Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

 

Catherine Wolfram Associate Professor Barbara & Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow  Co-Director, Energy Institute at Haas Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group 510-642-2588 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On duty Office Hours: By appointment 510-642-2588 Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/wolfram/ Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required) LinkedIn Profile

Education

AB, Economics, Harvard University 
PhD, Economics, MIT

Positions Held

At Haas since 2000
2009 - present, Co-Director, Energy Institute at Haas 
2005 - present, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
1997 - 2006, Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research 
2000 - 2005, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
1996 - 2000, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University

External Service and Assignments

• Faculty Scientist, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Board of Directors, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
• Associate Editor, The Economics Journal
• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Board of Editors, The Energy Journal
• Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics

Current Research and Interests

• Energy markets
• Environmental regulation

Selected Papers and Publications

• "Local Solutions to Global Problems: Climate Change Policies and Regulatory Jurisdiction," with James Bushnell and Carla Peterman, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2008, Vol. 2 (Summer): 175-193.
• "Do Markets Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on U.S. Electric Generation Efficiency," with Kira Fabrizio and Nancy Rose, American Economic Review, 2007, Vol. 97 (September): 1250-1277.
• "Inefficiencies and Market Power in Financial Arbitrage: A Study of California?s Electricity Markets," with Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, and Christopher Knittel, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2008, Vol.56 (June): 347-378.
• "Coordinating on Lower Prices: Pharmaceutical Pricing under Political Pressure," with Sara Fisher Ellison. RAND Journal of Economics 37, (Summer 2006): 325-341.
• "Regulating Executive Pay: Using the Tax Code to Influence Chief Executive Officer Compensation," with Nancy L. Rose. Journal of Labor Economics 20 (April 2002): S138-S175.
• "Why Do Manufacturers Issue Coupons? An Empirical Analysis of Breakfast Cereals," with Aviv Nevo. RAND Journal of Economics 33 (Summer 2002): 319-339.
• "Has the "Million-Dollar Cap" Affected CEO Pay?" with Nancy Rose. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 90 (May 2000): 197-202.

Teaching

• Microeconomics
• Energy & Environmental Markets

Honors and Awards

• Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Evening MBA Program, 2008
• Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
• Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Evening & Weekend MBA Program, 2006
• Americal Statistical Association/Energy Information Administration Research Fellow, 2004
• National Science Foundation Award for Beginning Academics, 1999
• American Compensation Association Emerging Scholar Program, 1997
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1995

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