Jessica Coria - Publications

Featured Publications

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🏛 Environmental Policy Design, Performance, and Incentives

Focus: Understanding and evaluating how different environmental policy instruments perform in practice—considering overlapping policies, multi‑level governance, market structure, transaction costs, information, compliance, enforcement, and incentives for innovation and technology adoption.

Coria, J., and J. Jaraite (2026). Innovation Under Dual Policies: The Impact of R&D Subsidies and Emissions Trading on Green Patenting in Sweden. Forthcoming in Research Policy.
Ambec, S. and J. Coria (2021). The informational value of environmental taxes. Journal of Public Economics 199, 104439.
Coria J., M. Hennlock and T. Sterner (2021). Interjurisdictional Externalities, Overlapping Policies and NOx Pollution Control in Sweden. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 107, 102444.
Ambec, S. and J. Coria (2018). Policy Spillovers in the regulation of multiple pollutants. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 87: 114-134
Ambec, S. and J. Coria (2013). Prices vs. Quantities with Multiple Pollutants, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66(1): 123-140.

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Löfgren, A., L. Ahlvik, I. van den Bijgaart, J. Coria, J. Jaraite, F. Filip Johnsson and J Rootzén (2024). Green Industrial Policy for Climate Action in the Basic Materials Industry. Climatic Change 177(147).

Coria, J. and J. Jaraite (2023). Ownership Structure and Prices: A Case Study of the Swedish Tradable Green Certificate Market. Energy Policy, 183, 113822.

Sterner at al. (2019). Policy design for the Anthropocene. Nature Sustainability 2:14-21.

Coria, J. and J. Jaraite (2018). Transaction Costs of Upstream vs. Downstream Pricing of CO₂ Emissions. Environmental and Resource Economics 72(4):965-1001.

Coria, J. and E. Kyriakopoulou (2018). Environmental Policy, Technology Adoption and the Size Distribution of Firms. Energy Economics 72:470-485.

Bonilla, J., J. Coria and T. Sterner (2018). Technical Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate and Local Air Pollution in Sweden. Environmental and Resource Economics 70(1): 191-221.

Coria, J. and X. Zhang (2017). Optimal Environmental Road Pricing and Daily Commuting Patterns. Transportation Research B: Methodological 105: 297-314

Coria, J. and K. Mohlin (2017). On Refunded Emissions Payment and Technological Diffusion. Strategic Behavior and the Environment 6(3): 205–248.

Coria, J. and X. Zhang (2015). State-Dependent Enforcement to Foster the Adoption of New Technologies. Environmental and Resource Economics 62(2): 359-381.

Bonilla, J., J. Coria, K. Mohlin and T. Sterner (2015). Refunded Emission Payments and Diffusion of NOx Abatement Technologies in Sweden, Ecological Economics 116: 132-145.

Coria, J., J. Bonilla, M. Grundström, and H. Pleijel (2015). Air Pollution Dynamics and the Need for Temporarily Differentiated Road Pricing, Transportation Research A: Policy and Practice 75: 178-195.

Coria, J. and C. Villegas-Palacio (2014). Regulatory Dealing in a Developing Country: Technology Adoption vs. Enforcement Stringency, Contemporary Economic Policy 32(2): 451-473.

Coria, J. and M. Hennlock (2012): Taxes, permits and costly policy response to technological change, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 14(1):35-60.

Coria, J. and T. Sterner (2011): Natural Resource Management: Challenges and Policy Options, Annual Review of Resource Economics 3: 203-230.

Coria, J. (2011): Environmental Crises’ Regulations, Tradable Permits and the Adoption of New Technologies, Resource and Energy Economics 33(3): 455-476.

Villegas C. and J. Coria (2010): On the Interaction between Imperfect Compliance and Technology Adoption: Taxes vs. Tradable Emissions Permits, Journal of Regulatory Economics 38(3): 274-291.

Coria, J., Å. Löfgren and T. Sterner (2010). To trade or not to trade: Firm-level analysis of emissions trading in Santiago, Chile, Journal of Environmental Management 91: 2126-2133.

Coria, J. and T. Sterner (2010): Tradable Permits in Developing Countries: Evidence from Air Pollution in Santiago, Chile, Journal of Environment and Development 19(2), pp 145-170.

Coria, J. (2009): Environmental Policy, Fuel Prices and the Switching to Natural Gas in Santiago, Chile. Ecological Economics, 68 (11): 2877-2884.

Coria, J. (2009): Taxes, Permits and the Diffusion of a New Technology, Resource and Energy Economics 31 (4): 249-271.

Calfucura, E.; Coria, J. and J.M. Sánchez (2009): Permisos Transables De Emisión En Chile: Lecciones, Desafíos Y Oportunidades Para Países En Desarrollo, El Trimestre Económico 304, pp. 1027-1069.
Sánchez, J.M. and Coria, J. (2003): Using a Hypothetical – Efficient Firm to Benchmark Water Utilities. Latin American Journal of Economics, December.

🧪 Chemical Regulation and Toxic Substances

Focus: Understanding the outcomes of chemical regulation and how information gaps, scientific uncertainty, and economic interests shape the identification, prioritization, and substitution of hazardous substances.

Coria, J., E. Kristiansson and M. Gustavsson. (2025). Reply to “Proactive measures help shape the EU candidate list of substances of very high concern”. Nature Communications 16, 4893. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60146-0
Gustavsson, M., Käll, S., Svedberg, P., Inda-Diaz, J. S., Molander, S., Coria, J., Backhaus, T. and Kristiansson, E. (2024). Transformers enable accurate prediction of acute and chronic chemical toxicity in aquatic organisms. Science Advances 10(10).
Coria, J., E. Kristiansson and M. Gustavsson. (2022). Economic Interests Cloud Hazard Reductions in the European Regulation of Substances of Very High Concern. Nature Communications 13, 6686. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34492-2
Coria, J (2018). The Economics of Toxic Substance Control– the REACH Directive. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, rey003, https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/rey003

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Coria, J., M. Dupoux, L. Faucheux and D. Slunge (2023). What drives the substitution of hazardous flame retardants in electronic appliances in Sweden? Cleaner Waste Systems 100113.
Coria, J. and S. Elgueta (2022). Towards an Efficient and Safer Use of Pesticides in Chile. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 29(16), 22785-22797.
Kristiansson, E., Coria, J., Gunnarsson Kerney, L., and M. Gustavsson (2021). Does the scientific knowledge reflect the chemical diversity of environmental pollution? – A twenty tears perspective. Environmental Science and Policy 126: 90-98

🌱 Biodiversity Conservation Policy

Focus: How policy instruments—such as certification, offsetting, and agri‑environmental subsidies—shape biodiversity conservation outcomes.

Vaz, J., J. Coria and V. Inkinen (2026). Environmental offsetting: What drives the choice of offset mechanism in the US Wetland Mitigation Program?. Ecological Economics 239, 108755.
Villalobos, L., Coria, J., and Nordén, A. (2018). Has forest certification reduced forest degradation in Sweden? Land Economics 94(2): 220–238.
Jaime, M., Coria, J. and X. Liu (2016). Interactions between CAP Agricultural and Agri-Environmental Subsidies and Their Effects on the Uptake of Organic Farming. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 98(4):1114-1145.

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Kasimir Klemedtsson, Å., H. He, J. Coria, and A. Nordén (2018). Land use of drained peatlands: greenhouse gas fluxes, plant production, and economics. Global Change Biology 00:1–15.
Nordén, A., Coria, J., Jönsson, M., Lagergren, F. and V. Lehsten (2017). Divergence in Stakeholders' Preferences: Evidence from a Choice Experiment on Forest Landscapes Preferences in Sweden. Ecological Economics 132:179–195.
Coria, J. and E. Calfucura (2012): Ecotourism and the development of indigenous communities: The good, the bad, and the ugly, Ecological Economics 73(15): 47-55.