Larry Karp
Larry Karp is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of California, Berkeley. He has previously taught at Texas A&M and University of Southampton.
Research interests
- climate economics
- instrument selection
- the formation of International Environmental Agreements
- discounting
- dynamic games
- international trade and industrial organization.
Recent journal articles include:
Iverson, Terrence and Larry Karp, “Carbon Taxes and Climate Commitment with Non-constant Time Preference”, Review of Economic Studies Vol 88, pp 764-799, 2021.
Karp, Larry and Hiroaki Sakamoto, “Sober optimism and the formation of International Environmental Agreements”, Journal of Economic Theory, vol 197, 1- 35 2021
Karp, Larry and Armon Rezai “Trade and Resource Sustainability with Asset Markets”, Dynamic Games and Applications, 2021
Books include:
Karp, Larry Natural Resources as Capital, MIT Press, 2017.
Karp, Larry Lecture Notes for International Trade, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2021
Current working papers include:
Selfish incentives for climate policy: empower the young! (with Alesandro Peri and Armon Rezai)
Taxes versus quantities reassessed (with Christian Traeger)
The value of information in a congested fishery (with Gabriel Englander and Leo Simon)
Optimal social distancing and the economics of uncertain vaccine arrival (with Terrence Iverson and Alesandro Peri)
Ranking suboptimal climate policies: carbon markets and policy stringency