 10651, Resources for the Future.
  23. Li Gan & Roberton C. Williams III & Thomas Wiseman, 2004. "A Simple Model of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation," NBER Working Papers 10463, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  24. Sarah E. West & Roberton C. Williams, 2004. "Empirical Estimates for Environmental Policy Making in a Second-Best Setting," NBER Working Papers 10330, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  25. Roberton Williams, 2002. "Prices vs. Quantities vs. Tradable Quantities," NBER Working Papers 9283, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  26. Sarah E. West & Roberton C. Williams III, 2002. "Estimates from a Consumer Demand System: Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes," NBER Working Papers 9152, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  27. Roberton C. Williams, 2000. "Environmental Tax Interactions When Pollution Affects Health or Productivity," NBER Working Papers 8049, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  28. Roberton C. Williams, 2000. "Health Effects in a Model of Second-Best Environmental Taxation or Reconsidering "Reconsidering the Tax-Interaction Effect"," NBER Working Papers 8048, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  29. Lawrence H. Goulder & Roberton C. Williams III, 1999. "The Usual Excess-Burden Approximation Usually Doesn't Come Close," NBER Working Papers 7034, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  30. Parry, Ian W.H. & Williams, Roberton C., III & Goulder, Lawrence H., 1998. "When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? The Fundamental Role of Distorted Factor Markets," Discussion Papers 10514, Resources for the Future.
  31. Goulder, Lawrence H. & Parry, Ian W.H. & Williams, Roberton C., III & Burtraw, Dallas, 1998. "The Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Instruments for Environmental Protection in a Second-Best Setting," Discussion Papers 10522, Resources for the Future.

Articles

  1. Aldy, Joseph E. & Burtraw, Dallas & Fischer, Carolyn & Fowlie, Meredith & Williams, Roberton C. & Cropper, Maureen L., 2022. "How is the U.S. Pricing Carbon? How Could We Price Carbon?," Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 13(3), pages 310-334, October.
  2. Marc A. C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams & Yunguang Chen, 2022. "Environmental Policy, Full-Employment Models, and Employment: A Critical Analysis," Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press, vol. 9(2), pages 199-234.
  3. Marc A. C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams III, 2020. "Jobs and Environmental Regulation," Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 1(1), pages 192-240.
  4. Marc A. C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams, 2020. "Designing and Evaluating a U.S. Carbon Tax Adjustment Mechanism to Reduce Emissions Uncertainty," Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 14(1), pages 95-113.
  5. Hafstead, Marc A.C. & Williams, Roberton C., 2018. "Unemployment and environmental regulation in general equilibrium," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 50-65.
  6. Lawrence H. Goulder & Marc A. C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams III, 2016. "General Equilibrium Impacts of a Federal Clean Energy Standard," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 8(2), pages 186-218, May.
  7. Roberton C. Williams III & Hal Gordon & Dallas Burtraw & Jared C. Carbone & Richard D. Morgenstern, 2015. "The Initial Incidence of a Carbon Tax Across Income Groups," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 68(1), pages 195-214, March.
  8. Roberton C. Williams III & Hal Gordon & Dallas Burtraw & Jared C. Carbone & Richard D. Morgenstern, 2014. "The Initial Incidence of a Carbon Tax Across U.S. States," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 67(4), pages 807-830, December.
  9. Mark Cohen & Lawrence Goulder & Molly Macauley & Roberton Williams, 2012. "Preface," Climate Change Economics (CCE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(04), pages 1-5.
  10. Williams, Roberton C., 2012. "Growing state–federal conflicts in environmental policy: The role of market-based regulation," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 96(11), pages 1092-1099.
  11. Lawrence H. Goulder & Roberton C. Williams, 2012. "The Choice Of Discount Rate For Climate Change Policy Evaluation," Climate Change Economics (CCE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(04), pages 1-18.
  12. Li Gan & Roberton C. Williams Iii & Thomas Wiseman, 2011. "A Simple Model Of Optimal Hate Crime Legislation," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 49(3), pages 674-684, July.
  13. Parry Ian W. H. & Williams Roberton C., 2010. "What are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 10(2), pages 1-35, December.
  14. West, Sarah E. & Williams III, Roberton C., 2007. "Optimal taxation and cross-price effects on labor supply: Estimates of the optimal gas tax," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 91(3-4), pages 593-617, April.
  15. Lawrence H. Goulder & Ian W. H. Parry & Roberton C. Williams III, 2005. "Evaluating Public Goods and Regulations: Comments," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 19(4), pages 233-233, Fall.
  16. Sarah E. West & Roberton C. Williams III, 2005. "The Cost of Reducing Gasoline Consumption," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(2), pages 294-299, May.
  17. West, Sarah E. & Williams, R.C.Roberton III, 2004. "Estimates from a consumer demand system: implications for the incidence of environmental taxes," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 47(3), pages 535-558, May.
  18. Williams III, Roberton C., 2003. "Health effects and optimal environmental taxes," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(2), pages 323-335, February.
  19. Lawrence H. Goulder & Roberton C. Williams III, 2003. "The Substantial Bias from Ignoring General Equilibrium Effects in Estimating Excess Burden, and a Practical Solution," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 111(4), pages 898-927, August.
  20. Williams, Roberton III, 2002. "Environmental Tax Interactions when Pollution Affects Health or Productivity," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 44(2), pages 261-270, September.
  21. WilliamsIII, Roberton C., 2001. "Tax normalizations, the marginal cost of funds, and optimal environmental taxes," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 71(1), pages 137-142, April.
  22. Goulder, Lawrence H. & Parry, Ian W. H. & Williams III, Roberton C. & Burtraw, Dallas, 1999. "The cost-effectiveness of alternative instruments for environmental protection in a second-best setting," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 72(3), pages 329-360, June.
  23. Parry, Ian W. H. & Williams, Roberton III & Goulder, Lawrence H., 1999. "When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? The Fundamental Role of Distorted Factor Markets," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 37(1), pages 52-84, January.
  24. Williams III, Roberton C., 1999. "Revisiting the cost of protectionism:: The role of tax distortions in the labor market," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(2), pages 429-447, April.
  25. Parry, Ian W. H. & Williams III, Roberton C., 1999. "A second-best evaluation of eight policy instruments to reduce carbon emissions," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 21(3-4), pages 347-373, August.

Chapters

  1. Marc A. C. Hafstead & Roberton C. Williams III, 2019. "Jobs and Environmental Regulation," NBER Chapters, in: Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, volume 1, pages 192-240, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Roberton C. Williams III, 2011. "Comment on "Upstream versus Downstream Implementation of Climate Policy"," NBER Chapters, in: The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy, pages 193-195, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Roberton C. Williams III, 2011. "Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy: The Economics of Environmental Policy Phase-Ins," NBER Chapters, in: The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy, pages 245-254, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Roberton C. Williams III, 2010. "Growing State-Federal Conflicts in Environmental Policy: The Role of Market-Based Regulation," NBER Chapters, in: Fiscal Federalism, pages 1092-1099, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Lawrence H. Goulder & Ian W.H. Parry & Roberton C. Williams III & Dallas Burtraw, 2002. "The Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Instruments for Environmental Protection in a Second-Best Setting," Chapters, in: Lawrence H. Goulder (ed.), Environmental Policy Making in Economies with Prior Tax Distortions, chapter 27, pages 523-554, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  6. Ian W.H. Parry & Roberton C. Williams III & Lawrence H. Goulder, 2002. "When Can Carbon Abatement Policies Increase Welfare? The Fundamental Role of Distorted Factor Markets," Chapters, in: Lawrence H. Goulder (ed.), Environmental Policy Making in Economies with Prior Tax Distortions, chapter 25, pages 471-503, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  7. Roberton C. Williams III, 2002. "Environmental Tax Interactions When Pollution Affects Health or Productivity," Chapters, in: Lawrence H. Goulder (ed.), Environmental Policy Making in Economies with Prior Tax Distortions, chapter 13, pages 200-209, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  8. Roberton C. Williams III, 2002. "Tax Normalizations, the Marginal Cost of Funds, and Optimal Environmental Taxes," Chapters, in: Lawrence H. Goulder (ed.), Environmental Policy Making in Economies with Prior Tax Distortions, chapter 12, pages 194-199, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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  1. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (22) 2005-07-03 2006-01-24 2006-01-24 2006-01-24 2006-01-24 2010-10-30 2010-11-27 2011-03-05 2012-08-23 2012-09-22 2014-02-02 2014-05-17 2014-12-13 2014-12-19 2015-06-20 2016-06-04 2016-06-25 2018-04-30 2019-08-26 2022-11-14 2023-05-22 2023-05-29. Author is listed
  2. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (21) 2006-01-24 2006-01-24 2006-01-24 2010-10-30 2010-11-27 2011-03-05 2012-08-23 2012-09-22 2014-02-02 2014-05-17 2014-12-13 2014-12-19 2015-06-20 2016-06-25 2018-04-30 2019-08-26 2022-11-14 2023-05-22 2023-05-29 2024-09-16 2024-10-07. Author is listed
  3. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (5) 2004-02-23 2004-03-07 2005-07-03 2014-12-13 2024-10-07. Author is listed
  4. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (4) 2004-03-14 2014-12-13 2014-12-19 2016-06-25
  5. NEP-REG: Regulation (4) 2010-10-30 2011-03-05 2014-05-17 2016-06-04
  6. NEP-RES: Resource Economics (4) 2004-03-07 2005-07-03 2014-12-19 2016-06-25
  7. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (3) 2016-06-04 2018-04-30 2019-08-26
  8. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (3) 2016-06-04 2018-04-30 2019-08-26
  9. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (2) 2002-10-07 2002-10-28
  10. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (1) 2015-06-20
  11. NEP-DES: Economic Design (1) 2023-05-29
  12. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (1) 2004-07-04
  13. NEP-NET: Network Economics (1) 2016-06-25

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