Paul H. O’Neill
School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Phone:

317-274-1817

Email:

jdumorti@iupui.edu

Research areas:

Environmental policy and sustainability

Public policy

Jerome Dumortier joined the O’Neill School at IUPUI in August 2011 after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from Iowa State University. His research focuses on energy and agricultural economics, especially bioenergy and land-use change. In the past, the interaction between the agricultural, energy, and carbon policies have been subject of his work. Among others, he has worked as a consultant for the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) to evaluate the land-use change implications of EU biofuel policy. His current research agenda emphasizes on the economics of switchgrass for biomass co-firing and biofuel production; and the market penetration of electric vehicles. He has published peer-reviewed academic articles that use simulation models to determine the effects of biofuel and carbon policies on agricultural productions. Dr. Dumortier’s most recent research focuses on transportation related issues such as plug-in vehicles and fuel taxation.

• Ph.D., Economics, Iowa State University, 2011
• Licence en sciences économiques ("économie politique"), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2004

• “Incorporating sub-national Brazilian agricultural production and land-use into U.S. biofuel policy evaluation.” (with M. Carriquiry, A. Elobeid, R. Goodrich) Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (Forthcoming)
• “All plug-in electric vehicles are not the same: Predictors of preference for a plug-in hybrid versus a battery-electric vehicle.” (with B. Lane, S. Carley, S. Siddiki, K. Clark-Sutton, J. Graham) Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment (2018)
• “Production and spatial distribution of switchgrass and miscanthus in the United States under uncertainty and sunk cost.” (with N. Kauffman, D. Hayes) Energy Economics (2017)
• “State and federal fuel taxes: The road ahead for U.S. infrastructure funding.” (with F. Zhang, J. Marron) Transport Policy (2017) 
• “Plug-in vehicles and the future of road infrastructure funding in the United States.” (with M. Kent, S. Payton) Energy Policy (2016) 
• “Impact of agronomic uncertainty in biomass production and endogenous commodity prices on cellulosic biofuel feedstock composition." Global Change Biology Bioenergy (2016) 
• “Effects of providing total cost of ownership information on consumers' intent to purchase a hybrid or plug-in electric vehicle.” (with S. Siddiki, S. Carley, J. Cisney, R. Krause, B. Lane, J. Graham) Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (2015) 
• “Producing energy while sequestering carbon? The relationship between biochar and agricultural productivity.” (with N. Kauffman, D. Hayes, R. Brown, D. Laird) Biomass & Bioenergy (2014)  
• “The effects of uncertainty under a cap-and-trade policy on afforestation in the United States.” Environmental Research Letters (2013) 
• “Co-firing in coal power plants and its impact on biomass feedstock availability.” Energy Policy (2013) 
• “The effects of potential changes in United States beef production on global grazing systems and greenhouse gas emissions.” (with D. Hayes, M. Carriquiry, F. Dong, X. Du, A. Elobeid, J. Fabiosa, P. Martin, K. Mulik) Environmental Research Letters (2012)
• “Sensitivity of carbon emission estimates from indirect land-use change.” (with D. Hayes, M. Carriquiry, F. Dong, X. Du, A. Elobeid, J. Fabiosa, S. Tokgoz) Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2011)