David Stern
Associate ProfessorRoom: Sage 3208
Tel: (518) 276-6386
Email: sternd@rpi.edu
Web page: www.rpi.edu/~sternd
Degrees: Ph.D., Boston University
M.Sc., London School of Economics
B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research: I am interested in understanding the economy-environment system from an ecological economic perspective. My research focuses on understanding the role of natural resources and particularly energy in economic production and growth and the relationship between growth and development and environmental impacts particularly air pollution and climate change. Much of my research has had a strong empirical and econometric focus using time series econometric methods such as cointegration analysis, vector autoregressions, and the Kalman filter.
Currently, I am working on completing projects on the effect of NAFTA on energy efficiency and pollution emissions in Mexico and its NAFTA partners and a time series model of global climate change. My research will then focus on developing our theoretical understanding of the limits to substituting human and manufactured capital for natural resources and energy.
Selected Publications:
Stern D. I. (2005) Beyond the environmental Kuznets curve: Diffusion
of sulfur-emissions-abating technology, Journal of Environment and
Development 14(1), 101-124.
Stern D. I. (2005) Global sulfur emissions from 1850 to 2000, Chemosphere
58, 163-175.
Costanza R., D. I. Stern, B. P. Fisher, L. He, and C. Ma (2004)
Influential publications in ecological economics, Ecological Economics
50, 261-292.
Stern D. I. (2004) The rise and fall of the environmental Kuznets
curve, World Development 32(8), 1419-1439.
Kaufmann R. K. and D. I. Stern (1997) Evidence for human influence
on climate from hemispheric temperature relations, Nature 388, 39-44.