David Stern, BA (Jerusalem), M.Sc (London), PhD (Boston)
Fellow, The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics

Email: sterndavidi@yahoo.com

Biographical Statement

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. He is currently working on a project funded by the Environmental Economics Research Hub titled: “Modelling the Global Diffusion of Energy Efficiency and Low-Carbon Technology”. For more information and a complete publication list please see Dr Stern’s website: http://www.sterndavidi.com

Research Interests

Energy and economic growth, economic development and pollution emissions, climate change, applied time series econometrics, meta-analysis.

Key Publications

• 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. (2007) The effect of NAFTA on energy and environmental efficiency in Mexico, Policy Studies Journal 35(2), 291-322.
• Stern D. I. (2005) Beyond the environmental Kuznets curve: Diffusion of sulfur-emissions-abating technology, Journal of Environment and Development 14(1), 101-124.
• 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.

Career Highlights

Research Fellow (1993-94), University of York; Assistant Professor (1995-96), Boston University; Research Fellow (1996-2002), CRES, ANU; Associate Professor (2002-07) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Organized 2000 meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics in Canberra. Associate Editor of Ecological Economics (2002-present). Received research funding from The World Bank, U.S. EPA, Commission for Environmental Cooperation in North America.