Assistant Professor
Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Cornell University
Contact: irudik@cornell.edu
Work in progress
A microfounded approach for estimating the aggregate economic effects of climate change
Gary Lyn, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, and Ivan Rudik
Economic activity and biodiversity
Cathy Kling, Yuanning Liang, Ivan Rudik, and Eric Zou
Working papers
Costs of inefficient regulation: Evidence from the Bakken
Gabriel Lade and Ivan Rudik. Revise and resubmit at JAERE
Excess emissions are common, harmful, and underregulated
Alex Hollingsworth, David Konisky, Ivan Rudik, and Nikos Zirogiannis
Optimal climate policy when damages are unknown
Ivan Rudik. 2nd revise and resubmit at AEJ: Policy
The social cost of leaded gasoline: Evidence from regulatory exemptions
Alex Hollingsworth and Ivan Rudik
Valuing science policy: Dynamic decisionmaking with generalized Bayesian learning
Ivan Rudik, Maxwell Rosenthal, and Derek Lemoine
Publications
External impacts of local energy policy: The case of renewable portfolio standards
Hollingsworth, A. and I. Rudik. 2019. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 6(1):187-213.
[open access version] [reproduction code]
Air pollution and visitation at U.S. national parks
Keiser, D., G. Lade, and I. Rudik. 2018. Science Advances 4(7).
Media: Cornell Chronicle, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, Associated Press, The Guardian, Business Insider, PBS News Hour, US News and World Report, USA Today, Axios, Scientific American, City Lab (The Atlantic), Smithsonian, Arizona Republic, Sierra Magazine, Inverse, laist, Earth.com, Nature News, Phys.org, KNX 1070 Los Angeles, America in the Morning, Public Radio (So Cal, Phoenix, Utah, NorCal/Oregon)
Tradable credit markets for intensity standards
Rudik, I. 2018. Economic Modelling 72:202-215.
Steering the climate system: Using inertia to lower the cost of policy
Lemoine, D. and I. Rudik. 2017. American Economic Review 107(10):2947–57.
[open access version] [reproduction code]
Managing climate change under uncertainty: Recursive integrated assessment at an inflection point
Lemoine, D. and I. Rudik. 2017. Annual Review of Resource Economics 9:117–142.
[open access version] [reproduction code]
Opportunities for advances in climate change economics
Burke, M., M. Craxton, C. D. Kolstad, C. Onda, H. Allcott, E. Baker, L. Barrage, R. Carson, K. Gillingham, J. Graff-Zivin, M. Greenstone, S. Hallegatte, W.M. Hanemann, G. Heal, S. Hsiang, B. Jones, D. L. Kelly, R. Kopp, M. Kotchen, R. Mendelsohn, K.Meng, G. Metcalf, J. Moreno-Cruz, R. Pindyck, S. Rose, I. Rudik, J. Stock, and R. S. J. Tol. 2016. Science 352 (6283):292–93.
Media: ISU News Release, Futurity, Iowa Public Radio (River to River)
Outreach Publications
Ozone pollution in US national parks is nearly the same as in large cities
Keiser, D., G. Lade, and I. Rudik. 2018. The Conversation.
Efficient environmental regulation in the unconventional oil industry
Lade, G. and I. Rudik. 2017. CARD Agricultural Policy Review.
Research needs and challenges in the FEW system: Coupling economic models with agronomic, hydrologic, and bioenergy models for sustainabile food, energy, and water systems
Kling, C.L., R.W. Arritt, G. Calhoun, D.A. Keiser, J.M. Antle, J.G. Arnold, M. Carriquiry, I. Chaubey, P. Christensen, B. Ganapathysubramanian, P. Gassman, W. Gutowski, T.W. Hertel, G. Hoogenboom, E. Irwin, M. Khanna, P. Mérel, D. Phaneuf, A. Plantinga, S. Polasky, P. Preckel, S. Rabotyagov, I. Rudik, S. Secchi, A. Smith, A. Vanloocke, C. Wolter, W. Zhang, J.Zhao. 2016. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Working Paper 16-WP 563.