Catherine Wolfram
Catherine Wolfram is an associate professor of business administration at the Haas School of Business and co-executive director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation at Berkeley. She is also a researcher at the UC Energy Institute, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an affiliated faculty member in the Agriculture and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley.
Her research focuses on the economics of energy markets. She has studied electricity industry privatization and restructuring around the world, assessing the performance of competitive wholesale electricity markets and the effects of restructuring on generation efficiency. Her recent work considers the effects of environmental regulation, including climate change mitigation policies, on the energy sector.
She received a PhD in economics from MIT. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University.
Contributions:
Sacred Cars? Cost-Effective Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources, a working paper written with Meredith Fowlie and Christopher Knittel - September 2009
