Olmstead, S., Leibowicz, B., Waxman, A., Mason, C., Stemmler, J., and Huber-Rodriguez, H. 2025. How to design better incentives for carbon capture and storage in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Feng, S., Stemmler, J., Arlinghaus, J., Fankhauser, S., and Smith, S. M. 2025. Policy Evaluation and Selection to Accelerate Geological Carbon Dioxide Removal Deployment. CO2RE Policy Briefing.

Yang, P., Fankhauser, S., Smith, S. M., Sundvor, I., Hirmer, S., Johnstone, I., and Stemmler, J. 2024. Policy Support for BECCS and DACCS in Europe: The View of Market Participants. Environmental Research Letters.  

Arlinghaus, J., Feng, S., Stemmler, J., Fankhauser, S., Smith, S.M. 2025. A taxonomy of policies to support geological carbon dioxide removal. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Working Paper.
Choosing well-suited policies to support geological carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is vital to successfully reach net zero goals. We construct a taxonomy that categorizes various policies implemented and under consideration to support CDR efforts. We evaluate the stringency, efficiency, feasibility, strategic fit, and potential trade-offs associated with each policy. We also assess policy sequencing along different stages of technological readiness levels, and we illustrate our framework with policy examples from the EU, the UK and the US. Our work highlights the need to introduce mandatory and complementary policy bundles, which ideally change over time as CDR technology matures. In addition, the objective to provide stable and effective policy signals must be balanced with the flexibility required to keep up with technological change, while also aligning with government budget constraints.

Stemmler, J. and Waxman, A. Capture with Credit? Perverse Incentives in the Design of Carbon Sequestration Credits. (In preparation.)

Tacit Collusion in Repeated Unit Commitment Auctions [with Joseph Duggan].

Optimal Policy Sequencing for Large-Scale Deployment of Carbon Dioxide Removal [with Siyu Feng and Mark Workman]. 

A strategic framework for the fossil fuel endgame [with Samuel Fankhauser, Myles Allen, Johanna Arlinghaus, Siyu Feng, Benjamin Franta, Cameron Hepburn, Radhika Khosla, and others] (In Submission).