C.-Y. Cynthia Lin's Papers

Working Papers

  • Do firms interact strategically?: A structural model of the multi-stage investment timing game in offshore petroleum production

  • How should standards be set and met?: On the allocation of regulatory power in a federal system

  • Heuristic strategies, firm behavior and industry information (with Erich J. Muehlegger)

  • A spatial econometric approach to measuring pollution externalities: An application to ozone smog
    • Online appendix: AppA

  • An empirical dynamic model of OPEC and non-OPEC

  • On the political mechanisms of the environmental Kuznets curve for global water quality (with Zachary D. Liscow)
    • Online appendix: Appendix

  • Instability, investment, disasters, and demography: Natural disasters and fertility in Italy (1880-1962) and Japan (1727-1935)

  • Measuring the social rate of return to R&D in the energy industry: A study of the OECD countries (with David Corderi)

  • Estimating supply and demand in the world oil market

  • Using observed ozone-temperature relationships to project the effect of future climate change on ozone exceedances in the northeastern United States (with Loretta J. Mickley, Katharine M. Hayhoe, Ed P. Maurer, Christian Hogrefe, Patrick L. Kinney, and Daniel J. Jacob)

  • An assessment of the effectiveness of California’s local air pollution controls on agricultural sources

  • Estimating spatial interdependence in automobile type choice with survey data (with Michael Adjemian and Jeffrey Williams)

  • Tax policy can change the production path: an empirical model of optimal oil extraction in Alaska (with Wayne W. Leighty)

  • Groundwater pumping and spatial externalities in agriculture (with Lisa Pfeiffer)

  • Property rights and groundwater management in the High Plains Aquifer (with Lisa Pfeiffer)

  • Gasoline price volatility and the elasticity of demand for gasoline (with Lea Prince)



    • Selected Publications

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. & Prince, L. (2009). The optimal gas tax for California. Energy Policy, 37 (12), 5173-5183.
    • The publication is available online.

  • Farinelli, B., Carter, C., Lin, C.-Y.C., & Sumner, D. (2009). Import demand for Brazilian ethanol: a cross-country analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production (special issue on International Trade in Biofuels), 17, S9-S17.
    • The publication is available online.

  • Pfeiffer, L., & Lin, C.-Y.C. (2009). Incentive-based groundwater conservation programs: Perverse consequences? Agricultural and Resource Economics Update, 12 (6), 1-4.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2009). Estimating strategic interactions in petroleum exploration. Energy Economics, 31 (4), 586-594.
    • The publication is available online.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C., Meng, H., Ngai, T.Y., Oscherov, V., & Zhu, Y.H. (2009). Hotelling revisited: Oil prices and endogenous technological progress. Natural Resources Research, 18 (1), 29-38.
    • The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2009). Insights from a simple Hotelling model. Natural Resources Research, 18 (1), 19-28.
    • The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2008). An evaluation of Keynes’ projected possibilities. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 67 (2), 315-329.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2007). California’s gasoline tax. California State Controller John Chiang Statement of General Fund Cash Receipts and Disbursements, 1 (7), 5-8.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. & Wagner, G. (2007). Steady-state growth in a Hotelling model of resource extraction. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 54 (1), 68-83.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2001). The scholar as activist: A colloquium explores these dual roles. Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin, XXX (9), 1-3.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C., Jacob, D.J., & Fiore, A.M. (2001). Trends in exceedances of the ozone air quality standard in the continental United States, 1980-1998. Atmospheric Environment, 35, 3217-3228.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C., Jacob, D.J., Munger, J.W., & Fiore, A.M. (2000). Increasing background ozone in surface air over the United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 27 (21), 3465-3468.