David Popp

• 2024 Spring
  • ECN/PAI 777 Economics of Environmental Policy
  • PAI 804 Quantitative Methods II: Research Methods for Public Administration
• 2023 Fall
  • PAI 723 Economics for Public Decisions
  • PAI 897 Fundamentals of Policy Analysis
• 2023 Spring
  • ECN/PAI 777 Economics of Environmental Policy
  • PAI 804 Quantitative Methods II: Research Methods for Public Administration
• 2022 Fall
  • PAI 723 Economics for Public Decisions
• 2022 Spring
  • PAI 777 Economics of Environmental Policy
  • PAI 670 Experience Credit
  • PAI 804 Quantitative Methods II: Research Methods for Public Administration

David Popp is the Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy in the Public Administration and International Affairs Department at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research network member in the Energy & Climate Economics Research Group of CESifo.

Popp’s research interests are in environmental policy and the economics of technological change. Much of his research focuses on the links between environmental policy and innovation, with a particular interest in how environmental and energy policies shape the development of new technologies that may be relevant for combating climate change. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy, and has been published in a variety of economics and policy journals, including American Economic Review, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Nature Energy, Research Policy, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

His 2002 publication in the American Economic Review, “Induced Innovation and Energy Prices,” was one of two articles selected for the 2017 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Publication of Enduring Quality Award. Popp has served on the U.S. General Accounting Office Expert Panel on Climate Change Economics, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, and the Advisory Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, and has consulted for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Bank.

Popp received a B.A. in political economy from Williams College in 1992, and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1997.

"Does Government Funding Change What You Do? The Effects of Funding on the Direction and Impact of Academic Energy Research", Sponsored by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

"Economics of Innovation in the Energy Sector", Sponsored by Sloan Foundation.

"Can Green Government Spending Aid Employment Transitions in a Low Carbon Economy?", Sponsored by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

"Program on Integrated Assessment Model Development, Diagnostics and Intermodel Comparisons (PIAMDDI)", Sponsored by Department of Energy.

"Using Scientific Publications to Evaluate Government R&D Spending: The Case of Energy", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

• Journal Articles
  • Gregoire-Zawilski, M., Popp, D., "Do technology standards induce innovation in environmental technologies when coordination is important?." Research Policy, 2024.
  • Popp, D., Greegoire-Zawilski, Myriam, "Powering the next wave of green energy innovation." PLOS Climate, 2023.
  • Van den Heuvel, M., Popp, D., "The role of venture capital and governments in clean energy: Lessons from the first cleantech bubble." Energy Economics, 2023.
  • Popp, D., Marin, G., Vona, F. and Chen, Z., "The Employment Impact of a Green Fiscal Push: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2021.
  • Grubb, M., Drummond, P., Poncia, A., McDowall, W., Popp, D., Samadi, S., Penasco, C., Gillingham, K. T., Smulders, S., Glachant, M., Hassall, G., Mizuno, E., Rubin, E. S., Dechezleprêtre, A. and Pavan, G., "Induced innovation in energy technologies and systems: A review of evidence and potential implications for CO2 mitigation." Environmental Research Letters, 2021.
  • Chen, Z., Marin, G., Popp, D. and Vona, F., "Green Stimulus in a Post-pandemic Recovery: the Role of Skills for a Resilient Recovery." Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020.
  • Popp, D., "Promoting Clean Energy Innovation at the State and Local Level." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2020.
  • Popp, D., "Environmental policy and innovation: A decade of research." International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019.
  • Popp, D., "Promoting clean energy innovation." CESifo DICE Report, 2019.
• Book Chapters
  • Greaker, M., Popp, D., "Environmental Economics, Regulation, and Innovation." In Handbook of Innovation and Regulation. Braunerhjelm, P., Andersson, M., Blind, K. and Eklund, J. E. (eds.) Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.
  • Popp, D., Pless, J., Haščič, I. and Johnstone, N., "Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Energy Sector." In The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth. Chatterji, A., Lerner, J., Stern, S. and Andrews, M. J. (eds.) University of Chicago Press, 2022.
  • Dechezleprêtre, A., Popp, D., "Fiscal and Regulatory Instruments for Clean Technology Development in the European Union." In Energy Tax and Regulatory Policy in Europe: Reform Priorities. Parry, I., Pittel, K. and Vollebergh, H. (eds.) MIT Press, 2017.
  • Popp, D., "Climate-Friendly Technological Change for Developing Countries." In Oxford Handbook of Macroeconomics of Global Warming. Bernard, L., Semmler, W. (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • Popp, D., Newell, R. G. and Jaffe, A. B., "Energy, the environment, and technological change." In Handbook of the Economics of Innovation. , 2010.
  • Popp, D., "Technology transfer: Alternative perspective." In Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits. , 2010.
  • Popp, D., Hafner, T., "Policy vs. Consumer Pressure: Innovation and Diffusion of Alternative Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry." In Environmental Policy, Technological Innovation, and Patents. Johnstone, N., Hascic, I. (eds.) OECD, 2008.
• Conference Proceeding
  • Popp, D., "International technology transfer, climate change, and the clean development mechanism." In Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. , 2011.
• Erratum
  • Johnstone, N., Haš?i?, I. and Popp, D., "Erratum to: Renewable Energy Policies and Technological Innovation: Evidence Based on Patent Counts." Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017.
• General Audience Publications
  • Van den Heuvel, M., Popp, D., "The role of venture capital and governments in clean energy: Lessons from the first cleantech bubble." VoxEU, 2022.
  • Vona, F., Popp, D. and Marin, G., "Who’s ready for the green economy? Measuring skills for the low-carbon transition." OECD Forum Network, 2021.
  • Popp, D., Chen, Z. and Hosseini, H., "What role can green investments play in a pandemic related recovery?." Smart Prosperity Institute Guest Blog, 2020.
  • Popp, D., Vona, F. and Noailly, J., "Green stimulus, jobs and the post-pandemic green recovery." VoxEU, 2020.
  • Popp, D., "Government investments can smooth worker transitions in a green economy, but must be used carefully." Smart Prosperity Institute Guest Blog, 2020.
  • Popp, D., "Promoting Innovation for Low-Carbon Technologies." Policy Proposal, 2019.
  • Popp, D., "It’s Time to Convince Both Liberals and Conservatives: The Time for a Carbon Tax is Now." Newsweek, 2019.
• Technical Reports
  • Popp, D., "The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth." World Bank Green Development Knowledge Platform, 2011.
  • Popp, D., Eun, K. J. and Prag, A., "The Clean Development Mechanism and Neglected Environmental Technologies." nvironment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011.
  • Popp, D., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation. , 2011.
  • Popp, D., "Policies for the Development and Transfer of Eco-Innovations: Lessons From the Literature." OECD Global Forum on Environment on Eco-innovation, 2009.
  • Popp, D., "Mitigation from a cross-sectoral perspective." Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Mitigation of Climate Change report, 2007.
  • Popp, D., "Using the Triadic Patent Family Database to Study Environmental Innovation." Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Environmental Directorate, 2005.
  • Wing, I. S., Popp, D., "Representing Endogenous Technological Change in Models for Climate Policy Analysis: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations." In The Berkeley Climate Policy Study: Potential Economic Costs And Benefits Of Climate Change Policy In California. , 2005.

Workforce Futures Initiative Session VII, Retraining and Reskilling for Incumbent and Displaced Workers, Workforce Futures Initiative (September 14, 2023)

US Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Economics seminar, US Environmental Protection Agency (October, 2022)

OECD Expert Workshop on Environmental Policies: Social and Economic Outcomes, OECD (June, 2022)

OECD Employment, Labour And Social Affairs Department seminar, OECD (May, 2022)

Cornell University Sustainable Environment, Energy, and Resource Economics seminar, Cornell University, "Do Technology Standards Induce Innovation in Environmental Technologies When Coordination is Important?" (April, 2022)

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Fall 2021 conference (September, 2021)

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Fall 2021 conference, Brookings Institute, "The Employment Impact of Green Fiscal Push: Evidence from the American Recovery Act" (September, 2021)

Danish Conference on Environmental Economics Keynote Address (August, 2021)

Tracking Clean Energy Innovation Performance through Patent Indicators: Merits, Limitations and Policy Needs panel, Mission Innovation and the European Commission (May, 2021)

CEPR-RIETI joint conference panel on Green Growth (March, 2021)

CESifo Energy & Climate Economics workshop (March, 2021)

Duke Kunshan University Economics seminar (November, 2020)

Harvard University Seminar on Environmental Economics (October, 2020)

London School of Economics Climate Change and Environment Research Seminar Series (October, 2020)

Resources for the Future workshop: Evaluating Climate-oriented Economic Recovery Programs: Buildings / End Use Efficiency (September, 2020)

Greening Growth Partnership & Economics and Environmental Policy Research Network Annual Symposium (February, 2020)

Economics of Environmental Policy and Innovation workshop (July, 2019)

Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics workshop (June, 2019)

Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics (June, 2019)

St. Lawrence University Economics Department Seminar (April, 2019)

2004-2005 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University (2005)