Publication

Patrick Bayer (2023). Foreignness as an Asset: European Carbon Regulation and the Relocation Threat among Multinational Firms. Journal of Politics 85(4): 1291-1304. [PDF] [Data and code].

Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer (2023). The Politics of Sustainability: Energy Efficiency, Carbon Pricing, and the Circular Economy. Handbook on the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition. Daniel Scholten (ed), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. [Buy].

Patrick Bayer (PI)
Funding period: 1 May 2022–31 October 2023 (2022). How Credible are Firms’ Voluntary Climate Commitments? An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Climate Action.

Patrick Bayer (PI), Hannah Hughes (Co-I, Aberystwyth), Erlend Hermansen (Co-I, CICERO)
Funding period: 1 January 2022–30 June 2024 (2021). The Politics of Science in International Climate Cooperation.

Patrick Bayer, Federica Genovese (2020). Beliefs about Climate Action Consequences under Weak Global Institutions: Sectors, Home Bias, and International Embeddedness. Global Environmental Politics. 20(4):28-50. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Michaël Aklin (2020). The European Union Emissions Trading System Reduced CO2 Emissions Despite Low Prices. Proceedings of the National Academcy of the Sciences 117(16): 8804-8812. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Ryan Kennedy, Joonseok Yang, Johannes Urpelainen (2020). The Need for Impact Evaluation in Electricity Access Research. Energy Policy 137: 111099. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer (PI), Federica Genovese (Co-I, Essex)
Funding period: 1 June 2021–30 June 2022 (2020). The Sectoral Politics of Climate Policy: Domestic Conflict and UK Public Support for Ambitious Climate Action.

David Hamburger, Joel Jaeger, Patrick Bayer, Ryan Kennedy, Joonseok Yang, Johannes Urpelainen (2019). Shades of Darkness or Light? A Systematic Review of Geographic Bias in Impact Evaluations of Electricity Access. Energy Research & Social Science 58: 101236. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Alexander Ovodenko (2019). Many Voices in the Room: A National Survey Experiment on How Framing Changes Views Toward Fracking in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science 56: 101213. [PDF] [Data and code].

Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen (2018). Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor. MIT Press. Cambridge, MA. [Buy].

Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen (2018). Economics of Household Technology Adoption in Developing Countries: Evidence from Solar Technology Adoption in Rural India. Energy Economics 72:35-46. [PDF] [Data and code].

Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen (2017). Does Basic Energy Access Generate Socioeconomic Benefits? A Field Experiment with Off-grid Solar Power in India. Science Advances 3(5):e1602153. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Johannes Urpelainen (2016). It Is All about Political Incentives: Democracy and the Renewable Feed-in Tariff. Journal of Politics 78(2):603-619. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Johannes Urpelainen, Alice Xu (2016). Explaining Differences in Sub-national Patterns of Clean Technology Transfer to China and India. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics 16(2):261-283. [PDF] [Data and code].

Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen (2015). The Political Economy of Energy Access: Survey Evidence from India on State Intervention and Public Opinion. Energy Research & Social Science 94:28-36. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Christopher Marcoux, Johannes Urpelainen (2015). When International Organizations Bargain: Evidence from the Global Environment Facility. Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(6):1074-1100. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Valerie M. Pinkerton, Johannes Urpelainen (2015). Small and Beautiful? The Programme of Activities and the Least Developed Countries. Climate and Development 7(2):153-164. [PDF] [Data and code].

Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen (2015). Quantifying Slum Electrification in India and Explaining Local Variation.. Energy 80:203-212. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Christopher Marcoux, Johannes Urpelainen (2014). Choosing International Organizations: When Do States and the World Bank Collaborate on Environmental Projects?. Review of International Organizations 9(4):413-440. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Johannes Urpelainen, Alice Xu (2014). Laissez Faire and the Clean Development Mechanism: Determinants of Project Implementation in Indian states, 2003–2011. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 16:1687-1701. [PDF] [Data and code].

Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen (2014). Information and Energy Policy Preferences: A Survey Experiment on Public Opinion about Electricity Pricing Reform in Rural India. Economics of Governance 15(4):305-327. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Johannes Urpelainen (2014). Does It Pay to Play? How Bargaining Shapes Donor Participation in the Funding of Environmental Protection. Strategic Behavior and the Environment 4(3):263-290. [PDF] [Proofs].

Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen (2014). Who Blames Corruption for the Poor Enforcement of Environmental Laws? Survey Evidence from Brazil. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 16(3):241-262. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Christopher Marcoux, Johannes Urpelainen (2013). Leveraging Private Capital for Climate Mitigation: Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism. Ecological Economics 96:14-24. [PDF] [Data and code].

Michaël Aklin, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, Johannes Urpelainen (2013). Understanding Environmental Policy Preferences: New Evidence from Brazil. Ecological Economics 94:28-36. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Lindsay Dolan, Johannes Urpelainen (2013). Global Patterns of Renewable Energy Innovation, 1990–2009. Energy for Sustainable Development 17(3):288-295. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Johannes Urpelainen, Jeremy Wallace (2013). Who Uses the Clean Development Mechanism? An Empirical Analysis of Projects in Chinese Provinces. Global Environmental Change 23(2):512-521. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Johannes Urpelainen (2013). External Sources of Clean Technology: Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism. Review of International Organizations 8(1):81-109. [PDF] [Data and code].

Patrick Bayer, Johannes Urpelainen (2013). Funding Global Public Goods: The Dark Side of Multilateralism. Review of Policy Research 30(2):160-189. [PDF].