Keith Crane
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Education
Overview
Biography
Keith Crane is director of the RAND Environment, Energy, and Economic Development Program as well as a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His primary interest is developing and evaluating policy options for addressing climate change. Crane is also engaged in issues pertaining to U.S. energy production and consumption, China, the Middle East, Afghanistan, the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, and post-conflict nation building. In Fall 2003, he served as an economic policy advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Prior to rejoining RAND in February 2002, he was chief operating officer and director of research at PlanEcon, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based research and consulting firm focusing on Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. During his tenure at PlanEcon, Crane provided analysis and economic forecasts used in over 100 major investments in the region. He writes extensively on transition issues in policy and academic journals and briefs high-level decisionmakers. Crane received his Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Estimating the cost of renewable fuels
- Assessing the implications of imposing a tax on oil to finance transportation infrastructure
- Assessing U.S. counternarcotics policies in Afghanistan
- Forecasting Russia's economic growth and military spending
- Assessing the Potential for U.S. Exports of Fossil Fuels
Selected Publications
Keith Crane, Liisa Ecola, Shanthi Nataraj, and Scott Hassel, Energy Service Analysis: An Alternative Approach for Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Emissions of Greenhouse Gases, RAND (TR-1170-NREL), 2012
Keith Crane, Aimee E. Curtright, David S. Ortiz, Constantine Samaras and Nicholas Burger, ""The economic costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions under a U.S. national renewable electricity mandate,"," Energy Policy, 39(5):2730-2739, 2011
Keith Crane, Future Challenges for the Arab World: The Implications of Demographic and Economic Trends, RAND (TR-912-AF), 2011
Keith Crane, Nicholas Burger, and Martin Wachs, The Option of an Oil Tax to Fund Transportation and Infrastructure, RAND (OP-320), 2011
Keith Crane, James Dobbins, Laurel E. Miller,Charles P. Ries, Christopher S. Chivvis, Marla C. Haims, Marco Overhaus, Heather Lee Schwartz, Elizabeth Wilke, Building a More Resilient Haitian State, RAND (MG-1039), 2010
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: Agence France Presse; Associated Press; Bloomberg News; C-SPAN; Chicago Tribune; CNN; CQ Weekly; Harper's Magazine; Houston Business Journal; International Oil Daily; Los Angeles Times; Marketplace Radio; National Iranian American Council; National Journal; National Public Radio; New York Times; PBS; Reuters; South China Morning Post; Voice of America
Commentary: Christian Science Monitor; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Commentary
A Gradually Escalating Carbon Tax Would Allow Businesses and Consumers Time to Prepare — Mar 28, 2013
Prices Will Still Be Dictated by World Markets and the Middle East Will Continue to Bedevil Policymakers — Mar 27, 2013
Two Unspoken Issues in the Presidential Energy Debate — Nov 5, 2012
Assessing the Iranian Sanctions — Jul 2, 2012
DoD Renewable Fuels Investment Premature — May 23, 2012
On Carbon Dioxide, a Better Alternative — Nov 29, 2007
Iraq's Jobs-for-Peace Mirage — Feb 11, 2007
Put Iraqi Insurgents Out of Business — Jan 29, 2007
The Falling Dollar: A Silver Lining for Pittsburgh — May 8, 2005
Publications
An Outline of Strategies for Building an Innovation System for Knowledge City: Chinese Translation - 2012
Pacific Currents: The Responses of U.S. Allies and Security Partners in East Asia to China's Rise - 2008
A Guide to Nation Building - 2007
Multimedia
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An Energy-Independent United States
Mar 20, 2013
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Rebuilding Haiti
Oct 18, 2010
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Keith Crane and Laurel Miller Discuss Building a More Resilient Haitian State
Aug 13, 2010
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Imported Oil and U.S. National Security
May 5, 2009
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Consider Taxing Miles Traveled — Apr 18, 2013