Research

WORKING PAPERS

Start-up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition

Updated Oct 2023. w/ Akshaya JhaConditionally Accepted at the American Economic ReviewWinner of a USAEE Best Paper Award

Is the Clean Energy Transition Making Fixed-Rate Electricity Tariffs Regressive?

Updated Sep 2023. w/ Armin Pourkhanali and Guillaume Roger(Previously titled "Can Real-Time Pricing Be Progressive? Identifying Cross-Subsidies under Fixed-Rate Electricity Tariffs")

Tail-Risk Comprehension and Consumer Protection in Real-Time Electricity Pricing: Experimental Evidence

 Aug 2022. w/ Lata Gangadharan and Madeline Pretto

Measuring the Impact of Own and Others’ Experience on Project Costs in the U.S. Wind Generation Industry

 July 2019. w/ John Anderson and Frank Wolak

PUBLICATIONS 

Siting and Operating Incentives in Electrical Networks: A Study of Mispricing in Australia’s Zonal Market

w/ Matthew Katzen Forthcoming at the International Journal of Industrial Organization.  Link to published version

Climate reform and transitional industry assistance: Windfall profits for polluters?

w/ Alastair Fraser and Jonathan Chiew Sheen KuokEnergy Economics. Volume 121, May 2023, 106629. Link to published version

Electricity consumption, ethnic origin and religion

w/ Guillaume Roger and Armin PourkhanaliEnergy Economics. Volume 114, October 2022, 106249. Link to published version

Prospects for battery investment under more spatially granular electricity spot pricing

w/ Orrie Johan, Tom Meares and Russell PendleburyIn G. Roger (Ed) On the Grid: Australian Electricity in Transition (pp. 97-123), Monash University Press, 2022.

Who benefits from ratepayer-funded auctions of transmission congestion contracts? Evidence from New York

Energy Economics. Volume 93, January 2021, 105025. Link to published version

Designing Electricity Markets for High Penetrations of Zero or Low Marginal Cost Intermittent Energy Sources

w/ David Stern, Akshay Shanker, Mike Hogan
The Electricity Journal, Volume 33, Issue 9, November 2020, 106847. Link to published version

Increasing the Energy Cognizance of Electricity Consumers in Mexico: Results From a Field Experiment

w/ Ognen Stojanovski, Frank Wolak, Enrique Heurta Wong and Mark Thurber.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 102, July 2020, 102323. Link to published version 

Tax induced emissions? Estimating short-run emission impacts from carbon taxation under different market structures

Journal of Public Economics, 167,  220-239, 2018.  Link to published version

How do Consumers Respond to Gasoline Price Cycles?  

w/ David Byrne and Roger WareThe Energy Journal, 36(1), 115-147, 2015. 

The Dynamics of Satisfaction with Working Hours in Australia: The Usefulness of Panel Data in Evaluating the Case for Policy Intervention, 

w/ Robert Breunig and Xiaodong GongAsia and the Pacific Policy Studies, 2(1), 130–154, 2015.