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Ian MacKenzie

Ian MacKenzie

ETH Zürich
Dr. Ian MacKenzie
CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
Zürichbergstrasse 18
ZUE F 10
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND

Phone: +41 44 632 04 68
Fax: +41 44 632 13 62
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Contents

1. Research Interests

General
Environmental and Resource Economics
Regulatory Economics
Energy Economics
Microeconomic Theory
Public Economics
Public Choice Theory
Specific
Emissions Trading and Environmental Regulation
Environmental Contests and Tournaments
Incentives and Rent-Seeking Behaviour in Tradeable Permit Markets
Incentive Mechanisms and Mechanism Design in Environmental Regulation
Climate Change Policy

2. Publications

Publications and Papers Under Submissions
MacKenzie, I., Hanley, N. and Kornienko, T. (2009). Using contests to allocate pollution rights, Energy Policy, 37 (7), 2798-2806. CER-ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 08/82

MacKenzie, I., Hanley, N. and Kornienko, T. (2008). "The Optimal Initial Allocation of Pollution Permits: A Relative Performance Approach ", Environmental and Resource Economics, 39 (3), 265-282.
Fell, H., MacKenzie, I.A. and Pizer, W. A., (2008),`Prices versus quantities versus bankable quantities', Resources for the Future Discussion paper 08-32 , Washington D.C.
 

Work in Progress
"On the Sequential Choice of Tradable Permit Allocations" CER-ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 08/83
"The effects of rent seeking over tradable pollution permits" (with N. Hanley). CER-ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 09/112
"Controlling externalities in the presence of rent seeking" CER-ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 09/111
"Life's a breach! Ensuring 'Permanence' in Forest Carbon Sinks under Incomplete Contract Enforcement " (With M. Ohndorf and C. Palmer) CER-ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 09/113
"Contract breach with risk aversion" (With M. Ohndorf and C. Palmer)
"The choice of environmental policy instruments under industry lobbying"

3. Teaching Experience

2008- Lecturer, ETH Zürich, Postgraduate level (The economics of climate change)
2007 Lecturer, University of Stirling, Enivonmental Economics Honours (Senior Undergraduate)
2006 Occasional lecturer, University of Stirling, Quantitative Methods in Economics (Undergraduate)
2004-2007 Teaching assistant at the University of Stirling for the following courses: Introduction to Economics, Introductory Microeconomics, Introductory Macroeconomics, Intermediary Microeconomics and Intermediary Macroeconomics. All teaching experience includes organising and running tutorials, exam invigilation and exam script marker.

4. Education

2004-2007 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Stirling, UK
Thesis title: "On the Initial Allocation of Pollution Permits" (Supervision: N. Hanley and T. Kornienko. Examining Committee 18th September 2007: Prof. David Bell (University of Stirling) and Prof. Matti Liski (University of Helsinki)). Awarded without corrections
2003 - 2004 M.Sc. in Economics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dissertation title: "Efficiency Difficulties in a Tradable Pollution Permit Market: The Prospects for the European Carbon Dioxide Trading Scheme" (Supervision: N. Hanley)
1999-2003 M.A. (Soc Sci) Hons, in Economics and Pure Mathematics, (1st Class), University of Glasgow, UK.

5. Conference and Seminar Presentations

European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009
Association of Public Economic Theory (APET), Galway, Ireland, 2009.
Scottish Economic Society 2009, Perth, UK
European Public Choice Society, Athens, Greece, 2009
"Sequential permit allocation" SURED 2008
"Sequential permit allocation" University of Siegen, Department of Economics (2008)
Meeting of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), "Lobbying Activity in a Tradeable Permit Market" (2007).
Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SYME), "Lobbying Activity in a Tradeable Permit Market", Hamburg, Germany (2007).
Meeting of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), "Killing Two Birds with one Stone", Bremen, Germany (2005).
Frontiers in Environmental Economics Workshop, "A Contest Approach to the Initial Allocation of Pollution Permits", University of Stirling, Stirling UK (2005).
Meetings of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics, Dunblane, UK (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).
Departmental Seminars, University of Stirling (2005, 2006, 2007).
University of Stirling Graduate Conference, "Economic Mechanisms to reduce CO2 at least cost: Emissions Trading", Stirling, UK (2005).

6. Referee Work

Energy Policy
Environmental and Resource Economics
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Public Choice
Resource and Energy Economics

7. Experience

2007-present Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Environmental and Resource Economics Group, Center for Economic Research at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zürich, Switzerland
2007 Summer Internship, Global Climate Change Mechanisms, Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington DC (with Billy Pizer)
2007 Technical Consultant, Frontline consultants, DEFRA Consultation paper "Establishing a code of Best Practice for the Provison of Offestting to Consumers-Analysis of Consultantion Responses".

8. Awards and Prizes

2004-2007 Research Studentship awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK. (PTA-030-2004-00560)
2003-2004 Cairncross Memorial Studentship, awarded by the University of Glasgow, UK
2003 Thomas Wilson memorial prize, awarded by the University of Glasgow, UK

9. Teaching

The economics of climate change: institutions and government policy
 

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