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Bio

Peter joined the Department of Economics at UVic in 1991 as an assistant professor. He holds a Bachelor Commerce from the University of New South Wales, and an MA and PhD in Economics from Queen’s University.

Interests

• Economic Theory
• Environmental Economics

Courses

• ECON 316, Principles and Applications of Cost Benefit Analysis
• ECON 481, Environmental Economics II
• ECON 500, Microeconomic Analysis
• ECON 516, Cost-benefit Analysis
• ECON 531, Environmental Economics

Selected publications

• Heyes, A., Kapur, S., Kennedy, P., Martin, S. & Maxwell, J., 2019. "But what does It mean? Competition between products carrying alternative green labels when consumers are active acquirers of information,"Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists./li>
• Kennedy, P., 2016. "Cooperative action on greenhouse gas emissions and the distribution of global output and damage,"Environmental and Resource Economics 63(1):147-166.
• Farnham, M. and P. Kennedy, 2015. "Adapting to climate change: equilibrium welfare implications for large and small economies," Environmental and Resource Economics 61(3):345-363.
• Hutchinson, E. and P. Kennedy, 2014. "The relationship between emissions and income growth for a transboundary pollutant,"Resource and Energy Economics 38:221-242.   
• Hutchinson, E. and P. Kennedy, 2013. "Transboundary pollution and the selective enforcement of environmental policy," Environmental Economics 4(4):6-17.