Nicholas Z. Muller
Lester and Judith Lave Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy
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- Yale University - Ph D - 2007
- Indiana University - MPA - 2002
- University of Oregon - BS - 1996
Publications
- Air and Water: Integrated Assessment Models for Multiple Media
(author(s): D. Keiser, Nicholas Muller)
Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2017; 165-184 - Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption
(author(s): S. Holland, E. Mansur, Nicholas Muller, A. Yates)
Forthcoming: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists - Does Environmental Policy Affect Scaling Laws Between Population and Pollution? Evidence from American Metropolitan Areas
(author(s): Nicholas Muller, Akshaya Jha)
Forthcoming: PLOSOne - Market-based Emissions Regulation When Damages Vary Across Sources: What Are the Gains from Differentiation?
(author(s): M. Fowlie, Nicholas Muller)
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists - The Impact of Trading on the Costs and Benefits of the Acid Rain Program
(author(s): H. Chan, B. Chupp, M. Cropper, Nicholas Muller)
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 88, 2017; 180-209 - What Forces Dictate the Design of Pollution Monitoring Networks?
(author(s): Nicholas Muller, Paul Ruud)
Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 2017; 1-14 - Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis and the National Accounts
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2017
- A Comment On: Diminishing Returns or Compounding Benefits of Air Pollution Control? The Case of NOx and Ozone
(author(s): R. Mendelsohn, Nicholas Muller)
Environmental Science and Technology 50(1), 2016; 500-501 - Air Pollution Emissions and Damages from Energy Production in the U.S.: 2002-2011
(author(s): P. Jaramillo, Nicholas Muller)
Energy Policy, 2016; 202-211 - Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance of Local Factors
(author(s): S. Holland, E. Mansur, Nicholas Muller, A. Yates)
American Economic Review 106(12), 2016; 3700-3729 - Damages and Expected Deaths Due to Excess NOx Emissions from 2009-2015 Volkswagen Diesel Vehicles
(author(s): S. Holland, E. Mansur, Nicholas Muller, A. Yates)
Environmental Science and Technology 50(3), 2016; 1111-1117 - On the Divergence Between Fuel and Service Prices: The Importance of Technological Change and Diffusion in an American Frontier Economy
Explorations in Economic History 60, 2016; 93-111
- Power Laws and Air Pollution
Environmental Modeling and Assessment 21(1), 2016; 31-52
- Reply to Comment on 'Damages and Expected Deaths Due to Excess NOx Emissions from 2009-2015 Volkswagen Diesel Vehicles'
(author(s): S. Holland, E. Mansur, Nicholas Muller, A. Yates)
Environmental Science and Technology 50(7), 2016; 4137-4138 - Using Marginal Damages in Environmental Policy: A Study of Air Pollution in the United States
(author(s): Nicholas Muller, R. Mendelsohn)
The American Enterprise Institute Press, 2012
Working Papers
- An Inter-Comparison of Air Quality Social Cost Estimates from Reduced-Complexity Models
(author(s): Elisabeth Gilmore, Jinhyok Heo, Nicholas Muller, Chris Tessum, Jason Hill, Julian Marshall, Peter Adams)
- Effect of Model Spatial Resolution on Estimates of Fine Particulate Matter Exposure and Exposure Disparities in the United States
(author(s): David Paolella, Christopher Tessum, Peter Adams, Joshua Apte, Sarah Chambliss, Jason Hill, Nicholas Muller, Julian Marshall)
- The External Costs of Shipping Petroleum Products by Pipeline and Rail: Evidence of Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota
(author(s): Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Nicholas Muller, Randy Walsh)
- Discount Rates During the Great Depression: Evidence from Firewood Prices in Portland, Oregon
- Livestreaming Pollution: A New Form of Public Disclosure and a Catalyst for Citizen Engagement?
(author(s): E. Huet-Vaughn, Y. Hsu, Nicholas Muller)
- On Cost Savings from Innovation with Market-based Pollution Control
- The Derivation of Discount Rates Using an Augmented Measure of Income
- The External Cost of Freight
(author(s): K. Clay, A. Jha, Nicholas Muller, R. Walsh)
- An Input-Output Model of the U.S. Economy with Pollution Externality
- Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption
(author(s): S. Holland, E. Mansur, Nicholas Muller, A. Yates)
- Handle with Care: The Local Air Pollution Costs of Coal Storage
(author(s): Akshaya Jha, Nicholas Muller)
- The Distribution of Income is Worse Than You Think
(author(s): Nicholas Muller, P. Matthews, V. Wiltshire-Gordon)
- What Forces Dictate the Design of Pollution Monitoring Networks?
(author(s): Nicholas Muller, Paul Ruud)
Awards and Honors
- United States Environmental Protection Agency Scientific and Technological Achievement Award, Level II (2013)
University Service
- University Education Council, Committee Member (2017 - 2018)