Scholars@Duke
Peter Maniloff

Peter Maniloff

Instructor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Division
Environmental Sciences and Policy
peter.maniloff@duke.edu
Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708-0328
A309, LSRC, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Equity weighting increases valuations when using real-world data

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · November 1, 2024 Environmental economists have long debated whether and how to appropriately integrate distributional concerns into cost benefit analysis. Recent White House guidance instructs U.S. government analysts to weight different groups’ costs and benefits accordin ... Full text Cite

Estimates of the cost of illness of myocardial infarction, asthma and stroke

Journal Article Applied Economics · January 1, 2024 This study provides updated estimates of the cost-of-illness for three common and costly health outcomes: myocardial infarction, asthma and stroke. We use a regression approach based on a large data set which provides a representative sample of individual ... Full text Cite

Feasibility of space solar power for remote mining operations

Journal Article Acta Astronautica · September 1, 2021 The market for space solar power (SSP) is developing. This analysis utilizes a case study of SSP for remote mine operations to determine its economic feasibility. We employ a discounted cash flow (DCF) evaluation and then assess the sensitivity of the DCF ... Full text Cite

Private monitoring and public enforcement: Evidence from complaints and regulation of oil and gas wells

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · July 1, 2021 The traditional theory of firm regulatory compliance examines the interplay of firms and regulator, with the general public as passive consumers of goods or providers of votes. However, members of the public can play an important role in monitoring for com ... Full text Cite

Updating allowance allocations in cap-and-trade: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · January 1, 2021 The level and distribution of the costs of tradable allowance schemes are important determinants of whether the regulation is enacted. Theoretical and simulation models have shown that updating allowance allocations based on firm emissions or output can im ... Full text Cite

Costs of increasing oil and gas setbacks are initially modest but rise sharply

Journal Article Energy Policy · November 1, 2020 Spatial setback rules are a common form of oil and gas regulation worldwide - they require minimum distances between oil and gas operations and homes and other sensitive locations. While setbacks can reduce exposure to potential harms associated with oil a ... Full text Cite

Spatially variable taxation and resource extraction: The impact of state oil taxes on drilling in the US

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · September 1, 2020 We estimate the responsiveness of nonrenewable resource firms to taxes on output using spatially explicit data from the oil sector in the United States. Using a model of resource firm capital allocation over space, we show that responses to spatially-varyi ... Full text Cite

Can learning explain deterrence? Evidence from oil and gas production

Journal Article Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists · September 1, 2019 This paper tests a learning model of regulatory deterrence. Firms exert compliance effort based on their belief about a regulator’s effort level at detecting violations. Firms use regulatory actions to learn about the regulator and update their own complia ... Full text Cite

Interfirm learning in environmental safety: evidence from the bakken

Journal Article Applied Economics · June 15, 2019 This paper examines whether firm learning economies lead to reduced environmental incidents in Bakken unconventional oil drilling. We model the relationship between environmental safety and learning in preventing environmental incidents. We do not find evi ... Full text Cite

Environmental Justice in Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production: A Critical Review and Research Agenda.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · June 2019 The drilling phase of oil and natural gas development is a growing area of environmental justice (EJ) research, particularly in the United States. Its emergence complements the longstanding EJ scholarship on later phases of the oil and gas commodity chain, ... Full text Cite

An examination of geographic heterogeneity in price effects of superfund site remediation

Journal Article Economics Letters · October 1, 2018 This paper investigates heterogeneity in housing market reactions to Superfund site remediation using housing transaction spanning four Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Local housing price effects for site status changes in the Superfund program are estimat ... Full text Cite

Jurisdictional Tax Competition and the Division of Nonrenewable Resource Rents

Journal Article Environmental and Resource Economics · September 1, 2018 This paper presents a model of nonrenewable resource extraction across multiple jurisdictions which engage in strategic tax competition. The model incorporates rents due to both resource scarcity and capital scarcity as well as intra-region Ricardian rents ... Full text Cite

An estimate of the producer cost of liability for oil spills

Journal Article Applied Economics Letters · March 12, 2018 Governments often impose liability for environmental harms on firms when direct monitoring of operations is difficulty or costly. In the case of oil production, little is known about the private cost of liability. This article takes advantage of a natural ... Full text Cite

Leakage in regional environmental policy: The case of the regional greenhouse gas initiative

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · January 1, 2018 Subglobal and subnational greenhouse gas policies are often thought to be less effective than comprehensive policies as production and emissions of trade exposed industries may move from the regulated to the unregulated regions, a process referred to as “l ... Full text Cite

The local employment impacts of fracking: A national study

Journal Article Resource and Energy Economics · August 1, 2017 This paper quantifies the local economic impacts of hydraulic fracturing. We match extremely detailed oil and natural gas well data to county-level aggregate and sectoral employment data. Controlling for time-varying unobserved determinants of job growth, ... Full text Cite

Why have greenhouse emissions in RGGI states declined? An econometric attribution to economic, energy market, and policy factors

Scholarly Edition · September 1, 2015 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a consortium of northeastern U.S. states that limit carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation through a regional emissions trading program. Since RGGI started in 2009, regional emissions have shar ... Full text Cite