David Popp

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David Popp is the Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. David is an environmental economist whose research focuses on the links between environmental policy and innovation, with a particular interest in how environmental and energy policies shape the development of new technologies needed to combat climate change. His 2002 publication in the American Economic Review, “Induced Innovation and Energy Prices,”was one of two articles selected for the 2017 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Publication of Enduring Quality Award. David is coeditor for two journals: the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and Environmental and Resource Economics. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Network Member in the Energy & Climate Economics Research Group of CESifo. He received a B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1997.

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