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 | | Raymond J. Kopp | | Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Climate and Electricity Policy | |
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PROFILE |
Raymond Kopp holds Ph.D. and MA degrees in economics and an undergraduate degree in finance. He has been a member of the RFF research staff since 1977 and has held a variety of management positions within the institution.
Kopp's interest in environmental policy began in the late 1970s, when he developed techniques to measure the effect of pollution control regulations on the economic efficiency of steam electric power generation. He then led the first examination of the cost of major U.S. environmental regulations in a full, general equilibrium, dynamic context by using an approach that is now widely accepted as state-of-the-art in cost-benefit analysis.
During his career Kopp has specialized in the analysis of environmental and natural resource issues with a focus on Federal regulatory activity. He is an expert in techniques of assigning value to environmental and natural resources that do not have market prices, which is fundamental to cost-benefit analysis and the assessment of damages to natural resources.
Kopp's current research interests focus on the design of domestic and international polices to combat climate change.
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| Featured Publications | | Goings On | | James Smith, Anthony Paul, Carolyn Fischer, James W. Boyd, Elisheba Beia Spiller, Sheila M. Olmstead, Molly K. Macauley, Phil Sharp, Carolyn Kousky, Raymond J. Kopp, Dallas Burtraw, Alan J. Krupnick, Yusuke Kuwayama , P. Lynn Scarlett, Karen L. Palmer | | Resources | 2012 (181) | | | | Resources Magazine: 179 | | James W. Boyd, Joel Darmstadter, Winston Harrington, Raymond J. Kopp, Carolyn Kousky, Joshua Linn, Sheila M. Olmstead, Juha V. Siikamäki, Phil Sharp | | Resources | 2012 (179) | | | | If Walmart Were In Charge: Sourcing CO2 Emissions Reductions at Least Cost | | Raymond J. Kopp | | Resources | 2012 (179) | | | | If Walmart Were In Charge: Sourcing CO2 Emissions Reductions at Least Cost | | Raymond J. Kopp | | Issue Brief 11-14 | September 2011 | | | | Reforming Institutions and Managing Extremes U.S. Policy Approaches for Adapting to a Changing Climate | | Daniel F. Morris, Molly K. Macauley, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D. Morgenstern | | RFF Report | May 2011 | | | | The Climate Has Changed — So Must Policy | | Raymond J. Kopp | | Issue Brief 11-03 | March 2011 | | | | Adapting to Climate Change:The Public Policy Response | | Daniel F. Morris, Molly K. Macauley, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D. Morgenstern, Tiffany Clements | | Issue Brief 10-19 | November 2010 | | | | Feasibility Assessment of a Carbon Cap-and-Trade System for Mexico | | Dallas Burtraw, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D. Morgenstern, Daniel F. Morris, Elizabeth Topping | | RFF Report | July 2010 | | | | The Shape of International Agreements: Political Economy Analysis of the Copenhagen Accord | | Raymond J. Kopp | | Issue Brief 10-09 | May 2010 | | | | Role of Offsets in Global and Domestic Climate Policy | | Raymond J. Kopp | | Issue Brief 10-11 | May 2010 | | | | View All Related Publications |
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REPORTS | | Reforming Institutions and Managing Extremes U.S. Policy Approaches for Adapting to a Changing Climate | | Daniel F. Morris, Molly K. Macauley, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D. Morgenstern | | RFF Report | May 2011 | | | | | Feasibility Assessment of a Carbon Cap-and-Trade System for Mexico | | Dallas Burtraw, Raymond J. Kopp, Richard D. Morgenstern, Daniel F. Morris, Elizabeth Topping | | RFF Report | July 2010 | | | | | Forest Carbon Index: The Geography of Forests in Climate Solutions | | Adrian Deveny, Janet Nackoney, Nigel Purvis, Mykola Gusti, Raymond J. Kopp, Erin Myers Madeira, Andrew R Stevenson, Georg Kindermann, Molly K. Macauley, Michael Obersteiner | | RFF Report | December 2009 | | | | | Assessing U.S. Climate Policy Options | | Raymond J. Kopp, William A. Pizer, Daniel Hall, Richard D. Morgenstern, Juha V. Siikamäki, Joseph E. Aldy, Ian W.H. Parry, Karen L. Palmer, Dallas Burtraw, Mun Ho, Evan M Herrnstadt, Joseph Maher | | RFF Report | November 2007 | | | | | The Economics of Carbon Policy and the Importance of Endogenous Technical Change | | Raymond J. Kopp | | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy and the Electric Power Research | March 1998 | | | | | The Choice of Modeling Platform for Carbon Policy Analysis: A Report to the U.S. EPA | | Raymond J. Kopp, Michael A. Toman | | RFF Report | April 1997 | | | | | Valuation of Developmental and Reproductive Effects: A Scoping Study | | Alan J. Krupnick, Raymond J. Kopp, Matthew Cannon | | RFF Report | August 1996 | | | | | Cost-Benefit Analysis and Regulatory Reform: An Assessment of the Science and the Art | | Raymond J. Kopp, Alan J. Krupnick, and Michael A. Toman | | Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management | July 1996 | | | | | Prospective Interim Lost Use Value Due to DDT and PCB Contamination in the Southern California Bight, Vol. I | | Raymond J. Kopp, R.T. Carson, W.M. Hanemann, J.A. Krosnick, R.C. Mitchell, S. Presser, P.A. Ruud, and V.K. Smith | | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | September 30, 1994 | | | | | Integrated Economic and Ecological Modeling for Public Policy Decision Making | | Raymond J. Kopp, Hadi Dowlatabadi, and Lawrence H. Goulder | | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation | May 1994 | | | | | Distributional and Environmental Consequences of Taxes on Energy: A Partial Equilibrium Model of U.S. Household Energy Demand | | Raymond J. Kopp, Hadi Dowlatabadi, and F. Ted Tschang | | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development | February 1994 | | | | | A Contingent Valuation Study of Lost Passive Use Values Resulting From The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill | | Raymond J. Kopp, R.T. Carson, R.C. Mitchell, W.M. Hanemann, S. Presser, and P.A. Ruud | | Attorney General of the State of Alaska | November 10, 1992 | | | | | The Health and Agricultural Benefits of Reductions in Ambient Ozone in the United States | | Raymond J. Kopp and Alan J. Krupnick | | U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment | June 1988 | | | | | Establishment-Level Data for Econometric, Engineering, and Policy Analysis | | Raymond J. Kopp and Michael Hazilla | | National Science Foundation (NSF), Measurement Methods and Data Improvement Program | 1987 | | | | | The Social Cost of Alternative Ambient Air Quality Standards for Total Suspended Particulates: A General Equilibrium Analysis | | Raymond J. Kopp and Michael Hazilla | | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards | 1986 | | | | | Industrial Energy Substitution: Econometric Analysis of U.S. Data, 1958-74 | | Raymond J. Kopp and Michael Hazilla | | Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) | April 1984 | | | | | Agricultural Sector Benefits Analysis for Ozone: Methods Evaluation and Demonstration | | Raymond J. Kopp, Michael Hazilla, and William J. Vaughan | | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards | 1983 | | | | | Estimating Environmental Compliance Costs for Industry: Engineering and Econometric Approaches | | Raymond J. Kopp and Paul R. Portney | | National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Scientific, Technological, and International Affairs, Division of Policy Research and Analysis | 1981 | | | | |
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