Andy Keeler

Associate Professor
John Glenn School of Public Affairs
310C Page Hall
614.688.4325
keeler.29@osu.edu

Education
B.A., Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1979)
M.A., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley (1989)
Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley (1991)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Keeler's research focuses in the broad field of environmental economics and policy.  His particular areas of interest include the efficiency and equity aspects of implementing and enforcing environmental regulation, the effect of improved ecological information on the formation of efficient environmental policies, and the environmental and public finance consequences of alternative waste management strategies.

Selected Publications
"Hybrid Institutions: Applications of Common Property Theory Beyond Discrete Property Regimes," with Laura German (The International Journal of the Commons, forthcoming)

"Industrialized-Country Mitigation Policy and Resource Transfers to Developing Countries: Improving and Expanding Greenhouse Gas Offsets," in Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy:  Implementing Architectures for Agreement, with Alex Thompson, Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

"Climate Change and State Utility Commissions: What is the Public Interest?" (National Regulatory Research Institute, 2008)

"State Commission Electricity Regulation Under Federal Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Policy" (The Electricity Journal, 2008)

"Life Cycle Cost-Benefit Analysis of Extensive Vegetated Roof Systems," with Tim Carter (Journal of Environmental Management, 2008)

"State Greenhouse Gas Reduction Policies:  A Move in the Right Direction?" (Policy Sciences, 2008)

"Farm Level Irrigation and the Marginal Cost of Water Use: Evidence from Georgia," with Yassert Alvarez-Gonzalez and Jeffrey Mullen (Journal of Environmental Management, 2006)

"Coastal Erosion Management from a Community Economics Perspective:  the Feasibility and Efficiency of User Fees," with Warren Kriesel and Craig Landry (Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2005)

"Sequestration Rental Policies and the Price Path of Carbon" (Climate Policy, 2005)

"Tax Interaction Effects, Environmental Regulation, and 'Rule of Thumb' Adjustments to Social Cost," with Brian Murray and Walter Thurman (Environmental and Resource Economics, 2005)

"Contract-Based Trading Programs in Environmental Regulation" (Contemporary Economic Policy, 2004)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Co-leader, U.S. diplomatic delegation to Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development talks on coordinating sustainability policies, Paris (2001)

Member of U.S. Negotiating team, COP-6 Climate Negotiations, The Hague (2000)

Member of White House Climate Change Task Force (2000-01)

Mershon Projects
Designing Effective Climate Change Mechanisms for Developing Countries (2009-10)