- Phone:
- (812) 855-6976
- Email:
- aaliu@indiana.edu
- Room Number:
- 375D
- Areas of Interest:
- Climate change policy ,
- Environment in developing countries ,
- Pollution issues in China
Education
- Ph.D., University of California-San Diego, 2012
- M.A., University of California-Santa Barbara. 2005
- B.A., Stanford University, 2000
Courses
- Public Program Evaluation
- Environment and People
- Managerial Statistics
- Sustainability Management in China
- Market Imperfections & Policy
Biography
Associate Professor Anthony Liu joined O'Neill in 2015. Previously, Liu was a visiting assistant professor of economics at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in China and a fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C.
Liu’s research interests include climate change policy and the environment in developing countries. Some of his recent work addresses carbon taxes and the unique properties that could make them attractive components of modern tax systems. He is also interested in pollution issues and the interactions between the environment and the economy in China, and he has studied large-scale water treatment infrastructure in China.
Liu earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego. He earned a master’s in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, after completing his bachelor’s in economics from Stanford University.
Highlights
- National Science Foundation of China, Grant, 2014
- Research Grant, Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies, 2011
In the News
- "China Gets a Little More Fresh Air" - Bloomberg Businessweek, March 9, 2015
- “Clearing the Smog on China’s Anti-Pollution Strategy” - Bloomberg Brief, October 2014
- “China’s War on Air Pollution Shows More Promise than Reports Indicate” - Forbes Asia, August 6, 2014
- “China Pollution Controls’ Short-Term Costs Outweighed by Long-Term Benefits” - Bloomberg Brief, April 3, 2014
Selected Works
- “Vehicle Ownership Restrictions and Fertility in Beijing,” (with Joshua Linn, Ping Qin, and Jun Yang), Journal of Development Economics (July 2018)
- “Environmental Policy in the Presence of an Informal Sector,” (with A. Bento and M. Jacobsen), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 90, 61-77 (July 2018)
- “Efficacy of Command-and-Control and Market-Based Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries,” (with A. Blackman and Zhengyan Li), Annual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 10. (October 2018)
- “The Effects of Subway Expansion on Traffic Conditions: Evidence from Beijing,” (with Jun Yang, Shuai Chen, Ping Qin, and Fangwen Lu), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 88, 114-133 (March 2018)
- “Can Induced Technological Change Produce a Double Dividend?” (with H. Yamagami), Environmental and Resource Economics (2017)