Ross McKitrick
Publications and Papers

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Books

Peer-Reviewed Economics Journal Articles
  1. Hu, Bin and Ross R. McKitrick (2012) Discount Rate Distortions and the Resource CurseSouth African Journal of Economics, accepted.
  2. McKitrick, Ross R. and Nicolas Nierenberg (2010) Socioeconomic Patterns in Climate Data. Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 35(3,4) pp. 149-175. DOI 10.3233/JEM-2010-0336.
  3. McKitrick, Ross R. (2010) A Simple State-Contingent Pricing Rule for Complex Intertemporal Externalities. Energy Economics doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2010.06.013
  4. Koop, Gary M., Ross R. McKitrick and Lise A. Tole (2010) Air Pollution, Economic Activity and Respiratory Illness: Evidence from Canadian Cities, 1974-1994 Environmental Modeling and Software , DOI:10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.01.010.
  5. McKitrick, Ross R. (2006) Why Did US Air Pollution Decline After 1970? Empirical Economics , 33(3): 491-513, DOI:10.1007/s00181-006-0111-4.
  6. McKitrick, Ross (2006). The Politics of Pollution: Party Regimes and Air Quality in Canada Canadian Journal of Economics 39(2), May 2006, 604-620.
  7. McKitrick, Ross (2005). "Decentralizing a Regulatory Standard Expressed in Ratio or Intensity Form." Energy Journal 26(4) 1-9.
  8. McKitrick, Ross and Timothy Shufelt (2002). "Environmental Impacts of Enhanced Property Rights." Environment and Energy 13(3) pp. 367-382.
  9. McKitrick, Ross R. and Robert C. Collinge. (2002) "The Existence and Uniqueness of Optimal Pollution Policy in the Presence of Victim Defense Measures."Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 44, pp 106-122.
  10. McKitrick, Ross R. (2001) "The Design of Regulations Expressed as Ratios or Percentage Quotas." Journal of Regulatory Economics 19(3), pp. 295-305.
  11. Weersink, Alfons, Ross McKitrick and Michael Nailor (2001). "The Economics of Voluntary Shared Cost Programs" Current Agriculture, Food and Resource Issues 2/2001:23-36.(CAFRI)
  12. McKitrick, Ross R. (2001). "Mitigation versus Compensation in Global Warming Policy" Economics Bulletin, Vol 17 no. 2 pp. 1-6.
  13. McKitrick, Ross R. and Robert C. Collinge, (2000) "Linear Pigovian Taxes and the Optimal Size of a Polluting Industry" Canadian Journal of Economics 33(4) pp. 1106-1119.
  14. McKitrick, Ross R. (1999) "A Derivation of the Marginal Abatement Cost Function." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management May 1999, pp. 306-314.
  15. Helliwell, John F. and Ross R. McKitrick, (1999) "Comparing Capital Mobility across National and Provincial Borders," Canadian Journal of Economics 32(5) pp. 1164-1173. additional results
  16. McKitrick, Ross R. (1999) "A Cournot Mechanism for Pollution Control under Asymmetric Information." Environmental and Resource Economics October 1999, pp. 353-363.
  17. McKitrick, Ross R. (1998) "The Econometric Critique of Applied General Equilibrium Modelling: The Role of Functional Forms." Economic Modelling 15 pp. 543-573.
  18. McKitrick, Ross (1997). "Double-Dividend Environmental Taxation and Canadian Carbon Emissions Control" Canadian Public Policy December 1997, pp. 417-434.

Peer-Reviewed Science Journal Articles
  1. McKitrick, Ross R., Stephen McIntyre and Chad Herman (2010)Panel and Multivariate Methods for Tests of Trend Equivalence in Climate Data Sets. Atmospheric Science Letters DOI: 10.1002/asl.290.
  2. McKitrick, Ross R. (2010) Atmospheric Oscillations do not Explain the Temperature-Industrialization Correlation. Statistics, Politics and Policy, Vol 1 No. 1, July 2010.
  3. McIntyre, Stephen and Ross R. McKitrick (2009) Proxy Inconsistency and Other Problems in Millennial Paleoclimate Reconstructions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 10, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0812509106.
  4. McKitrick, Ross R. and Patrick J. Michaels. (2007) Quantifying the influence of anthropogenic surface processes and inhomogeneities on gridded surface climate data. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 112, D24S09, doi:10.1029/2007JD008465. .
  5. Essex, Christopher, Andresen, Bjarne and Ross McKitrick. (2007) Does a Global Temperature Exist? Journal of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Vol 32 No. 1
  6. McIntyre, Stephen and Ross McKitrick (2005)Reply to Comment by von Storch and Zorita on "Hockey Sticks, Principal Components and Spurious Significance"Geophysical Research Letters 32(20) L20714 10.1029/2005GL023089 21 October 2005
  7. McIntyre, Stephen and Ross McKitrick (2005)Reply to Comment by Huybers on "Hockey Sticks, Principal Components and Spurious Significance" Geophysical Research Letters 32(20) L20714 10.1029/2005GL023586 21 October 2005
  8. McIntyre, Stephen and Ross McKitrick (2005)The M&M Critique of the MBH98 Northern Hemisphere Climate Index: Update and Implications Energy and Environment 16(1) pp. 69-100.
  9. McIntyre, Stephen and Ross McKitrick (2005)Hockey Sticks, Principal Components and Spurious Significance Geophysical Research LettersVol. 32, No. 3, L03710 10.1029/2004GL021750 12 February 2005.
  10. McKitrick, Ross and Patrick J. Michaels (2004). "Are Temperature Trends Affected by Economic Activity? Reply to Benestad (2004)" Climate Research 27(2) pp. 175-176.
  11. McIntyre, S. and R. McKitrick (2004). "Materials Complaint Concerning 'Global Scale Temperature Patterns and Climate Forcing over the Past Six Centuries'" Nature 430 July 1, 2004, p. 105.
  12. McKitrick, Ross and Patrick J. Michaels (2004). "A Test of Corrections for Extraneous Signals in Gridded Surface Temperature Data" Climate Research 26 pp. 159-173.
  13. McIntyre, Steven and Ross McKitrick, (2003). "Corrections to the Mann et. al. (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemisphere Average Temperature Series." Environment and Energy 14(6) pp. 751-771.
  14. McKitrick, Ross R. (2002)."Inference About Trends in Temperature Data After Controlling for Serial Correlation and Heteroskedastic Variance." Invited Paper, Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society 164(3) pp. 16-24. (English version)

Invited Lectures and Book Chapters
  1. McIntyre, Stephen and Ross. R. McKitrick (2005) The Hockey Stick Debate: Lessons in Disclosure and Due Diligence . Invited Briefing, Washington Roundtable on Science and public Policy, National Press Club, Washington DC. Hosted by the Marshall Institute.
  2. McKitrick, Ross R. (2005) "Science and Environmental Policymaking: Bias-Proofing the Assessment Process" Invited keynote address, International Policy Forum on Greenhouse Gas Management, University of Victoria, April 29, 2005.
  3. McKitrick, Ross R. (2005) What is the Hockey Stick Debate About? Presentation to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Centre Meeting on "Managing Climate Change - Practicalities and Realities in a post-Kyoto Future", Parliament House, Canberra Australia, April 4, 2005 (by videolink).
  4. Mitcham, Carl and Ross McKitrick (2005) "Economics: Overview" in The MacMillan Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, Thompson Gale, July 2005.
  5. McKitrick, Ross R. (2004) Bringing Balance, Disclosure and Due Diligence into Science-Based Policymaking. Presented to "Public Science in Liberal Democracy: The Challenge to Science and Democracy", University of Saskatoon, October 2004; Forthcoming chapter in book of same name, Jene Porter ed., University of Toronto Press.
  6. McKitrick, Ross R. (2006) The Mann et al. Northern Hemisphere "Hockey Stick" Climate Index: A Tale of Due Diligence. in Michaels, Patrick, ed. Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
  7. McKitrick, Ross R. (November 2003) An Economist's Perspective on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Invited presentation to the University of Manitoba Economics Department Fall Workshop, 2003.
  8. McKitrick, Ross R. (April 2003) "Budget '03 and the Kyoto Process." In The 2003 Federal Budget: Conflicting Tensions edited by Charles Beach and Thomas Wilson, John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University.

Other Global Warming-Related Articles and Presentations

Air Pollution-Related Articles and Presentations

Book Reviews
  • Review of International Environmental Policy: Interests and the Failure of the Kyoto Process The World Economy January 2004
  • Review of Economics of Coastal and Water Resources: Valuing Environmental Functions The World Economy June 2002
  • Review of The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming by David Victor, Policy Options May-June 2002.

Other Discussion Papers and Current Projects

  • (with Mark Strazicic and Junsoo Lee) Stationarity of Global Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Implications for Global Warming Scenarios
  • (with Bin Hu) Pollution Havens and Factor Endowments: The Case of Consumption-Generated Pollution
  • (with Bin Hu) Discount rate distortions and the resource curse
  • (with Bin Hu) Climatic Variations and the Market Value of Insurance Firms
  • (with Stephen McIntyre) Panel and Multivariate Methods for Tests of Trend Equivalence in Climate Data Series
  • A Simple State-Contingent Pricing Rule for Complex Intertemporal Externalities

Other Policy Papers

Newspaper Op-Eds

Recent Journal Refereeing
Econometrica, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Physical Geography, Environment and Resource Economics, Energy Journal, Resource and Energy Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, The World Economy.


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