Timothy Fitzgerald

Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN USA

E-mail: Timothy Fitzgerald

Tel: +1 (806) 834-6472

Timothy Fitzgerald is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Baker School at the University of Tennessee. He is also currently serving as chair of the Physical Infrastructure Subcommittee of the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Maryland. His research interests include natural resource and environmental economics, with a focus on energy issues; his research has been published in outlets including the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Energy Economics, Land Economics, and Resource and Energy Economics. In 2017-2018 he served at the Council of Economic Advisers in the White House, as a Senior Economist and as Chief International Economist. He has been a fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC and at the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, MT.

Working Papers

Whose Frac Is It Anyway? (with Mason)

The Economic Costs of Green Recovery Plans (with Mulligan)

Valuing Pore Space for Geological CO₂ Sequestration

Measuring Electrical Reliability and Resilience: The Eagle-I View

Published Papers

Wild Horses and Burros in Economic Perspective Forthcoming REM

Infrastructure for the Energy Transition Forthcoming Case W. L. Rev.

Regulatory Capture in a Resource Boom 2024 Pub. Choice

Wind Project Performance with Age: Policy, Technology, Markets, and the Maturing Wind Power Industry (with Giberson) 2021 The Electricity Journal

Understanding Productivity Effects of Hydraulic Fracturing in Unconventional Natural Gas Deposits and Implications for Adoption in the Developing World (with Mason) 2021 Envrionment and Development Economics

A Sectoral Approach Allows an Artful Merger of Climate and Trade Policy (with Banks) 2020 Climatic Change

Dynamic Impacts of U.S. Energy Development on Agricultural Land Use (with Kuwayama, Olmstead & Thompson) 2020 Energy Policy

Paying for Procurement: Analysis of Landman Compensation Surveys (w/ Aven) 2020 Applied Economics

Does Resource Ownership Matter? Oil and Gas Royalties and the Income Effect of Extraction (w/ Brown & Weber) 2019 JAERE

Regulatory Obsolesence through Technological Change in Oil and Gas Extraction 2018 Env. L. & Pol. Rev.

Capturing rents from natural resource abundance: Private royalties from U.S. onshore oil & gas production (w/ Brown & Weber) 2016 REE

Measuring the effects of natural gas pipeline constraints on regional pricing and market integration (w/ Avalos & Rucker) 2016 Energy Economics

US private oil and natural gas royalties: estimates and policy relevance (w/ Rucker) 2016 OPEC Energy Review

You Can't Drag Them Away: An Economic Analysis of the Wild Horse Burro Program (w/ Elizondo & Rucker) 2016 JARE

Experiential Gains with a New Technology: An Empirical Investigation of Hydraulic Fracturing 2015 ARER

Importance of Mineral Rights and Royalty Interests for Rural Residents and Landowners 2014 Choices

Frackonomics: Some Economics of Hydraulic Fracturing 2013 Case W. L. Rev.

The Role of Ownership in Environmental Performance: Evidence from Coalbed Methane Development 2013 Env. Management

Nonregulatory Approaches to the Environment: Coasean and Pigouvian Perspectives (w/ Banzhaf & Schnier) 2012 REEP

Natural Resource Production under Divided Ownership: Evidence from Coalbed Methane 2012 R. L. & Econ.

Evaluating Split Estates in Oil and Gas Leasing 2010 Land Economics