Professor
I am an applied economist working at the intersection of industrial organization, energy markets, and environmental economics. Much of my work investigates how market-based environmental regulation- and emissions trading programs in particular- are working in practice. I am also interested in the demand-side of energy markets and work that integrates methods and models from other disciplines into economic analysis of policy outcomes.
Ph.D. Environmental and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
M.Sc. Environmental Economics, Cornell University
B.Sc. International Agriculture and Development (Honors), Cornell University
“Market-based Environmental Regulation and the Evolution of Market Structure” (with Stephen Ryan and Mar Reguant). Accepted to the Journal of Political Economy.
“Are the Non-Monetary Costs of Energy Efficiency Investments Large? Understanding Low Take-up of a Free Energy Efficiency Program,” (with Michael Greenstone and Catherine Wolfram), American Economic Review, May 2015, Vol. 105, 5, pp. 201-204(4).
“An Economic Perspective on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan," with Lawrence Goulder and Matthew Kotchen,(lead authors); James Bushnell, Lucas Davis, Michael Greenstone, Charles Kolstad, Christopher Knittel, Robert Stavins, Michael Wara, and Frank Wolak. Science, 2014, Vol. 346 (November): 815-816.
“Distributing Pollution Rights in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Are Outcomes Independent of Allocation?” (with Jeffrey Perloff). Review of Economics and Statistics, December 2013, 95(5).
“The Economics of Solar Energy” (with Erin Baker, Derek Lemoine, and Stanley Reynolds). Annual Review of Resource Economics. Vol. 5: 387-426. 2013.
“What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program” (with Stephen P. Holland and Erin Mansur). American Economic Review. 102(2): 965-93. April 2012.
“Sacred Cars? Cost‐Effective Regulation of Stationary and Non‐stationary Pollution Sources”(with Christopher Knittel and Catherine Wolfram). American Economic Journal: EconomicPolicy. 4(1): 98-126. February 2012.
“Emissions Trading, Electricity Industry Restructuring, and Investment in Pollution Control.”American Economic Review. 100(3):837-83. June 2010.
“Updating the Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in a Federal Cap-and-Trade Program.” In Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram, ed. The Design and Implementation of U.S.Climate Policy, University of Chicago Press. 2012.