Daniel Kaffine

About

Daniel Kaffine is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder. His office is located in Econ 208C, and he can be reached via email at daniel.kaffine@colorado.edu or by phone at 303.492.6652. His academic background includes a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an MA from the same institution, and both a BS and BA from the University of Saint Thomas. His research fields encompass Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics, and Urban Economics. Kaffine's current research interests focus on the impacts of renewable energy policies, the links between energy and environmental policy and transportation markets, and issues related to property rights and natural resource use. He is affiliated as a RASEI Fellow and actively contributes to the academic community through his research and teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Economics
• Political Science
• Medicine
• Microeconomics
• Business
• Environmental science
• Environmental health
• Transport engineering

Selected publications

• Emissions, Transmission, and the Environmental Value of Renewable Energy

  American Economic Journal Economic Policy · 2021 · 75 citations

  We examine how transmission congestion alters the environmental benefits provided by renewable generation. Using hourly data from the Texas and midcontinent electricity markets, we find that relaxing transmission constraints between the wind-rich areas and the demand centers of the respective markets conservatively increases the nonmarket value of wind by 30 percent for Texas and 17 percent for midcontinent markets. Much of this increase in the nonmarket value arises from a redistribution in whe…

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• Orbital-use fees could more than quadruple the value of the space industry

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 61 citations

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  The space industry's rapid recent growth represents the latest tragedy of the commons. Satellites launched into orbit contribute to-and risk damage from-a growing buildup of space debris and other satellites. Collision risk from this orbital congestion is costly to satellite operators. Technological and managerial solutions-such as active debris removal or end-of-life satellite deorbit guidelines-are currently being explored by regulatory authorities. However, none of these approaches address th…

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• Optimal Environmental Border Adjustments Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

  Environmental and Resource Economics · 2019-08-07 · 55 citations

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• Decline in Traffic Congestion Increased Crash Severity in the Wake of COVID-19

  Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board · 2022 · 45 citations

  Highway fatalities are a leading cause of death in the U.S. and other industrialized countries. Using highly detailed crash, speed, and flow data, we show highway travel and motor vehicle crashes fell substantially in California during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we also show the frequency of severe crashes increased owing to lower traffic congestion and higher highway speeds. This "speed effect" is largest in counties with high pre-existing levels of congestion, and we show…

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• Disease-economy trade-offs under alternative epidemic control strategies

  Nature Communications · 2022 · 36 citations

  Public policy and academic debates regarding pandemic control strategies note disease-economy trade-offs, often prioritizing one outcome over the other. Using a calibrated, coupled epi-economic model of individual behavior embedded within the broader economy during a novel epidemic, we show that targeted isolation strategies can avert up to 91% of economic losses relative to voluntary isolation strategies. Unlike widely-used blanket lockdowns, economic savings of targeted isolation do not impose…

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Frequent coauthors

• Antonio M. Bento

  The University of Texas at Austin

  19 shared

• Harrison Fell

  North Carolina State University

  11 shared

• Christopher Costello

  University of British Columbia

  9 shared

• Sofia F. Franco

  Universidade Lusófona

  9 shared

• Jonathan E. Hughes

  World Conservation Monitoring Centre

  7 shared

• Edward J. Balistreri

  University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  6 shared

• Hidemichi Yonezawa

  Statistics Norway

  6 shared

• Peter Maniloff

  5 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of California, Santa Barbara

• M.A.

  University of California, Santa Barbara

• B.S.

  University of Saint Thomas

• B.A.

  University of Saint Thomas

Awards & honors

• RASEI Fellow

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