"Commercial and Industrial Demand Response UnderMandatory Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing"AbstractThis paper is the first to evaluate the impact of a large-scale field deployment of mandatory time of-use (TOU) pricing on the […]

The Futures of Food and the the Futures of FarmersBy the time today's UCLAundergraduates hit middle age, the world will hold almost 10 billion people, most of them affluent by […]

By the time today's UCLAundergraduates hit middle age, the world will hold almost 10 billion people, most of them affluent by historical standards. Dinner for the 10 billion, agronomists say, […]

"Designing Effective Plug-in Electric VehicleRebates"About the Speaker:Tamara Sheldon is a doctoral candidate in the economics department at University of California, San Diego. She is interested in environmental, energy, and public […]

’Effortless Perfection:’Do Chinese Cities Manipulate Air Pollution Data?Abstract:This paper uses unique data on daily air pollution concentrations over the period 2001-2010to test for manipulation in self-reported data by Chinese cities. […]

"The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards"AbstractIn many countries, fuel-economy standards mandate that vehicles meet a certain fuel economy,but heavier or larger vehicles are allowed to […]

"Smart Connection of EVs into the Electric Grid"Recent advances in information and communications systems and battery technologies, in combination with substantial importance given by society to reducing greenhouse gas/carbon emissions, […]

"Vehicle Scrappage andGasoline Policy"AbstractWe estimate the sensitivity of scrap decisions to changes in used car values - the “scrap elasticity" - and show how it influences used car fleets under […]