George Pardee Jr. Professor of International Sustainable Development & Regional Associate Dean Letters & Science
Professor Auffhammer received his B.S. in environmental science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996, a M.S. in environmental and resource economics at the same institution in 1998, and a Ph.D. in economics from UC San Diego in 2003. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2003. His research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics, and applied econometrics. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Energy and Environmental Economics group, a Humboldt Fellow, and served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). His research has appeared in The American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Economic Journal, the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, The Energy Journal, and other academic journals. Professor Auffhammer is the recipient of the 2017 and 2021 Cheit Teaching Award in the Haas School of Business, the 2009 Campus Distinguished Teaching Award the 2007 Cozzarelli Prize awarded by the National Academies of Sciences, and the 2007 Sarlo Distinguished Mentoring Award. He loves mountains in the winter, spending time with his family, and attempting to make the world a better place - cost-effectively.
Ph.D. Economics, University of California, San Diego
M.S. Environmental and resource economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.S. Environmental Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2018. Quantifying Economic Damages From Climate Change. Journal of Economic Perspectives. 32(4): 33-52.
Wenz, Leonie, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Anders Levermann. 2017. North-South polarization of European electricity consumption under future warming. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.
Auffhammer, Maximilian, Patrick Baylis, and Catherine Hausman. 2017. Climate change is projected to have severe impacts on the frequency and intensity of peak electricity demand across the United States. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. 114 (8) 1886-1891.
Anderson, Michael and Maximilian Auffhammer. 2014. Pounds That Kill: The External Costs of Vehicle Weight. Review of Economic Studies. (81) 2: 535-571.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Ryan Kellogg. 2011. Clearing the Air? The Effects of Gasoline Content Regulation on Air Quality. American Economic Review. Vol. 101(6): 2687-2722
Auffhammer, Maximilian, V. Ramanathan, and Jeffrey R. Vincent. 2006. Integrated model shows that atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases have reduced rice harvests in India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103: 19668-19672.
Auffhammer Maximilian. 2014. Cooling China: The Weather Dependence of Air Conditioner Adoption. Frontiers of Economics in China. 9(1): 70-84.
Auffhammer Maximilian. 2014. Cooling China: The Weather Dependence of Air Conditioner Adoption. Frontiers of Economics in China. 9(1): 70-84.
Buck, Steven, Maximilian Auffhammer and David L. Sunding. 2014. Land Markets and the Value of Water: Hedonic Analysis Using Repeat Sales of Farmland. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96, 4: 953-969.
Anderson, Michael and Maximilian Auffhammer. 2014. Pounds That Kill: The External Costs of Vehicle Weight. Review of Economic Studies. (81) 2: 535-571.
Christian Huggel, Dáithí Stone, Maximilian Auffhammer & Gerrit Hansen. 2013. Loss and damage attribution. Nature Climate Change 3: 694–696.
Dáithí Stone, Maximilian Auffhammer, Mark Carey, Gerrit Hansen, Christian Huggel, Wolfgang Cramer, David Lobell, Ulf Molau, Andrew Solow, Lourdes Tibig, Gary Yohe. 2013. The challenge to detect and attribute effects of climate change on human and natural systems. Climatic Change 121 (2): 381-395.
Auffhammer, Maximilian, Solomon Hsiang, Wolfram Schlenker and Adam Sobel. 2013. Using Weather Data and Climate Model Output in Economic Analyses of Climate Change. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 7(2): 181-198.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Jeffrey R. Vincent. 2012. Unobserved time effects confound the identification of climate change impacts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(30): 11973-11974.
Hausmann, Catherine, Maximilian Auffhammer and Peter Berck. 2012. Farm Acreage Shocks and Food Prices: An SVAR Approach to Understanding the Impacts of Biofuels. Environmental and Resource Economics. 53(1): 117-136.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Anin Aroonruengsawat. 2011. Simulating the Impacts of Climate Change, Prices and Population on California’s Residential Electricity Consumption. Climatic Change. 109(S1): 191-210. [Original Uncorrected Manuscript] [Erratum]
Auffhammer, Maximilian, V. Ramanathan, and Jeffrey R. Vincent. 2012. Climate change, the monsoon, and rice yield in India. Climatic Change. 111(2):411-424.
Aroonruengsawat, Anin. Maximilian Auffhammer and Alan H. Sanstad. 2012. The impacts of State Level Building Codes on Residential Electricity Consumption. Energy Journal. 33(1): 31-52
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Ralf Steinhauser. 2012. Forecasting the Path of US CO2 Emissions Using State-Level Information. Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 94, No. 1: 172–185.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Ryan Kellogg. 2011. Clearing the Air? The Effects of Gasoline Content Regulation on Air Quality. American Economic Review. Vol. 101(6): 2687-2722
Wolff, Hendrik, Chong, Howard and Maximilian Auffhammer. 2011. Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error: Evidence from the Human Development Index. Economic Journal. Vol. 121(553) pp.843-870.
McKone Thomas, W. Nazaroff, M. Auffhammer, P. Berck, T. Lipman, M. Torn, E. Masanet, A. Lobscheid, N. Santero, U. Mishra, A. Barrett, M. Bomberg, K.Fingerman, C. Scown, B. Strogen, A. Horvath. 2011. Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels. Environmental Science and Technology. 45(5): 1751–1756. Second Runner Up Best Paper in ES&T 2011.
Auffhammer, Maximilian, Antonio Bento and Scott Lowe. 2011. The City Level Effects of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. Land Economics. 87(1): 1-18.
Welch, J., J. Vincent, M. Auffhammer, P. Moya, A. Dobermann, and D. Dawe. 2010. Rice yields in tropical/subtropical Asia exhibit large but opposing sensitivities to minimum and maximum temperatures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(33): 14562-14567. [Covered by Associated Press/BBC/Reuters]
Auffhammer, Maximilian, Antonio Bento and Scott Lowe. 2009. Measuring the Effects the Clean Air Act Amendments on Ambient PM10 Concentrations: The critical importance of a spatially disaggregated analysis. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 58(1): 15-26.
K. Hayhoe, M. Robson, J. Rogula, M. Auffhammer, N. Miller, J.VanDorn, D. Wuebbles. 2010. An integrated framework for quantifying and valuing climate change impacts on urban energy and infrastructure: A Chicago case study. Journal of Great Lakes Research. (36): 94-105.
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2009. What Has Mattered In Environmental And Resource Economics: A Google Scholar Perspective. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 3(2):251-269.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Richard T. Carson. 2009. Exploring the Number of First Order Subdivisions Across Countries: Some Stylized Facts. Journal of Regional Science. 42(2): 243-261.
Vincent, Jeffrey and Maximilian Auffhammer. Statistical Models for Measuring the Impacts of ABCs on Agriculture in Asia. 2009. Atmospheric Brown Clouds Regional Climate Change and Agriculture Impacts: First Assessment Report. United Nations Environment Programme: Nairobi, Kenya.
Auffhammer, Maximilian, Carl Blumstein and Meredith Fowlie. 2008. Demand Side Management and Energy Efficiency Revisited. The Energy Journal. 29(3): 91-104.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Richard T. Carson. 2008. Forecasting the Path of China’s CO2 Emissions Using Province Level Information. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 55(3): 229-47. [NPR/BBC/Reuters/Nat’l Geographic/NYTimes.earth/Daily Show]
Miller, Norman, Katherine Hayhoe, J. Jin and Maximilian Auffhammer. 2008. Climate, Extreme Heat and Energy Demand in California. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.47(6): 1834–1844.
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2007. The Rationality of EIA Forecasts under Symmetric and Asymmetric Loss. Resource and Energy Economics. 29(2): 102-121.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Ralf Steinhauser. 2007. The Future Trajectory of US CO2 Emissions: The Role of State vs. Aggregate Information. Journal of Regional Science. v47(1): 47-61.
Auffhammer, Maximilian, V. Ramanathan, and Jeffrey R. Vincent. 2006. Integrated model shows that atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases have reduced rice harvests in India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103: 19668-19672. [Comment/BBC/Reuters/Nature/Prize] This paper won the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize (Best 2006 paper in Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences). It was also reprinted in a special issue of PNAS: Highlights in Sustainability Sciences.
Auffhammer, Maximilian, Bernard Morzuch and John K. Stranlund. 2005. Production of Chlorofluorocarbons in Anticipation of the Montreal Protocol. Environmental and Resource Economics. 30(4): 377-391.
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2013. Climate Change and Common Sense: Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling. Journal of Economic Literature. 51(2) 571-572.
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2011. The Hidden Costs of Energy. Environmental Health Perspectives. National Institutes of Health. 119(3): A138
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2011. Weather Dilemma for African Maize. Nature: Climate Change. 1: 27-28.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Alan H. Sanstad. 2011. Energy Efficiency in the Residential and Commercial Sectors. Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options. Background Paper, Resources for the Future.
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2008. Economic Impacts of Climate Change. in Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change. Russell Sage.
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2007. The Montreal Protocol. in Encyclopedia of the Environment. Russell Sage.
Auffhammer, Maximilian, Michael Hanemann and Sarah Szembelan. 2006. Transportation. in Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California (Alex Farrell and Michael Hanemann, Editors) Energy Foundation: San Francisco, CA
Sanstad, Alan, Michael Hanemann and Maximilian Auffhammer. 2006. The Role of Energy Efficiency. in Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California (Alex Farrell and Michael Hanemann, Editors). Energy Foundation: San Francisco, CA.
Auffhammer, Maximilian, Richard T. Carson and Teresa Garin Munoz. 2003. Exploring Structural Differences in Carbon Dioxide Emissions of China’s Provinces. Policy report to the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Ryan Kellogg. 2010. Improving Air Quality by Reformulating Gasoline: How California Got It Right. ARE Update. 13(5): pp. 1-5.
Auffhammer, Maximilian and Richard Carson. 2007. China’s Chance to lead. Washington Post. (August 2).
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2006. Is Dust Busting Crop Yields? ARE Update. 10(1): pp. 1-3.
Auffhammer, Maximilian, Bento Antonio M. and Scott M. Lowe. 2005. Forming Coalitions for Cleaner Air? ARE Update. 5(8): pp. 5-7.
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2005. George Judge Turns 80. ARE Update. 5(8): pp. 8.
Auffhammer, Maximilian. 2004. China, Cars and Carbon. ARE Update. 7(3): pp. 9-11.Married and happy.
