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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Jacobsen, Mark R., Christopher R. Knittel, James M. Sallee, and Arthur A. van Benthem. Journal of Political Economy. Forthcoming.
Knittel, Christopher R., Konstantinos Metaxoglou, and Andre Trindade. International Journal of Industrial Organization. Forthcoming. Download Paper.
Burger, Scott P., Christopher R. Knittel, Ignacio J. Perez-Arriaga, Ian Schneider, and Frederik vom Scheidt. The Energy Journal. Forthcoming.
Gillingham, Kenneth T., Christopher R. Knittel Jing Li, Marten Ovaere, and Mar Reguant. Joule. Forthcoming.
Knittel, Christopher R. and Bora Ozaltun, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6140-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2020.
Bartik, Alexander W., Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone, and Christopher R. Knittel. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Vol. 11, No. 4 (2019): 105-155. Download Paper.
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Source: Wired
A carbon tax's externality is catastrophic climate change, and a plastic tax's is runaway pollution. “That is the cost society faces.”
Source: HealthDay | 07/15/2020
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Source: WBZ-TV (Video)
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Source: STAT
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