Benjamin Leard
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
Working Papers
New Passenger Vehicle Demand Elasticites: Estimates and Policy Implications (with Yidi Wu) 2023 RFF Working Paper 23-33
How Much Do Consumers Value Fuel Cost Savings? Evidence from Passenger Vehicle Leasing (with Kevin Ankney) 2023 RFF Working Paper 21-27
Vehicle Attribute Tradeoffs and the Distributional Effects of US Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards (with Joshua Linn and Katalin Springel) 2023 RFF Working Paper RFF Blog Post
Should Electric Vehicle Purchase Subsidies be Linked with Scrappage Requirements? (with Kevin Ankney) 2022 RFF Working Paper 22-13
Published Papers
Coordinating the electric vehicle transition and electricity grid decarbonization in the U.S. is not essential to achieving long-term carbon dioxide emissions reductions (with David Greene), Environmental Research Letters, 2023, 18, 1-11.
Firms and Collective Reputation: a Study of the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal (with Rüdiger Bachmann, Gabriel Ehrlich, Ying Fan, and Dimitrije Ruzic), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21-2. Working paper
How Much Do Consumers Value Fuel Economy and Performance? Evidence from Technology Adoption (with Joshua Linn and Christy Zhou), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105-1 RFF Working Paper RFF Resources Article RFF Blog Post
Estimating Consumer Substitution Between New and Used Passenger Vehicles, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2022, 9-1: 27-49. RFF Working Paper
Interpreting Tradable Credit Prices in Overlapping Vehicle Regulations (with Virginia McConnell), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 109: 1-8. RFF Working Paper
What Does an Electric Vehicle Replace? (with Jianwei Xing and Shanjun Li), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 107: 1-33. NBER Working Paper RFF Working Paper RFF Resources Article NBER Digest
Pushing New Technology into the Market: California’s Evolving Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (with Virginia McConnell), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2021, 15(1): 169-179. RFF Working Paper RFF Blog Post
The Effect of Fuel Price Changes on Fleet Demand for New Vehicle Fuel Economy (with Virginia McConnell and Christy Zhou), Journal of Industrial Economics, 2019, 67(1): 127-159. RFF Working Paper RFF Resources Article
Explaining the Evolution of Vehicle Miles Traveled in the United States (with Joshua Linn and Clayton Munnings), Energy Journal, 2019, 40(1): 25-54. RFF Working Paper
Voluntary Exposure Benefits and the Costs of Climate Change (with Kevin Roth), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019, 6(1): 151-185. RFF Working Paper RFF Resources Article
Flawed Analyses of U.S. Auto Fuel Economy Standards (with Antonio M. Bento, Kenneth Gillingham, Mark R. Jacobsen, Christopher R. Knittel, Joshua Linn, Virginia McConnell, David Rapson, James M. Sallee, Arthur A. van Benthem, and Kate S. Whitefoot), Science, 2018, 362(6419): 1119-1121. Supplementary Materials
Consumer Inattention and the Demand for Vehicle Fuel Cost Savings, Journal of Choice Modeling, 2018, 29: 1-16. RFF Working Paper
Fuelling Behaviour Change, Nature Energy News & Views, 2018, 3: 541-542.
How Do Low Gas Prices Affect Costs and Benefits of US New Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards? (with Joshua Linn and Virginia McConnell), Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 2018, 7(2). RFF Policy Brief
New Markets for Credit Trading Under U.S. Automobile Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Economy Standards (with Virginia McConnell), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2017, 11(2): 207-226. RFF Report RFF Resources Article RFF Blog Post
Fuel Prices, New Vehicle Fuel Economy, and Implications for Attribute-Based Standards (with Joshua Linn and Virginia McConnell), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2017, 4(3): 659-700. RFF Working Paper RFF Blog Post
Are Consumers Willing to Pay to Let Cars Drive for Them? Analyzing Response to Autonomous Vehicles (with Ricardo Daziano and Mauricio Sarrias), Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2017, 78: 150-164. RFF Working Paper RFF Resources Article RFF Podcast NBER Presentation Slides
On the Importance of Baseline Setting in Carbon Offsets Markets (with Antonio Bento and Ravi Kanbur), Climatic Change, 2016, 137(3): 625-637. RFF Working Paper. This publication is based on a prior paper titled "Super-Additionality: A Neglected Force in Markets for Carbon Offsets" with an associated Dyson School Working Paper.
Designing Efficient Markets for Carbon Offsets with Distributional Constraints (with Antonio Bento and Ravi Kanbur), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2015, 70(2): 51-71.
The Welfare Effects of Allowance Banking in Emissions Trading Programs, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2013, 55(2): 175-197.
Equivalencies in the Fishery (with Jon Conrad), Natural Resource Modeling, 2013, 26(2): 154-163.