Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

Catherine D. Wolfram

Associate Professor
Barbara & Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
Co-Director, Energy Institute at Haas
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
510-642-2588
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/wolfram/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

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

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.

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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