Publications
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WORK IN PROGRESS: Peak Oil - a critique. Article for the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (mid 2010)
1st June 2010
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WORK IN PROGRESS: Credibility, commitment and regulation: ex ante price caps and ex post interventions
1st February 2010
Chapter in "The Natural Resources Trap: Private Investment without Public Commitment" MIT Press
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WORK IN PROGRESS: Carbon Taxes paper for the Policy Exchange (Jan/Feb 2010)
31st January 2010
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WORK IN PROGRESS: Rentseeking and picking winners - UK climate policy. Article in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (End 2009).
31st December 2009
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The Evolution of Infrastructure and Utility Ownership and its Implications
9th December 2009
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 25, Number 3, 2009, pp.411–434 Abstract The paper documents the significant changes of ownership since the infrastructure utilities were privatized and, in particular, the shifts from the initial focus on dispersed retail share ownership through takeovers to more concentrated ownership and the emergence of private equity and infrastructure funds. In the process, there has been substantial financial engineering and balance sheets have been geared up...
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"Infrastructure investment, the cost of capital, and regulation: an assessment", Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 25:3, pp307-326.
2nd December 2009
New article from Dieter Helm
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Energy and environmental policy: options for the future
1st November 2009
Chapter from: Tsoukalis, L. (ed.), (2009), “The EU in a world in transition: Fit for what purpose?”, Policy Network. Volume three in a series: EU "fit for purpose" in the global age.
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The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, OUP (with Cameron Hepburn)
29th October 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1: Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn: Introduction Part One: Revisiting the Economics of Climate Change 2: Dieter Helm: Climate-change policy: why has so little been achieved? 3: Cameron Hepburn and Nicholas Stern: The global deal on climate change 4: Scott Barrett: Climate treaties and the imperative of enforcement 5: Ross Garnaut, Stephen Howes, Frank Jotzo and Peter Sheehan: The implications of rapid development for climate-change mitigation 6: Kjell Arne Brekke and...
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EU climate-change policy—a critique
20th September 2009
Climates of Change: Sustainability Challenges for Enterprise Smith School Working Paper Series Professor Dieter Helm From The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn, OUP, October 2009. IntroductionEnvironmental issues in general, and climate change in particular, lend themselves to EU rather than national policy: many of the effects (such as acid rain and later pollution) are regional, and climate change is global. To date, the EU has had some...
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The Challenge of Infrastructure Investment in Britain
1st September 2009
Chapter in "Delivering a 21st Century Infrastructure for Britain" co-authored with Ben Caldecott and James Wardlaw. Published by Policy Exchange. The British economy at the end of the first decade of the 21st century is not in good shape. The credit crunch and subsequent recession have revealed deep structural weaknesses.The state of the public finances is widely agreed to be unsustainable and additional spending in the cause of a Keynesian stimulus has added to the debt. Consumer spending,...