Robert D. Cairns
Professor
PhD,听Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Cairns came to McGill in 1978. His research is in natural resource economics and industrial economics. Main subjects of his current work are green accounting and sustainability theory.
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鈥淢easurement of Diverse, Irreversible Capital鈥�, Review of Income and Wealth 69,4, December 2023: 931鈥�951.
鈥淪ustainability of an Economy Relying on Two Reproducible Assets鈥�, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 101, 145-160, Feb. 2019 (with S. del Campo and V. Martinet)
鈥淭he Green Paradox: A Hotelling Cul de Sac鈥�, Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy鈥� 8, 2, 2019, DOI:10.5547/2160-5890.8.2.rcai (with J.L. Smith)
鈥淪tranded Oil of Erewhon鈥�, Energy Policy 121, October 2018, 248-251.
鈥淭he Odd Notion of 鈥楻eversible Investment鈥欌��, Journal of Banking and Finance 81C, 2017, 172鈥�180 (with G.A. Davis).
鈥淔austmann鈥檚 Formulas for Forests鈥�, Natural Resource Modeling, 30 (1), 2017: 52 鈥� 73.
鈥淢ineral Depletion and the Rules of Resource Dynamics鈥�, The Energy Journal, 36 SI1, 2015: 159-178 (with G. Davis).
鈥淎n Environmental-Economic Measure of Sustainable Development鈥�, European Economic Review 69: 4-17, July 2014 (with V. Martinet).
鈥淪ustainability or the Measurement of Wealth?鈥�, Environment and Development Economics 18, 5: 640-648, October 2013.
鈥淭he Fundamental Problem of Accounting鈥�, Canadian Journal of Economics 46, 2: 634-655, May 2013.
鈥淕reen Microaccounting for Oil Extraction鈥� in Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics, Vol. 1, J.F. Shogren (ed.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 151-155, 2013.
鈥淥PEC: Market Failure or Power Failure?鈥�, Energy Policy 50: 570-580, November 2012 (with E. Calfucura)
鈥淕ood Timing: The Economics of Optimal Stopping鈥�, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 36, 1: 255 鈥� 265, February 2012 (with G.A. Davis)
鈥淎ccounting for Sustainability: A Dissenting Opinion鈥�, Sustainability 3: 1341-1356, 2011.
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