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Jonathan E. Hughes
Associate Professor
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Department of Economics
University of Colorado at Boulder
Economics 102
Phone: (303) 735-0220
Email: jonathan.e.hughes@colorado.edu
Vita: pdf
Publications
- "The Role of Modal Substitution in Rebound Effects Within US Freight Transportation" (With James Bushnell). Nature Energy. July 2024. DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01568-w. Rebound.pdf
- "Decline in traffic congestion increased accident severity in the wake of COVID-19" (With Daniel Kaffine and Leah Kaffine). Transportation Research Record, 2677(4), pp. 892-903, April 2023. COVID_Accidents.pdf
- "The Value of Rarity: Evidence from a Collectible Good". Journal of Industrial Economics, 70(1), pp. 147-167. March 2022. Rarity.pdf
- "Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of petroleum shipments on agricultural prices." (With James Bushnell and Aaron Smith). Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 9(1), pp. 79-112. January 2022. Rail_Grain.pdf
- "Who (Else) Benefits from Electricity Deregulation? Coal prices, natural gas and price discrimination." (With Ian Lange). Economic Inquiry, 58(3), pp. 1053-1075, July 2020. Rail_Coal.pdf
- "When Should Carpools in HOV Lanes be Encouraged?" (With Daniel Kaffine). Economic Inquiry, 57(1), pp. 667-684, January 2019. Encourage_HOV.pdf
- "Strategic Policy Choice in State-Level Regulation: The EPA's Clean Power Plan" (With James Bushnell, Stephen Holland and Christopher Knittel). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9(2), May 2017. CleanPowerPlan_latest.pdf
- "When is Increasing Consumption of Common Property Optimal? Sorting, Congestion and Entry in the Commons" (With Daniel Kaffine). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 81, January 2017. Linked Common Property.pdf
- "Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies" (With Stephen Holland, Christopher Knittel and Nathan Parker). The Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(5), December 2015. ClimatePoliticalEcon.pdf
- "Unintended Consequences of Transportation Carbon Policies" (With Stephen Holland, Christopher Knittel and Nathan Parker). Energy Journal, 36(3), July 2015. Unintended_latest.pdf
- "Getting Green with Solar Subsidies: Evidence from the California Solar Initiative" (With Molly Podolefsky). Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2(2), June 2015. PV_Subsidies
- "Carpooling and Driver Responses to Fuel Price Changes: Evidence from Traffic Flows in Los Angeles" (With Antonio Bento and Daniel Kaffine). Journal of Urban Economics, 77, September 2013. HOV_Gas_Prices.pdf
- "Market Power in the Rail Transport of Fuel Ethanol". Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62(2), September 2011. Ethanol_RR.pdf
- "Greenhouse Gas Reductions Under Low Carbon Fuel Standards?" (With Stephen Holland and Christopher Knittel). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1(1), February 2009. Low_Carbon_Fuel_Standards.pdf
- "Evidence of a Shift in the Short-Run Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand" (With Christopher Knittel and Daniel Sperling). Energy Journal, 29(1), January 2008. Gasoline_Demand.pdf
Working Papers
- "Are `Buying Frenzies’ Equitable? Distributional Effects of Congested Online Markets." Reservations.pdf