ANTHONY A. SMITH, JR. (Tony)
Dean of Social Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Yale University

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WORKING PAPERS

• NorESM2–DIAM: A coupled model for investigating global and regional climate-economy interactions (with Jenny Bjordal, Henri Cornec, and Trude Storelvmo), September 2025, under review at Geoscientific Model Development (preprint).
  
  
• Climate Change Around the World (with Per Krusell), July 2022, NBER Working Paper 30338, CEPR Discussion Paper 17522, and Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper CFDP 2342 (slides).
  
  
  • Movie #1: Percentage change in GDP
  • Movie #2: Distribution of percentage change in GDP
  • Movie #3: Temperature
  • Movie #4: Change in temperature
  • Movie #5: Productivity
  • Movie #6: Distribution of marginal product of capital
  • Welfare analysis by country:
    • Percentage of population in favor of carbon tax
    • Welfare gain from carbon tax
  
  
• How Much Can Taxation Alleviate Temptation and Self-Control Problems? (with Per Krusell and Burhanettin Kuruscu), May 2009.
  
  
• Consumption-Savings Decisions with Quasi-Geometric Discounting: The Case with a Discrete Domain (with Per Krusell), December 2008.
  
  
• Near-Rational Alternatives and the Empirical Evaluation of Real Business Cycle Models, December 1993, Tepper School of Business Working Paper No. 239.
  
  
• Near-Rational Behavior and the Real Business Cycle, 1992, Tepper School of Business Working Paper No. 1998-42.
  
  
• Solving Stochastic Dynamic Programming Problems Using Rules of Thumb, 1991, Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 816.