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Christopher R. Knittel

Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management

Christopher Knittel is the George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics in the Sloan School of Management and the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty at MIT in 2011, having taught previously at UC Davis and Boston University. Professor Knittel received his B.A. in economics and political science from the California State University, Stanislaus in 1994 (summa cum laude), an M.A. in economics from UC Davis in 1996, and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 1999. His research focuses on environmental economics, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Productivity, Industrial Organization, and Energy and Environmental Economics groups. Professor Knittel is an associate editor of The American Economic Journal -- Economic Policy, The Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Transportation Economics and Policy, and Journal of Energy Markets. His research has appeared in The American Economic Review, The American Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Energy Journal and other academic journals.

Experience

  • –present
    Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management