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Daniel Kaffine

  • Assistant Professor
  • Division of Economics and Business
  • Colorado School of Mines
    Golden, CO 80401
    USA

Curriculum Vitae


Education

  • PhD Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara (2007)
  • MA Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara (2003)
  • BS Physics, University of St. Thomas (2002)
  • BA Applied Mathematics, University of St. Thomas (2002)

Research

  • Environmental and resource economics
  • Property rights
  • Urban economics
  • Spatial and dynamic modeling
  • Renewable energy

Recent Publications

  • Daniel Kaffine and Kaylee Acuff. 'Greenhouse gas emissions, waste and recycling policy.' Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Forthcoming.

  • Antonio Bento, Sofia Franco, and Daniel Kaffine. 'The welfare effects of anti-sprawl policies in the presence of urban decline.' Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 40(3): 439-450, 2011.

  • Antonio Bento, Sofia Franco, and Daniel Kaffine. 'Is zoning a barrier to effective rehabilitation subsidies?' Regional Science and Urban Economics, 41(3):196-206, 2011.

  • Bob Yu and Daniel Kaffine. 'Blue Laws, DUIs and alcohol related accidents: Regression discontinuity evidence from Colorado.' The Journal of Economics, 27(1):21-38, 2011.

  • Daniel Kaffine and Christopher Costello. 'Unitization of spatially-connected renewable resources.' The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 11(1):Article 15, 2011.

  • Antonio Bento, Sofia Franco, and Daniel Kaffine. 'Is there a double-dividend from anti-sprawl policies?' Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 61(2):135-152, 2011.

  • Daniel Kaffine and Christopher Worley. 'The Windy Commons?' Environmental and Resource Economics, 47(2):151-172, 2010.

  • Christopher Costello and Daniel Kaffine. 'Marine Protected Areas in spatial property rights fisheries.' Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 54(3):321-341 2010.

  • Antonio Bento, Sofia Franco, and Daniel Kaffine. 'Efficiency and spatial impacts of development taxes: The critical role of alternative revenue-recycling schemes.' American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 91(5):1304-1311, 2009.

  • Daniel Kaffine. 'Quality and the Commons: The Surf Gangs of California.' Journal of Law and Economics, 52(4):727-743, 2009.

  • Nicholas Burger and Daniel Kaffine. 'Gas prices, traffic, and freeway speeds in Los Angeles.' Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(3):652-657, 2009.

  • Christopher Costello and Daniel Kaffine. 'Natural resource use with limited-tenure property rights.' Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 55(1):20-36, 2008.

  • Heidi Albers, Michael Goldbach, and Daniel Kaffine. 'Implications of agricultural policy for species invasion in shifting cultivation systems.' Environment and Development Economics, 11(4):429-452, 2006.

  • Antonio Bento, Sofia Franco, and Daniel Kaffine. 'The efficiency and distributional impacts of alternative anti-sprawl policies.' Journal of Urban Economics, 59(1):121-141, 2006.

Other publications

  • Daniel Kaffine, Brannin McBee, and Jozef Lieskovsky. 'Empirical estimates of emissions avoided from wind power generation.' USAEE Dialogues 19(1), 2011.

  • Christopher Worley and Daniel Kaffine. 'Spatial Diversification of Wind Farms: System Reliability and Private Incentives.' Wind Farm: Technical Regulations, Potential Estimation and Siting Assessment. ed. Gaston Orlando Suvire, InTech Publishing, 2011.

Working Papers and Papers in Review

  • Daniel Kaffine, Brannin McBee and Jozef Lieskovsky. 'Emissions savings from wind power generation: Evidence from Texas, California and the Upper Midwest.' Revised and resubmitted, The Energy Journal, 2011.

  • Antonio Bento, Daniel Kaffine, Kevin Roth and Matt Zaragoza. 'Clearing the air? The unintended consequences of the Clean Air Stickers Program in California.' Revisions requested, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012

  • Nicholas Burger, Daniel Kaffine and Bob Yu. 'Did California's hand-held cell phone ban reduce accidents?' submitted, 2011

  • Antonio Bento, Jonathan Hughes Daniel Kaffine. 'Carpooling and driver responses to fuel price changes: Evidence from traffic flows in Los Angeles.' 2012.

  • Daniel Kaffine and Christopher Worley. 'Wind power and split estate.' 2011.

  • Hidemichi Yonezawa, Ed Balistreri and Daniel Kaffine. 'The suboptimal nature of applying Pigouvian rates as border adjustments.' 2011.