Katalin Springel

Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montréal. Prior to joining HEC Montréal, I was an Assistant Professor of Economics in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. 

My research focuses on Industrial Organization, Energy and Environmental Economics, and Public Economics. My research focuses on improving energy and environmental policies by understanding the strategic behavior of firms and consumers, aiming to inform more effective and efficient policy design. In my work, I often combine both reduced-form and structural estimation methods.

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington DC.

2026 Workshop on the Economics and Policy of Electric Transportation Charging Infrastructure

• The Harvard University Salata Institute and MIT CEEPR host the 3rd workshop on the Economics and Policy of Electric Transportation Charging Infrastructure on Thursday and Friday, October 22 and 23, 2026. 

  • Organizers: Omar Asensio, Elaine Buckberg, and Jing Li

  • Scientific review committee includes Megan Bailey and Katalin Springel

  • Conference program: here

Call for Papers: The Future of Electrification in Transportation (Energy Economics)

• This special issue is about electric vehicles, and welcomes papers that examine policy developments, a variety of policy and energy price scenarios, and develop innovative datasets and methods.  

  • Guest editors: Anna Alberini (University of Maryland and co-editor at Energy Economics), Katalin Springel (HEC Montreal), and Colin Vance (RWI Essen)

  • Submission deadline: Saturday, July 31, 2027 

Recent Updates

Research & Grants

• Oct 2026 – New working paper: "How Incentive Design Shapes Pass-Through: Evidence from the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market"  (with Jing Li and David Scolari)

• Aug 2026 – "Beyond the Early Era of EVs: Evidence from the Staggered Rollout of the HOV Lane Network in California" is Accepted at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 

• Jun 2026 – I have been awarded the SSHRC Insight Development Grant (Sole PI - $56,700) from the Government of Canada. 

• Apr 2026 – "Political Ideology and U.S. Electric Vehicle Adoption" is Accepted at the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 

• Jan 2026 – "Beyond the Early Era of EVs: Evidence from the Staggered Rollout of the HOV Lane Network in California" is R&R at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 

• Dec 2025 – "Political Ideology and U.S. Electric Vehicle Adoption" is R&R at the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 

Conferences and Seminars

• Oct 2026 –  2026 Workshop on the Economics and Policy of Electric Transportation Charging Infrastructure (Cambridge MA, October 22-23)

• Jun 2026 – World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (Carcavelos - Cascais, June 29-July 3)

• Jun 2026 – Toronto Meeting on the Economics of Climate Change (Toronto, June 24-26)

• May 2026 – 2026 MIT CEEPR Spring Research Workshop  (Boston, May 20-21)

• Dec 2025 – Keio University (Tokyo, December 5)

• Nov 2025 – Kyoto University (Kyoto, November 28)

• May 2025 – Electricity Camp in the Rockies (Banff, May 21-23)

• Jan 2025 – EMEE 2025 - 16th International workshop on "Empirical Methods in Energy Economics" (Washington DC, January 16-17)