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.

2025 Workshop on the Economics and Policy of Electric Transportation Charging Infrastructure

• The Harvard University Salata Institute and MIT CEEPR host the 2nd workshop on the Economics and Policy of Electric Transportation Charging Infrastructure on Thursday and Friday, November 20 and 21, 2025. 

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

  • Scientific review committee includes Megan Bailey and Katalin Springel

  • Conference program will be announced by Monday, October 20, 2025

  • Registration: here

Recent Updates

Research & Grants

• Sep 2025 – New working paper: "Beyond the Early Era of EVs: Evidence from the Staggered Rollout of the HOV Lane Network in California"  (with Eric Avis and Jing Li)

• Mar 2025 – New NBER working paper: “Political Ideology and U.S. Electric Vehicle Adoption” (with Lucas Davis and Jing Li)

• Nov 2024 – "Vehicle Attribute Tradeoffs and the Distributional Effects of US Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards" (with Benjamin Leard and Joshua Linn) is Accepted at the Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics

• Jun 2024 – I have been awarded the SSHRC Insight Development Grant (Sole PI - $63,000) from the Government of Canada.

• Apr 2023 – I have been awarded the FRQSC Research Support for New Academics (Sole PI - $45,000) from the Government of Quebec.

Conferences and Seminars

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

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

• Oct 2025 – 2025 MIT CEEPR Fall Research Workshop  (Washington DC, October 23-24)

• 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)

• Dec 2024 – Asia-Pacific Industrial Organisation Conference (Seoul, December 13-15)

• Dec 2024 – 2024 MIT CEEPR Fall Research Workshop  (Washington DC, December 3-4)

• Oct 2024 – Harvard-MIT Economics and Policy of Electric Vehicle Transportation Infrastructure Workshop (Boston, October 24-25)

• Jul 2024 – 29th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (Leuven, July 1-4)

• May 2024 – 58th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association (Toronto, May 30 - June 1)

• May 2024 – 22nd Annual International Industrial Organization Conference (Boston, May 3-5)