Research Area

Energy Economics

Energy markets, environmental regulation, climate policy, fuel supply chains, and the distributional impacts of policy design.

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Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of Petroleum Shipments on Agricultural Prices

With James Bushnell and Aaron Smith. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 9(1), January 2022.

This paper examines how petroleum shipments interact with agricultural markets, connecting fuel logistics, commodity prices, and infrastructure constraints.

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Who (Else) Benefits from Electricity Deregulation? Coal Prices, Natural Gas and Price Discrimination

With Ian Lange. Economic Inquiry, 58(3), July 2020.

The paper studies electricity deregulation, fuel input markets, and how changes in market organization can affect price discrimination and distributional outcomes.

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Strategic Policy Choice in State-Level Regulation: The EPA's Clean Power Plan

With James Bushnell, Stephen Holland and Christopher Knittel. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9(2), May 2017.

This research studies strategic choices by states under climate regulation and the implications for emissions policy design.

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Getting Green with Solar Subsidies: Evidence from the California Solar Initiative

With Molly Podolefsky. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2(2), June 2015.

The paper evaluates solar subsidy policy using evidence from the California Solar Initiative.

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The Higher Price of Cleaner Fuels: Market Power in the Rail Transport of Fuel Ethanol

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62(2), September 2011.

This paper studies market power in rail transportation for fuel ethanol and shows how environmental regulation can affect prices for a cleaner fuel input.

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Greenhouse Gas Reductions Under Low Carbon Fuel Standards?

With Stephen Holland and Christopher Knittel. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1(1), February 2009.

This work studies whether low carbon fuel standards reduce greenhouse gas emissions and how fuel policy design affects environmental outcomes.

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