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TIMOTHY J. CONSIDINE

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

Refereed journal articles:

“Peak oil in a carbon constrained world,” International Review of
Environmental and Resource Economics
(pdf link to full text)
“The environment as a factor of production,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 52, 3, (2006), 645-662.
“Is the strategic petroleum reserve our ace in the hole?” The Energy Journal, 27, 3, (2006), 91-112.
“The value of hurricane forecasts to oil and gas producers in the Gulf of Mexico,” Journal of Applied Meteorology, 43, 9, (2004), 328-336.
“Markup pricing in petroleum refining: A multiproduct framework (abstract, pdf link to full text),” International Journal of Industrial Organization 19, 10 (2001), 1499-1526.
“Uncertainty and the convenience yield in crude oil price backwardations (abstract),” with D.F. Larson, Energy Economics 23, 5 (2001), 533-548.
“Risk premiums on inventory assets: The case of crude oil and natural gas (abstract),” with D. Larson, Journal of Futures Markets 21, 2 (2001), 109-126.
“Price and inventory dynamics in petroleum product markets (abstract),” with Eunnyeong Heo, Energy Economics 22, 5 (2000), 527-548.
“The impacts of weather variations on energy demand and carbon emissions (abstract),” Resource and Energy Economics 22, 4 (2000), 295-312.
“Cost structures for fossil fuel-fired electric power generation (abstract),” The Energy Journal 21, 2 (2000), 83-104.
“Inventories under joint production: An empirical analysis of petroleum refining (abstract),” The Review of Economics and Statistics 79, 3 (1997), 493-502.
“An empirical analysis of exposure-based regulation to abate toxic air pollution (abstract),” with Marakovits, Donita M., Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 31, 2 (1996), 337-351.
“Technological change under residual risk regulation (abstract),” Environmental & Resource Economics 3 (1993), 15-33.
“A short-run model of petroleum product supply (abstract),” The Energy Journal 13, 2 (1992), 61-91.
“Economic and technological determinants of the material intensity of use (abstract),” Land Economics 67, 1 (1991), 99-115.
“Symmetry constraints and variable returns to scale in logit models (abstract),” Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 8, 3 (1990), 347-353.
“Estimating the demand for energy and natural resource inputs: Trade-offs in global properties (partial text),” Applied Economics 21 (1989), 931-945.
“Separability, functional form, and regulatory policy in models of interfuel substitution (abstract),” Energy Economics 11, 2 (1989), 82-94.
“Oil price volatility and U.S. macroeconomic performance (abstract),” Contemporary Policy Issues VI, 3 (1988), 83-96.
“Interfuel substitution and cyclical volatility in U.S. natural gas markets (partial text),” The Journal of Energy and Development 10, 1 (1985), 97-109.
“The use of linear logit models for dynamic input demand systems,” with T.D. Mount, The Review of Economics and Statistics LXVI, 3 (1984), 434-443.
“A regional econometric analysis of energy prices and economic activity (abstract),” with T.D. Mount, Environment and Planning A 15 (1983), 1027-1041.

Other refereed publications:

“The Transformation of the North American Steel Industry: Drivers, Prospects, and Vulnerabilities,” American Iron and Steel Institute, www.steel.org, 54 pages, April 2005.
“Can Electricity Restructuring Survive? Lessons from California and Pennsylvania,” in Electric Choices: Deregulation and the Future of Electric Power, Andrew Kleit, editor, The Independent Institute, 2007, with Andrew Kleit.
Retooling manufacturing: Bridging design, materials, and production, coauthor, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, (2004).
“Climate change: Impact on the demand for energy,” Encyclopedia of Energy, Cutler J. Cleveland, editor, Elsevier Science, (2004), 393-400.
“Industrial ecology: Challenges and opportunities for economics,” in T. Tietenberg, and H. Folmer, editors, International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics (forthcoming).
Understanding natural gas price decontrol, Congressional Budget Office, January 1983, Chapters 2 & 4.
Natural gas wellhead pricing policies: Implications for the federal budget,  Congressional Budget Office, April 1983, 1-53.

Other publications:

The U.S. Chemical Industry at Risk: Climate Change Legislation and Higher Natural Gas Prices, Chemical Week, August 2007.
“Systematic Bias in EIA Oil Price Forecasts: Concerns and Consequences.” with F. Clemente World Oil, August 2007.
“Betting on Bad Numbers: How EIA Forecasts for Natural Gas MarketsContain Systematic Bias,” with F. Clemente Public Utilities Fortnightly, forthcoming, July 2007.
Technologies to Reduce, Capture and Store Carbon Dioxide Emissions, National Coal Council, Report to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, forthcoming July 2007, Chapters 1 & 5.
Coal: The Energy Future, with Frank Clemente, et. al, National Coal Council Report to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, April 2006.
“Oil markets and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,” Regulation. The Cato Institute, May/June 2005, 18-25.
“A real options analysis of hydrogen research and development,” conference paper, 15th National Hydrogen Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 2004.
“Understanding the world crude oil market,” Middle East Geopolitics, Al Dosari International, February 2004, 7-33.
“Political economy of natural gas: Strategic implications for the Middle East,” Middle East Geopolitic, Al Dosari International, February 2004, 61-88.
“Green economics,” Research Penn State, Vol. 23, Issue 2, May 2002.
“Economies of scale and asset values in power production (partial text),” The Electricity Journal, December 1999, 37-42.
“The costs and benefits of coke oven emission controls,” Environmental Policy Modeling (Boston, MA: Kluwer Publishing), 1994, 103-122.
“Technical change, relative prices and intermaterial substitution,” in International Commodity Market Models, Guvenen, O., W.C. Labys, and J.B. Lesourd, Chapman and Hall, London, (1991), 139-156.
“Recent trends in material consumption: The role of technology and economics (abstract),” Materials and Society, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1990, 167-182.
“Energy demand models: Global properties and dynamic adjustments,” John G. Rowse, ed., World Energy Markets: Coping with Instability, July 1987, 627-637.
“Lessons from the recent turmoil in energy markets,” Earth and Mineral Sciences, Vol. 56, No. 4, Summer 1987, 60-64.
“Atrophy in metal demand?,” Materials and Society, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1987, 529-538.
“Why is U.S. productivity growing so slowly?” U.S. Economic Report, World Information Services, Bank of America, July 1986, 2-5.
“Investment spending: A new era?” U.S. Economic Report, World Information Services, Bank of America, June 1985, 2-4.
“Federal budget deficits: Economic impacts and alternative solutions,” California Corporate Report, Bank of America, Winter 1985, 1-5.
“Energy pricing, employment and economic growth: An econometric analysis of the New York state economy,” A. E. Research 84, no. 13, Cornell University, July 1984, 1-29.
“An econometric analysis of the effects of a fuel shortfall on state level economic activity,” in A guidebook for analysis of state level economic impacts of an energy shortfall, Forrest Gunnison, ed., Argonne National Laboratory, ANL/CNSV-TM-70, 1981, 36-62.
“Planning models for the assessment of utility applications of solar electric technologies,” Chapter 4, in Economic assessment of grid-connected solar electric technologies: A review of methods, S.E.R.I., November 1979, 55-89.

Book reviews:

“The Economics of Industrial Ecology,” edited by Jeroen van den Bergh and Marco A. Janssen, The Journal of Industrial Ecology, (forthcoming).
“Economic Growth, Material Flows And the Environment,” by Rutger Hoekstra, The Journal of Industrial Ecology, (forthcoming).
“Demand, prices and the refining industry,” by Robert Bacon, et al., The Energy Journal, December 1990.
“Money to burn? The high costs of energy subsidies,” by Mark Kosmo, Journal of Energy and Development, Autumn 1988.
“The econometrics of energy demand: a survey of applications,” by William A. Donnelly, The Energy Journal, January 1988.
“Consumer durable choice and the demand for electricity,” by Jeffrey A. Dubin, The Energy Journal, January 1988.

Reports to project sponsors:

Considine, T.J. R. Entler, and F. Clemente, “The Economic Impacts of Fortuna Energy, Inc.” December 2006.
“The value of hurricane forecast information to energy producers in the Gulf of Mexico,” with C. Jablonowski, B. Posner, and C. Bishop, Final report to National Science Foundation, ATM-9908963, January 2003.
“Comparing electricity deregulation in California and Pennsylvania: Implications for the Appalachian Region (partial text, pdf link to full text),” with A. Kleit, final report to Appalachian Regional Commission, ARC contract number CO-12884, February 2002.
“The environment and new technology adoption in the U.S. steel industry,” with C. Jablonowski, and D. Considine, final report to National Science Foundation and Lucent Technologies, BES-9727296, May 2001.
“The industrial ecology of particulate materials, with Frank J. DeNapoli
M. Lanagan, H. Lewis, M. Silsbee, B. Scheetz E. Snyder, final report to
National Science Foundation, MUSE-0223958, November 2004.

Working papers and manuscripts:

“Evaluating Forecasts of Natural Gas Markets: Implications for Modeling and Policy Analysis,” June 2007.
“New technology Assessment and Material Flows: A Case Study of Steel production,” February 2008.
Clemente, Frank, and T. Considine, “Coal: China’s Energy Imperative,” September 2006.
Clemente, Frank, and T. Considine, “Out of Poverty: The Role of Coal in Economic Development.”
T. Considine, “Arizona’s Energy Future: The Economic Impacts of
Alternative Renewable Energy Paths.”
T. Considine, D. Larson, and M. Hassan “The Role of Carbon Regulation in Inter-fuel substitution in the European Electricity Industry.”
 

 


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