Curriculum Vitae
Short CV
Current Appointment:
De-Min and Chin-Sha Wu Associate Professor, University of Kansas, Department of Economics
Previous Appointment:
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Education:
Ph.D. - Agricultural and Resource Economics (2013)
University of Connecticut, Storrs (CT)
M.S. - Agricultural and Resource Economics (2010)
University of Connecticut, Storrs (CT)
M.A. - Economics (2008)
Columbia University, New York (NY)
B.A. - Economics, German Studies (2006)
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie (NY)
Research Areas:
Environmental and resource economics, energy economics, applied microeconomics, climate change economics, behavioral economics
Published Work:
Tsvetanov, T. (forthcoming). "Demand for a 'Smart' Add-On: The Case of In-Home Displays," Applied Economics Letters: doi: 10.1080/13504851.2023.2291093. link to article
Tsvetanov, T. (2022). "The Deterring Effect of Monetary Costs on Smart Meter Adoption," Applied Energy, 318: doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119247. link to article
Tsvetanov, T. and S. Slaria (2021). "The Effect of the Colonial Pipeline Shutdown on Gasoline Prices," Economics Letters, 209: doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110122. link to article
Tsvetanov, T., T. Miceli, and K. Segerson (2021). "Products Liability with Temptation Bias," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 186: 76-93. link to article
Yuan, Y., H. Duan, and T. Tsvetanov (2020). "Synergizing China's Energy and Carbon Mitigation Goals: General Equilibrium Model and Policy Assessment," Energy Economics, 89: doi: 10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104787. link to article
Tsvetanov, T. and D. Earnhart (2020). "The Effectiveness of a Water Right Retirement Program at Conserving Water," Land Economics, 96(1): 56-74. link to article
Hayden, H. and T. Tsvetanov (2019). "The Effectiveness of Urban Irrigation Day Restrictions in California," Water Economics and Policy, 5(3): doi: 10.1142/S2382624X19500012. link to article
Tsvetanov, T. (2019). "When the Carrot Goes Bad: The Effect of Solar Rebate Uncertainty," Energy Economics, 81: 886-898. link to article
Gillingham, K. and T. Tsvetanov (2019). "Hurdles and Steps: Estimating Demand for Solar Photovoltaics," Quantitative Economics, 10(1): 275-310. link to article
Du, Y., B. Song, H. Duan, T. Tsvetanov, and Y. Wu (2019). "Multi-Renewable Management: Interactions between Wind and Solar within Uncertain Technology Ecological System," Energy Conversion and Management, 187: 232-247. link to article
Gillingham, K. and T. Tsvetanov (2018). "Nudging Energy Efficiency Audits: Evidence from a Field Experiment," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 90(1): 303-316. link to article
Tsvetanov, T., D. Mukherjee, L. Qi, F. Shah, and B. Bravo-Ureta (2016). "Climate Change and Land Use in Southeastern U.S.: Did the 'Dumb Farmer' Get It Wrong?" Climate Change Economics, 7(3): doi: 10.1142/S2010007816500056. link to article
Tsvetanov, T. and K. Segerson (2014). "The Welfare Effects of Energy Efficiency Standards When Choice Sets Matter," Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1(1): 233-271. link to article
Tsvetanov, T. and K. Segerson (2013). "Re-evaluating the Role of Energy-Efficiency Standards: A Behavioral Economics Approach," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 66(2): 347-363. link to article
Tsvetanov, T. and F. Shah (2013). "The Economic Value of Delaying Adaptation to Sea-level Rise: An Application to Coastal Properties in Connecticut," Climatic Change, 121(2): 177-193. link to article
Segerson, K. and T. Tsvetanov (2013). "Regulation vs. Liability: A Behavioral Economics Perspective," in Miceli, T. and M. Baker (eds.): Research Handbook on Economic Models of Law, Edgar Elgar Publishers. link to chapter
Working Papers:
"Promotional Campaign Duration and Word-of-Mouth in Solar Adoption" (with B. Bollinger, K. Gillingham, and S. Lamp)
Selected Work in Progress:
"Barriers to the Diffusion of Smart Meters"
"The Economics of Water Allocation: Optimization in the Edwards Aquifer, Texas" (with C. de Ronde and F. Shah)
"Corporate Green Technology Adoption" (with K. Tseng)