Peter J Wilcoxen

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Peter J. Wilcoxen is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is also the director of the Maxwell School’s Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, and is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-director of the Brookings Climate and Energy Economics Project. He received a BA in physics from the University of Colorado in 1982 and a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1989.

Wilcoxen's principal area of research is the effect of environmental and energy policies on economic growth, international trade, and the performance of individual industries. His work often involves the design, construction and use of large-scale intertemporal general equilibrium models. He is a coauthor (with Dale W. Jorgenson) of the Jorgenson-Wilcoxen model, a thirty-five-sector econometric general equilibrium model of the US economy that has been used to study a wide range of environmental, energy and tax policies. He is also a coauthor (with Warwick J. McKibbin) of G-Cubed, an eight-region, twelve-sector general equilibrium model of the world economy that has been used to study international trade and environmental policies. He has published more than 50 papers and has co-authored two books: one with Warwick McKibbin on the design of an international policy to control climate change, and one with three coauthors on the design and construction of large scale economic models.

Wilcoxen is currently a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board Environmental Economics Advisory Committee. His past positions include: Associate and Assistant Professor of Economics, the University of Texas at Austin; Visiting Fellow, the Brookings Institution; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University; and Senior Research Fellow, the University of Melbourne in Australia. He was also a Review Editor on the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His research has been funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the US Geological Survey, and the National Science Foundation.

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Selected Papers and Abstracts since 2000

• Information Disclosure Policy: Does States’ Data Processing Efforts Help More than the Information Disclosure Itself?, David Popp with H. Bae and P. Wilcoxen, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 2010, 29(1), 163-182 DOI: 10.1002/pam.20483, 2010.
• Cap and Trade Climate Policy and US Economic Adjustments, Peter Wilcoxen with Dale Jorgenson, Richard Goettle and Mun Sing Ho, Journal of Policy Modeling, 31(3), pp. 362-381, May-June., 2009.
• Uncertainty and Climate Change Policy Design, Peter Wilcoxen with Warwick J. McKibbin, Journal of Policy Modeling, 31(3), pp. 463-477, May-June., 2009.
• Expecting the Unexpected: Macroeconomic Volatility and Climate Policy, Peter Wilcoxen with Warwick McKibbin and Adele Morris, Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins (eds), Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Implementing Architectures for Agreement, Cambridge University Press, pp. 857-886, 2009. , 2009.
• The Economic and Environmental Effects of Border Tax Adjustments for Climate Policy, Peter Wilcoxen with Warwick J. McKibbin, Lael Brainerd and Isaac Sorkin, (eds), Climate Change, Trade and Competitiveness, The Brookings Institution, pp. 1-34, 2009. , 2009.
• A Copenhagen Collar: Achieving Comparable Effort Through Carbon Price Agreements, Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris and Peter J. Wilcoxen, August 2009.
• Consequences of Alternative U.S. Cap-and-Trade Policies: Controlling Both Emissions and Costs, Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris and Peter J. Wilcoxen, July 2009.
• China Can Grow and Still Help Prevent the Tragedy of the CO2 Commons, Peter Wilcoxen with Warwick J. McKibbin and Wing Thye Woo, China’s Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change, ANU E Press and Asia Pacific Press, pp. 190-225, 2008., 2008.
• The Economic and Environmental Effects of Border Tax Adjustments for Climate Policy, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen, July 2008.
• Building on Kyoto: Towards a Realistic Global Climate Agreement, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen, June 2008.
• A Credible Foundation for Long Term International Cooperation on Climate Change, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen, in Joseph Aldy and Robert N. Stavins (eds.), Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2007.
• Managing Price and Targets: Why a Hybrid Policy is Better for Australia, Pete Wilcoxen with Warwick J. McKibbin, Climate Change: Getting It Right, Committee for the Economic Development of Australia, pp. 76-85, 2007.
• Constrained Fuzzy Logic Approximation for Indoor Comfort and Energy Optimization, S. Ari, I.A. Cosden, E.H. Khalifa, J., Dannenhoffer, C. Isik and P.J. Wilcoxen, 24th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS 2005) Proceedings, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005.
• Economic Modelling of Global Climate Change, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen, in Owen, Anthony D. and Nick Hanley (eds.), The Economics of Climate Change, Routledge, pp. 166-192, 2004.
• Estimates of the Costs of Kyoto-Marrakesh versus the McKibbin-Wilcoxen Blueprint, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen, Energy Policy, 32(4), pp. 467-479, March 2004.
• The Effects of a Proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen, June 2003.
• Climate Change Policy after Kyoto: Blueprint for a Realistic Approach, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, December 2002.
• The Role of Economics in Climate Change Policy, Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16(2), pp. 107-129, Spring, April 2002.

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