Geoffrey Rothwell

Biographic Data

ID5580469
NAMEGeoffrey Rothwell
GIVEN NAMESGeoffrey
FAMILY NAMERothwell
SIGNATUREROTHWELL G
AFFILIATIONSStanford University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Tributes to Robert W. McChesney

    Open AccessMari Jo Buhle, Ralph Nader et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review2025

    To conclude our special issue on Robert W. McChesney's legacy, MR presents a series of tributes capturing his impact on the world around him. The diversity represented by these illustrious contributors, from his colleagues at the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) to Senator Bernie Sanders, is a testament to McChesney's enduring influence

  • Can the European nuclear power industry compete with the Chinese nuclear power industry

    Open AccessGeoffrey RothwellARTICLEJournal of Infrastructure Policy…2024

    European commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, told Le Journal du Dimanche in January 2022, “Existing nuclear plants alone will need 50 billion euros of investment from now until 2030. And new generation ones will need 500 billion”. This paper considers whether these values are realistic. Further, it asks whether these investments would yield an internationally competitive European nuclear power infrastructure given that the nucle…

  • On the Optimal Lifetime of Nuclear Powe Plants

    Geoffrey Rothwell, John RustARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…1997

    We present an empirical model of optimal operation of nuclear power plants. The optimal lifetime is the solution to an optimal stopping problem: The plant is closed when the expected discounted losses from continued operation exceed the discounted costs of decommissioning. We forecast the evolution of the nuclear power industry under the current regime of 40-year operating licenses and for a policy allowing 20-year license extensions. We conclude…

  • On the Optimal Lifetime of Nuclear Power Plants

    Geoffrey Rothwell, John Rust et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…1997

    Geoffrey Rothwell, John Rust, On the Optimal Lifetime of Nuclear Power Plants, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 15, No. 2, Structural Estimation in Applied Microeconomics (Apr., 1997), pp. 195-208

  • Organizational Structure and Expected Output at Nuclear Power Plants

    Geoffrey RothwellARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1996

    This paper examines the relationship between organizational structure and operation and outage durations at nuclear power plants in the United States. It empirically examines Aoki's (1990) proposition that (1) hierarchical control increases productivity in situations that are very stable or very uncertain and (2) horizontal coordination increases productivity in intermediate situations. It describes a model of continuous production in which manag…

  • Safety at nuclear power plants

    Open AccessJeffrey A Dubin, Geoffrey Rothwell et al.ARTICLEThe Social Science Journal1989Cited by: 1

    The Price-Anderson Act has indemnified the commercial nuclear power industry since its inception. This article proposes a present value model of firm investment in reactor safety systems to investigate the safety incentives of the 1988 amendments to the Act. While the amendments increase safety incentives for electric utilities through insurance regulation, safety behavior depends crucially on the anticipated reaction of the state regulatory comm…