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James L. Sweeney

James L. Sweeney

Director, Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency
Professor,
Management Science and Engineering

Office: Environment & Energy Building
473 Via Ortega, Room 175
Stanford, CA 94305
Phone: 650.723.2847
Fax: 650.350.4330
Email: jim.sweeney @ stanford.edu

Selected Publications

  • "Quality, Commodity Hierarchies, and Housing Markets", Econometrica, Volume 42, No. 1, January 1974, pp. 147-167.
  • "Housing Unit Maintenance and the Mode of Tenure", Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 8, No. 2, June 1974, pp. 111-138.
  • "A Commodity Hierarchy Model of the Rental Housing Market", Journal of Urban Economics, Volume 1, No. 3, July 1974, pp. 288-323.
  • "Economics of Depletable Resources: Market Forces and Intertemporal Bias", Review of Economic Studies, Volume 44, No. 1, February 1977, pp. 125-141.
    • Reprinted in The Economics of Exhaustible Resources, Geoffrey Heal (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., London, 1993.
  • "Optimal Growth with Depletable Resources", with li. C. Garg, Resources and Energy, Volume 1, No. 1, 1978, pp. 43-56.
  • Macroeconomic Impacts of Energy Shocks: Bert G. Hickman, Hillard Huntington, James Sweeney (eds.), North Holland, 1987.
  • Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics: A.V. Kneese and James L. Sweeney (ed.), North Holland,Volumes I and II, 1985; Volume III, 1993. 
  • " Economic Theory of Depletable Resources:  An Introduction" in Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics: A.V. Kneese and James L. Sweeney (ed.), North Holland,Volumes I and II, 1985; Volume III, 1993. 
  • Fuels to Drive our Future, Committee on Production Technologies for Liquid Transportation Fuels, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington D.C. 1990. Principal Author, Chapter 3 and Appendix D.
  • The National Energy Modeling System , Committee on the National Energy Modeling System, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington D.C. 1992. Principal Author, Chapter 3: "NEMS Architecture". 
  • "Natural Resource Economics," in The Social Science Encyclopedia , Edition 2, Routledge
  • Energy Research at DOE:  Was It Worth It?   Committee on Benefits of DOE R&D in Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.  July 17, 2001.
  • Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards.   Committee on Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.  July 30, 2001.
  • " Energy Economics," International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.   November, 2001, pp. 4513-20.
  • "Tradable Fuel Economy Credits: Analysis and Text Extended from Chapter 5 of Impact and Effectiveness of Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards " , Working Paper, August 12, 2001.
  • The California Electricity Crisis . Hoover Institution Press.  Forthcoming, June 2002.
  • The California Electricity Crisis:  Lessons for the Future.  The Bridge.  June 2002.
  • The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs. Committee on Alternatives and Strategies for Future Hydrogen Production and Use. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. July 2004
  • “An Energy Policy for the Twenty-first Century”, Hoover Digest, 2005, No. 1. pp. 33-36.
  • Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase One): A First Look Forward. Committee on Prospective Benefits of DOE’s Energy Efficiencey and Fossil Energy R&D Programs (Phase One.) National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 2005.
  • “California Electricity Restructuring, the Crisis, and its Aftermath;” Chapter 10 in Electricity Market Reform: An International Perspective, Perry Shioshansi and Wolfgang Pfaffenberger (eds.) Elsevier, April 2006
  • “Hydrogen for Light Duty Vehicles: Opportunities and Barriers in the United States”, Chapter 17 in Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment; Michael Schlesinger (Ed.), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2007)
  • National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency. Independent Task Force Report No. 58, Council on Foreign Relations, 2006.
  • Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase Two.) Committee on Prospective Benefits of DOE’s Energy Efficiencey and Fossil Energy R&D Programs (Phase Two). National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 2007.

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