Anthony Heyes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5735916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Heyes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Heyes |
| SIGNATURE | HEYES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1847-9374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Air pollution and morbidity
The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field
Recent theoretical and empirical work characterises attention as a costly resource that decision-makers allocate strategically. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit high-frequency data on decision-making by Major League Baseball umpires to examine this. We find that umpires apply greater effort to higher-stakes decisions, but also…
The precautionary principle when project implementation capacity is congestible
Does the party in power affect FDI? First causal evidence from narrow margin US state elections
Does the party of government influence the amount and type of inward foreign investment? Correlational studies provide inconsistent evidence. Moreover no existing study, for any level of government or any jurisdiction, uses methods that allow for causal inference. We apply regression discontinuity methods to a set of narrow margin US gubernatorial elections. Over the course of a 4-year term the election of a Republican governor causes a 17% boost…
Hot Days, the ability to Work and climate resilience
Understanding the Organization of Green Activism
Environmental activists are an important voice in public and private politics, urging governmental and corporate responses and solutions to ongoing environmental damage. Scholars have become increasingly interested in understanding environmental movements and the influence of environmental activist organizations. This article describes two literatures that have analyzed the dynamics and outcomes of activism, one based in a sociological examinatio…
The Use of a Social Cost of Carbon in Canadian Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is being adopted for systematic use in cost-benefit analysis (CBA) conducted by the Government of Canada. Although there are potential efficiency gains from its application, we argue that the SCC may be inappropriate for use in CBA for three reasons. First, as currently calculated, the SCC typically excludes the potential for catastrophes and certain types of climate damages, and assumes perfect substitutability be…
Economies of scope and scale in green advocacy
Two Proposals to Improve Price-Cap Regulation
homotheticity of preferences and for welfare or political weights. These considerations are important in reality, but either extension would require considerably more effort.
Restructuring of Ontario's electricity supply system
Lender Penalty for Environmental Damage and the Equilibrium Cost of Capital
In a model of the lending relationship incorporating both adverse selection and moral hazard, we show that increasing the liability of lenders for environmental damage done by their borrowers has a qualitatively ambiguous impact upon interest rates. This calls into question the assertion of financial community representatives that such reform will necessarily driveup interest rates and have adverse macroeconomic consequences. If it is this fear w…
Discharge Taxes When Regulatory Jurisdiction Is Incomplete
In a simple duopoly setting, the author shows that the imposition of a discharge tax that can only be enforced on one of the firms may increase industry discharges. Thus, if the regulator cannot collect such a tax universally because some firms lie outside his nominal jurisdiction or some firms are 'uninspectable' and, hence, lie outside his de facto jurisdiction, then collecting it from the subset of firms from which it can be collected will not…
Why do we price electricity the way we do? Canadian policy in the light of political‐economic theories of governmental behaviour
In the past few decades, crown electrical utilities have exhausted available economies of scale. At marginal‐cost prices, the utilities could recover costs and even a rent. Yet the available rents have not been collected through economically efficient pricing, but distributed to consumers through low prices. Who benefits from this policy? Second‐best prices are found subject to the constraint that profits are nil, and are compared to actual prici…
Hot Days, the ability to Work and climate resilience
The Use of a Social Cost of Carbon in Canadian Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is being adopted for systematic use in cost-benefit analysis (CBA) conducted by the Government of Canada. Although there are potential efficiency gains from its application, we argue that the SCC may be inappropriate for use in CBA for three reasons. First, as currently calculated, the SCC typically excludes the potential for catastrophes and certain types of climate damages, and assumes perfect substitutability be…
Economies of scope and scale in green advocacy
Why do we price electricity the way we do? Canadian policy in the light of political‐economic theories of governmental behaviour
In the past few decades, crown electrical utilities have exhausted available economies of scale. At marginal‐cost prices, the utilities could recover costs and even a rent. Yet the available rents have not been collected through economically efficient pricing, but distributed to consumers through low prices. Who benefits from this policy? Second‐best prices are found subject to the constraint that profits are nil, and are compared to actual prici…
Why do we price electricity the way we do? Canadian policy in the light of political‐economic theories of governmental behaviour
In the past few decades, crown electrical utilities have exhausted available economies of scale. At marginal‐cost prices, the utilities could recover costs and even a rent. Yet the available rents have not been collected through economically efficient pricing, but distributed to consumers through low prices. Who benefits from this policy? Second‐best prices are found subject to the constraint that profits are nil, and are compared to actual prici…
Discharge Taxes When Regulatory Jurisdiction Is Incomplete
In a simple duopoly setting, the author shows that the imposition of a discharge tax that can only be enforced on one of the firms may increase industry discharges. Thus, if the regulator cannot collect such a tax universally because some firms lie outside his nominal jurisdiction or some firms are 'uninspectable' and, hence, lie outside his de facto jurisdiction, then collecting it from the subset of firms from which it can be collected will not…
Lender Penalty for Environmental Damage and the Equilibrium Cost of Capital
In a model of the lending relationship incorporating both adverse selection and moral hazard, we show that increasing the liability of lenders for environmental damage done by their borrowers has a qualitatively ambiguous impact upon interest rates. This calls into question the assertion of financial community representatives that such reform will necessarily driveup interest rates and have adverse macroeconomic consequences. If it is this fear w…
Restructuring of Ontario's electricity supply system
Two Proposals to Improve Price-Cap Regulation
homotheticity of preferences and for welfare or political weights. These considerations are important in reality, but either extension would require considerably more effort.
Economies of scope and scale in green advocacy
The Use of a Social Cost of Carbon in Canadian Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is being adopted for systematic use in cost-benefit analysis (CBA) conducted by the Government of Canada. Although there are potential efficiency gains from its application, we argue that the SCC may be inappropriate for use in CBA for three reasons. First, as currently calculated, the SCC typically excludes the potential for catastrophes and certain types of climate damages, and assumes perfect substitutability be…
Understanding the Organization of Green Activism
Environmental activists are an important voice in public and private politics, urging governmental and corporate responses and solutions to ongoing environmental damage. Scholars have become increasingly interested in understanding environmental movements and the influence of environmental activist organizations. This article describes two literatures that have analyzed the dynamics and outcomes of activism, one based in a sociological examinatio…
Does the party in power affect FDI? First causal evidence from narrow margin US state elections
Does the party of government influence the amount and type of inward foreign investment? Correlational studies provide inconsistent evidence. Moreover no existing study, for any level of government or any jurisdiction, uses methods that allow for causal inference. We apply regression discontinuity methods to a set of narrow margin US gubernatorial elections. Over the course of a 4-year term the election of a Republican governor causes a 17% boost…
Hot Days, the ability to Work and climate resilience
The precautionary principle when project implementation capacity is congestible
Air pollution and morbidity
The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field
Recent theoretical and empirical work characterises attention as a costly resource that decision-makers allocate strategically. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit high-frequency data on decision-making by Major League Baseball umpires to examine this. We find that umpires apply greater effort to higher-stakes decisions, but also…
Economics (11 works) · Political science (7 works) · Microeconomics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)