C.-Y. Cynthia Lin's Papers

Working Papers

  • Strategic decision-making with information and extraction externalities: A structural model of the multi-stage investment timing game in offshore petroleum production
    • Online appendix: Appendix

  • Using an approximation to competitors' private information (with Erich J. Muehlegger)

  • An empirical dynamic model of OPEC and non-OPEC

  • The social rate of return to R&D in energy (with David Corderi)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • Quantity and price controls for the correction of externalities under uncertain damages: Evidence from a laboratory experiment (with David R. Heres del Valle)

  • Does efficient irrigation technology lead to reduced groundwater extraction?: Empirical evidence (with Lisa Pfeiffer)

  • Investment in corn-ethanol plants in the Midwestern United States (with Karen Thome)

  • Estimating the environmental Kuznets curve for water pollutants at the global level: Semiparametric and nonparametric approaches (with Krishna P. Paudel and Mahesh Pandit)

  • The effects of driving restrictions on air quality: São Paulo, Bogotá, Beijing, and Tianjin (with Wei Zhang and Victoria I. Umanskaya)

  • Market power and shadow prices for nonrenewable resources: An empirical dynamic model (with Wei Zhang)

  • What factors affect the decision to invest in a fuel ethanol plant?: A structural model of the investment timing game in Europe (with Fujin Yi)

  • Ethanol plant investment in Canada: A structural model (with Fujin Yi)

  • An analysis of risk and rate of return to international oil companies from Iran’s buy-back service contracts (with Abbas Ghandi)
    • Online appendix: Appendix

  • The elasticity of demand for gasoline and the optimal gas tax for China (with Jieyin (Jane) Zeng)

  • Driving in force: Why the U.S. military commutes by automobile (with Geoffrey M. Morrison)



    • Selected Publications

  • Lin, C.-Y.C., & Liscow, Z.D. (forthcoming). Endogeneity in the environmental Kuznets curve: An instrumental variables approach. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
    • Online appendix A (tables): Appendix A Online appendix B (figures): Appendix B

  • Pfeiffer, L., & Lin, C.-Y.C. (forthcoming). Groundwater pumping and spatial externalities in agriculture. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
    • The publication is available online.

  • Ghandi, A., & Lin, C.-Y.C. (2012). Do Iran’s buy-back service contracts lead to optimal production?: The case of Soroosh and Nowrooz. Energy Policy, 42, 181-190.
    • The publication is available online.

  • Leighty, W., & Lin, C.-Y.C. (2012). Tax policy can change the production path: A model of optimal oil extraction in Alaska. Energy Policy, 41, 759-774.
    • The publication is available online. Online appendix: Annex

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2011). An assessment of the effectiveness of California’s local air pollution controls on agricultural sources. In M. Khallaf (Ed.), The Impact of Air Pollution on Health, Economy, Environment and Agricultural Sources. InTech – Open Access Publisher.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2011). Learning an opponent’s strategy in Cournot competition. International Journal of Strategic Management, 11 (1), 94-112.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2011). The effects of an E10 ethanol-blend policy on California. California State Controller John Chiang Statement of General Fund Cash Receipts and Disbursements, 5 (5), 6-7.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2011). Estimating supply and demand in the world oil market. Journal of Energy and Development, 34 (1), 1-32.

  • Corderi, D., & Lin, C.-Y.C. (2011). Measuring the social rate of return to R&D in coal, petroleum and nuclear manufacturing: A study of the OECD countries. Energy Policy, 39 (5), 2780-2785.
    • The publication is available online.

  • Pfeiffer, L., & Lin, C.-Y.C. (2010). The effect of irrigation technology on groundwater use. Choices, 25 (3).

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2010). Gasoline price volatility. California State Controller John Chiang Statement of General Fund Cash Receipts and Disbursements, 4 (11), 6-8.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2010). A spatial econometric approach to measuring pollution externalities: An application to ozone smog. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 40 (1), 1-19.
    • Online appendix: Appendix A

  • Adjemian, M.K., Lin, C.-Y.C., & Williams, J. (2010). Estimating spatial interdependence in automobile type choice with survey data. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 44, 661-675.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2010). How should standards be set and met?: On the allocation of regulatory power in a federal system. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics, 10 (1), Article 51.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C. (2010). Instability, investment, disasters, and demography: Natural disasters and fertility in Italy (1820-1962) and Japan (1671-1965). Population and Environment, 31 (4), 255-281.

  • Lin, C.-Y.C., Zhang, W., Rouhani, O., & Prince, L. (2009). The implications of an E10 ethanol-blend policy for California. Agricultural and Resource Economics Update, 13 (2), 1-4.

  • 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.