Cameron Hepburn
Cameron worked for the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment on the projects ‘Climate science and decision making’ and ‘Mitigation of climate change: carbon markets and technology’.
Background
Cameron has a DPhil in Economics from Oxford, along with an MPhil in Economics from Oxford, an L.L.B (Hons) and a B.Eng (Hons) from Melbourne University, Australia.
Research interests
- Environmental economics;
- Climate change economics;
- Environmental policy;
- Carbon markets and emissions trading;
- Sustainability;
- Behavioural economics.
Research articles
- Green growth: an assessment
18 Nov 2014. Alex Bowen, Cameron Hepburn - Benefit–cost analysis of non-marginal climate and energy projects
21 Nov 2013. Simon Dietz, Cameron Hepburn - Analysis and control design of sustainable policies for greenhouse gas emissions
21 May 2013. Cameron Hepburn - Economic instruments for climate change
21 Mar 2013. Cameron Hepburn - Prosperity with Growth: Economic Growth, Climate Change and Environmental Limits
1 Mar 2013. Alex Bowen, Cameron Hepburn - Tackling unsustainable wildlife trade
21 Feb 2013. Cameron Hepburn - Emissions trading with profit-neutral permit allocations
21 Feb 2013. Cameron Hepburn - Intermediate inputs and economic productivity
24 Jan 2013. Cameron Hepburn - A stated preference investigation into the Chinese demand for farmed vs. wild bear bile
19 Jul 2011. Cameron Hepburn - Carbon trading: unethical, unjust and ineffective?
20 May 2011. Cameron Hepburn - Self-interested low-carbon growth in G-20 emerging markets
19 May 2011. Cameron Hepburn - Action on climate change in Asia’s self-interest. Asia 2050: realizing the Asian century
19 Mar 2011. Cameron Hepburn - Optimal harvesting of fish stocks under a time-varying discount rate
19 Jan 2011. Cameron Hepburn - Thinking through the climate change challenge
16 Jan 2011. Cameron Hepburn - Combining multiple climate policy instruments: How not to do it
18 Dec 2010. Sam Fankhauser, Cameron Hepburn - Designing carbon markets. Part I: carbon markets in time
18 Aug 2010. Sam Fankhauser, Cameron Hepburn - Designing carbon markets. Part II: carbon markets in space
18 Aug 2010. Sam Fankhauser, Cameron Hepburn - Environmental policy, government, and the market
18 Jul 2010. Cameron Hepburn - Behavioural economics, hyperbolic discounting and environmental policy
18 Jun 2010. Cameron Hepburn - International air travel and greenhouse gas emissions: A proposal for an adaptation levy
18 Jun 2010. Cameron Hepburn - An issue of trust: state corruption, responsibility and greenhouse gas emissions
18 Jan 2010. Cameron Hepburn - Siblings, not triplets: social preferences for risk, inequality and time in discounting climate change
18 Jun 2009. Simon Dietz, Jennifer Helgeson, Cameron Hepburn - Equity weighting and the marginal damage costs of climate change
15 Jan 2009. Cameron Hepburn - Economics, ethics and climate change. Arguments for a Better World
17 Mar 2008. Simon Dietz, Cameron Hepburn, Nicholas Stern - A new global deal on climate change
17 Mar 2008. Nicholas Stern, Cameron Hepburn
Working papers
- Steering the climate system: an extended comment
4 Jan 2019 - Pigou pushes preferences: decarbonisation and endogenous values
17 Dec 2018 - Intermediate inputs and economic productivity
1 Nov 2012 - Prosperity with growth: economic growth, climate change and environmental limits
1 Nov 2012 - Trade, climate change and the political game theory of border carbon adjustments
1 Apr 2012 - Carbon trading: unethical, unjust and ineffective?
1 Jun 2011 - Emerging markets and climate change: Mexican standoff or low-carbon race?
25 May 2011 - Combining multiple climate policy instruments: how not to do it
1 Feb 2011 - On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis
1 Mar 2010 - Carbon markets in space and time
1 Jul 2009
Policy publications
- Urgent market stability reserve: Important for clean energy investment (on www.voxeu.org)
7 Mar 2015 - Governments must stop ‘dithering’ over climate action, warns report (on www.businessgreen.com)
24 Nov 2014 - Incomplete climate models lead to complacency
1 Apr 2014 - Permits to pollute can be bought too cheaply
1 Aug 2013 - Should the EU suspend its airline emissions charge?
30 Oct 2012 - Stephanomics (on www.bbc.co.uk)
31 Jul 2012 - Carbon price floor crucial to its aims
4 Jul 2012 - The Australian Government’s proposals for a carbon pricing policy
2 Aug 2011