Kostas Metaxoglou

Short Biography

Kostas Metaxoglou, Ph.D. (Economics, UC Davis) is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Carleton University. He joined the faculty at Carleton as an Assistant Professor in 2013 having previously worked as a senior consultant and manager with the Antitrust practice of Bates White LLC in Washington DC. His research focuses on Energy and Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics.

Konstantinos Metaxoglou

Department of Economics

1125 Colonel by Drive

Carleton University

Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6

1-613-520-2600 x.3755

konstantinos.metaxoglou@carleton.ca

Curriculum Vitae

Latest version (August 2024) in PDF format (link)

Research

Last updated: August 2024

Google Scholar (link)

Working Papers

- Estimating Production Functions with Unobserved Time-invariant Heterogeneity and Time-varying Productivity Shocks, Under Revision (with Miguel Abito)

Published & Forthcoming Papers

1. Agriculture's Nitrogen Legacy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming (with Aaron Smith) link
2. Nutrient Pollution and U.S. Agriculture: Causal Effects, Integrated Assessment, and Implications of Climate Change (with Aaron Smith), American Agriculture, Water Resources, and Climate Change, G.D. Libecap and A. Dinar (eds.), Chicago University Press (forthcoming) link
  - Previously circulated as NBER WP 30124 link
3. The Role of Output Reallocation and Investment in Coordinating Environmental Markets, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2022 (with Miguel Abito, Chris Knittel, Andre Trindade) link
  - Previously circulated as NBER WP 24481 link
4. Exporting Global Warming? Coal Trade and the Shale Gas Boom, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022 (with Chris Knittel, Anson Soderbery, and Andre Trindade) link
5. Canadian Journal of Economics: A Historic Overview, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2021 link
6. Electrifying Transportation: Issues and Opportunities, Handbook on Electricity Markets, 2021 (with Ben Clinton and Chris Knittel) link
7. Productivity Spillovers from Pollution Reduction: Reducing Coal Use Increases Crop Yields, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020 (with Aaron Smith) link
8. Environmental Implications of Market Structure: Shale Gas and Electricity Markets, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2019 (with Chris Knittel and Andre Trindade) link
  - IJIO best empirical paper award 2019 link
  - Previously circulated as NBER WP 21627 link
  - Washington Post column for the NBER working paper link
  - VOX column for the NBER working paper link
  - NBER digest column for the NBER working paper link
9. Carbon Emissions and Business Cycles, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2019 (with Hashmat Kahn, Chris Knittel, and Maya Papineau) link
  - This is a major revision of NBER WP 22294 link
10. Option-Implied Equity Premium Predictions via Entropic Tilting, Journal of Financial Econometrics, 2019 (with Davide Pettenuzzo and Aaron Smith) link
11. Working with Data: Two Empiricists' Experience, Journal of Econometric Methods (Practitioner's Corner), 2018 (with Chris Knittel) link
12. Forecasting Stock Returns Using Option-Implied State Prices, Journal of Financial Econometrics, 2017 (with Aaron Smith) link
13. State Prices of Conditional Quantiles: New Evidence on Time Variation in the Empirical Pricing Kernel, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017 (with Aaron Smith) link
14. Are we fracked? The impact of falling gas prices and the implications for coal-to-gas switching and carbon emissions, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2016 (with Chris Knittel and Andre Trindade) link
15. Estimation of Random Coefficient Demand Models: Two Empiricists' Perspective, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014 (with Chris Knittel) link
16. Challenges in Merger Simulation Analysis, American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2011 (with Chris Knittel) link
17. Diagnosing Unilateral Market Power in Electricity Reserves Market, Journal of Energy Markets, 2008 (with Chris Knittel) link
18. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of VARMA Models Using a State Space EM Algorithm, Journal of Time Series Analysis, 2007 (with Aaron Smith) link
19. Efficiency of the California Electricity Reserves Market, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007 (with Aaron Smith) link