Thomas Rutherford
Professor
Department of Management, Technology and Economics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
The University of Wisconsin, Madision. Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2012–present. The Swiss Federal Institute of Techology (ETH), Zürich. Chair in Energy Economics, 2008–2011. Freelance Professional Economist, 2005–2008. University of Colorado. Professor of Economics, 2003–2005. Associate Professor, 1997–2002. Assistant Professor, 1992–1996. University of Western Ontario. Assistant Professor of Economics, 1987–1992. Yale University. Postdoctoral research associate and lecturer, 1986–1987. Norwegian School of Economics. Researcher. 1982–1983. Peace Corps, Nepal. Rural suspension bridge engineer. 1977–1979.
Research Interest
Energy markets, climate policy, international trade, technical change and computational economics
Publications
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Sharing the burden for climate change mitigation in the Canadian federation, with Christoph Böhringer, Nicholas Rivers, and Randall Wigle, The Canadian Journal of Economics 48 (4), 2015.
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Market Structure and the Environmental Implications of Trade Liberalization: Russia’s Accession to the World Trade Organization, with Christoph Böhringer, David Tarr and Natalia Turdyeva, Review of International Economics 23(5), 897–923, 2015.
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The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs, with Christoph Böhringer and Jared Carbone, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8(1), 1–25, 2016.
