Professor David Stern
BA (Jerusalem), M.Sc (London), PhD (Boston)
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy
College of Asia & the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- Environment And Resource Economics 140205
- Economic Development And Growth 140202
Research interests
Energy and economic growth, economic development and pollution emissions, climate change, applied time series econometrics, meta-analysis.
Biography
David Stern is a professor in the Crawford School of Policy at The Australian National University and Director of the International and Development Economics Program. He is an energy and environmental economist, whose research focuses on the role of energy in growth and development and environmental impacts including climate change. He is also interested in research assessment. David is currently the chief investigator for an ARC Discovery Project on "Energy Efficiency Innovation, Diffusion and the Rebound Effect" and is one of six theme leaders for a UK Department for International Development funded project on electricity and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He is an associate editor of Ecological Economics and on the editorial boards of Nature Energy and Open Economics. Last year he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
For more information and a complete publication list please see David’s website: www.sterndavidi.com.
Publications
- Bruns, S, Konig, J & Stern, D 2019, 'Replication and robustness analysis of 'energy and economic growth in the USA: A multivariate approach'', Energy Economics, vol. 82, pp. 100-113.
- Bruns, S & Stern, D 2018, 'Lag length selection and p-hacking in Granger causality testing: prevalence and performance of meta-regression models', Empirical Economics, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 797-830.
- Csereklyei, Z & Stern, D 2018, 'Technology Choices in the US Electricity Industry before and after Market Restructuring', The Energy Journal, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 157-182pp.
- Burke Paul J., Stern, David I., and Bruns, Stephan B. 2018. ‘The impact of electricity on economic development: A macroeconomic perspective.’ International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 12(1), 85–127.
- Stern, D 2017, 'Comment on Bornmann (2017): confidence intervals for journal impact factors', Scientometrics, vol. 113, no. 3, pp. 1811-1813.
- Stern, D 2017, 'How accurate are energy intensity projections?', Climatic Change, vol. 143, no. 3-4, pp. 537-545.
- Stern, D 2017, 'The environmental Kuznets curve after 25 years', Journal of Bioeconomics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 7-28.
- Stern, David I., Gerlagh, Reyer, and Burke, Paul J. 2017. ‘Modeling the emissions-income relationship using long-run growth rates.’ Environment and Development Economics 22(6), 699–724.
- Zhang, W, Stern, D, Liu, X et al 2017, 'An analysis of the costs of energy saving and CO2 mitigation in rural households in China', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 165, pp. 734-745.
- Bruns, S & Stern, D 2016, 'Research assessment using early citation information', Scientometrics, vol. 108, no. 2, pp. 917-935.
- Ma, C & Stern, D 2016, 'Long-run estimates of interfuel and interfactor elasticities', Resource and Energy Economics, vol. 46, pp. 114-130.
- Halkos, G, Stern, D & Tzeremes, N 2016, 'Population, economic growth and regional environmental inefficiency: evidence from US states', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 112, no. 5, pp. 4288-4295.
- Costanza, R, Howarth, R, Kubiszewski, I et al 2016, 'Influential publications in ecological economics revisited', Ecological Economics, vol. 123, pp. 68-76.
- Csereklyei, Z, Mar Rubio Varas, M & Stern, D 2016, 'Energy and Economic Growth: the Stylized Facts', The Energy Journal, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 223-255.
- Stern, D & Zha, D 2016, 'Economic growth and particulate pollution concentrations in China', Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 327-338.
- Sanchez, L & Stern, D 2016, 'Drivers of industrial and non-industrial greenhouse gas emissions', Ecological Economics, vol. 124, pp. 17-24.
- Csereklyei, Z & Stern, D 2015, 'Global energy use: Decoupling or convergence?', Energy Economics, vol. 51, pp. 633-641.
- Burke, Paul J., Shahiduzzaman, Md, and Stern, David I. 2015. 'Carbon dioxide emissions in the short run: The rate and sources of economic growth matter.' Global Environmental Change 33, 109–121.
- Lu, Y & Stern, D 2014, 'Substitutability and the cost of climate mitigation policy', Energy Procedia, vol. 61, pp. 1622-1625.
- Stern, D & Kaufmann, R 2014, 'Anthropogenic and natural causes of climate change', Climatic Change, vol. 122, no. 1-2, pp. 257-269.
- Stern, D, Jotzo, F & Dobes, L, eds, 2014, Climate change and the world economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA.
- Stern, D, Jotzo, F & Dobes, L 2014, 'Introduction', in David Stern, Frank Jotzo and Leo Dobes (ed.), Climate change and the world economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, pp. xiii-xlii.
- Kander, A & Stern, D 2014, 'Economic growth and the transition from traditional to modern energy in Sweden', Energy Economics, vol. 46, pp. 56-65.
- Gregory, J & Stern, D 2014, 'Fuel choices in rural Maharashtra', Biomass and Bioenergy, vol. 70, pp. 302-314.
- Blanco, G, Gerlagh, R, Suh, S, Barrett, J, de Coninck, H, Diaz Morejon, C, Mathur, R, Nakicenovic, N, Ahenkorah, A, Pan, J, Pathak, H, Rice, J, Richels, R, Smith, S, Stern, D, Toth, F & Zhou, P 2014, 'Drivers, Trends and Mitigation', in Edenhofer, O, Pichs, R, Sokona, Y, Minz, J, Farahani, E, Kadner, S, Seyboth, K et al., eds, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, US, pp. 351-411.
- Bruns, S, Gross, C & Stern, D 2014, 'Is There Really Granger Causality between Energy Use and Output?', The Energy Journal, vol. 35(4), pp. 101-134.
- Dobes, L, Jotzo, F & Stern, D 2014, 'The Economics of Global Climate Change: A Historical Literature Review', Review of Economics, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 281-320.
- Stern, D 2014, 'High-Ranked Social Science Journal Articles Can Be Identified from Early Citation Information', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 9(11), art. e112520.
- Stern, D & Enflo, K 2013, 'Causality between energy and output in the long-run', Energy Economics, vol. 39, pp. 135-146.
- Stern, D 2013, 'Ecological economics', in Abdel H. El-Shaarawi, Walter W. Piegorsch (ed.), Encyclopedia of Environmetrics (2nd ed), Wiley Publishing Australia, Australia, pp. 1-4.
- Stern, D 2013, 'Uncertainty measures for economics journal impact factors', Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 173-189.
- Stern, D 2012, 'Modeling international trends in energy efficiency', Energy Economics, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 2200-2208.
- Stern, D 2012, 'Letter from the Associate Editor concerning the comments from Anthoff and Tol and Ackerman and Munitz', Ecological Economics, vol. 81, pp. 41-41.
- Stern, D & Kander, A 2012, 'The role of energy in the industrial revolution and modern economic growth', Energy Journal, vol. 33(3), pp. 127-154.
- Stern, D 2012, 'Interfuel substitution: a meta analysis', Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 307-331.
- Stern, D, Pezzey, J & Lambie, R 2012, 'Where in the world is it cheapest to cut carbon emissions?', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 56, pp. 315-331.
- Jotzo, Frank, Burke, Paul J., Wood, Peter J., Macintosh, Andrew, and Stern, David I. 2012. 'Decomposing the 2010 global carbon dioxide emissions rebound.' Nature Climate Change 2(4), 213–214.
- Stern, D 2011, 'Elasticities of substitution and complementarity', Journal of Productivity Analysis, vol. 36(1), pp. 79-89.
- Stern, D 2011, 'The role of energy in economic growth', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1219, pp. 26-51.
- Stern, D, Gething, P, Kabaria, C et al 2011, 'Temperature and Malaria Trends in Highland East Africa', PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 6(9), e24524, pp. 9pp.
- Stern, D & Jotzo, F 2010, 'How ambitious are China and India's emissions intensity targets?', Energy Policy, vol. 38, no. 11, pp. 6776-6783.
- Stern, D 2010, 'Energy quality', Ecological Economics, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 1471-1478.
- Stern, D 2010, 'Derivation of the Hicks, or direct, elasticity of substitution from the input distance function', Economics Letters, vol. 108, no. 3, pp. 349-351.
- Stern, D 2010, 'Between estimates of the emissions-income elasticity', Ecological Economics, vol. 69, no. 11, pp. 2173-2182.
- Ma, C & Stern, D 2008, 'Biomass and China's carbon emissions: A missing piece of carbon decomposition', Energy Policy, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 2517-2526.
- Ma, C & Stern, D I 2008, 'China's Changing Energy Intensity Trend: A Decomposition Analysis', Energy Economics, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 1037-1053.
- Stern, D 2007, 'The elasticity of substitution, the capital-energy controversy, and sustainability', in J. D. Erickson and J. M. Gowdy (ed.), Frontiers In Ecological Economic Theory And Application, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 331-352.
- Stern, D 2007, 'The effect of NAFTA on energy and environmental efficiency in Mexico', Policy Studies Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 291-322.
- Ma, C & Stern, D 2006, 'Environmental and ecological economics: a citation analysis', Ecological Economics, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 491-506.
- Stern, D 2006, 'Reversal in the trend of global anthropogenic sulfur emissions', Global Environmental Change - Human and Policy Dimensions, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 207-220.
- Stern, D 2006, 'An atmosphere-ocean multicointegration model of global climate change', Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 1330-1346.
- Hay, S, Shanks, G, Stern, D et al 2005, 'Climate variability and malaria epidemics in the highlands of East Africa', Trends in Parasitology, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 52-53.
- Stern, D 2005, 'Global sulfur emissions from 1850 to 2000', Chemosphere, vol. 58, pp. 163-175.
- Stern, D 2005, 'Beyond the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Diffusion of Sulfur-Emissions-Abating Technology', Journal of Environment and Development, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 101-124.
- Stern, D 2004, 'The environmental Kuznets curve', in P. Safonov and J. Proops (ed.), Modelling in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 173-202.
- Stern, D 2004, 'Environmental Kuznets curve', in Cutler J. Cleveland (ed.), Encyclopedia of Energy, Elsevier, United States.
- Stern, D 2004, 'The Rise and fall of the environmental Kuznets curve', World Development, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1419-1439.
- Costanza, R, Stern, D, Fisher, B et al 2004, 'Influential publications in ecological economics: a citation analysis', Ecological Economics, vol. 50, pp. 261-292.
- Cleveland, C, Kaufmann, R & Stern, D 2004, 'Aggregation of energy', in Cutler J. Cleveland (ed.), Encyclopedia of Energy, Elsevier, United States, pp. 17-28.
- Stern, D 2004, 'Economic growth and energy', in Cutler J. Cleveland (ed.), Encyclopedia of Energy, Elsevier, United States.
- Dovers, S, Stern, D & Young, M, eds, 2003, New Dimensions in Ecological Economics: Integrative Approaches to People and Nature, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.
- Stern, D 2003, 'Modelling stochastic technological change in economy and environment using the Kalman filter', in Stephen Dovers, David I. Stern and Michael Young (ed.), New Dimensions in Ecological Economics: Integrated Approaches to People and Nature, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 146-175.
- Dovers, S, Stern, D & Young, M 2003, 'Ecological economics: prospects for integration and interdisciplinarity', in Stephen Dovers, David I. Stern and Michael Young (ed.), New Dimensions in Ecological Economics: Integrated Approaches to People and Nature, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1-10.
- Perman, R & Stern, D 2003, 'Evidence from panel unit root and cointegration tests that the Environmental Kuznets Curve does not exist', Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 325-347.
- Cleveland, C, Costanza, R & Stern, D 2001, 'Introduction: the changing nature of economics - towards an ecological economics', in Cleveland, Stern & Contanza (ed.), The economics of nature and the nature of economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1-11.
- Stern, D & Common, M 2001, 'Is there an environmental Kuznets curve for sulfur?', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 41, pp. 162-178.
- Cleveland, C & Stern, D 2001, 'Natural resource scarcity indicators: an ecological economic synthesis', in Cleveland, Stern & Contanza (ed.), The economics of nature and the nature of economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 238-261.
- Stern, D 2001, 'The environmental Kuznets curve: a review', in Cleveland, Stern & Contanza (ed.), The economics of nature and the nature of economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 193-217.
- Kaufmann, R & Stern, D 2000, 'Aggregation and the role of energy in the economy', Ecological Economics, vol. 32, pp. 301-317.
- Stern, D 2000, 'A multivariate cointegration analysis of the role of energy in the US macroeconomy', Energy Economics, vol. 22, pp. 267-283.
- Perrings, C & Stern, D 2000, 'Modelling loss of resilience in agroecosystems: rangelands in Botswana', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 17, pp. 185-210.
- Stern, D & Kaufmann, R 2000, 'Detecting a global warming signal in hemispheric temperature series: a structural time series analysis', Climatic Change, vol. 47, pp. 411-438.
- Stern, D 2000, 'Applying recent developments in time series econometrics to the spatial domain', Professional Geographer, vol. 52, pp. 37-49.
- Stern, D 1999, 'Is energy cost an accurate indicator of natural resource quality?', Ecological Economics, vol. 31, pp. 381-394.
- Stern, D 1999, 'Use value, exchange value, and resource scarcity,', Energy Policy, vol. 27, pp. 469-476.
- Stern, D & Kaufmann, R 1999, 'Econometric analysis of global climate change', Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 14, pp. 597-605.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Energy Efficiency Innovation, Diffusion and the Rebound Effect (Primary Investigator)
- Energy Transitions: Past, Present and Future (Primary Investigator)
