Nicholas Z. Muller

Lester and Judith Lave Professor in Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy
Department of Engineering and Public Policy and Tepper School of Business
Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs, Engineering and Public Policy
Associate Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center

Bio

July 2021 - present: Lester and Judith Lave Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy. Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.

July 2017 - June 2021: Lester and Judith Lave Associate Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy. Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.

July 2014 - June 2017: Middlebury College: Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Economics.

July 2015 - January, 2016: Carnegie Mellon University: Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Scott Institute, Heinz School of Public Policy, Tepper School of Business, Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

January 2015 - Present: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Science Advisory Board, Panel on the Economy-Wide Modeling of the Bene.ts and Costs of Environmental Regulation.

September 2014 - Present: National Bureau of Economic Research, Environment and Energy Working Group, Research Associate.

April 2012 - September 2014: National Bureau of Economic Research, Environment and Energy Working Group, Faculty Research Fellow.

July 2007 - July 2014: Middlebury College: Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the Environmental Studies Program.

Education

2007 Doctor of Philosophy, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

2002 Master of Public A.airs, Environmental Policy & Public Financial Administration, School of Public and Environmental A.airs, Indiana University

1996 Bachelor of Science (Honors), Public Policy, Planning, and Management, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon

Publications

2019 "Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial-ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure" Tessum, C., Apte, J.S., Goodkind, A.L., Muller, N.Z., Mullins, K.A., Paollela, D.A., Polasky, S., Springer, N.P., Thakrar,S.K., Marshall, J.D., Hill, J.D. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Forthcoming.

2019 "Market-based Emissions Regulation When Damages Vary Across Sources: What Are the Gains from Differentiation?" M.Fowlie. N.Z. Muller. Forthcoming: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

2019 "Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption" S.P. Holland, E.T. Mansur, N.Z. Muller, A.J. Yates. Forthcoming: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

2019 "The External Costs of Shipping Petroleum Products by Pipeline and Rail: Evidence of Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota " Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, N.Z. Muller, Randy Walsh. The Energy Journal. 40(1). 10.5547/01956574.40.1.kcla

2017 "Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption" S.P. Holland, E.T. Mansur, N.Z. Muller, A.J. Yates. Forthcoming: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

2017 "Does Environmental Policy Affect Scaling Laws Between Population and Pollution? Evidence from American Metropolitan Areas." N.Z. Muller, Akshaya Jha. Forthcoming: PLOSOne.

2017 "Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis and the National Accounts." N.Z. Muller. Forthcoming: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis.

2017 "Air andWater: Integrated Assessment Models for Multiple Media." D.A. Keiser, N.Z. Muller. Annual Review of Resource Economics 9, pp. 165.184.

2017 "What Forces Dictate the Design of Pollution Monitoring Networks?" N.Z.Muller, Paul Ruud. Environmental Modeling and Assessment DOI: 10.1007/s10666-017-9553-7.

2016 "Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance of Local Factors." S.P. Holland, E.T. Mansur, N.Z. Muller, A.J. Yates. American Economic Review 106(12): 3700 - 3729.

2016 "Reply to Comment on "Damages and Expected Deaths Due to Excess NOx Emissions from 2009-2015 Volkswagen Diesel Vehicles." S.P. Holland, E.T. Mansur, N.Z. Muller, A.J. Yates. Environmental Science and Technology. 50(7): 4137-4138. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01157

2016 "On the divergence between fuel and service prices: The importance of technological change and diffusion in an American frontier economy." N.Z. Muller. Explorations in Economic History. 60: 93 - 111.

2016 "Air pollution emissions and damages from energy production in the U.S.: 2002–2011." P. Jaramillo and N.Z. Muller. Energy Policy 90: 202 - 211.

2016 "Damages and Expected Deaths Due to Excess NOx Emissions from 2009-2015 Volkswagen Diesel Vehicles." S.P. Holland, E.T. Mansur, N.Z. Muller, A.J. Yates. Environmental Science and Technology. 50(3): 1111-1117. DOI 10.1021/acs.est.5b05190

2016 "A Comment On: Diminishing Returns or Compounding Bene.ts of Air Pollution Control? The Case of NOx and Ozone." R. Mendelsohn, N.Z. Muller. Environmental Science and Technology. 50(1): 500-501 DOI 10.1021/acs.est.5b05324

2016 "Power Laws and Air Pollution." N.Z. Muller. Environmental Modeling and Assessment: 21(1): 31 - 52.

2014 "Boosting GDP growth by accounting for the environment: Including air pollution and greenhouse gas damages increases estimated U.S. growth." N.Z. Muller. Science. August 22nd, 2014, Vol. 345 no. 6199 pp. 873-874: DOI:10.1126/science.1253506.

2014 "The Air Pollution Damages from Offshore Energy Production." N.Z. Muller. The Energy Journal 35(4): 39 - 60. 

2014 "Towards the Measurement of Net Economic Welfare: Air Pollution Damage in the United States National Accounts - 2002, 2005, 2008." N.Z. Muller. In: Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress. Eds. Jorgensen, D.W., J.S. Landefeld, P. Schreyer. NBER Book Series in Income and Wealth Vol. 72.

2013 "Using Index Numbers for Deflation in Environmental Accounting." N.Z. Muller. Environment and Development Economics. doi:10.1017/S1355770X1300048X.

2012 "PM2:5 Co-bene.ts of Climate Change Legislation Part 1: California.s AB 32." C. Zapata, M. Kleeman, N.Z. Muller, Climatic Change. 10.1007/s10584-012-0545-y.

2012 "The Design of Optimal Climate Policy with Air Pollution Co-Benefits." N.Z. Muller, Resource and Energy Economics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2012.07.002

2012 "Global air quality and health co-bene.ts of mitigating near-term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls ." Susan C. Anenberg, Joel Schwartz, Drew Shindell, Markus Amann, Greg Faluvegi, Zbigniew Klimont, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Luca Pozzoli, Rita Van Dingenen, Elisabetta Vignati, Lisa Emberson, Nicholas Z. Muller, J. Jason West, Martin Williams, Volodymyr Demkine, W. Kevin Hicks, Johan Kuylenstierna, Frank Raes, Veerabhadran Ramanathan. Environmental Health Perspectives. 120(6): 831 - 839.

2012 "Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Comment: Reply. N.Z. Muller, R.O. Mendelsohn. The American Economic Review.102(1): 608-612.

2012 "Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Mortality Rate Update (Corrigendum)." N.Z. Muller, R.O. Mendelsohn, The American Economic Review.102(1): 613-616.

2012 "Simultaneouslymitigating near-termclimate change and improving human health and food security." Drew Shindell, Johan C. I. Kuylenstierna, Elisabetta Vignati, Rita van Dingenen, Markus Amann, Zbigniew Klimont, Susan C. Anenberg, Nicholas Muller, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Frank Raes, Joel Schwartz, Greg Faluvegi, Luca Pozzoli, Kaarle Kupiainen, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Lisa Emberson, V. Ramanathan, Kevin Hicks, Kim Oanh N. T., George Milly, Volodymyr Demkine, Martin Williams, David Streets, David Fowler. Science 335, 183 - 189.

2011 "Environmental Accounting: Methods with an Application to the U.S. Economy." N.Z. Muller, W.D. Nordhaus, R.O. Mendelsohn. The American Economic Review. 101(5): 1649-1675

2011 "Linking Policy to Statistical Uncertainty in Air Pollution Damages." N.Z.Muller. The B.E. Press Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Vol. 11 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 32.

2011 "The Ancillary Bene.ts of Climate Change Policy in the United States." B. Groosman, N.Z. Muller, E. O.Neill. Environmental and Resource Economics, 2011, 10.1007/s10640-011-9483-9.

2011 "The Social Cost of Trading? Measuring the Increased Damages from Sulfur Dioxide Trading in the United States." D.Henry, N.Z. Muller, R. Mendelsohn. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 30(3):598 - 612.

2011 "Climate, health, agricultural and economic impacts of adopting tighter emissions standards for on-road motor vehicles." Drew Shindell, Greg Faluvegi, Michael Walsh, Susan Anenberg, Rita Van Dingenen, Nicholas Z. Muller, Je. Austin, Dorothy Koch, George Milly. Nature Climate Change. Vol 1. 59-66.

2009 "Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right." N.Z. Muller, R.O. Mendelsohn, The American Economic Review. 99(5): 1714 - 1739.

2009 "Using air quality modeling to study source-receptor relationships between nitrogen oxides emissions and ozone exposures over the United States." D.Q. Tong, N.Z. Muller, H. Kan, R.O. Mendelsohn. Environment International. 35(8): 1109-17.

2009 "Regulating NOx and SO2 in Atlanta." N.Z.Muller, D.Q. Tong, R.O.Mendelsohn, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 9 : Iss. 2 (Contributions), Article 3.

2009 "Using Hedonic Property Models to Value Public Water Bodies: An Analysis of Speci.cation Issues." N.Z. Muller. Water Resources Research, 45, W01401, doi:10.1029/2008WR007281.

2008 "Sinusoidal Modeling Applied to Spatially Variant Tropospheric Ozone Air Pollution." N.Z. Muller, P.C.B. Phillips. Environmetrics; 19(6): 567 - 581.

2007 "Measuring the Damages Due to Air Pollution in the United States." N.Z. Muller, R.O. Mendelsohn. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; 54: 1-14.

2006 "An Integrated Assessment of the Spatial Variability of Ozone Impacts from Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides" Tong, D.Q., N.Z. Muller, D.L. Mauzerall, R.O. Mendelsohn. Environmental Science and Technology; 40(5): 1395-1400.

Books

2012 N.Z. Muller and R. Mendelsohn. "Using Marginal Damages in Environmental policy: A Study of Air Pollution in the United States." The American Enterprise Institute Press. Washington, D.C., USA.