Mark A. Cohen
Professor of Management Professor of Law Vice President for Research, Resources for the Future
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Email: mark.cohen@owen.vanderbilt.edu
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Area(s) of Expertise
Environmental regulation, criminal justice issues, corporate crime and punishment, street crime, consumer protection and discriminatory lending practices, microeconomics, and public policy analysis
Research Interest(s)
Law and economics, government regulation, white-collar and corporate crime, and environmental management and sustainability
Education
Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon University (economics)
M.A. Carnegie-Mellon University (economics)
B.S.F.S. Georgetown University (international economics)
Biography
Mark Cohen is an expert on government enforcement of policy mandates, having published more than 85 articles and books on such topics as the effect of community right-to-know laws on firm behavior; why companies reduce toxic chemical emissions; benefit-cost analysis of oil spill regulation and enforcement; whether it "pays" to be green; and judicial sentencing of individuals and firms convicted of corporate crimes. He has served on various governmental advisory panels, including Tennessee’s Environmental Justice Steering Committee and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board Panel on Illegal Competitive Advantage and Economic Benefits. He is a member of the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative, and serves on several academic editorial boards including Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Environmental Economics, and Managerial and Decision Economics. Professor Cohen holds a primary appointments at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and a secondary appointment at the law school. Before joining the academy, he served as a staff economist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and the U.S. Sentencing Commission. At Vanderbilt, he has taught such courses as Economics of Organizations, Corporate Strategies for Environmental and Social Responsibility, and the Law and Business of Climate Change. He co-founded and directed the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies, and from 2003-05, he was a senior associate dean of the Owen Graduate School.
Representative Publications
Articles
“Deepwater Drilling: Law, Policy, and Economics of Firm Organization and Safety,” 64 Vanderbilt Law Review 1853 (2011) (with Madeline Gottlieb, Joshua Linn and Nathan Richardson)
“Climate Change Governance: Boundaries and Leakage,” 18 New York University Environmental Law Journal 221 (2010) (with Michael P. Vandenbergh)
“New Evidence on the Monetary Value of Saving a High Risk Youth,” 25 Journal of Quantitative Criminology 25 (2009) (with Alex Piquero)
“Information Disclosure as Environmental Regulation: A Theoretical Analysis," 37 Environmental and Resource Economics 3: 599-620 (July 2007) (with V. Santhakumar)
"Prevention, Crime Control or Cash? Public Preferences towards Criminal Justice Spending Priorities," Justice Quarterly (2006) (with Roland T. Rust and Sara Steen)
"Willingness-to-Pay for Crime Control Programs," Criminology 1: 86-106 (February 2004) (with Roland Rust, Sara Steen, and Simon Tidd)
"Determinants of Environmental Innovation in U.S. Manufacturing Industries," 45 Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2: 278-93 (March 2003) (with Smita Brunnermeier)
“Does the Market Value Environmental Performance?”83 Review of Economics and Statistics 2: 281 (May 2001) (with Shameek Konar)
“Regulating Corporate Criminal Sanctions: Evidence on the Effect of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines,” 42 Journal of Law and Economics 393 (1999) (with Cindy R. Alexander and Jennifer Arlen)
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