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Adele C. Morris

Senior Adviser Program Direction Section Financial Stability
202-452-3024
[email protected]

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1999
  • M.S., Mathematics, University of Utah, 1987
  • B.S., Mathematical Sciences & Art and Art History, Rice University, 1985
Current Research Topics
  • Climate Change; Energy Economics
  • Senior Adviser

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    2021 - present
  • Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow (July 2020–August 2021); Policy Director for the Climate and Energy Economics Project Senior Fellow (January 2015–June 2020); Fellow (July 2008–December 2014)

    The Brookings Institution

    2008 - 2021
  • Senior Economist, Majority (Democratic) Staff

    Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress

    2007 - 2008
  • Revenue at Risk in Coal-Reliant Counties
    Adele C. Morris, Noah Kaufman, and Siddhi Doshi
    Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1086/711307
  • Global economic and environmental outcomes of the Paris Agreement
    Weifeng Liu, Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele C. Morris, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    Energy Economics (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104838
  • Housing supply elasticity, gasoline prices, and residential property values
    Adele C. Morris, Helen R. Neill, and N. Edward Coulson
    Journal of Housing Economics (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2020.101669
  • Revenue at Risk in Coal-Reliant Counties
    Adele Morris, Noah Kaufman, and Siddhi Doshi
    NBER Working Paper Series (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w27307
  • Climate change and monetary policy: issues for policy design and modelling
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele C. Morris, Peter J. Wilcoxen, and Augustus J. Panton
    Oxford Review of Economic Policy (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/graa040
  • Are New Homes Special?
    N. Edward Coulson, Adele C. Morris, and Helen R. Neill
    Real Estate Economics (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6229.12165
  • Comment: 'On the Economics of a Carbon Tax for the United States' by Gilbert E. Metcalf
    Adele C. Morris
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2019)
  • Making border carbon adjustments work in law and practice
    Adele C. Morris
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2018)
  • Overview of the EMF 32 Study on U.S. Carbon Tax Scenarios
    James R. McFarland, Allen A. Fawcett, Adele C. Morris, John M. Reilly, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    Climate Change Economics (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.1142/S201000781840002X
  • Policy Insights from the EMF 32 Study on U.S. Carbon Tax Scenarios
    Alexander R. Barron, Allen A. Fawcett, Marc A. C. Hafstead, James R. McFarland, and Adele C. Morris
    Climate Change Economics (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010007818400031
  • Introduction to the EMF 32 Study on U.S. Carbon Tax Scenarios
    Allen A. Fawcett, James R. McFarland, Adele C. Morris, and John P. Weyant
    Climate Change Economics (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010007818400018
  • The Role of Border Carbon Adjustments in a U.S. Carbon Tax
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele C. Morris, Peter J. Wilcoxen, and Weifeng Liu
    Climate Change Economics (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010007818400110
  • Alternative Perspective ['Benefits and Costs of the Energy Targets for the Post-2015 Development Agenda']
    Adele Morris
    Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (2018)
  • Carbon Taxes and U.S. Fiscal Reform
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele C. Morris, Peter J. Wilcoxen, and Yiyong Cai
    National Tax Journal (2015)
    https://doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2015.1.06
  • Distributional effects of a carbon tax in broader U.S. fiscal reform
    Aparna Mathur and Adele C. Morris
    Energy Policy (2014)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2013.11.047
  • Pricing carbon in the U.S.: A model-based analysis of power-sector-only approaches
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele C. Morris, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    Resource and Energy Economics (2014)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2013.11.007
  • Clean energy: Revisiting the challenges of industrial policy
    Adele C. Morris, Pietro S. Nivola, and Charles L. Schultze
    Energy Economics (2012)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2012.08.030
  • The technical basis for spectrum rights: Policies to enhance market efficiency
    Robert Matheson and Adele C. Morris
    Telecommunications Policy (2012)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2012.05.006
  • Comparing Climate Commitments: A Model-Based Analysis of the Copenhagen Accord
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele C. Morris, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    Climate Change Economics (2011)
    https://doi.org/10.1142/S201000781100022X
  • Subsidizing Household Capital: How Does Energy Efficiency Policy Compare to a Carbon Tax?
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele C. Morris, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    Energy Journal (2011)
    https://doi.org/10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol32-SI1-7
  • Comparing Climate Commitments: A Model-Based Analysis of the Copenhagen Accord
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele C. Morris, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    CAMA Working Paper Series (2010)
  • Expecting the unexpected: macroeconomic volatility and climate policy
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Implementing Architectures for Agreement (2010)
  • Expecting the unexpected: macroeconomic volatility and climate policy
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Summary for Policymakers (2009)
  • A Copenhagen Collar: Achieving Comparable Effort Through Carbon Price Agreements
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2009)
  • Consequences of alternative US cap-and-trade policies: Controlling both emissions and costs
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris, Peter J. Wilcoxen, and Yiyong Cai
    CAMA Working Paper Series (2009)
  • Expecting the unexpected: Macroeconomic volatility and climate policy
    Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris, and Peter J. Wilcoxen
    CAMA Working Paper Series (2008)
  • Spectrum auctions: Distortionary input tax or efficient revenue instrument?
    Adele C. Morris
    Telecommunications Policy (2005)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2005.07.002
  • Quantitative Studies in Public and Agricultural Economics
    Adele C. Morris
    Dissertations (Princeton University) (1999)
  • Property Tax Treatment of Farmland: Does Tax Relief Delay Land Development?
    Adele C. Morris
    Local government tax and land use policies in the United States: Understanding the links (1998)
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Last Update: January 17, 2023