* = Authors contributed equally

In review

• McNerney J, Li Y, Gomez-Lievano A, Neffke F, “Bridging the short-term and long-term dynamics of economic structural change”, (2022)

• Klemun M, McNerney J, Trancik JE, “Evolution of hard and soft costs in technologies and the case of photovoltaic systems”, (2022)

Working papers

• McNerney J, Trancik JE, “A mathematical theory of technology scaling”

• Nedelkoska L, Matha SG, Diodato D, Assumpcao A, McNerney J, Neffke F, “Lessons from 80 years of change in occupational tasks in the U.S. (1939-2020)”

Publications

• McNerney J, Savoie C, Caravelli F, Farmer JD, “How production networks amplify economic growth”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (2022)

• Eash-Gates P, Klemun MM, Kavlak G, McNerney J, Buongiorno J, Trancik JE, “Sources of cost overrun in nuclear power plant construction call for a new approach to engineering design”, Joule, 4(11), 2348 - 2373 (2020)

• Coscia M, Gomez-Lievano A, McNerney J, Neffke F, “The node vector distance problem in complex networks”, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 53(6), 1 - 27 (2020)

• Kavlak G, McNerney J, Trancik JE, “Evaluating the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules”, Energy Policy 123, 700 - 710 (2018)

• McNerney J∗, Needell ZA∗, Chang MT, Miotti M, Trancik JE, “TripEnergy: Estimating personal vehicle energy consumption given limited travel survey data”, Transportation Research Record 2628, 58 - 66 (2017)

• Edwards MR, McNerney J, Trancik JE, “Testing emissions equivalency metrics against climate policy goals”, Environmental Science & Policy 66, 191 - 198 (2016)

• Needell Z, McNerney J, Chang M, Trancik JE, “Potential for widespread electrification of personal vehicle travel in the United States”, Nature Energy 1 (2016)

• Kavlak G, McNerney J, Jaffe RL, Trancik JE, “Metals production requirements for rapid photovoltaics deployment”, Energy and Environmental Science 8, 1651 - 1659 (2015)

• Kavlak G, McNerney J, Jaffe RL, Trancik JE, “Growth in metals production for rapid photovoltaics deployment”, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1442 - 1447 (2014)

• McNerney J, Fath BD, Silverberg G, “Network structure of inter-industry flows”, Physica A 392, 6427 - 6441 (2013)

• McNerney J, Farmer JD, Redner S, Trancik JE, “Role of design complexity in technology improvement”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 9009 - 9013 (2011)

• McNerney J, Farmer JD, Trancik JE, “Historical costs of coal-fired electricity and implications for the future”, Energy Policy 39, 3042 - 3054 (2011)

• Technical report: “Technology improvement and emissions reductions as mutually reinforcing efforts: Observations from the global development of solar and wind energy”, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT, 2015. (Contributor) Link to policy brief.

Patents

• Trancik JE, Needell ZA, and McNerney J, “System and Method for Estimating and Predicting Vehicle Trip Energy Consumption”, US Patent Application, No. 62/374952, US20180045526A1 (2018)