Suzi Kerr
Senior Fellow
Suzi is currently a Senior Fellow at Motu and an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University. From 1998 to 2009 she was also Motu Director. She has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. From 1995 through 1998, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. Suzi was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2009/10, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future (USA), Victoria University, and the Joint Center for the Science and Policy of Global Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Suzi’s current research work focuses primarily on climate change policy. She studies domestic climate regulation, and particularly emissions trading, within New Zealand, Chile and Colombia and explores the design of international agreements with special emphasis on land use. She has also worked on water quality issues within New Zealand. Her work involves theoretical analysis, simulation modelling, econometric analysis and policy design. She has run three policy dialogue processes, one in the lead up to the establishment of New Zealand’s emissions trading system, another completed on managing water quality in Lake Rotorua, and a recent process on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
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Publications
Sin, Isabelle; Emma Brunton, Joanna Hendy and Suzi Kerr. 2005. "The Likely Regional Impacts of an Agricultural Emissions Policy in New Zealand: Preliminary analysis," Motu Working Paper 05-08.
Kerr, Suzi. 1998. "Alternative Allocation Methods for Greenhouse Permits: Pros and Cons," Unpublished Manuscript.
- Kerr, Suzi; Liu Shuguang, Alexander Pfaff and Flint Hughes. 2003. "Carbon Dynamics and Land-Use Choices: Building a Regional-Scale Multidisciplinary Model," Motu Working Paper 03-06.
Kerr, Suzi; Susana Cardenas and Joanna Hendy. 2003. "Migration and the Environment in the Galapagos: An Analysis of Economic and Policy Incentives Driving Migration, Potential Impacts from Migration Control, and Potential Policies to Reduce Migration Pressure," Motu Working Paper 03-17. Also published en español.
Kerr, Suzi and Catherine Leining. 2003. "Joint Implementation in Climate Change Policy," Motu Working Paper 03-04.
Kerr, Suzi. 2003. "Indigenous Forests and Forest Sink Policy in New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 03-15.
- Kerr, Suzi; Richard Newell and James Sanchirico. 2003. "Evaluating the New Zealand Individual Transferable Quota Market for Fisheries Management," Motu Working Paper 03-02.
- Grimes, Arthur; Andrew Aitken and Suzi Kerr. 2004. "House Price Efficiency: Expectations, Sales, Symmetry," Motu Working Paper 04-02.
- Savage, John; Suzi Kerr and Stephen Toplis. 1989. "The Private Residential Rental Market in New Zealand", New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, Research Monograph No. 50.
Kerr, Suzi; Joanna Hendy, Liu Shuguang and Alexander Pfaff. 2004. "Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies," Motu Working Paper 04-03.
- Grimes, Arthur; Suzi Kerr and Andrew Aitken. 2004. "Bi-Directional Impacts of Economic, Social and Environmental Changes and the New Zealand Housing Market," Motu Working Paper 04-09.
Kerr, Suzi. 2003. "Efficient Contracts For Carbon Credits From Reforestation Projects," Motu Working Paper 03-12.
Kerr, Suzi; Emma Brunton and Ralph Chapman. 2004. "Policy To Encourage Carbon Sequestration in Plantation Forests," Motu Working Paper 04-05.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2003. "Allocating risks in a domestic greenhouse gas trading system," Motu Working Paper 03-01.
- Grimes, Arthur; Suzi Kerr and Andrew Aitken. 2003. "Housing and Economic Adjustment," Motu Working Paper 03-09.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2003. "Motu, Excellence in Economic Research and the Challenges of ‘Human Dimensions’ Research," Motu Working Paper 03-05.
Kerr, Suzi; Andrew Aitken and Arthur Grimes. 2004. "Land Taxes and Revenue Needs as Communities Grow and Decline: Evidence from New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 04-01.
Kerr, Suzi. 2001. "Emissions Trading, Project-Based Trading and Joint Implementation," paper written for the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi; Brian White, Brian Cox and John Rutherford. 2002. "Renewable Energy and the Efficient Implementation of New Zealand's Current and Potential Future Greenhouse Gas Commitments," prepared for the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, Wellington.
Fischer, Carolyn; Suzi Kerr and Michael Toman. 1998. "Using Emissions Trading to Regulate U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Overview of Policy Design and Implementation Issues," Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 98-40 (July).
Kerr, Suzi. 1998. "Enforcing Compliance: The Allocation of Liability in International GHG Emissions Trading and the Clean Development Mechanism," Resources for the Future Climate Issue Brief no. 15.
Kerr, Suzi Ed. 2000. Global Emissions Trading: Key Issues for Industrialized Countries, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Kerr, Suzi and Catherine Leining. 2000. "Permanence of LULUCF CERs in the Clean Development Mechanism," This paper was written for a presentation at COP-6 in The Hague, November 2000.
- Kerr, Suzi; Glen Lauder and David Fairman. 2007. "Towards a Design For a Nutrient Trading Programme To Improve Water Quality in Lake Rotorua," Motu Working Paper 07-03.
Kerr, Suzi and David C. Maré. 1998. "Transaction Costs and Tradable Permit Markets: The United States Lead Phasedown," Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Draft Manuscript.
Newell, Richard; James Sanchirico, and Suzi Kerr. 2005. "Fishing Quota Markets," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 49, pp. 437-462. Earlier versions are published as Motu Working paper 03-02 and Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 02-20
Hargrave, Tim; Ned Helme, Tim Denne, Suzi Kerr and Jurgen Lefevere. 1999. "Design of a Practical Approach to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading combined With Policies and Measures in the EC".
Funk, Jason and Suzi Kerr. 2007. "Restoring Forests Through Carbon Farming on Maori Land in New Zealand/Aotearoa," Mountain Research and Development, 27:3, pp. 202-205.
Hendy, Joanna; Suzi Kerr and Troy Baisden. 2007. "The Land Use in Rural New Zealand Model Version 1 (LURNZv1): Model Description," Motu Working Paper 07-07.
Kerr, Suzi. 1998. "Devolution and the Resource Management Act," Victoria Economic Commentary.
Cramton, Peter and Suzi Kerr. 1998. "A Tax-Cut Auction for the Environment: How and why to auction CO2 emissions permits," Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 98-34.
Kerr, Suzi; David C. Maré, William Power and Jason Timmins. 2001. "Internal Mobility in New Zealand," New Zealand Treasury Working Paper 04/1.
Hendy, Joanna and Suzi Kerr. 2005. "Greenhouse Gas Emission Factor Module: Land Use in Rural New Zealand - Climate Version 1," Motu Working Paper 05-10.
Hendy, Joanna and Suzi Kerr. 2006. "Land-Use Intensity Module: Land Use in Rural New Zealand Version 1," Motu Working Paper 06-05.
Kerr, Suzi. 2001. "Ecological Tax Reform," Report for the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, Wellington.
Claridge, Megan and Suzi Kerr. 1998. "A Case Study for Devolution: The Problem of Preserving Kiwi Habitat in The Far North," Victoria Economic Commentary.
Kerr, Suzi. 1999. "Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Responsibilities Among and Within the Countries of the European Union", Scoping Paper No. 5, Center for Clean Air Policy, Washington DC.
Kerr, Suzi and Elizabeth DeSombre. 2001. "Trade and the Environment: The Risks and Opportunities for New Zealand Associated With the Relationship Between the WTO and Multilateral Environmental Agreements," report produced for the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, Wellington.
- Lock, Kelly and Suzi Kerr. 2007. "Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Where Are We Now?" Motu Working Paper 07-06.
Kerr, Suzi. 1995. "Adverse Selection and Participation in International Environmental Agreements" in Suzi Kerr, Contracts and Tradeable Permit Markets in International and Domestic Environmental Protection, PhD Thesis, Harvard University.
Kerr, Suzi. 2001. "Enforcing Compliance: The Allocation of Liability in International GHG Emissions Trading and the Clean Development Mechanism" in Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology, Michael A. Toman Ed. Washington DC: Resources for the Future.
- Kerr, Suzi; Megan Claridge and Dominic Milicich. 1998. "Devolution and the New Zealand Resource Management Act," New Zealand Treasury Working Paper 98-7.
- Kerr, Suzi and Jason Timmins. 2000. "Economic Geography and Spatial Statistics: Theory and Empirics of New Zealand Regions," New Zealand Treasury Working Paper 00/11.
- Kerr, Suzi; Kit Rutherford and Kelly Lock. 2007. "Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Goals and Trading Caps," Motu Working Paper 07-08.
Straker, Gina; Suzi Kerr and Joanna Hendy. 2002. "A Regulatory History of New Zealand's Quota Management System," draft, chapters 1-4.
Newell, Richard; James Sanchirico and Suzi Kerr. 2002. "An Empirical Analysis of New Zealand's ITQ Markets," paper presented at IIFET 2002: Fisheries in the Global Economy, International Fisheries Economic Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Kerr, Suzi; Kit Rutherford and Elena Irwin. 2006. "Proposed Research Programme on Water Quality for Lake Rotorua," proposal submitted to the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.
Kerr, Suzi and Joanna Hendy. 2002. "Regional Employment Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol," paper prepared for the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, Wellington.
Hendy, Joanna and Suzi Kerr. 2007. "Impacts on the pastoral sector from emissions charges on agriculture gases: analysis from the model Land Use in Rural New Zealand version 1: climate," Motu manuscript.
Kerr, Suzi; Alexander Pfaff, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Leslie Lipper, Arturo Sanchez and Jason Timmins. 2004. "Effects of poverty on deforestation: distinguishing behavior from location," ESA Working Paper No. 04-19.
Kerr, Suzi; Joanna Hendy, Kelly Lock and Yun Liang. 2007. "Estimating the Drivers of Rural Land Use Change in New Zealand," Paper prepared for the AARES Conference, February 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand.
Kerr, Suzi. 2001. "Seeing the Forest and Saving the Trees: Tropical Land-Use Change and Global Climate Policy," Manuscript in Can Carbon Sinks Be Operational? Resources for the Future Discussion Paper no. 0126.
Kerr, Suzi; Alexander Pfaff and Arturo Sanchez. 2002. "The Dynamics of Deforestation: Evidence from Costa Rica".
Straker, Gina; Suzi Kerr and Joanna Hendy. 2002. "A Regulatory History of the New Zealand's Quota Management System: Setting Targets," paper presented at IIFET 2002: Fisheries in the Global Economy, International Fisheries Economic Conference, Wellington, New Zealand. (This paper is an abridged version of Straker et al. 2002).
Kerr, Suzi; Isabelle Sin and Joanna Hendy. 2005. "Taxes vs permits: Options for price-based climate change regulation," New Zealand Treasury Working Paper 05/02.
Pfaff, Alexander; Suzi Kerr, Leslie Lipper, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Joanna Hendy and G. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa. 2007. "Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit The Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica," Land Use Policy, 24:3, pp. 600-610.
Kerr, Suzi and Richard Newell. 2001. "Policy Induced Technology Adoption: Evidence from the U.S. Lead Phasedown," Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 01-14 (March).
Cramton, Peter and Suzi Kerr. 2002. "Tradeable Carbon Permit Auctions: How And Why To Auction Not Grandfather," Energy Policy 30.
Kerr, Suzi. 2007. "Review of proposed New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme," report commissioned by the Emissions Trading Group.
- Kerr, Suzi; Shuguang, Liu, Alexander, Pfaff and Flint Hughes. 2003. "Carbon Dynamics and Land-Use Choices: Building a Regional-Scale Multidisciplinary Model," The Journal of Environmental Management, 69:1, pp. 25-37.
Grimes, Arthur; Suzi Kerr, Andrew Aitken and Robert Sourell. 2006. "The Housing Fulcrum: Balancing Economic and Social Factors in Housing Research and Policy," Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 1, pp. 65-79.
Carswell, Fiona; Garth Harmsworth, Suzi Kerr, Rau Kirikiri and Ian Turney. 2002. "A Framework for Engagement of Maori Landowners in 'Carbon Farming' using Indigenous Forest Regeneration," Motu Manuscript and Landcare Research.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2006. "The Political Economy of Structural Reform in Natural Resource Use: Observations from New Zealand," paper prepared for National Economic Research Organisations meeting, Paris, June 2006.
Kerr, Suzi; Leslie Lipper, Alexander Pfaff, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Joanna Hendy and Arturo Sanchez. 2004. "Will Buying Tropical Forest Carbon Benefit the Poor? Evidence from Costa Rica," ESA Working Paper No. 4-20.
Pfaff, Alexander; Arturo Sanchez and Suzi Kerr. 2001. "A Case Study of Costa Rican LUCC: Carbon Sequestration Supply from and Clean Development Mechanism Rules for Tropical Forest Carbon Sinks," LUCC Newsletter, May 2001, No. 6.
- Kerr, Suzi. 1995. "Markets Versus International Funds for Implementing International Environmental Agreements: Ozone Depletion and the Montreal Protocol" Working Paper No. 95-12, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
Fischer, Carolyn; Suzi Kerr and Michael Toman. 2001. "Using Emissions Trading to Regulate National Greenhouse Gas Emissions" in Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology, Michael A. Toman, Ed. Washington DC: Resources for the Future.
- Pfaff, Alexander, Suzi Kerr, Flint Hughes, Shuguang Liu, Arturo Sanchez, David Schimel, Joseph Tosi and Vicente Watson. 1999. "A Carbon Sequestration Supply Function and Development of Feasible Clean Development Mechanism Rules for Tropical Forest Carbon Sinks: A Work Plan for Multi-Disciplinary Estimation and Integrated Sensitivity Analysis making use of Costa Rica as a Data-Intensive Case Study" Columbia University Department of Economics Working Paper Series, No. 9899-08, June" Spanish Version
Kerr, Suzi; Alexander Pfaff, Arturo Sanchez, David Schimel, Joseph Tosi and Vicente Watson. 1998. "The Clean Development Mechanism, Tropical Carbon Sinks and Biodiversity: An Economics/Ecology Model for Predicting Policy Effects and Evaluating Policy Options," Papers and Proceedings of the 1998 Global Biodiversity Forum, Buenos Aires.
Kerr, Suzi. 2001. "Deforestation, Carbon-Offsets and the Clean Development Mechanism". Presentation (This presentation was presented at a Tinker Foundation Funded Symposium, February 19, 2001).
- Pfaff, Alexander; Suzi Kerr, Flint Hughes, Shuguang Liu, Arturo Sanchez, David Schimel, Joseph Tosi and Vicente Watson. 2000. "The Kyoto Protocol & Payments for Tropical Forest: An Interdisciplinary Method for Estimating Carbon-Offset Supply and Increasing the Feasibility of a Carbon Market under the CDM," Ecological Economics, 35:2, pp. 203-221.
- Hendy, Joanna and Suzi Kerr. 2004. "How do Catch Patterns Respond to Changes in International Prices for Different Species?" Report to the Ministry of Fisheries.
- Kerr, Suzi; Alexander Pfaff, Arturo Sanchez and Marco Boscolo. 2001. "How Can Carbon Sequestration in Tropical Forests be Rewarded? Evidence from Costa Rica" in Environment for Growth: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness in Central America, Theodore Panayotou, Ed. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, pp. 371-408.
- Leining, Catherine and Suzi Kerr. 2001. "Deciding the Eligibility of Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry Projects Under the CDM: Negotiation issues Post COP6" in Bolivian Environmental Conflict Management Cases and CC + CDM Sectoral Preparations for Kyoto Protocol Negotiations, Raymond Saner, Sergio Jauregui and Lichia Yiu, Eds.
Arthur Grimes; Suzi Kerr and Andrew Aitken. 2003. "House Prices and Regional Adjustment," New Zealand Geographical Society 22nd Conference Proceedings, pp. 238-241.
- Kerr, Suzi and Matthew Kahn. 2002. "The Causes and Consequences of Air Pollution in Santiago" in Chile: Political Economy of Urban Development, Harvard Studies in International Development, Edward L. Glaeser and John R. Meyer, Eds. John F. Kennedy School of Government: Harvard University. This paper is based on a chapter of the same name in Kerr, Suzi. 1995. "Contracts and Tradeable Permit Markets in International and Domestic Environmental Protection," PhD Thesis, Harvard University.
Hendy, Joanna; Suzi Kerr and Troy Baisden. 2006. "Greenhouse Gas Emissions Charges and Credits on Agricultural Land: What Can a Model Tell Us? Motu Working Paper 06-04.
McLuskey, William; Andrew Aitken, Arthur Grimes, Suzi Kerr and Jason Timmins. 2006. "Rating Systems in New Zealand: An Empirical Investigation into Local Choice," Journal of Real Estate Literature, 14:3, pp. 381-397.
Kerr, Suzi and Tim Hargrave. 1998. "The Clean Development Mechanism: How Do We Get There From Here?" Paper prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank.
Fischer, Carolyn; Suzi Kerr and Michael Toman. 1998. "Using Emissions Trading to Regulate US Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Overview of Policy Design and Implementation Issues," National Tax Journal, 51, pp. 453-464.
Kerr, Suzi and Richard Newell. 2003. "Policy-Induced Technology Adoption: Evidence from the U.S Lead Phasedown," Journal of Industrial Economics, 51:3, pp. 371-343. Earlier version published as Resources for the Future Discussion Paper 01-14.
Kerr Suzi and Andrew Aitken. 2004. "The Effects of Bycatch Relationships on Quota Prices," Report to the Ministry of Fisheries, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi and Catherine Leining. 2004. "Joint Implementation in Climate Change Policy," in The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2003/04, Tom Tietenberg and Henk Folmer, Eds.
Grimes, Arthur; Suzi Kerr and Andrew Aitken. 2003. "Housing and Structural Adjustment," Centre for Housing Research, Aotearoa New Zealand, Department of Building and Housing, Housing New Zealand Corporation, Wellington. Also published as Motu Working Paper 03-09.
- Kerr, Suzi; Richard Newell and James Sanchirico. 2004. "Evaluating the New Zealand Individual Transferable Quota Market for Fisheries Management" in Tradeable Permits: policy evaluation, design and reform, OECD, Ed. Paris. Paper prepared for OECD workshop Ex post evaluation of tradable permit regimes, Paris, January 2003.
Lock, Kelly and Suzi Kerr. 2008. "Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Overview of a Prototype System," Motu Working Paper 08-02.
Kerr, Suzi and Andrew Sweet. 2008. "Inclusion of agriculture and forestry in a domestic emissions trading system: New Zealand's experience to date," Motu Working Paper 08-04.
- Lock, Kelly and Suzi Kerr. 2008. "Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Choosing the Scope of a Nutrient Trading System," Motu Working Paper 08-05.
Pfaff, Alexander; Suzi Kerr, Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis, Leslie Lipper, Arturo Sanchez and Jason Timmins. 2008. "Effects of poverty on deforestation: distinguishing behaviour from location" in Economics of Poverty, the Environment and Natural Resource Use, Rob B. Dellink and Arjan Ruijs, Eds. Wageningen University: Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group.
Wratt, David; Brett Mullan, Andrew Tait, Ross Woods, Troy Baisden, Donna Giltrap, Kelly Lock, Joanna Hendy, Suzi Kerr, Adolf Stroombergen and Alek Stojanovik. 2008. "Costs and benefits of climate change and adaptation to climate change in New Zealand agriculture: what do we know so far?" Contract report by EcoClimate Consortium: Integrated Research on the Economics of Climate Change Impacts Adaptation and Mitigation, Wellington, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Kerr, Suzi and Joanna Hendy. 2004. "Drivers of rural land use in New Zealand: Estimates from National Data," Motu Manuscript.
Kerr, Suzi. 2007. "The economics of deforestation," invited presentation at the International Economics Association Roundtable, Beijing, July 13-14.
Kerr, Suzi. 2004. "Efficient Contracts for Carbon Credits from Reforestation Projects," New Zealand Science Review, 61:1, pp. 18-23.
Kerr, Suzi and Kit Rutherford. 2008. "Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Determining Net Nutrient Inputs," Motu Working Paper 08-03.
Kerr, Suzi. 2008. 'Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: A Prototype System,' Motu Public Policy Seminar, September.
Kerr, Suzi and Marianna Kennedy. 2009. 'Greenhouse Gases and Water Pollutants: Interactions Between Concurrent New Zealand Trading Systems,' Motu Note #2.
Kelly Lock and Suzi Kerr. 2008. Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Social, Cultural, Economic and Environmental Issues around a Nutrient Trading System. Motu Manuscript.
Motu Research. 2007. "Transition into and evolution of an emissions trading system," Summary 5 from the series Introduction to Emissions Trading, produced as part of the Climate Change Policy Dialogue.
Kerr, Suzi and Murray Ward. 2007. "Emissions Trading in New Zealand: Introduction and Context," paper prepared for New Zealand Climate Change Policy Dialogue, 20 September.
Greenhalgh, Suzie; Jim Sinner and Suzi Kerr. 2007. "Emissions Trading in New Zealand: options for addressing trade exposure and emissions leakage," paper prepared for New Zealand Climate Change Policy Dialogue, 21 September.
Kerr, Suzi. 2007. "Emissions Trading in New Zealand: managing economic risk," paper prepared for New Zealand Climate Change Policy Dialogue, 25 September.
Small, John and Suzi Kerr. 2007. "Emissions trading in New Zealand: points of obligation," paper prepared for New Zealand Climate Change Policy Dialogue, 24 September.
Kerr, Suzi and Ralph Chapman. 2007. "Emissions trading in New Zealand: transition and evolution," paper prepared for New Zealand Climate Change Policy Dialogue, 25 September.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "Environmental markets: how can they work for water quality and climate change?" Auckland Public Policy Seminar, April.
Todd, Maribeth; Wei Zhang and Suzi Kerr. 2009. "Competition for land between biofuels, pastoral agriculture and scrub lands," in Bioenergy options for New Zealand: analysis of large-scale bioenergy from forestry. Peter Hall and Michael Jack. Scion report. pp. 122-40. Available online at http://www.scionresearch.com/general/science-publications/science-publications/technical-reports/bioenergy/bioenergy-options.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "Climate change policy: stepping back and moving forward," Motu Economic and Public Policy Seminar, May.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "How can agriculture be included in an emissions trading scheme? Some thoughts from New Zealand," Australian Farm Institute Conference, Maroochydore, May.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "Intensity-based regulation versus output-based free allocation: a clarification of comments to the Select Committee," 17 May.
Kerr, Suzi and Ralph Chapman. 2007. 'Transition into and evolution of a New Zealand emissions trading system," paper presented at Climate Change Policy Dialogue, Wellington, 31 July.
Kerr, Suzi. 2007. "Key issues in the design of an emissions trading system for New Zealand," Motu Public Policy Seminar, September.
Kerr, Suzi and Andrew Sweet. 2008. "Inclusion of agriculture in a domestic emissions trading system: New Zealand's experience to date," Farm Policy Journal, 5:4, 43-53, November.
Kerr, Suzi. 2008. "Emissions trading in New Zealand," EPMU Biennial Conference, Auckland, July; and Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce, Christchurch, July.
Kerr, Suzi. 2008. "Report on Cluster B case studies," presented to the Climate Change Leadership Forum, August.
Kerr, Suzi. 2007. "Reports from Cluster B: free allocation of NZ units, and economic modelling," presented to Climate Change Leadership Forum, 4 December.
Kerr, Suzi. 2008. "Temporal emission trading markets," NBER Summer Institute Egg-timer, July.
Kerr, Suzi. 2008. "Data challenges in creating LURNZ, an economically-based model of land use in rural New Zealand," presented at Global Land Project workshop on data and model intergration for coupled models and land use change, July.
Kerr, Suzi and Andrew Coleman. 2008. "Economic regrets," Motu manuscript presented to Cluster B of the Climate Change Leadership Forum, 22 May.
Lock, Kelly; Suzi Kerr, Tim Cox and Kit Rutherford. 2008. "Assessing design options for a Nutrient Trading System using an integrated model," paper presented at the ESAM/NZAE Conference 2008, Wellington, June.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "New Zealand ETS: Submission to the select committee," Speaking notes, Monday 11 May, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi and Kelly Lock. 2009. "Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Cost Sharing and Allowance Allocation," Motu Working Paper 09-09.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "Principles for the design of compliance institutions for international tradeable permit markets: joint implementation of the framework convention on climate change," University of Maryland Manuscript.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "Institutions for definition and renegotiation of property rights in international environmental agreements: ozone depletion and the Montreal Protocol," Manuscript, University of Maryland.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "Comments to select committee," invited independent specialist advice on the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill.
Kerr, Suzi and Wei Zhang. 2009. "Allocation of New Zealand Units within Agriculture in the New Zealand Emissions Trading System," Motu Working Paper 09-16.
Todd, Maribeth and Suzi Kerr. 2009. "How Does Changing Land Cover and Land Use in New Zealand relate to Land Use Capability and Slope?" Motu Working Paper 09-17.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "The Financial Crisis … What’s in it for the Environment?" contribution to a panel discussion organised by the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand, Wellington, May.
Regina Betz, Stefan Seifert, Peter Cramton and Suzi Kerr. 2010. "Auctioning greenhouse gas emissions permits in Australia," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, forthcoming.
Kerr, Suzi; Susana Cardenas and Joanna Hendy. 2003. "La Migración y el Medio Natural en las Islas Galápagos," Motu Working Paper 17-03. Also published in English.
Funk, Jason; Christopher Field, Suzi Kerr and Craig Trotter. 2009. "Modeling the impact of Carbon Farming on a New Zealand landscape," PhD Thesis, Chapter II. Stanford University: Palo Alto, CA.
Funk, Jason and Suzi Kerr. 2009. "Barriers to Efficient Decisions about Carbon Farming," PhD Thesis, Chapter III. Stanford University: Palo Alto, CA.
Hendy, Joanna; Suzi Kerr and Troy Baisden. 2008. "Greenhouse Gas Emissions Charges and Credits on Agricultural Land: What can a Model Tell Us?" In Clean Development Mechanism and Law, Amicus Books series, ed. L Lakshmi. Hyderabad, India: The Icfai University Press, pp. 198-209.
van Benthem, Arthur and Suzi Kerr. 2010. "Optimizing Voluntary Deforestation Policy in the Face of Adverse Selection and Costly Transfers". Motu Working Paper 10-04.
Betz, Regina; Stefan Seifert, Peter Cramton and Suzi Kerr. 2010. "Auctioning greenhouse gas emissions permits in Australia," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics,54:2, pp. 219–238
Kerr, Suzi. 2010. "Global policies as a framework for effective local action to reduce deforestation: insights from Costa Rica and Indonesia," Bay Area Tropical Forests Network, 4 March, 2010
Kerr, Suzi. 2010. ‘Emissions trading for forestry and agriculture: policy design and integrated simulations in New Zealand’ UC Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics seminar, Feb 18, 2010.
Kerr, Suzi. 2010. ‘Creating a Cost Effective Nutrient Trading System for Lake Rotorua’ Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, 21 January 2010.
Kerr, Suzi; Levente Timar and Wei Zhang. 2010. "Emissions Trading for Forestry and Agriculture: Policy Design and Integrated Simulations in New Zealand," poster at the Analysis, Integration and Modelling of Earth Systems Open Science Conference, Edinburgh, UK.
Kerr, Suzi; William Power and Wei Zhang. 2009. "Potential Scrub Changes and Its Spatial Allocation Under the New Zealand Emission Trading System," in The XXVII International Conference of Agricultural Economists, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China.
Kerr, Suzi; Wei Zhang and William Power. 2010. "Short Term Effects of Moderate Carbon Prices on Land Use in the New Zealand Emissions Trading System: LURNZ-Climate Land Use Change Simulations," New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference, Nelson, 26-7 August 2010.
Shepherd, James D.; Anne M. Sutherland; Ian Payton; Suzi Kerr; Wei Zhang and William Power. 2008. "Nature and Scale of Eligible Post-1989 Non-Planted Forests," Landcare Research Contract Report: LC809/033.
van Benthem, Arthur A., and Kerr, Suzi C. 2011. "Bigger is Better: Avoided Deforestation Offsets in the Face of Adverse Selection," PESD Working Paper #102, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University, Stanford CA.
Karpas, Eric, and Suzi Kerr. 2011. "Preliminary Evidence on Responses to the New Zealand Forestry Emissions Trading Scheme," Motu Working Paper 11-09, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi. 2009. "How Can Agriculture be Included in an Emissions Trading Scheme? Some Thoughts from New Zealand", in Agriculture, Greenhouse and Emissions Trading Conference, Australian Farm Institute, Ed. Surrey Hills, Australia: Australian Farm Institute, pp. 80-86.
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Submission to the Emissions Trading System Review Panel," comments on the Emissions Trading System Review.
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Land Use and Climate Change in New Zealand," speaking notes and slides from presentation at the 7th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference, Wellington, 1-2 August 2011.
McDonald, Hugh, and Suzi Kerr. 2011. "Nutrient Trading Efficiency: A Review of Trading Efficiency in Water Quality Markets," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011.
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "The Economics of International Policy to Reduce Emissions from Deforestaton and Degradation (REDD)," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011.
- Anastasiadis, Simon, Marie-Laure Nauleau, Suzi Kerr, Tim Cox and Kit Rutherford. 2011. "Water Quality Management in Lake Rotorua: A Comparison of Regulatory Approaches using the NManager Model," New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Nelson, NZ, 25-26 August 2011.
- McDonald, Hugh, and Suzi Kerr. 2011. "Why do New Zealanders Care about Agricultural Emissions?", New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Annual Conference, Nelson, NZ, 25-26 August 2011.
- Olssen, Alex, and Suzi Kerr. 2011. "Modelling Land Use in Rural New Zealand," New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Nelson, NZ, 25-26 August 2011.
- Kerr, Suzi, and Hugh McDonald. 2010. "Maximising the Benefits of Flexible Water Quality Regulation," Motu Research Update 20, pp. 4-5.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Water Quality Trading in New Zealand," invited presentation to the Workshop on Water Quality Trading, 15th International Water Association Conference, Diffuse Pollution Specialist Group, Rotorua, 22 September 2011.
Anastasiadis, Simon and Suzi Kerr. 2011. "Managing Water Quality in Lake Rotorua: The Design of Regulation to Reflect Groundwater Nitrogen Lags,"15th International Water Association Conference, Diffuse Pollution Specialist Group, Rotorua, 22 September 2011.
- Kerr, Suzi, and Suzie Greenhalgh. 2011. "Non-Point Source Trading in New Zealand," Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Conference, Melbourne, 8-11 February 2011.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2010. "Managing Water Quality in Lake Rotorua," presentations to the Nutrient Trading Study Group, Bay of Plenty Regional Council and Ministry for the Environment, October and November 2010.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2010. "The Complementarity between Equity and Efficiency in Climate Mitigation," New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Nelson, 27-8 August 2010.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2010. "Emissions Trading for Forestry and Agriculture: Integrated Simulations," New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Nelson, 27-8 August 2010.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2010. "New Zealand Emissions Trading: Some Thoughts for Brazil," Cap and Trade in Brazil Workshop Environmental Defense, IPAM, and Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro, 2 August 2010.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2010. "Bigger is Better: Avoided Deforestation Offsets in the Face of Adverse Selection," Stanford Environmental Economics Brownbag Seminar, Stanford University, Stanford CA, November 2010.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Optimal Policy Complexity with Temporal Externalities," Stanford Environmental Economics and UC Davis Brownbag Seminar, Stanford CA, April 2011.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Teach-in on Using Games to Understand Water Quality Trading," Center for Ocean Solutions, Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Programme, Stanford University, Stanford CA, 4 April 2011.
- Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Bigger is Better: Avoided Deforestation Offsets in the Face of Adverse Selection," Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Conference, Melbourne, 8-11 February 2011.
- McDonald, Hugh, and Suzi Kerr. 2011. "Why do New Zealanders Care About Agricultural Emissions?" Motu Note #9, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi, and Hugh McDonald. 2011. "Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Overview of a Prototype System," draft paper.
Lundquist, Carolyn J., Doug Ramsay, Rob Bell, Andrew Swales and Suzi Kerr. 2011. "Predicted Impacts of Climate Change on New Zealand's Biodiversity," Pacific Conservation Biology, 17:3, pp. 179-191.
- Anastasiadis, Simon, Marie-Laure Nauleau, Suzi Kerr, Tim Cox, and Kit Rutherford. 2011. "Does Complex Hydrology Require Complex Water Policy? NManager Simulations for Lake Rotorua," Motu Working Paper 11-14, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
- McDonald, Hugh, and Suzi Kerr. 2011. "Trading Efficiency in Water Quality Trading Markets: An Assessment of Trade-Offs," Motu Working Paper 11-15, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi, and Millard-Ball, Adam. 2012. "Cooperation to Reduce Developing Country Emissions", Motu Working Paper 12-03, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Smeaton, Duncan C., Tim Cox, Suzi Kerr and Robin Dynes. 2011. "Relationships between Farm Productivity, Profitability, N Leaching and GHG Emissions: A Modelling Approach," Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association 73, pp. 57–62. Available online at http://www.grassland.org.nz/publications/nzgrassland_publication_1588.pdf
Kerr, Suzi, and Adam Millard-Ball. 2011. "Cooperation to Reduce Developing Country Emissions," The Next Round of Climate Economics and Policy Research, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 2011; and Stanford University Department of Economics Brown Bag Seminar, November 2011.
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "REDD and Cap and Trade: Why and How to Include Forestry on a Large Scale," International Congress of Conservation Biology, Auckland, December 2011.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. "A Climate for Change in Water Quality?" Australian Association of Agricultural and Resource Economics Conference, Perth, February 2012.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. "Key Concepts for Quality and Quantity Allocation Mechanisms," Land and Water Forum Allocation Working Group, Wellington, February 2012.
Kerr, Suzi, Wei Zhang and William Power. 2010. "Short Term Effects of Moderate Carbon Prices on Land Use in the New Zealand Emissions Trading System: LURNZ-Climate Land Use Change Simulations", draft paper.
Kerr, Suzi, and Alex Olssen. 2012. "Gradual Land-use Change in New Zealand: Results from a Dynamic Econometric Model", Motu Working Paper 12-06, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
McDonald, Hugh, and Suzi Kerr. 2012. "Why do New Zealanders care about agricultural emissions?" Policy Quarterly, 8:2, pp. 29–36.
Olssen, Alex, Wei Zhang, David Evison, and Suzi Kerr. 2012. "A Forest-Profit Expectations Dataset for New Zealand, 1990–2008," Motu Working Paper 12-07, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi, Hugh McDonald, and Kit Rutherford. 2012. "Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: A Policy Prototype", Motu Note #10, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. "Managing Water Quality Using Markets," Motu Public Policy Seminar, Auckland, April 2012.
McDonald, Hugh, Suzi Kerr and Simon Anastasiadis. 2012. "How Should We Manage Diffuse Water Pollution? Insights from Recent NManager Simulations," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Palmerston North, June 2012.
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Why Agricultural Emissions Matter - Going Forward," Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Wellington, New Zealand, 23 March 2011.
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Motivations and Responses," Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 May 2011.
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Mitigation Options," Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Karekare, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 July 2011,
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Modelling Mitigation Options," Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 May 2011.
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Land Use Change and Options in New Zealand," Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Wellington, New Zealand, 31 August 2011.
Dorner, Zack, Suzi Kerr and Hugh McDonald. 2012. "Methane Matters: from International Climate Change Policy to the New Zealand Farm," Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Otaki, New Zealand, 12 February 2012.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. "Why and How We Can Act," Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Otaki, New Zealand, 12 February 2012.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. "Preliminary Synthesis," Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Huntly, New Zealand, 24 June 2012.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. "Addressing Agricultural GHGs 'Fairly'", Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Huntly, New Zealand, 25 June 2012.
Kerr, Suzi. 2011. "Knowing and Telling about Our Emissions," Motu Agricultural Emissions Dialogue Group, Wellington, New Zealand, 6 October 2011.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. "Emerging Solutions: The Who, Why and How of Acting on Agricultural Emissions," Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Science, Lincoln, New Zealand, 22 August 2012.
Anastasiadis, Simon, and Suzi Kerr. 2012. "Mitigation and Heterogeneity in Management Practices", New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Nelson, New Zealand, 30-31 August 2012.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. "Allocation and Cost Sharing: Nutrient Trading and Greenhouse Gas Markets", New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Nelson, New Zealand, 30-31 August 2012.
Yeo, Boon-Ling, Oliver Browne, Simon Anastasiadis and Suzi Kerr. 2012. "Synergies between Nutrient Trading Scheme (NTS) and the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in the Lake Rotorua Catchment," New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Nelson, New Zealand, 30-31 August 2012.
Anastasiadis, Simon, and Suzi Kerr. 2012. "Mitigation and Heterogeneity in Management Practices on New Zealand Dairy Farms", draft paper prepared for the NZARES conference 2012, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Yeo, Boon-Ling, Oliver Browne, Simon Anastasiadis and Suzi Kerr. 2012. "Synergies between Nutrient Trading Scheme and the New Zealand Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in the Lake Rotorua Catchment", draft paper prepared for the NZARES conference, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi, Simon Anastasiadis, Alex Olssen, William Power, Levente Tímár and Wei Zhang. 2012. "Spatial and Temporal Responses to an Emissions Trading System Covering Agriculture and Forestry: Simulation Results from New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 12-10, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Daigneault, Adam, Hugh McDonald, Sandy Elliott, Clive Howard-Williams, Suzie Greenhalgh, Maksym Guysev, Suzi Kerr, James Lennox, Linda Lilburne, Uwe Morgenstern, Ned Norton, John Quinnn, Kit Rutherford, Ton Snelder, and Bob Wilcock. 2012. Evaluation of the Impact of Different Policy Options for Managing to Water Quality Limits. Wellington: Ministry for Primary Industries. Available online at http://www.mpi.govt.nz/news-resources/publications
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. "The Economics of International Policy Agreements to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation," Motu Working Paper 12-12, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi, Simon Anastasiadis, Alex Olssen, William Power, Levente Tímár and Wei Zhang. 2012. "Spatial and Temporal Responses to an Emissions Trading System Covering Agriculture and Forestry: Simulation Results from New Zealand," Forests 3:4, pp. 1133–56.
Kerr, Suzi C. 2013. "The Economics of International Policy Agreements to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation", Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 7:1, pp. 47–66.
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. 2012. "Roadmap for Implementing a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading System in Chile: Core Design Options and Policy Decision-Making Considerations," Motu Working Paper 12-14, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.
Kerr, Suzi, and Adam Millard-Ball. 2012. "Cooperation to Reduce Developing Country Emissions", Climate Change Economics 3:4, pp. 1250023-1–1250023-30.
Kerr, Suzi. 2013. "Tackling New Zealand's Agricultural Emissions," Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 5–8 February 2013.
Kerr, Suzi, with Andrew Coleman and Josh Pemberton. 2013. "Water: Commodity or Commons?" Presentation to Network Waitangi Otautahi, Christchurch, February 2013.
Kerr, Suzi. 2013. “Tackling NZ’s Agricultural Emissions,” Presentation at Australian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society-run workshop Source or Sink? Farm Level Implications of Pricing Carbon and Policy Responses to Manage Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sydney, 5 February 2013.
Kerr, Suzi, and Hugh McDonald. 2012. “New Zealand – Environmental Policy Pioneers”, Half-day Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin, 20 September, 2012 (with support from the New Zealand Embassy).
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. “Can Growth be Sustainable?” in session on “Can growth be sustainable? – 25 years on from Brundtland” with lead speaker Phil O’Reilly. Lincoln University State of the Nation’s Environment Series, Christchurch, 18 October 2012.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. “Emissions Trading in a Small Country”, Expert Group Meeting on Current Status of Carbon Market and Prospects of Linkage, joint meeting of Korean Legislation Research Institute and New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, Seoul, 17 August 2012.
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. “Emissions Trading in Latin America: Thoughts from a Chilean Context”, Economics Department Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 14 September 2012
Kerr, Suzi. 2012. “The Who, Why and How of Acting on Agricultural Emissions”; “Mitigation through Land Use and Behavioural Change”; and “Emerging Solutions”, joint forum of the Institute of Governance and Policy Studies and Motu, Wellington, 7 August 2012.
Anastasiadis, Simon, Suzi Kerr, Alec MacKay, Jon Roygard and Mark Shepherd. 2012. "The Mitigation of Nutrient Loss from New Zealand Agriculture: Separating the Probable from the Possible", Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington.