David Stern is an energy and environmental economist with an interdisciplinary background in geography and economics. His research has focused on understanding the relationship between resource use and economic growth and development. He has investigated both the role of energy and resources in economic growth and the determinants of environmental impacts, especially air pollution and climate change. David is an associate editor of Ecological Economics, and a research associate in CAMA and CCEP.

For more information and a complete publication list please see Prof. Stern’s website: www.sterndavidi.com.

Research interests/expertise

• Energy economics
• Climate change
• Applied time series econometrics
• Meta-analysis

Selected publications

• Stern, D. I., P. W. Gething, C. W. Kabaria, W. H. Temperley, A. M. Noor, E. A. Okiro, G. D. Shanks, R. W. Snow, and S. I. Hay (in press) Temperature and malaria trends in highland East Africa, PLoS ONE.
• Stern D. I. (in press) Interfuel substitution: A meta-analysis, Journal of Economic Surveys.
• Stern D. I. (2011) Elasticities of substitution and complementarity, Journal of Productivity Analysis 36(1), 79-89.
• Stern D. I. (2011) The role of energy in economic growth, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1219, 26-51.
• Stern D. I. and F. Jotzo (2010) How ambitious are China and India's emissions intensity targets? Energy Policy 38(11), 6776-6783.
• Stern D. I. (2010) Between estimates of the emissions income elasticity, Ecological Economics 69, 2173-2182.
• Stern D. I. (2010) Derivation of the Hicks, or direct, elasticity of substitution from the input distance function, Economics Letters 108, 349-351.
• Stern D. I. (2010) Energy quality, Ecological Economics 69(7), 1471-1478.
• Ma C. and D. I. Stern (2008) China’s changing energy intensity trend: a decomposition analysis, Energy Economics 30(3), 1037-1053.
• Stern D. I. (2004) The rise and fall of the environmental Kuznets curve, World Development 32(8), 1419-1439.
• Hay S. I., J. Cox, D. J. Rogers, S. E. Randolph, D. I. Stern, G. D. Shanks, M. F. Myers, and R W. Snow (2002) Climate change and the resurgence of malaria in the East African highlands, Nature 415(6874), 905-909.
• Stern D. I. and M. S. Common (2001) Is there an environmental Kuznets curve for sulfur? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 41, 162-178.
• Stern D. I. (2000) A multivariate cointegration analysis of the role of energy in the U.S. macroeconomy, Energy Economics 22, 267-283.
• Kaufmann R. K. and D. I. Stern (1997) Evidence for human influence on climate from hemispheric temperature relations, Nature 388, 39-44.
• Stern D. I., M. S. Common, and E. B. Barbier (1996) Economic growth and environmental degradation: the environmental Kuznets curve and sustainable development, World Development 24, 1151-1160.

Teaching

The Economic Way of Thinking 1 (POGO 8016)

Government, Markets and Global Change (CRWF 8000)

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