BOOKS
Environmental Law and Policy (5th ed., Found. Press, 2024) (with Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore & Jayni Foley Hein).
Fourth edition published in 2019 (with Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore & Jayni Foley Hein).
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
The Meaning of “Silence", 31 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 515 (2024).
Incorporating Equity and Justice Concerns in Regulation, 18 Regul. & Governance 99 (2024) (with Robert W. Hahn).
Efficiency and Equity in Regulation, 76 Vand. L. Rev. 361 (2023).
An Equity Blindspot: The Incidence of Regulatory Costs, 14 J. Benefit-Cost Analysis 35 (2023).
The Hierarchy and Performance of State Recycling and Deposit Laws, 23 Vt. J. Env’t L. 319 (2022) (with W. Kip Viscusi).
Congress and Cost-Benefit Analysis, 73 Admin. L. Rev. 787 (2021).
The Federal Enforcement Threat: The Effect of Overfiling Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 18 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 534 (2021).
Transparency in Agency Cost-Benefit Analysis, 72 Admin. L. Rev. 157 (2020) (with Robert W. Hahn).
The Data Gap: Promoting Analysis of Exposure-Related Harms, 69 DePaul L. Rev. 297 (2020).
Deregulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis and Regulatory Stability, 68 Duke L.J. 1593 (2019).
Economics and Environmental Law Scholarship, in Perspectives on Environmental Law Scholarship: Essays on Purpose, Shape, and Direction 96 (Ole W. Pedersen ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018) (with Michael A. Livermore).
No Fracking Way: An Empirical Investigation of Local Shale Development Bans in New York, 48 Env’t L. 761 (2018).
Regulatory Fracture Plugging: Managing Risks to Water from Shale Development, 6 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 29 (2018).
The One-In, Two-Out Executive Order Is a Zero, 166 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 1 (2017) (with Michael A. Livermore).
Mineral Royalties: Historical Uses and Justifications, 28 Duke Env’t L. & Pol’y F. 1 (2017) (with Jayni Foley Hein).
Fractured Systems: A Multiple Policy Proposal for Promoting Safe Shale Gas Delivery in the United States, in Delivering Energy Law and Policy in the EU and the US: A Reader 333 (Raphael J. Heffron & Gavin F. M. Little eds., Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2016).
Judicial Review of Agency Benefit-Cost Analysis, 22 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 575 (2015) (with W. Kip Viscusi).
Discontinuous Behavioral Responses to Recycling Laws and Plastic Water Bottle Deposits, 15 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 110 (2013) (with W. Kip Viscusi, Joel Huber & Jason Bell).
Blowing Hot Air: An Analysis of State Involvement in Greenhouse Gas Litigation, 65 Vand. L. Rev. 189 (2012).
Telecommunication Development and the Role of Regional Cooperation, in The Service Revolution in South Asia 313 (Ejaz Ghani ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (with Scott Wallsten).
The Benefits and Costs of Ethanol: An Evaluation of the Government’s Analysis, 35 J. Regul. Econ. 275 (2009) (with Robert Hahn).
An Evaluation of the Quality of Impact Assessment in the European Union with Lessons for the US and the EU, 2 Regul. & Governance 405 (2008) (with Robert Hahn, Andrea Renda & Lorna Schrefler).
The Economic Significance of ‘Insignificant’ Rules, 1 Regul. & Governance 172 (2007) (with Robert W. Hahn).
OTHER
Opinion, Escalating Flawed Regulatory Math, Regul. Rev. (Mar. 10, 2025), https://www.theregreview.org/2025/03/10/cecot-livermore-escalating-flawed-deregulatory-math/ (with Michael A. Livermore).
Stimulating Distributional Analysis, Admin. & Regul. L. News, Spring 2023, at 8.
Reposted at Yale J. Regul. Notice & Comment (June 7, 2023), https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/stimulating-distributional-analysis-by-caroline-cecot/.
US Benefit-Cost Analysis Requires Revision, 380 Science 803 (2023) (with Peter H. Howard, Max Sarinsky, Michael Bauer, Maureen Cropper, Moritz Drupp, Mark Freeman, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Christian Gollier, Ben Groom, Qingran Li, Michael Livermore, Richard Newell, William A. Pizer, Brian Prest, Glenn Rudebusch, Thomas Sterner & Gernot Wagner).
Ensuring Efficiency, Expediency, Equity, Env’t F., May/June 2023, at 29.
Major Questions about West Virginia v. EPA and Benefit-Cost Analysis, Soc’y for Benefit-Cost Analysis: On Balance (Aug. 11 2022), https://www.benefitcostanalysis.org/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&year=2022&month=08&day=10&id=100%3Aon-balance-major-questions-about-west-virginia-v-epa-and-benefit-cost-analysis.
Add Progress, Stability to Policymaking, Env’t F., Mar./Apr. 2022, at 43.
Who Benefits from Cost-Benefit Analysis?, Yale J. Regul.: Notice & Comment (Oct. 13, 2021), https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/symposium-reviving-rationality-part-10/.
Benefit-Cost Lessons Learned, Soc’y for Benefit-Cost Analysis: On Balance (Aug. 5, 2021), https://www.benefitcostanalysis.org/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&category=2021-archive&id=83%3Aon-balance-benefit-cost-lessons-learned (with Bethany Davis Noll & Richard Revesz).
Filling the Federal Enforcement Gap, Nat. Res. & Env’t, Spring 2019, at 36.