Faculty - 2015 Summer School

Roberton C. WILLIAMS III

 

Department of Agriculture & Resource Economics University of Maryland 2122 Symons Hall College Park, MD 20742 United States Ph.: 301-405-1284 E-mail: roberton@umd.edu Url: https://www.arec.umd.edu/people/faculty/roberton-c-williams-iii





Roberton C. Williams III is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park, Senior Fellow and Director of Academic Programs at Resources for the Future, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before moving to Maryland, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and he has previously held visiting research positions at the Brookings Institution and Stanford University. He has served as a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an A.B. from Harvard College, both in economics.
Prof. Williams’s research focuses primarily on taxation and environmental regulation, covering broad theoretical questions such as how to measure the effects of taxes and regulations on economic efficiency as well as specific policy issues such as gasoline taxation and climate change policy.