Jared Carbone
Jared Carbone
Professor
Department of Economics and Business
Biography
My research focuses primarily on evaluating the economy-wide impacts of environmental change and regulation and the use of applied general equilibrium models to address these problems. I have written about international trade and regulatory responses to climate change, about environmental taxation and fiscal reform, about how to model the demand for environmental quality and health in economy-wide benefit-cost assessments, and human migration in response to environmental change.
I teach courses in both the undergraduate economics program and the Mineral and Energy Economics master’s and PhD programs on environmental and resource economics, computational economics, and microeconomic theory.
I completed a PhD in Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003. Subsequently, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics Policy at North Carolina State University from 2003 to 2005. I am also a proud graduate of Wesleyan University where I completed BA in Mathematics-Economics.
Prior to joining Mines, I held faculty positions at Williams College and the University of Calgary.

Contact
Currently
I serve as scientific advisor to the Scalable Linked Integrated Dynamic Equilibrium Model (SLiDE) project at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
I have a new interdisciplinary collaboration on the economic and hydrologic impacts of drought funded by the National Science Foundation.
I have been working on a long-term project on the effects of climate change on human migration/population in the US funded by the US Department of Energy through the IM3 project at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
I am a member of the program committee for the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analyisis in the National Center for Renewable Energy.
I am a member of the steering committee for the new Rocky Mountain Research Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
I currently serve as a member of the editorial council for the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Education
- BA in Mathematics Economics, Wesleyan University, 1997
- MA in Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, 2001
- PhD in Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, 2003
Research
- Environmental economics
- Climate change
- General equilibrium modelling
Publications
- Carbone, Jared C. Linda T. Bui, Don Fullerton, Sergey Paltsev, and Ian Sue Wing. 2022. “When and How to Use Economy-Wide Models for Environmental Policy Analysis.” Annual Review of Resource Economics 14, no. 1.
- Carbone, Jared C., Sul-Ki Lee, and Yuzhou Shen. 2021. “US household preferences for climate amenities: Demographic analysis and robustness testing.” Climate Change Economics 12, no. 1: 2050016.
- Carbone, Jared C., Nicholas Rivers, Akio Yamazaki and Hidemichi Yonezawa. 2020. “Comparing applied general equilibrium and econometric estimates of the effect of an environmental policy shock.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 7, no. 4:687-719. [Honorable mention, JAERE paper of the year award, 2020.]
- Carbone, Jared C. and Yuzhou Shen. 2020. “Assessing the Benefits of Air-Quality Improvements in General Equilibrium: A Review.” International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 14, no. 1: 1-36.
- Böhringer, Christoph, Jared C. Carbone and Thomas F. Rutherford. 2018. “Embodied Carbon Tariffs.”. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 120, no. 1: 183-210. [Previous version appears as NBER Working Paper No. 17376.]
- Carbone, Jared C., and Nicholas Rivers. 2017. “The Impacts of Unilateral Climate Policy on Competitiveness: Evidence From Computable General Equilibrium Models.” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 11, no. 1: 24-42.