David Popp
Associate Professor, Public AdministrationContact Information
| Office: | 426 Eggers |
| Phone: | 443-2482 |
| Web Page: | Available here |
| Email: | dcpopp at maxwell.syr.edu |
Brief Biography
David Popp is associate professor of public administration. He is an economist with research interests in environmental policy and the economics of technological change. Much of his research focuses on the links between environmental policy and innovation. He is particularly interested in how environmental and energy policies shape the development of new technologies that may be relevant for combating climate change. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, and has been published in a variety of economics and policy journals, including American Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Popp is a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of Energy Economics. He has served as a consultant for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development. He received a B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1997.
Environmental Research Areas
- Climate Change
- Energy Policy
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Policy
- Technical Change and Technology Diffusion
Research Projects
Environmental Courses
Selected Papers and Abstracts since 2000
- ENTICE-BR: The Effects of Backstop Technology R&D on Climate Policy Models, David Popp, Energy Economics, Volume 28, Issue 2, March 2006, Pages 188-222 , 2006.
- R&D Subsidies and Climate Policy: Is there a 'Free Lunch'?, David Popp, Climatic Change, 77(3-4), August 2006, 311-341., August 2006.
- Uncertain R&D and the Porter Hypothesis, David Popp, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 4(1), Article 6, September 2005.
- They Don't Invent Them Like They Used To: An Examination of Energy Patent Citations Over Time, David Popp, NBER Working Paper #11415, forthcoming in Economics of Innovation and New Technology, June 2005.
- R&D Subsidies and Climate Policy: Is There A 'Free Lunch'?, David Popp, NBER Working Paper #10880, October 2004.
- International Innovation and Diffusion of Air Pollution Control Technologies: The Effects of NOx and SO2 Regulation in the US, Japan and Germany, David Popp, Forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, July 2004.
- Pollution Control Innovations and the Clean Air Act of 1990, David Popp, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 22(4), pp. 641-660, October 2003.