Karen Fisher-Vanden

Adjunct Associate Professor

Karen Fisher-Vanden is an environmental economist who has worked in the areas of economic instruments for pollution control, economic and integrated assessment modeling for climate change policy analysis, and the diffusion of energy efficient technologies in developing and transition economies. Currently she is studying the effects of market reforms on structural change and technological diffusion in China and the implications for energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Selected Publications

Breetz, H. and K. Fisher-Vanden. 2007. Does cost-share replicate water quality trading projects? implications for a partnership between cost-share and water quality trading. Review of Agricultural Economics, 29(2):201-215.
Fisher-Vanden, K., and M.S. Ho. 2007. How do market reforms affect China’s responsiveness to environmental policy? Journal of Development Economics, 82:200-233.
Fisher-Vanden, K., G. Jefferson, J. Ma., J. Xu., 2006. Technology development and energy productivity in China. Energy Economics, 28(5/6):690-705.
Fisher-Vanden, K., and M. S. Ho. 2005, How Do Market Reforms Affect China 's Responsiveness to Environmental Policy?, Journal of Development Economics.
Breetz, H., K. Fisher-Vanden, H. Jacobs, and C. Schary. 2005, Trust and Communication: Mechanisms for Increasing Farmers' Participation in Water Quality Trading. Land Economics 81(2).
Fisher-Vanden, K., K.G. Jefferson, H. Liu, and Q, Tao, 2004, What is Driving China's Decline in Energy Intensity? Resource and Energy Economics, 26, March, pp. 77-97.

Previously Taught Courses

ENVS 7 Economics and Politics of Global Climate Change
ENVS 50 Environmental Problem Analysis and Policy Formulation
ENVS 56 Environmental Economics, Policy and Management
ENVS 80 Integrated Assessment Modeling

Office: 113 Steele

Phone: 603-646-2838

Email: kfv@dartmouth.edu

Web Page: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~kfv

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