Faculty
Christopher Knittel is the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California, Davis, and at Boston University. His research focuses on industrial organization, environmental economics, and applied econometrics.
Knittel is an associate editor of The American Economic Journal— Economic Policy, The Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Journal of Energy Markets. His research has appeared in The American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Energy Journal, and other academic journals. He also is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Productivity, Industrial Organization, and Energy and Environmental Economics groups.
Knittel holds a BA in economics and political science from California State University, Stanislaus; an MA in economics from the University of California, Davis; and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Allcott, Hunt and Christopher R. Knittel. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Forthcoming. Download Paper.
Knittel, Christopher R., Konstantinos Metaxoglou, and Andre Trindade. International Journal of Industrial Organization. Forthcoming. Download Paper.
Bartik, Alexander W., Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone, and Christopher R. Knittel. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.. Forthcoming. Download Paper.
Knittel, Christopher R., and Ryan Sandler. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Vol. 10, No. 4 (2018): 211-242. Download Paper.
Knittel, Christopher, and Konstantinos Metaxoglou. Journal of Econometric Methods Vol. 7, No. 1 (2018): 1-12.
Knittel, Christopher, Ben S. Meiselman, and James H. Stock. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Vol. 4, No. 4 (2017): 1081-1119.
The threat is global, but humans think local.
A $7 per metric ton carbon tax could reduce emissions by the same amount as the flagship climate policies of the Obama administration, a new study finds.
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