Working papers

Health, labor, and equity in the low carbon transition of California’s petroleum refineries
Meng, M., Hernandez-Cortes, D., Malloy, C., Mangin, T., Thivierge, V., Deshmukh, R., Weber, P., Deschenes, O., Lea, D. W. & Meng, K. C.
Under review.

Do environmental markets improve allocative efficiency? Evidence from U.S. air pollution
Meng, Kyle C., Vincent Thivierge, and Minwoo Hyun (2026)
Paper NBER WP

Refereed publications

Downstream carbon leakage from upstream carbon tariffs: Evidence from trade tariffs
Thivierge, Vincent.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 34, 103220, 2025
Paper

Well setbacks limit California’s oil supply with larger health benefits and employment losses than excise and carbon taxes
with Ranjit Deshmukh, Paige Weber, Olivier Deschênes, David Lea, Kyle Meng, Danae Hernandez Cortes, Tia Kordell, Ruiwen Lee, Christopher Malloy, Tracey Mangin, Measrainsey Meng, Sandy Sum, and Anagha Uppal
Nature Energy, 8, 562–564, 2023
Paper

Equitable low-carbon transition pathways for California’s oil extraction
with Ranjit Deshmukh, Paige Weber, Olivier Deschênes, David Lea, Kyle Meng, Danae Hernandez Cortes, Tia Kordell, Ruiwen Lee, Christopher Malloy, Tracey Mangin, Measrainsey Meng, Sandy Sum, and Anagha Uppal
Nature Energy, 8, 597–609, 2023
Paper

Carbon pricing and competitiveness pressures: The case of cement trade
Thivierge, Vincent
Canadian Public Policy, 46(1), 45-58, 2020
Paper

Refining the evidence: British Columbia’s carbon tax and household gasoline consumption
Lawley, Chad and Vincent Thivierge
The Energy Journal, 39(2), 147-171, 2018
Paper
Media: The Narwhal

Other refereed publications

Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research
with Abel Brodeur,Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, and 343 other co-authors
Nature, 652, 151-156, 2026
Paper

Finance and green growth: A comment on De Haas and Popov (2023)
Listo, Ariel, Soodeh Saberian, and Vincent Thivierge
The Economic Journal, 135(667), 1021-1023, 2025
Paper

Select policy reports

The Energy Transition and Public Finances in Oil Refining Communities
with Christopher Malloy
Resilient Energy Economies Policy Brief, October 2026
Paper

Trading Up: Ideas to improve Quebec’s cap-and-trade system
with Pierre-Olivier Pineau and Clean Prosperity, 2025
Paper

Enhancing equity while eliminating emissions in California’s supply of transportation fuels
with emLab, 2021
Paper Appendix

Through the Roof: The High Cost of Barriers to Building New Housing in Canadian Municipalities
Dachis, Benjamin and Vincent Thivierge
C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 513, 2018
Paper
Media: Vancouver Sun Global News
op-ed: The Globe and Mail

All’s Well that Ends Well: Addressing End-of-Life Liabilities for Oil and Gas Wells
Dachis, Benjamin, Blake Schaffer, and Vincent Thivierge
C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 492, 2017
Paper
Media: Financial Post

Provincial Carbon Pricing and Household Fairness
Beugin, Dale, Richard Lipsey, Chris Ragan, France St-Hilaire, and Vincent Thivierge. Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, 2016
Paper
Media: Bloomberg