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Catherine Wolfram Catherine Wolfram

Associate Professor
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
1-510-642-2588
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/wolfram/
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/eap/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

  • A.B., Economics, Harvard University
  • Ph.D., Economics, MIT

 

Positions Held

    At Haas since 2000

    2006-present Affiliated Faculty, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    2005-present Associate Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
    1997-2006 Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
    2000-2005 Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
    1996-2000 Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University

 

External Service and Assignments

  • Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Board of Editors, The Energy Journal
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • "Do Markets Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on U.S. Electric Generation Efficiency" with Kira Fabrizio and Nancy Rose, American Economic Review, forthcoming.
  • "Inefficiencies and Market Power in Financial Arbitrage: A Study of California?s Electricity Markets," with Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, and Christopher Knittel, Journal of Industrial Economics, forthcoming.
  • "Coordinating on Lower Prices: Pharmaceutical Pricing under Political Pressure," with Sara Fisher Ellison, RAND Journal of Economics, 2006, Vol. 37 (Summer): 325-341.
  • "Regulating Executive Pay: Using the Tax Code to Influence Chief Executive Officer Compensation," with Nancy L. Rose, Journal of Labor Economics, 2002, Vol. 20 (April): S138-S175.
  • "Why Do Manufacturers Issue Coupons? An Empirical Analysis of Breakfast Cereals," with Aviv Nevo, RAND Journal of Economics, 2002, Vol. 33 (Summer): 319-339.
  • "Has the "Million-Dollar Cap" Affected CEO Pay?" with Nancy Rose, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2000, Vol. 90 (May): 197-202.

 

Honors and Awards

  • Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
  • Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, EWMBA Program, 2006
  • Americal Statistical Association / Energy Information Administration Research Fellow, 2004
  • National Science Foundation Award for Beginning Academics, 1999
  • American Compensation Association Emerging Scholar Program, 1997
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1995

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