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Nikolaos Zirogiannis

Assistant Professor

Phone:: (812) 856-8323
Email:: nzirogia@indiana.edu
Website:: https://nickziro.github.io/

Research areas:: Environmental and Energy Policy; Methods Econometrics and Data Management; Public Finance and Economics
Areas of Interest:: Applied econometrics; Environmental and natural resource economics; Environmental policy; Energy policy

SPEA 331

Education

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2013
M.S., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2009
M.Sc., University of Edinburgh, U.K., 2006
B.A., Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, 2003

Courses

Environment and People
International Environmental Policy
Water Policy and Economics
Energy Economics and Policy

Biography

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Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Nikolaos Zirogiannis is an environmental economist with a focus on energy policy research and applied econometrics. His energy policy work ranges from applications in the electricity sector (co-pollutant benefits of climate change mitigation policies in power plants), transportation (macroeconomic impacts of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards), and industry (upset emissions from refineries and chemical plants).

His previous work includes dynamic latent variable models that are applied to the estimation of performance trajectories. The applications there range from measuring the performance of water utilities to assessing the cognitive decline of Alzheimer's disease patients, as well as estimating the human development status of nations across time.

Zirogiannis holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a member of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics.

Highlights

Trustees Teaching Award (2022)
O’Neill Graduate Teaching Award (2021)

In the News

Comment on "Withdrawal of Finding of Substantial Inadequacy of Implementation Plan and of Call for Texas State Implementation Plan Revision-Affirmative Defense Provisions (Docket ID No EPA–R06–OAR–2018–0770)," (with A.J. Hollingsworth and D.M. Konisky) - Environmental Protection Agency, regulations.gov, June 21, 2019
"Where did all the health benefits go? Evaluating EPA's repeal of the Clean Power Plan," (with C. Wing and A.J. Hollingsworth) - SPEA Advance (March 2018)

Selected Works

"Excess emissions: Environmental impacts, health effects, and policy debate," (with A.J. Hollingsworth and D.M. Konisky), provisionally accepted by the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, (2022)
“The Health Consequences of Excess Emissions: Evidence from Texas,” (with A.J. Hollingsworth and D.M. Konisky), Journal of Environmental Economics and Managment (July 2021). Open access pre-print version.
- Related article: “How Many People Die When Polluters Exceed Their Limits?” - Wired (May 27, 2021)
“Estimating co-pollutant benefits from climate change policies in the electricity sector: A regression approach,” (with D.H. Simon, A.J. Hollingsworth), Energy Economics, (2020)
“Racial, Ethnic and Income Disparities in Air Pollution: A Study of Excess Emissions in Texas,” (with Z. Li, D. Konisky), PLOS ONE, (August 2, 2019)
“Tying enforcement to prices in emissions markets: An experimental evaluation,” (with J.K. Stranlund, J.J. Murphy, J.M. Spraggon), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2019)
“Overcoming the Shortcomings of U.S. Plug-In Electric Vehicle Policies,” (with S. Carley, S. Siddiki, D. Duncan, and J.D. Graham), Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 113: 109291 (2019)
"The Effect of Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards on Vehicle Sales Projections: A Total Cost of Ownership Approach," (with D. Duncan, S. Carley, S. Siddiki, and J.D. Graham), Transport Policy, 75:70-87 (2019)
"An Analysis of the Macroeconomic Effects of the 2017-2025 Federal Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards," (with S. Carley, D. Duncan, S. Siddiki, and J.D. Graham), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 38(3): 732-763 (2019)
"Empirical Evaluation of the Stringency and Design of Renewable Portfolio Standards," (with S. Carley, L. Davies, and D. Spence), Nature Energy 3: 754-763 (2018)
"Understanding Excess Emissions from Industrial Facilities: Evidence from Texas," (with A. Hollingsworth, D. Konisky), Environmental Science and Technology 52 (5): 2482-2490 (2018)
- Related article: “Air pollution from industrial shutdowns and startups worse than thought,”(with A.J. Hollingsworth and D.M. Konisky) – The Conversation, February 14, 2018
  (Also in the Chicago Tribune and Houston Chronicle on February 14, 2018)
"Dynamic Factor Analysis for Short Panels: Estimating Performance Trajectories for Water Utilities," (with Y. Tripodis), Statistical Methods and Applications, 27 (1): 131-150 (2018)

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